Good morning!
The Civic Day long weekend is now over! I have a very busy yet exciting work week coming up. This morning I have been working on Kristin’s custom wedding favour Glo Bars. I will also be working on the Healthy Living Summit Glo Bars and getting caught up on my orders, stock ordering, and a few other fun projects. Like last year, I am donating Glo Bars for all of the swag bags in the Healthy Living Summit. It is going to be a wild week!
For those of you who missed out on Friday, I have added a few more batches of Gluten-free + Raw Liberate Glo bars to the shopping cart!
Great discussion going on in last night’s post. I love reading everyone’s thoughts on the topic!
A couple more questions I received are: 1) When/how much meat is Eric eating? and 2) Is Eric eating dairy?
1) He said he eats meat about 3 times a month. We keep frozen organic meat in the freezer when he buys it and when he gets a craving I will cook him some or he will BBQ a burger for himself. He enjoys a juicy beef burger now and then. He does only buy organic meat after watching Food Inc., but the meat he eats when out is not organic. He goes out for lunch at work 5 days a week and he will have meat maybe once a week with veggie options the other 4 days. He now orders all veggie subs without cheese and mayo. I don’t think he has had a meat sub since he watched Food Inc. Food Inc really changed the way he viewed what he was eating. He also still has not had Coke/pop since March 2010.
2) He slowly cut cheese out of his diet after the doctor told him his LDL cholesterol was high a few years ago. The doc said lay off the cheese, please! Now he eats cheese once in a blue moon (maybe once every 1-2 months). His blood cholesterol levels are awesome now. He also switched from 2% milk to skim milk. Occasionally, he will have ice cream, but he doesn’t buy it to keep in the house anymore like he used to. When it is not in the house, you can’t eat it!
Basically, he told me last night ‘meat and dairy are no longer staples in my diet, but they are occasional indulgences.’
I thought that was a great way of summarizing it! Eric is hoping to write a blog post on the topic at some point in the future. It has been delayed because he is extremely busy with work lately and he has been working overtime 6-7 days a week. When things slow down I am sure he will be happy to talk about it more. =)
One thing is for sure, I have never seen him happier or healthier in the 10-11 years I have been with him. I think he is really amazed at how much an impact a few diet changes have made.
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Last night Eric and I went back outside after dinner and did another hour of pruning!! We can’t be stopped. I don’t know what it is, but I get such a satisfaction from pruning! I have found my calling. I’m sorry I won’t be making Glo Bars any more, the shrubs need me. ;)
After pruning, I was hit with recipe inspiration and I went into the kitchen to make trial one of Homemade Protein Chocolate. I was craving chocolate and I was thinking ‘wouldn’t it be cool to make a protein chocolate?’ and 5 mins. later after scribbling down some ingredient ideas, I was in the kitchen!
Trial one was delicious, but not perfect. I promise to tell you the recipe when it is final!
I got up early to go for a run this morning, but when I got up I found that I was SORE from all the renos and yard work yesterday! I decided to listen to my body and give it more rest. If I feel better tonight I might get out for a run, but if not, I will just wait it out another day.
For some weird reason I was craving cereal for breakfast! I usually have cereal for afternoon snacks, but rarely for breakfast as it never fills me up.
Berries, Bananas, Seeds & Spelt Cereal:
- 1.25 cups Nature’s Path Spelt Cereal
- 1 cup almond milk
- 1/4 cup fresh raspberries
- 1 tbsp sunflower seeds
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- 1 tbsp dried cranberries
- 1 banana, chopped
- Sprinkle unsweet. coconut
Mmm it was so good! Not sure it will hold me over until lunch, but we shall see.
Japanese Sencha Green Tea was enjoyed and is being enjoyed as I type this.
With a Bodum loose leaf tea pot that I adore with all my heart.
I will see you tonight with a baking clue of where I will be going overseas in September. I hope it works.
Have a great Tuesday!
I need to get my boyfriend on the Eric diet! He’s working on it but such a convenience food guy. He doesn’t drink any soda/pop (neither of us do) but definitely too much take out. :) I’ll just keep making your recipes and maybe he’ll come around after he realizes how delicious they are!
