Baby steps – mini challenge (step 3.95)

With just a few days left before step four is due (hours really before I usually release the blog) I decided to switch it up.

I know people struggle so much with loving carbs.. well we love them but we are so damn afraid of them. And giving a fiber goal and trying to lead everyone to track it, or to calculate their own goal isn’t actually what I want from this. But I just couldn’t figure out how to help, then I felt I lost everyone.

So all week I thought on it… or tried, through my post-bachelorette party and travel fog… it just hit me.

A mini challenge.

It’s perfect.

So far we have us sip sip sipping our water, baby steps numero uno.

Then are are focusing on our non-starchy veggies with baby step number two.

So yes – I want us focusing on soluble and non-soluble fiber, but I want to challenge it further, in a bit more challenging yet straight forward way.

Mini Challenge:

For the next seven days starting on Monday, the 29th of April (or whatever Monday follows after you’ve found this blog), I want you to include no less than…

three carbohydrate servings a day.

I want them to come from:

1. Starchy Vegetables
2. Fruit

That means for one week we are avoiding

3. Grains

4. Dairy (excluding Greek Yogurt, Cheese and Cottage cheese)

5. Sugar

I put them in ugly red just to burn them into your brain.

I want to go ahead and state that grains, dairy and sugar are part of a healthy diet. But for OUR PURPOSES I want you to learn to eat plants, and lots of them. Watch how over time your body starts changing because you simply choose a piece of fruit over a cookie, beans instead of rice (or half and half), a potato over fries.. which brings me to my next point.

I want you to choose at least one fruit and one vegetable – so it’s not all coming from fruit and no all coming from starchy veg, a bit of each.

It only counts if the skin is on and it is not fried or with any added sugars and doesn’t come from a box.

So a whole piece of fruit.

No french fries or mashed potatoes – eat the whole thing

Stuff like that.

Eat the food the way we found it in nature, sans the cooking method if you use one to make it edible (like cooking beans, corn or potatoes)

Please refer back to baby steps number three for more complete list of foods and serving sizes.

I recommend doing some planning this weekend and focusing this next week.

Also – some of you may already be following step three on your own but it’s still good practice to replace things like jam with whole berries or mashed potatoes with whole – or adding beans and corn into things like rice or replacing bread with them.

Thanks for reading! Eat your plants!