Changing me

4 comments June 17th, 2008

HealthyRockford.com, among other things, is supposed to impart information that helps people make healthy changes in their lives.

I don’t know about anyone else, but it may be changing me.

Until I wrote about them last week, I hadn’t given much thought recently to correct portion sizes. After I did, I realized I had let my own discipline on portion control slip quite a bit.

Consequently, when I dug into the pasta with vegetables at my favorite self-serve lunch counter today, the spoon dipped in a couple fewer times that it might have before.

Then, I went even further.

Of course, I’d read stories about the pesticides and so on used in growing food, but I’d never really worried about it before I edited a story on organic foods for the Web site, shot one video and helped with another.

Suddenly, I caught myself washing apples before I ate them.

And today I opted for the 10-cents-per-pound more expensive organic red delicious apples when the regular non-organic ones were less than a foot away. I’ve been eating one while writing this.

Those people who advocate organic foods because of the taste may have something here, because I can’t remember the last time I thought an apples tasted so good — and I really like apples.

Anyway, maybe paying attention again to portion control will help shed a few pounds. I still don’t know what to think about those organic apples, except that there are three more in the bag and one may be calling my name.