Challenges of This New Way
What I haven’t been doing so well is food planning for more than a few days at a time. This means me getting groceries multiple times a week. I’ve also found that some of my fave discoveries have also become my kids. Hello, no bananas left for me and Ezekiel bread going faster. It’s great they’re liking it so I’m okay with having to replenish more.
This breakfast has been an “easy” one for me when also prepping my son’s breakfast and making his school lunch but my goal this week is to get ahead and have more things made in advance. So I made an extra set of my eggs with tofu, cheese and garlic. Whether it’s in a sandwich, on one slice or there’s a half slice on the side depends on the rest of my day’s meal plan. Today is a half slice day since we’re doing dinner out tonight.
If you’d asked me just last month if I would be doing this, all of this, I might have chuckled and just kept moving. Today I’m asking why I waited so long. Why even after last year’s high blood pressure scare I didn’t take action. Why when my fibroids started growing super fast and I learned nutrition could help, I didn’t immediately do it.
Why Now
Why it took a combo of another high blood pressure scare, a total of 30 pounds of weight gain since C@vid started, these darn fibroids, perimenopause, a lump in my bre@st, and what I have to admit was some mild depression with dissociation from that I decided to take my health and wellness.
It’s Overall Wellness
While losing 8 pounds and feeling physically stronger are definitely wins (yay!), it’s the mental that means the most. I’m just happier, more at ease and less concerned about things i’ve spent the past seven years or so. Been concerned about. I’m less concerned about successes as measured by what other people think I should be doing.
This focus on loving myself, being healthy inside and out, has given me a freedom and focus that I haven’t had since I can remember, I am truly in a place where I am feeling OK with putting my needs at the top of the list, not ignoring my responsibilities and applications and commitments, my love for my children and my husband, but putting myself up there making for my needs and my health met. I know that, if I am not well, if I’m not healthy, then the whole family suffers. What’s that saying? If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy. So it’s time for me to be happy. Time for me to be well. Time for me to take care of this body that holds this spirit. It’s time to love Bernette.
Hey, I’m no chef so you make this the way you make it. But below is my tofu and egg scramble.
My Tofu and Egg Scramble
What I included:
Garlic- ~1 teaspoon (is too much garlic a thing?)
Tofu (precooked) – 2 ounces
Egg whites – ½ cup
Cheese (I used the Mexican shredded cheese – 14 grams
Toast – ½ slice Ezekiel bread
Butter – Kroger unsalted ~ 1 teaspoon
I also have it with my morning cup of coffee.
