Beware of cranky family! Extreme Carb/Sugar withdrawel happening now!

My husband sometimes says, "Girl - you have ISSUES!"  and tonight I'm thinking I do. It's 10:30 at night, and I got out of bed, went to the fridge and got my leftover Mexican food from LaFiesta.  Here was my insane line of reasoning  - I was thinking about when I would possibly get the chance to eat it tomorrow, which would not be until evening, and by then - the chips would be to soggy and someone in my family would possibly eat it by then.  So I am sitting in bed with my leftover container,crumbs in the covers, my diet coke balanced on my Bible (sorry Jesus)- knowing I am so gonna regret this when I am not yet asleep at Elisabeth's midnight wake up call. And with the caffeine buzz I am about to have, I will be up for her 3:00 am wake up call too! (My 10 month old likes to revert back to her new born days when it comes to sleeping through the night.) Yes, I do have issues.

It's funny that tonight I would set up a mini-mexican restaurant in my bed, because I really feel we have shopped in the "Big and Tall" and "Short and Fat" section of department stores one to many times this weekend. As we were sitting at LaFiesta , feasting on our 10th basket of chips Sarah suggested we go on a "family diet."  Now this is coming from my pencil-thin, gorgeous 18 year old daughter who is stressing because (Gasp) she has possibly gained an ounce since basketball season has been over.



Now, if we were smart  - we could buy clothes a couple sizes too big so when we wear them we are like, "woohoo! look how much weight I lost!"  (Just cut the tags out that show the size.  You will eventually forget what the size was and really think you lost weight.)  Look at Ms. Droopy Drawers here.  She is saying, "Hey mommy! I lost 10 pounds this week! Look how my clothes are falling off me!"





 I have been wanting to do something for a long time, but have been nervous about doing it. I am thinking about putting the whole family on a total non-processed foods diet. Just fresh fruits, veggies, meats, cheese, etc... Nothing out of a box or bag.  No  bread.  The 99.9% who read this blog know our family.  We are NOT the tree hugging, nature loving, eat granola and never shave our armpits sort of family.  We are the couch potato, mountain dew drinking, chip consuming, kind of family.  When my kids ask "what's for lunch?" I tell them their choices: frozen burritos, frozen taquitos, frozen corn dogs or frozen pizza.  Oh my gosh! Just seeing that in print is awful! I am so not getting the mother of the year award. Now, before you start shouting Hallelujah because I am changing the deathly eating habits of my children, we are are only going to do it for 4 days. Monday-Thursday.  Starting tomorrow. Chris leaves for camp on Friday and I'll head off to my dads.  But I'm gonna track how we feel, see if any of us lose a pound, and just get a taste of what its like to be healthy. And maybe get everyone's opinion on if could they do this for longer than 4 days.  I will let you know how it goes if we don't eat each other first.  And I seriously doubt I will be climbing out of bed for a bowl of carrot sticks and glass of water. So if I don't lose any weight, I will at least get more sleep! (If the Z's can do this, then ANYBODY can...I'll let you know how day 1 goes tommorrow night. :))