Food Shopping

Today I went grocery shopping with my daughter and we were hungry.  They tell you never to shop when you are hungry but I must admit we did pretty well.  One thing that struck me odd was it cost a lot more money to eat healthy than to stay fat!  The prices on fruits & vegetables is quite high and if you are going to lose weight you need to buy fresh fruit & veggies.  I bought some blackberries, blueberries, grapefruit, pineapple and apples. Now that I eat salad without cheese, eggs I bought spouts, carrots and cucumbers to make the salad more fulling and exciting.  It took us much longer to shop because now we read each box to check out the servings, fat and calories.  Before the life long journey to change my eating habits we would walk along and toss boxes into the cart without reading anything.  I feel much better about shopping because I now know what I'm consuming.  I feel more in charge of my life.  I believe this is another break through.  As we were moving slowly through the store we had to find something to eat in the car because we were starving.   We found bit size chocolate rice cakes that tasted really good.  7 pieces were serving size and that held us over until super was ready.  The old me would have bought a donut, chips and maybe string cheese with a soda to hold us over, wow.  I am starting to feel much better, not so sluggish.   Big day tomorrow!!!!  First weigh in!!