Another New Thing!

What a week!

Yoplait has done it again - Splitz. Three new dessert flavors masking all the goodness of yogurt.

I had the Rainbow Sherbet yesterday at lunch and will have the Strawberry Sundae this morning. I'm probably going to skip the banana split. Not a fan in real life and so many yogurts have Strawberry Banana flavors and I just don't care for those. Banana yogurt just seems wrong somehow.

It took a long time for me to like yogurt. Matter of fact, it took being desperately hungry on a long flight one time for me to even try it. I was looking at a "snack box" for breakfast and there was very little in there I was interested in. But the yogurt was Yoplait Custard Style. No fruit on the bottom that had to be chewed. No runny melted ice cream looking yogurt. Good solid yogurt that I thought I could at least tolerate if it just slid down my throat and didn't require any actual eating.

Turns out it was good. Very good, in fact.

Which goes to show you that sometimes you just gotta step out of that comfort zone and give something new a whirl.

So, now I eat a lot of yogurt. Mostly Yoplait. I still don't really care for the ones that have real fruit that you stir up. I like the thick kinds that are more dessert-like than yogurt-like.

So, a growing girl can never get enough calcium. I take the supplements but it's always always always better if you can get your nutrition from foods.

So, add it to you grocery list this week and see what you think.

And have a great weekend. Should be a good one so get outside and get moving - and easy on those football snacks. :)

A New Thing

Always on the lookout for new, healthy things to share with you all.

I think I hit the jackpot on this one.

I've talked in the past about my limited likes of fruits and vegetables. I've talked about how much I like V8 Fusion - a full serving of fruits and vegetables in one glass. We've also discussed the benefits of green tea. Which I like, but hot, not cold.

V8 has put it all together. They've mixed the V8 Fusion, which tastes like fruit juice, with green tea. Awesome! (Cold even!)

There were 3 flavors at the store the other day and we bought a couple of each. I've had the Pomegranate Blueberry and the Pineapple Mango. Both are excellent. Small, portable bottles so there's no excuse not to grab one on the go.

Give your body something new to love.

No Harm, No Foul

I spent a week in New York and came back less than a pound heavier than when I left.

Folks, I consider that a moral victory. Rarely can you say that a vacation did not significantly add to your waistline.

Here's the problem. I should have lost weight given all the walking we did.

Miles and miles of walking. One day I managed to take an hour to get to a pizza place that ended up being only about 4 blocks from where we started. Lesson learned on at adventure - don't trust a subway map if you're above ground. It doesn't show all the streets - only the ones it needs to.

So, why, you ask, did I not drop all the unwanted pounds at which I've been chipping away?

Simple.

There was gelato at the wax museum. An Italian ice from a street vendor in Little Italy. An ice cream cone at Coney Island. A small, vanilla milkshake from McDonald's one night after sitting in record heat all day. Our post-theatre dinners at 11 and 10 PM were McDonald's chicken nuggets or fillet of fish sandwiches and fries.

Just about every rule I could break, I did. Every good habit I have, ignored. If not for all the walking who knows what would have happened!

I guess that one of the good things about vacations - you do things you wouldn't normally do, and that can be OK. I have returned to breakfasts of mini-wheats, whole grain breads at lunch and sugar free mousse for desserts.

In other words, I'm back on the wagon.

I'm still facing down about 6 pounds, but that's better than it was a few weeks ago.

I can do it. Being healthy doesn't mean not having fun. I'm not going to have any regrets. It's not the way I roll.

That also doesn't mean that I don't care. I know I have to be healthy in order to be able to take the next trip or do the things I want to do. There's give and take.

So, enjoy your life, but find some balance. If you want to eat something just remember the laws of physics: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Eating a cupcake may mean walking a little further or giving up something else later in the day (which is why planning is so important!) or passing up a second helping for a chance at a dessert later. Or just learning to love the taste of sugar free ice cream!

I also think this is a good time of year for fresh starts. The fall is always the start of a new school year and I think I look at it as a time for "newness" also. The summer was fun. We indulged. Life was disorderly. Whatever. Fall = structure. So, if you, like me, have slid a little lately then make that resolution early. Get back on track with a new month, a new season, a new goal.

Let's go for it!