Day 6: Shopping For Nutrition

Day 6: Saturday January 24, 2015

Since Tuesday, I had been taking celery, carrots and other fresh food snacks to work in order to eat only what I had been instructed to consume.

Now I had to replenish my supplies for the coming week so I went grocery shopping.

I usually go with the wife once a month to buy food but because the food I was eating was fresh I needed to shop differently.

I needed to shop each week for fresh food because when was the last time you ate an apple that had been sitting out for a month?

I go to the store and start in the produce aisle.

I quickly grab a couple bunches of celery but quickly realize I didn’t need to buy two, I couldn’t possibly eat that much celery all by myself in one week.

So I put one bunch back and then head for the carrots.

I continue through the store and realize I only needed to buy a few items and not the giant stockpile of food that I usually purchase.

I also noticed I was looking at nutrition information on items I was buying and I never looked at that information before, because I wasn’t buying for storage, I was buying for nutrition.

Some flip switched inside me and I saw the store completely different now.

I noticed the large amounts of boxes and frozen items that dominate most stores as useless in my quest for nutrition as I needed fresh food not just fresh frozen.

I continued my shopping, checked out and noticed my grocery bill was less than a third of what I normally would have paid.

I had saved money and lost weight this week.

Two birds with one stone!