Every so often, life changes in a big way. From careers to family size to location and also health.

My big change (read: new house) has really given me a moment of pause to the quality of life I want to have… now and in the future. For the most part I feel “grown up”. I can’t believe i’m almost 30 but still… it is getting harder and hard to see myself as a young adult. I am an adult. And I need to make adult choices and the choices I have been making have been good choices… bit by bit.

Today, I took some time for myself. I shopped ’till I dropped and got in some good walking (in addition to my 30 minutes). I went grocery shopping and went up and down each aisle of the store, mentally taking in what was there and deciding whether or not my family or I *needed* what was in the aisle. Let me tell you, there is a lot of crap-food sold at a grocery store. The funny thing is, I didn’t notice these things before. Now, I read the back of boxes as if they were interesting novels. If I can’t pronounce the name and it doesn’t sound Latin for something healthy– then I find myself putting it back… without remorse or even a second thought. Also, I have begun to rethink artificial sugars on the whole (not just when coupled with caffeine –as in diet soda).

These little changes are big changes for me. I don’t feel that push or *need* to fill my cart up with nonsensical quick food. In the past, a shopping trip wasn’t complete without at least a bag of chips and a box or two of the extra-sugary kid cereal. Don’t even get me started on the 10 different kinds of breads I felt we *had to have*.

Dare I say… I like how things are changing up in my life. And I do need to recognize the little changes more.

Have you come to a point in your journey where you are comfortable saying “no” to a food or group of foods or *yes* to something healthy, whereas before either thought would have scared you?