A few brief weeks? Not even TWO! Sheesh, it's the 13th!

I'm curious about your no packaged food resolution. It sounds very ambitious (or at least it would be for me). Does that mean no dry spaghetti or jarred pasta sauce? No flour in a bag for baking? Where do you draw the line?

This year I made some broad resolutions surrounding food: far less sugar, less processed food (though this isn't a huge issue for me to begin with) and far less booze. So far it's been going great but I think the key for me is just making it an intention. When I savor a single, delicious glass of wine at the end of a long day, I don't want to feel guilty for "breaking" my resolution. It is my intention to drink less and eat more cleanly but when I make a conscious decision to have a treat, I love every second of it.

I eat pretty healthy so that wasn't my resolution. I vowed to try making at least 2 new recipes a week and so far so good!

my big food one was that no more buying lunch...i live in a smaller city- and even though i work in the "heart" of "downtown". lol. there's not a ton of healthy food choices...and it wastes so much money, etc etc...

so far, so good. but it's still a struggle some nights to force myself to pack my lunch for the next day...

I started a cleanse/detox on the 2nd and have been doing great. I've identified what about it is important to me (no wheat, dairy, alcohol, or added sugar, and greens every day), and have kind-of ignored the rest. I think it's important to be flexible--the particular cleanse I'm doing introduces scrambled tofu with greens in week 2; my partner and I can't stand tofu, so we substituted eggs, which I think are more healthy anyway. I think it helped me to stay on track that we talked about what we wanted to get out of the cleanse, and how we envisioned "life on the other side." :-)

I usually shy away from resolutions and instead just go back to my normal eating habits but for whatever reason, the last two weeks have seen my weight go in the opposite direction and my pants fitting uncomfortably tight so I guess I will have to buckle down. For me, that means limiting alcohol as I know that is what led me in the other direction to begin with.

My semi-resolution (as I don't put too much stock into them, just want to give myself something to work towards a little...) is to eat less, specifically smaller portion sizes. I've been doing okay... but not great. Still need to maybe tweak my diet a little so that what I'm eating is more filling and slow down while eating. It's so tough, though, changing what feels like a portion size to what should be a portion.

@breezyslp, are you doing the whole living 2/-day detox/cleanse? that's what i'm doing and so far so good! cravings are down, no more caffeine headaches, and i like the feeling of NOT feeling so stuffed and weighed down after a meal :D

@feasbyo5--that's the one! I'm really enjoying it. I feel awesome, though I don't have a ton of energy (could be a new school term starting, though :-)).

My resolution is to try to eat more fruit. Basic, I know, but I just don't like fruit, even though I know it's good for me! Right now, I'm looking for ways to hide fruit in savory dishes.

I already eat very few processed foods, but I'm also trying to resist the end-of-the-day, post-gym temptation to down a whole bag of Doritos or other processed junk. Even boxed soup from the store is quicker and better for you.

I resolved to bring my own lunch (in part to save money, in part to eat less fried chicken).
So far, I have eaten homemade meals for all but 2 days, which is a dramatic improvement. And since I've been eating black beans and rice with homemade corn salsa or pasta casserole, I've fulfilled both of my goals pretty well. But it seems like cheating to have such an easy head start with a couple short weeks to start the year. I hope I keep it up!

@feasbyo5 and @breezyslp- I too am doing the Whole Living detox, and it was going GREAT until I had to head down to Florida unexpectedly for a family emergency and totally got off course- I plan to just start week 2 fresh when I get back on Monday, but the thought of all that beautiful produce withering away in my fridge while I'm gone is make me very distressed....

@breezyslp, @feasbyo5, @ashvegas another Whole Living detoxer here!

I discovered the cleanse from a recipe pic posted on Pinterest that looked so good i followed it to the WL site. I have to say, it's sort of a life changer for me. Coming from a big meat-eating family/culture and being married to a big meat and potatoes guy i never realized how much meat i ate and how much it was contributing to the way i felt and looked. Here i thought because i liked all the clean healthy stuff i was eating right, but alas now I've learned what real balance is.

I've lost 6 pounds to date and feel awesome. There's no doubt in my mind i'll be a flexitarian from here on out. Mostly veggie, beans/legumes, nuts and fruit with fish and chicken occasionally and meat on very rare occasions. Getting the dairy and meat out of my system has left me so light and energetic. I love the way i feel and know i'll stick to it!

Yay for the Whole Living detox crew! Congrats, everyone, on your successes so far. :-)

I made a resolution to eat less, and then we went back home for a week-long visit to family in an area where there's not much to do other than go out to eat. *sigh* So much for that resolution, although I have been eating less at breakfast and lunch, but really it should be the other way around! Still, we'll see how much weight I gained when we get home. I'm pretty sure it's a couple pounds, but my elliptical machine is also at home. Plus our sleep schedule has been totally off during the visit, so there's lots of getting back on track to do! Looking forward to cooking and eating many vegetables again. Lol.

@omoriala: I'm not being too stringent or prescriptive about it. Whenever I do that, I always fall off the bandwagon. I'm just eating fresh vegetables, fruits, grains from the bulk bin, juicing a lot etc. I am still doing coffee and tea--just trying to cut down on processed and packaged foods. Happy weekend!

Any idea where those plates came from? They are perfection.

It's not so much a resolution as a goal (whatever, semantics). We moved from a house in California with a big American fridge to an apartment in Scotland with a fridge about a quarter of the size. Our goal is to waste less food!

Yesterday I made cauliflower puree to use up half a head of cauliflower, milk that was on it's expiration date, and half an onion. More than anything else it's been really satisfying to be concious of not letting our food be wasted (and a little alarming to realize how much we take it for granted). Plus it forces me to be more creative in the kitchen in order to use all our food up. I'm loving it.