I also meant to mention that Eric’s changes took years…a little bit here and a little bit there. When we met he didn’t eat any vegetables. As I said last night I do think small changes add up to something big overtime. I think patience is key. Just like it took me years to beat my ED, it will take other sometimes years to make healthy changes. Never underestimate the power of one small step in the right direction! I find they are addicting because you notice that you feel better and it makes you want to stick with it.
Good advice about the small steps. My husband lives on convenience foods and junk. It’s very frustrating to me (and hard on our budget) and doesn’t set a good example for our son. Maybe I’ve been trying to hard – maybe the small steps are what I need.
Love your blog!
I forgot about the time factor… hehe…oops. I want us to change right now!
Now that I eat vegetarian and a clean diet, we’ve shifted the “chores” in the house. I do all the cooking, meal prep, meal planning, etc. So I also make all of my bf’s breakfasts, lunches, snacks, etc in exchange for him doing all the cleaning in the house. It’s really worked on making us both healthier. He does like eating healthy but preparing food was never a priority for him like it is for me. It works wonderful for our household.
My boyfriend is the same! We live apart right now so when he is on his own, he eats tons of convenience food but when he is with me, he eats healthy. When we are together, he does like helping to make healthy meals, but I think on his own, he lacks the drive and inspiration to do so. He makes an amazing sous-chef. :) This past weekend, I found a stash of pizza boxes at his place and he admitted he was hiding them from me..LOL.
Can’t wait for that protein chocolate recipe.
I’m so sad the Holiday weekend is over. It had been a great one!
ah looking forward to the recipe, sounds great! :)
Going overseas?! That sounds fun! And that is so great about Eric. My husband is in perfect health but I am going to share Eric’s story!
Eric is so like Himself. Himself has sort of given up stuff by osmosis since we’ve been together!
I’m trying to wean my husband off the meat and cheese, too. It’s a slow process, but I know he feels the difference. Last night he told me, “I feel better when I eat healthy,” and I just about passed out.
The way that Eric phrased that is exactly how my husband feels about meat! It’s an occasional indulgence, not something he needs to eat every day, or every week even.
You have a busy week ahead– I wish I was going to HLS, if only to get a glo bar in my bag, ha!
Eric’s story sounds a lot like my husband’s… we have been married two years and in that time he has started eating and LIKING a lot more vegetables, plus he loves tofu now- he hated it when we met, and he is eating much less meat and we are very conscious about where we buy our milk, eggs, and meat when we buy it- which is very rarely.
Wish I were going to the Summit and was getting one of those bags! Maybe next year :-)
I’m gonna take an early guess, that you will be going to Ireland!? Ha! I’m prolly wrong.
I would love to go to England, Scotland, Ireland.. Ohhh so beautiful..in my future for sure!
I can not wait to get this protein chocolate recipe! Sounds like a healthy indulgence :)
Sounds like Eric has the perfect balance in his diet..especially for a man! :D
I think that sometimes people stick to an unhealthy diet because they don’t know how to improve it or because of the way people around them eat. My boyfriend lives with his parents and they eat lots of meat and white bread. His mother makes salad and he refuses to eat it! But when I make him dinner, it is super healthy, full of whole grains and veggies and he loves it!
I will gladly accept the glo bars in our bags at the Healthy Living Summit :)
those bars look great..
your a G.I. good influence on eric’s diet :) i have to watch food inc. to get me going…cravings are the toughest :)
Angela, if you come up with protein chocolate, I will love you forever ;)
Cereal the same way for me! It’s strange..if I have it in the morning, it NEVER fills me up and I’m hungry a few minutes after. But it”s perfect as an afternoon snack to hold me over for a few hours.
That bodum tea pot looks amazing! I just might have to get myself one. ;) As soon as I get myself some loose leaf tea, of course.
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That protein chocolate looks heavenly!!! ;)
I am new tor reading your blog, so forgive me if this is an exhausted subject, but what made you give up dairy? Do you think it is a permanent transition?
My body does NOT digest dairy well, so no I will not be going back :)
I tried to find spelt flour the other day and couldn’t find it at T.J.’s or Lucky’s…..I didn’t go to Whole Foods, whom I’m almost positive would have it. Breakfast looks yummy:)
OOOOH I can’t wait for that recipe!