Girl Scouts hijacked my diet

Not that I'm actually on a 'diet'. I don't use that word anymore, but I've been working hard at changing the way I eat.

Yesterday I started off with Greek yogurt, red grapes, a banana and a granola bar. Okay, lunch was a grilled cheese [lovingly prepared by my husband] and an apple followed by a walk around the block, believe it or not. Dinner was a salad, baked chicken, another apple [organic] and some fresh Italian bread. Sounds like a red letter day and it would have been except for the half a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints I ate while making dinner.

They're like chocolate covered crack. All these weeks of teaching myself how to avoid eating processed snack foods went right out the window when confronted with these deadly little disks of yummy. The worst part is, there's another sleeve in the box and I'll be home all by myself this afternoon.

I may need to duct tape my mouth shut.

So tell me, what's your food vice? What's the thing you can't resist no matter hard you try? I can walk away from an Oreo but Thin Mints are my Waterloo.

Beginning at the Beginning

Welcome to Rx for Reality, my new health and wellness blog. Thanks for stopping by.

Let me start off by explaining what I’m doing here and why. I’m not a doctor or a nurse or any type of health care professional. I’m a consumer, a suburban mom, a voter, a taxpayer and a writer. I’m 42 years old, a victim of the irrepressible battle of the bulge and a voracious reader.

Over the last few years I’ve noticed an alarming change in my mindset and I need to do something about it. I’ve come to realize that we live our lives in information overload. Everyone, everywhere seems to be trying to sell us something, whether it’s diet food that’s really bad for our bodies, pharmaceuticals that cause more problems than they cure, health care plans that are cleverly designed to take more from us and give us less, new products that promise miracles they can’t deliver and lifestyle changes that do nothing more than put money in the pockets of big business.

Is it any wonder the average American is overweight, depressed, sleepless, broke and confused? Are you tired of it? I am.

I’m not here to put forth any miracle cures or handy tips on how to live your life better. There are plenty of people out there already doing that. I’m not here to chronicle an inspirational weight loss journey, or a war on any particular ailment. I’m not here to sell anything. I just want a place to come and talk about the issues that everyday make me wonder how dumb the government, the media and big business think we little people really are.

I’m here to shed some light on the things that don’t make sense in my world and maybe connect with people who see what I see, want what I want, or even people who know something I don’t.
I welcome comments and open debate. I hope I can provide some topics of interest to people like me who don’t know which end is up sometimes, who don’t know if low-fat is better than sugar-free, which cooking oil is best, or if nationalized health care is our only hope or the end of the free world. I’m trying to figure out how to navigate in an increasingly complex world and I don’t claim to know the right path, but I’d be happy for some company along the way.

Join me for the ride if you like.