Progress Update: Week 1

It's been a week since I started all of this, so it seems appropriate to do a progress update. (I also feel like I kind of need to do one today to remind myself why I took this on again, as today's cooking attempts were, well, exhausting, with mediocre payoff. Suffice it to say I waged war on both an eggplant and a butternut squash, and very nearly lost to both of them. I'm exhausted, my eyes are still recovering from severe onion attacks, and I have small cut marks on several fingers as if I was in some kind of a strange knife fight. That's what I'll tell people to keep up appearances, anyway.)

Anyway, this week's progress! Let's do this!

WEEK 1

Milestones:

1. Cut out fast food and junk food, cold-turkey
2. Learned how to grocery shop healthily
3. Made a soup from scratch

5 best new foods I incorporated into my diet:

1. Plain yogurt with a few drops of vanilla extract, blueberries and raspberries
2. Strawberry-banana-kiwi smoothie
3. Tomato-avocado sandwich on whole wheat bread with garlic hummus
4. Shredded wheat cereal with berries
5. Chickpea salad with peppers, onions, parsley, olive oil, vinegar and lemon juice

3 Memorable Moments:

1. Stealing salad recipes from the local coffee shop and discretely inputting them onto my blackberry (as if I could get arrested for it)
2. Trying to chop and peel a butternut squash and ending up having the butternut squash basically chop and peel me
3. Staring into the crepe-making window at Cafe Crepe, being subjected to the irresistible sights and smells of nutella and dark chocolate.... and choosing a plain strawberry and banana crepe sans icing sugar instead. Will Power, to the rescue!

Next Areas to Target:

1. Exercise
2. Drinking more water
3. Expanding recipe repertoire

Enthusiasm, excitement and vigour replenished. Week 2 is all about exercising and trying out more recipes. 7 days down, 83 to go....and so it continues!