Eating right...Breaking Another Myth About Dieting

I think I may have covered this in another blog post, but I felt it worth mentioning again. Anytime I talk to someone about my fitness and diet, they somehow automatically assume that I am eating only salads and fruits and somehow, "good" food isn't allowed. This always gives me pause because when I decide to "go on a diet," this means eating more food than I would eat on a regular basis. See, my problem isn't that I load up on a lot of chocolate (really just don't like it), or cakes and cookies (I can pass easily). Salt does me in. Plus the fact that my life is currently so busy there are times when I forget to eat.

Yes, it happens.

I'm a writer and an artist, and when I get "into the zone," hours pass without my noticing (that is until my stomach feels as though it is going to jump out of my skin and eat everything in sight). This leads me to overeat and also eat at all the wrong times. My metabolism is wonky to begin with, and poor eating habits haven't helped it any.

So, to dispel this myth about what I can and cannot eat, I decided to give you today's meal plan as an example of what "dieting" truly looks like in my world:

Breakfast: Shakeology (I'm hooked and love my morning smoothie. Today's was a Mixed-fruit Vanilla Shake (if I didn't have the shake, I would have had French toast sticks with strawberries))
Snack 1: Hard boiled egg with 1/2 a banana
Lunch:

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