Healthy Eating

So, what I have come to realize through my journey so far, is that eating right is 80% of the success in weight loss. At least for me. Yes, you need to exercise. That is very crucial to having a healthy body. But most importantly, it is what you feed your body that encourages good health.
In my religious beliefs, there are also some guidelines on what we should eat. They encourage us to obstain from coffee, hot tea, tobacco, and alcohol. When you look at a lot of different diet plans, they discourage most of those things too. They also encourage us to eat meat sparingly, and eat seasonally. I love the summer months where I live, because that means I have fabulous tasting fruit! Watermelon is a favorite in our house.
As I have grown up, I have learned to love more vegetables. When I was a kid, I would only eat green beans. I would occasionally munch on corn on the cob, and I would eat a salad if I was "forced" to. (My parents were great parents, and always made me eat a couple of bites of any fruit or veggie on my plate.) Now, I love asparagus, spinach, salads, banana peppers, olives, carrots, and several others! Oh, I love yellow squash and zucchini over pasta! Yum! There are a couple of veggies I still detest because I don't like the texture in my mouth... onions, tomatoes, and broccoli. Blech! I use onion powder in my cooking so I still get that great onion flavor, and I like salsa, because the texture is different.
So, I'm putting this out there to remind myself how important it is to eat the best I can. I always feel better when I eat well!