It really depends what your goals are.

So true. Just last night my vegan friend wouldn't eat the veggie burgers I had in the freezer because the 15th ingredient or something was 'egg white powder', but she happily chowed down the Air Heads candy despite the long list of chemicals and artificial color and crap in the ingredients.

"I need to call the manhole guy."

And I am 12.

I had the same reaction.

Right, so eating to be heathy and eating to lose weight can be at conflict or at least not look in sync. Eating restrictions for ethical/moral objections does not necessarily have anything to do with health. And then there is the whole people are different blah blah blah.

I want to lose weight and be healthier. Eventually that is going to include reducing animal products, but for now I need to maybe just avoid fast food for like more than a week.

In non food related health news I signed up for a yoga class tonight and another one at a different studio tomorrow. I am hoping to start back to 2 days a week and I am trying two studios hoping I like one of them. They are both close to home and on my normal traffic patterns.

I really need to get back to watching my diet, but I also feel like it is time to change my, like, dietary foundation.

I like how you put that.

The one time I really worried about counting calories was when my DH wanted to go on a diet but wanted me to join too as support. It worked in that I lost weight, but it was too time consuming and only worked since I was a little obsessive about keeping track of my food. I'm better off ignoring things like calories and my weight and just trying to eat better.

My current version of eating better is probably a bit of a mish mash. Less protein, esp less meat, and less empty carb, more fruit and vegetables. I've always eaten pretty high fat so to mitigate that I try to make most of that good fats, not saturated or trans fats. Less refined sugar. But then again, invite me out to nice dinner with a bunch of buffista and all my good intentions go out the window! Deliciously I might add. But I eat better overall if I don't give myself a hard time when I eat a bit indulgently.

In non food related health news I signed up for a yoga class tonight and another one at a different studio tomorrow. I am hoping to start back to 2 days a week and I am trying two studios hoping I like one of them. They are both close to home and on my normal traffic patterns.

Yay for yoga!

I just started taking a tai chi class and I really like it. Meditative + movement = win for me. I've been taking it on Tuesday mornings but now it turns out she also has a class on Sundays at 8am, so I'll probably start going to that one too.

Only probably is the lack of aerobic exercise and really aerobics is what I need, so I should look for something else to augment that. But not sure I can see myself running like Kristin, and definitely don't see myself swimming like sarameg. What to do?

Burrell, we all SHARED the dessert. So the calories didn't count!

Yay tai chi and yoga! Both things I would like to do but haven't been able to fit into my life lately.

Aerobic options: walk, bike, dance, group classes at a gym, you-tube/netflix classes, jump rope, climbing stairs, jumping jacks

But I eat better overall if I don't give myself a hard time when I eat a bit indulgently.

I believe in this approach whole-heartedly. I am generally against shame, and particularly when it comes to eating.

I get am either way obsessive about tracking both food and exercise or I don't pay attention at all. Both approaches have their pros and cons.

I get obsessive about tracking my food, but I kind of need that right now.

Oh, fats. Been meaning to ask. My triglycerides TRIPLED in a year, weight down minisculey, blood sugar down, bmi down, blood pressure down. HDL is down 30% and LDL is up 18% so clearly all that fatness trend is going wrong, but to triple in one year, it pinged me as way way wonky.

I have no idea about that stuff. Triglycerides are bad?