Healthy eating = An enjoyable experience

Many of us associate bland, tasteless, and non-enjoyable food with dieting and living a healthy life.  I believe this is why so many people fail with weight loss.  Healthy food DOES NOT need to be bland and boring. 

I have never been extremely heavy, but I have battled with weight loss since the birth of my second daughter.  I have tried a few fad diets and didn't like them at all.  Actually, they do...but only temporarily.  Generally speaking, once you lose the weight and start eating normal again, the weight just comes back on.  Here are a few of my thoughts and questions on a few fad diets...

Slim-fast - Do you really want to drink those shakes for the rest of your life?  Won't that get boring?  Don't you want real food?
Fat-burning pills - If you like to feel anxiety and your heart palpitate, I guess this is for you.  But are you willing to take them till the day you die. 
South Beach Diet (High protein diets) - Yes, protein is excellent and it is important for those who live extremely active lifestyles, but it's not the only nutrient you need.  Eliminating carbs is the wrong way to go.  Eating the right kind of carbohydrate is what you need to do.

I think you will agree with me that when you work hard and lose weight, you would LOVE for that weight to never come back.  I'm here to tell you that it's possible.  It's possible to lose weight and keep it off.  How?

You must change your eating habits & live a healthier lifestyle. 

In this blog, I want to give you recipes that are low in calories, high in nutrition, and taste delicious.  I will not only provide you with the recipe, but also with the calorie counts and benefits for each ingredient. 

I love food.  All kinds of food:  Fried food, greasy food, sweet food, salty food, healthy food.  I love them all.  When I eat...it's an experience...and I enjoy it.  I know there are more of you out there that love food as much as I do.  That's why I want to help you realize that healthy food can be just as delicious and enjoyable.

Living a healthy lifestyle has 2 main ingredients: Eating right and exercising.  In this blog, we will focus primarily on the first ingredient, eating right.  I will have another blog dedicated to exercising and living an active lifestyle called "Andi's Idea of Blissful Living".

I encourage each reader to provide comments, thoughts, questions, and suggestions on foods they would like me to write about.

This is a journey I am not taking on my own, but with everyone who takes the time to read my blog.  I pray that I may be a light that shows you how to be a better and healthier you.

Off to prepare my first recipe...