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Today we indulged pigged-out at the state fair.  Cheese curds, pretzels, corn, deep fried pickles, cookies, funnel cake, soda, pizza and a stomach ache. Greasy. Gross. Gross. Gross.

Be better.

Clean in ’13 starts tomorrow.  That means from Sunday lunch through Friday breakfast, only whole, healthy foods are consumed.  Friday lunch through Sunday breakfast are open to bad food.  The end goal being to phase out processed and unhealthy foods all together and only eat naughty foods on rare occasion.

Today, I cleaned out the fridge, freezer and cabinets.  All of the foods the processed foods were moved to the front, so that we can use them up (wasting sucks) during the naughty time of the week. I also composted (first compost!)  the freezer-burnt frozen peas (yuck) and straight chucked anything that was expired or stale (no guilt there.)

Tomorrow, I’ll go to the grocery store and fill my cart only with whole, organic foods. This is going to be tough though, because it’s hard to spend more money on food – especially when the commercial celery is $0.99 and the organic variety is three times that amount. It’s a complete change in thinking … and in the grocery budget.

I’m excited to start this, but also worried that I’ll have trouble sticking to it.  Planning and launching are my strengths; execution and longevity in the wellness arena, not so much.

Be better.