Healthy Choices

I love Food. I've always Loved Food. I will always love Food. While I love the art of Eating (yea, I said it was an art), I love the feeling of sitting down to a meal with my friends or family even more. It is how I was raised, we got together and shared meals on special occasions and most of our best conversations happened around the dinner table (I'll write about that another day). I'm proud of my love for food. You know when the host of a gathering tells everyone to get in the buffet line?...I lead the way. Boom - fill my plate and dive in.

Here's what I don't love about eating...the accumulation of pounds that inevitably falls in my midsection when I over indulge myself. It is something I have and will always struggle with...how to enjoy food and be skinny. I'm not one of those girls that is going to cry the blues about my weight bouncing up and down my whole life and turn this in to a "get skinny blog". I like to read those, but am nowhere near qualified to write one! I didn't get bullied for being a fat kid, I woulda knocked those bitches out. I'm just saying that making healthy choices is a struggle sometimes. Because of this, I try to offer the HEALTHIEST choices I can for my son. My parents instilled good, healthy habits in my life from the get go. I appreciate that very much. I fall off the wagon sometimes and I'm positive as he grows up, he will too.

Let's get down to the Nitty Gritty - people judge me all the time for offering healthy options to my son. Aw, poor little guy can't have ice cream for dinner? No syrup on his waffle at breakfast? He's almost ONE year old and he's never eaten an entire birthday cake before? Are you Nursing? You're still Nursing?!? What's that?...Avocado?...Gerber doesn't make that!

I'm not deaf, folks - I hear those "under your breath, she won't hear me" comments also. Yes, my red headed kid needs to wear sunscreen, and no he can't put unknown substances in his mouth. And what is it that makes YOU qualified to judge ME on these choices? After all, I am his MOM who just wants the absolute BEST for our son. I make mistakes - I'm not perfect, but I damn sure try my hardest to parent him with an open mind. After all, I've seen formula fed babies have a healthy streak longer than we could even dream of and a 1 yr old straight up OWN a peanut butter sandwich. These babies belong to my best friends and I 100% support their parenting style.

If you were me, how would you do it different? Hot Dogs and Mac N Cheese for dinner every night with M&M's for dessert? Excuse me while I train my toddler how to use the treadmill...obviously kidding here