Eating Healthy

"I need to lose weight" seems to be the motto of most American women. But for me, I know it's more than just vanity. "You are what you eat," is a motto that goes along with the need to drop pounds. A mind works only as well as the nutrition it gets. For women with PCOS, nutrition is extremely important.

I don't want to be like my overweight dad, suffering with diabetes and who has given up at weight loss. But if I keep eating the way I do, I just might. It's not that I eat unhealthy every day. My biggest problem is an unintentional roller coaster diet. I'll eat 2500 calories one day and 600 the next. I don't really cook, and I rely heavily on frozen dinners and dining out for my diet. When I'm not near a restaurant or near a grocery store, I tend to eat whatever I can find, or nothing at all.

Mostly a vegetarian, I've started to bring back some meat into my diet in order to try to balance out my carb/protein intake. But it has been about 10 years since I last ate a carnivore diet, and back then I did meat ala McDonalds. So I wasn't healthy then either.

Tracking my diet on FitDay.com is one way I'm trying to figure out who I am by what I eat. When I do that, I see clearly how poor my diet is, with the roller coaster nutrition. My goal is to eat about 1600 calories each day. I'm considering purchasing the Nutrisystem meal plan, but I'm concerned the food will be disgusting and leave me hungry. So for now, I'm going to see what I can do by tracking my diet and kicking myself each day I eat too little or too much. Let's see how far that goes.