Food

Okay. Here's "the thing." The thing is that I don't want this blog to be all about how I am or (more the case these days) am not succeeding in my goals towards weight-loss. I want to have fun and to do that I think I'm going to have to do more than pour my heart out about my long-time struggles in the plus-size world. And what better way to start my journey than to reassess my relationship with food? I love food. I love the smells, the textures, the colors. I love reading recipes. Food can connect generations, it can be a social event, it can communicate across cultural barriers, and it has always been more than just nourishment to the body.

So, after watching the movie Julie & Julia and realizing that I need to reconnect with my love of fruits and vegetables I've come up with a project. I want to cook through the entire Essential Vegetarian Cookbook by Diana Shaw in one year. The book is 600 glorious pages regarding health, nutrition, gardening, living green, and party-hosting. Though I'm not going back to being a strict vegetarian, it will revitalize my mission to treat my body as a temple instead of a fast-food dumping ground.

Since I'm terrible with deadlines and lofty ambitions, I am going to set the date for February 15th to give me ample time to prepare and read up on the recipes I will be attempting. This way I can ease my way into it, instead of barreling ahead full force and burning out after two weeks.

I am going to try to figure out a way to balance this project with my reviews of weight-loss challenges found in popular fashion magazines. Maybe I'll alternate months of cooking through Shaw's Essential Guide and the magazines. Not sure, but I'll try to figure it out along the way.