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My Fight to Be Fit: Linda Michaels

Linda is a CBN.com producer and lives in Virginia Beach. Come back each Monday and Wednesday to follow her progress.

 

August 7, 2006

Eating Fresh for Weight Loss Success

If there's one principle of weight loss or healthy eating I hear more than any other, it has to be, "Eat fruits and vegetables."

Now, I have to confess that, as a single woman who would rather do almost anything other than cook, most of my food comes in a plastic tray from the microwave. There's nothing fresh about that.

However, someone recently brought some home-made chunky salsa to our home fellowship group. It was so delicous I could have eaten it with a spoon and I began to think just maybe my body was trying to tell me that I needed to eat more fresh foods.

I have snacked on carrots and fat-free dip occassionally, but that's about it when it comes to fresh veggies in my diet.

This salsa, however, was so wonderful, that I decided to make some for myself. So I headed to the store. Then I began dicing fresh, vine-ripened tomatoes, celery, peppers, and onions. Then I added some olive oil, vinegar, lemon juice, fresh cilantro, mustard seed, kosher salt and cracked pepper.

The result looks more like a chopped salad than salsa, but I absolutely love it. It's now my favorite way to get a variety of fresh vegetables into my diet.

I wish I'd tried this sooner.

Now, I'm wondering if our CBN.com readers have some ideas on how to get more fresh fruits and vegetables into our diet. If you do, please e-mail me your suggests. I'd love to post them for all of us who are fighting the good fight to get fit.

In the meantime, I wish you all well at the begining of another exciting week of weight-loss adventures.

Blessings to all,

Linda

Previous blogs: How I got Roped into This, Dodging the Donuts, Why Losing Weight Takes Faith, When the Scales Won't Budge, Ask the Experts, Sweet Scale Success, Are You Having Fun Yet?, All or Nothing, Weapons For Your Weight Loss War, Winning the Weight Loss Battle, The Simple Truth About Weight Loss, One Woman's Weight Loss Success

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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