January Podcast: Changing Diets, Organics, Snack Attack Advice, Body Image, Finding Time

It’s a new year and I’m setting a new Podcast Schedule! I realize they’ve been few and far between this past year and I’m sorry. Blame the baby. It’s his fault. ;)

My goal for 2012 is one podcast a month. I think it’s realistic and I don’t want to make any promises I can’t keep. That being said the podcasts themselves will be longer. I thought it would be hard to talk that long but apparently I’m a chatterbox. I think you already knew that.

Topics include…

Making the switch from Medifast to Weight WatchersWeight Watchers online, face-to-face or on my own?My take on organic foods, CSA, produce picks. Tips for college student living abroad. Advice for fellow snackers. Body image stuff <- the question that makes me cry. ugh. How did I get started? My motivated and how I find the time.

Links mentioned…

No interest in watching an hour video? Here’s a few other my other recent posts elsewhere….

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Shocking Image From My Grocery Store Haul (Don’t Be Jealous)

There is no need to adjust your computer screen or overdose on eyedrops to intensify your vision. You are indeed viewing a high resolution, groundbreaking image from my recent grocery store haul.

So how can a clean eating diva such as myself have the ballz to buy all this shitty food?

Food is fun. I use the tasty-healthy foods for fuel and health, but sometimes I just like to have a little sinister fun and buy some crap. Years of practicing moderation (and finally getting it right over time) has given me the ability to enjoy crappy food indulgences without going overboard. I trust myself around sweets, so every once in a blue moon I allow myself to go buck wild enjoy these kind of treats.

The Apple Jacks and Devil Dogs are for me. That is all.

The cookies, doughnuts, cinnamon buns and Fruit by The Foot are for the Greedy Family. I don’t eat their stuff. I don’t like their junk food choices.

I tried to do the cold turkey thing with the family and force them to eat healthy all the time and totally restrict their junk foods, but that didn’t work. There was bitching and whining and uprisings. So while I still (sometimes) buy them the crap they request, I’ve been very successful at slowly introducing healthier options into their lives that stick.

In the midst of the junk food crap you see pictured, I’ve already got the Greedy Family enjoying healthy options like brown rice, fresh salmon, whole wheat instead of white flour products, Greek yogurt and fresh fruits, where they refused that stuff relentlessly in the past. I let them have some crappy foods as a compromise as I continue to slowly (and unforcibly) encourage better food choices. It’s been a process.

As for me? I’ve already had multiple bowls of Apple Jacks and plan on a Devil Dog for late night snack (gasp!). Once my treats are gone, they’re gone. It’ll be weeks before I enter into this kind of greedy glory again. This is how I have my cake and eat it too – all without gaining any weight.

So tell me: what’s your own greedy-eating philosophy?

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What Affects Your Body Image?

I think I have a bi-polar body image. There are times I feel on top of the world. Confidence bountiful. I’m unstoppable. Everything I put on looks fabulous. My hair falls just right. I glance in the mirror and, wow, I look great!

Then there are other times when I feel… bleh. All I notice are flaws. I’m aware of my body and I’m just not comfortable in it. It doesn’t matter what anyone says or does, I’m miserable.

What causes these huge shifts in my body image? It can be anything from my diet to the way my clothes fit. And it amazes how fast it happens. It’s day by day, sometimes hour by hour.

I find I’m winning the body image battle more and more by basically telling my negative inner voice to shut the hell up, but there are still things that mess with my head.

I can’t be alone. Can I?

What Affects Your Body Image?

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Ask Roni: Paper Bag Popcorn, Kids and Healthy Foods, Maintenance vs. Losing, Reverse Body Image Issues, Tummy Tuck Post Baby [video] [podcast]

It’s podcast time! I’m heading to the beach this weekend so I’ll be taking a short hiatus, again, from podcast recording. :(

Topics this week include…

Paper Bag PopcornKids and Healthy Foods AdviceMy approach to maintenance – Maintenance vs. LosingReverse Body Image IssuesTummy Tuck Post Baby

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