Hello blog -world! Its once again been forever…….somehow the summer has become ridiculously more busy than when school was in session! I’m officially committing here to regular posts! So, this is a quick one to start off!

So, I’ve decided to get focused on reducing my intake of sugar alcohols.  When I initially changed my diet, I will admit to beginning to chew a lot, I mean A LOT of sugarless gum.  I also have a protein bar just about every day.  As I learn more and more about whole foods and trying to eat as clean as possible, I’m realizing that this is an area that I need to work on.  So, I’ve quit the gum altogether.  Its definitely been a crutch to deal with the urge to do some ‘emotional eating’!! Anyone else eat when their not hungry like me……….like when I’m bored, stressed??  Ugh!  So, I’m working on that part and purposefully distracting myself when the urge comes up to eat when I’m not hungry.  

On to the protein bars………now, I don’t feel guilty eating these, but I want to move towards more whole food consumption and the ingredient list on these puppies is long and I don’t know what half the stuff is!  So, I’ve decided to experiment……….my first one……..Larabars!  YUM!  I tried peanut butter cookie first and was amazed at how just 3 ingredients (dates, peanuts,salt) could taste so much like a peanut butter cookie.  I’ve since tried pecan pie…eh, it was okay….and apple pie….pretty good.  (Just saw on their website – 4 new flavors – carrot cake, peanut butter chocolate chip, chocolate chip cookie dough and chocolate chip brownie….oh my!) Now these bars are much lower in protein than the Pure bars of course, but I just feel so much better knowing exactly what I’m putting into my body.  I think I might try some homemade protein bars to see if I can increase the protein in this particular daily snack….I’ll let you know how it goes!

Back to work…….I will post later about a new fruit love……..Happy Thursday afternoon!!

PS- I’m getting all kinds of spam comments all of a sudden – anyone know how to stop them…a plugin?  As a result, I’m monitoring comments now before they post to the site.

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