Welcome!

Welcome to my personal Trim Healthy Mama blog, where I will be sharing in my journey towards achieving a healthier lifestyle!

I have a wonderful, full life and have been richly blessed with salvation, tremendous family and great friends.  However, after four children in six years and now in my early thirties, I am realizing that this is the ideal time to drop the extra pounds I have been carrying and work towards transforming the way our entire family eats.

After a number of semi-successful attempts to slim down (oh, let me count the ways! low-calorie/calorie-counting, atkins, chicken + brown rice, etc...) where I saw good results but found myself either very bored, low on energy, or plateau'ing after an initial loss, I had recently reached a place where I just thought, "Oh well.  I am heavier than I want to be, but in otherwise good health, and I really don't know where to start or what to believe about Healthy Eating, so I'm just going to stop stressing about it." Maybe you've been there, too?

In a way, it was freeing.  But there was still the little voice whispering in the back of my mind saying, "You need to improve your health - you may not always feel good being heavier than you should be!" or "It's time to take charge of your families' health and set your kids on a path of excellent eating for life!" and so forth and so on.  My children already eat very well - but I felt I could do even better.  They will be in my home, under my guidance, for such a short season of life - didn't I want to make the most of this time and nourish them to the best of my ability?  Of course.  I just wasn't sure how.

Then one day online, I happened to stumble across a book recommendation for "Trim Healthy Mama" by Serene Allison and Pearl Barrett.  No local bookstores had any in stock, so I purchased the e-book and began reading, and reading, and reading!  The book is LONG.  Filled with so much nutritional information, ideas and recipes, it was a lot to take in and I probably dragged the reading out over the course of six weeks. But wow!  So much of what they said resonated with me, and even if it wasn't always new information, the way they presented it made an impact.

I chatted with my husband for a few days about the idea and laid out the condensed version of the book's nutritional approach and he was on board.  We began on Monday, January 6th and my hope is to track the meals we eat and share them with others who are interested in the THM lifestyle.