The First Thoughts...

I LOVE FOOD!!

I have always enjoyed all things eating! -- My mom tells me stories of when I was a little girl, we would go to anyone's house and I knew to identify who was in charge of the kitchen and I stayed close. (seriously, I wonder if people wondered if my mom fed me or not!) My love for eating is clearly nothing new.

While I was on my mission in Northern Virginia, one of the MANY blessings I enjoyed was all the wonderful food I ate. I remember before I headed out, I was so worried that I would have to suffer through terrible meals and unsavory platters without the ability to say no. But that was actually never the case.

This is one delicious example! 

However, lately, I have started to truly be aware of the things I'm eating, and how it's affecting my body. I'm just so stubborn and don't want to change my ways that I haven't ever taken the time to examine my food. It took me getting married and a big NUDGE from my husband to finally accept that I'm lactose intolerant. Milk and I just don't get along. But it's sooo good right?! -- Another examples is Coke. I love SODA so much! Just recently I have come to accept a world in which I don't drink it nearly as often as I did before. But even still, my journey to health is still a long road ahead.  Just over a month ago  my husband and I have finally decided to together be conscious of our food and make changes for the better.

For a while now, my husband Josh and I have been saying things like,
"One day we'll eat healthy!"
"One day we'll afford to eat healthy!"

We sometimes make ridiculous goals like,
"We're going to be Vegetarian, because that's better!"

and one of my favorites, mostly because it's a complete lie
"we really do eat pretty healthy." (as we just ate a high fat, high carb, low vegetable/fruit meal.)

We have lied to ourselves like so many people do, and have fallen into this trap that somehow health is something unreachable and unobtainable. --- Do you find yourself in a similar predicament? I know that for us:

ITS TIME TO STOP!

I'm starting this Blog in hopes to share our journey with whoever is interested. I don't want for it to be a place where people feel judged or like we're pointing fingers, but rather, we want this to be a place of inspiration, learning, and collaboration. I'm hoping to share recipes, blogs of new food we discover, and how we make choices of what we eat on a daily basis.

So many people around me want to learn to eat healthy and we all have different ideas of how to come around to that. Some reduce fat, others sugar, others carbs, others calories --- whatever the method, so many of us are trying to read as many food blogs, watch Netflix documentaries, search recipes on YouTube... and basically we're trying to figure this health business out.

If you find yourself in the same place, and are figuring this out as well, we invite you to follow our blog and learn along with us. We're going to share our ups and downs and struggles as we strive to get away from processed and altered food and go back to eating delicious WHOLE FOODS! I don't know how long this will take, nor do we have a specific plan. However we do know this, we have ignored the signs our bodies have given us for far too long. We're tired of feeling tired, and overweight, and unattractive, and any other negative feeling that eating unhealthy leads to, and we're ready to actually make change.

And so, FRUITS FOR THOUGHT begins!