God and Food

Well I have defiantly hit a low in my cooking career. My poor husband I am sure if he did not love me so much would have fired me! I have been working hard on being healthy. And with that has come a cost. The cost is all the yummy and fatty foods I used to make all the time. I, like a lot of woman struggle with weight. I am not looking to be a super skinny fashion model kind of person. I just want to feel comfortable in my own skin. And for years I had been counting my calories and trying really hard to get to a spot I would feel happy at. Nothing I did seemed to be working. I ended up meeting a woman who has changed my way of thinking about food. I was at a low and she helped me find the right way for me to eat. It is more of a protein based diet. I eat very few carbs and when I do they are usually the healthy ones like brown rice, beans, oatmeal and fruit. I no longer count my calories (yahoooooo) and I just eat a pretty simple diet consisting of protein shakes and bars for a snack along with almonds. Lots of salads and bunless burgers. I have discovered that I really like meatballs. But these are all things that my husband does not like a lot. He does not mind eating a salad once a week or so for dinner. But he is used to me cooking lots of stuff with Bisquick, and lots of pastas. Ever since I have started eating healthy like this I have lost 20 pounds and more important than that I feel great! I used to get tummy aches ALL the time from the foods that I ate, I just didn't realize it because they were always there. But now I hardly get a tummy ache. And if I do it is usually because I ate something that was outside of my eating plan. And I recognize it right away. So I am very happy with how I eat now. But dinner time has become a stress. It is hard for me to cook a yummy gooey dish of enchiladas and not want to dive in and eat it. So I don't make those any more. If we have a mexican food night it is either a taco salad which praise the Lord Aj does really like those!! Or I make tacos and I eat my taco in a lettuce shell. Or if I make meatballs I will make spaghetti with it and Aj and Rylee eat that and a few meatballs and I eat a salad with it instead of the pasta. So not every night is a losing meal. But I feel like lately Aj is just tolerating my food which is so different from when he LOVED my food. So here is the part where God comes in. I have decided that from now on I am going to pray over my dinner. Pray that God helps me to not over cook it, or burn it, or ruin it in whatever crazy way I can and pray that it turns out wonderful and that I can meet the needs of my family and still stay healthy. So here is hoping that this new plan works out. If I can't seem to get it right I know God can help me with this. And I know he cares about silly things like this too. What ever is important to us is important to him too! He loves us that much!! If you have any healthy recipes that are sneaky (meaning they hide all the healthy stuff in it) please share it with me! Thanks!!

XOXO,

Amy