An effort to eat better

One of the terrible side effects of depression is that I gained a LOT of weight. Around 55 pounds since my breakdown. It is literally weighing me down.

This week I’ve started to try to tackle the weight issue. I haven’t been exercising as I sprained my ankle and I had so many other things to do, but what I have tried to do is eat better.

I really eat badly. I never learned to cook and am often eating some kind of packaged food. For those of you following me since I first started blogging, you also know that I had a very unfortunate addiction to Haagen Dazs ice cream in the fall.

I’m not going to change my eating habits over night, but this is what I have done:
– Proactively eat a banana and two apples during the work day.

I haven’t done anything else really in terms of meals, but I think it is a really good start. I lost 2.2 pounds in the week since I bought my scale, and that was after a night out eating poutine, which is oh so tasty and oh so full of calories.

Anyway, what I like about the banana at breakfast and apples in the afternoon is that it seems to prevent most sugar cravings. I only had chocolate one afternoon when I was having a super stressful day.

This week my goal will be to add some fresh veggies to the day as well.

I don’t want to go on a diet. Rather I want to eat healthier foods, whole foods.

If you have recipes for tasty healthy foods with very little prep and time required, I’d love some tips. 🙂 (Just no fish or seafood.)