Workouts and Vegetables

Well I just finished my third custom made workout of the week! Boy are my legs going to be sore tomorrow!! I have started doing weight training three times a week with two or three days of cardo. So with working out and addition to eating right I have currently lost 6 lbs! It has been slower this time but I am confident in this process and it is the weight that comes off slowly that stays off. Between Daniel and Paisley I was almost at my goal weight, but then I got pregnant. I was doing the South Beach diet (and lost 12 lbs in the first two weeks) and working out, but once I got pregnant the diet died and we all know once a diet dies the weight creeps back on! Then after a couple months of being pregnant I had to stop working out because of contractions. So I ended up a big fat blob!! (BUT I have to say my cute little girl was worth it!!) Anyway I say all that to say this process is slower but it is an overhaul to my eating and thinking and will have a life long effect on my body. There are so many mindsets that I am having to break. It is hard because I really do love food, but I am trying to retrain my body to crave healthy food rather than fatty foods. I've heard it said that your taste buds change ever 7 years, now I don't know if that is true or not, but I can see where that has some merit. When you are 7 you love sugar and junk food! At 14 you love fast food and at 21 you are starting to experience the finer taste of life! At 28, for me anyway, you are finally starting to appreciate all those vegetables your mom made you gag down when you were 7. :)
  I am trying to instill these important principals (gaging down vegetables) in my children just like my mom did. I have successfully got them to say that they like squash, asparagus, peas and corn but that's it. My mom always applied the 'no thank you serving' while we were growing up and I have been using it with my kids. If we didn't want something she had cooked, most of the time it was the vegetables, we could have a 'no thank you serving' which was one spoonful or one small piece but we were required to have at least that. Those small spoonfuls exposed us to all sorts of different tastes and textures and after enough exposure to them we learned to like them, the hope for my children! 
 Monday I am going to feature a Spinach and Quinoa with Avocado and Grapefruit salad that I made...very good! Tomorrow is church and will be busy but I have already made my menu for next week so it will be posted on Monday!