Our Inspiration

Ben & I are new to dieting. Not to say you would assume by looking at us that we would have ever  needed "to lose some weight". Quite the opposite actually. Ben has grown up playing anything and everything from football to soccer to volleyball to wrestling to rugby to blahblahblah and the list goes on. I also have always been on the active side. Not in quite that wide of a variety of activities, but I have spent many a long evening in the studio perfecting some form of dance or another. Needless to say, we both consider ourselves athletes in our own right.

It seems so irresponsible now to look back on my college years and think of all of the opportunities to better my body that I completely disregarded. Free gym membership. Free extra dance classes. Free personal training. All available to those with the title of "student". If I could give one bit of advice to the seniors who are completely unaware of what catastrophe may be lurking around the corner for your body it would be this: Despite what you think and how much you may think you are exercising, YOU WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO EAT WHATEVER YOU WANT. This realization hit Ben and I both pretty hard post graduation when our lifestyles had changed but our eating habits did not.

We took the steps toward recovery about half a year ago. After months of hard calorie cutting and some pretty frustrating steps on the scale, both Ben and I are sitting pretty on our ideal weights. Despite being pretty much where we want to be weight-wise, we still must be VERY conscious of what exactly we are putting into our mouths. This blog came into motion this past weekend when Ben and I visited family and friends in southern California. Let's be honest; it is incredibly difficult to be dieting around people who are not dieting (and also to not be a burden on those individuals who are feeding us). I feel like most people don't have a very good idea of exactly HOW bad somethings are for you. Here's where this blog comes in:

Ben and I have come up with some pretty tasty ways to enjoy ourselves while still maintaining our diet and calorie counts. We've also collected some great recipes that others have come up with. Our idea is to really make the calories and serving sizes as clear as possible. This is mostly for our sanity sake. If it benefits others along the way, even better. Ben is the quite the masterful cook so feel free to assume that any and all meals were created and assembled by him (unless otherwise specified). I am the queen of sweets. Any dessert or sugary treat is probably my doing. I will also do the majority of the writing as I am the more organized of the two of us.
I hope you enjoy and happy eating!