I am starting to really enjoy cooking at the moment and hoping I continue to feel this excited about cooking new foods. The last two days I've cooked three types of soup including French onion soup which was so tasty. I've also cooked fish pie for the kids and sausage & mash for lunch yesterday, along with chilli beef for stuffed peppers tonight. I made the effort to make the cheese, leek & onion pasties from the hairy dieters (bikers) cookbook too as for 6-7pp they are so worth it. Oh and I cooked some cookies with my 3 year old this afternoon which are mostly for him and his little brother. I've also got a shopping list ready for my husband to get a load more ingredients tonight to do yet more cooking!
Its been so lovely and I can't believe I'm actually excited to look up recipes and cook new things. I really feel this may be a turning point for me as although I had made some lifestyle changes cooking from scratch was one of the biggest changes I needed to make. Before weight watchers as a family we relied far too much on processed or ready made foods, takeaways, eating out and fast food. I was far more inclined to cook healthy meals for my kids but they'd often be simple healthy meals and too much of the same from day to day. I just didn't have the enthusiasm to cook before and so I'm really hoping I can maintain momentum and make this a new habit. I've also found its much easier to eat within my daily points when I'm cooking from scratch because I can make simple changes when cooking foods that really lower the propoints. It means I've found it quite easy to stick to points the last few days and haven't felt hungry or deprived.
I feel its big step towards an overall lifestyle change. My thoughts are if I change my life enough it will be too hard to go back to my old ways and therefore (in theory) I won't be likely to gain all the weight back even when I do go through the rough patches. Hoping I can form enough new habits that I become a better person all round not just in regards to my unhealthy relationship with food. I'll end this post with one of my favourite quotes at the moment:
“Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habit.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
Happy New Year!
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