Because, I get home about an hour after my hubby does, I have this great deal with him.  I plan all our meals for each work week night, I shop for all the food, and then I put a list on the fridge of 5 meals he can choose from to prepare for the night.  Then he cooks. It has become one of the best “deals” we have ever made.  It allows me to come home, eat dinner, and then have time to exercise, spend time with the kids without feeling like I cannot “do it all!”  Awesome.

So, last night I got home a few minutes earlier than normal (due to the holiday) he was cooking and we were chatting.  I think it started by me looking at the nutritional contents of the tortilla chips from Trader Joe’s.  The have a lot more fiber than other brands, so they are only 2 pts per serving versus 4 pts.  We started this whole discussion about how in the past 5 months we have both really started to look at WHAT we are eating!  How many calories, how much fat and how much fiber.  We are not blindly putting food in our mouths any longer.

I told him that at work one of my co-workers walked into our lunch room with a giant canister of my favorite macadamia nuts from Hawaii.  They are chocolate covered toffee nuts.  They are really the best!  So, co-worker fills up a bowl of nuts and plops  it in front of me.  O.K., so now I’m tempted.  I ask him if I can see the container.  He looks at it and says, “You don’t want to know.”  I say, “Yes, I do.  If I don’t look, I won’t have any.”  So, I look.  It wasn’t as bad as I thought.  It ended up being 5 pts per serving, and a serving was 5 nuts!  One point each.  These are my favorite….I had 2.  Now mind you, if it was old me I would have eaten 10 without a second glance!  But, now that I know - I can easily fit in an extra 2 points.

I think more than anything else I feel empowered to make the right choices.