My young son, like most toddlers, has a piggy bank. Every evening he and his Daddy have fun putting spare change from Dads pockets into the pig. In fact, weve had to empty the pig contents several times in the past months. It sure does fill up quickly. Before the pig, the spare change was just left lying on the dresser, leaving us with a big mess, and no idea how much had accumulated.
What do piggy banks and food choices have in common? I honestly would have had no idea before this past week when I decided to start keeping a food journal. Calories are a lot like the spare change from my husbands pockets, they add up fast. Unfortunately, before I started writing them all down, they were exactly like the mess on our dresser, only harder to clean up, or loose.
Since having my son two-and-a-half years ago, I have attempted numerous times to loose the extra baby weight. Although becoming harder to do so everyday, I have to laugh at the baby weight excuse. Honey, the so called baby weight was lost when the bundle made his first shrill squeal at the hospital. What Im packing around is twenty pounds of pocket change with no pig to put it in
At the end of the...