Operation Trans Fat Removal

So in my attempt to get started with my New Year's diet resolution, I watched a show on Discovery Health called "You: On a Diet". The two doctors featured in the show have written a book of the same title. The approach is a focus on waist size (studies have shown that fat stores around our waists are more important indicators of good health/bad health than numbers on the scale) and eliminating unhealthy trans-fats and processed foods from the diet. I like being able to focus on something other than the scale for once! The healthy waist size for men is 35" and for women it's 32". Umm.....
So I better get to work. LOL. I started in my pantry. Folks, I was in for a shock. I started label reading and for the first time I was not paying attention to only the calories or fat per serving. I was reading the entire ingredients lists and looking for trans fats (partially hydrogenated anything) and over processed grains, unnatural sugars...you get the point. If I were really following the advice from the show/book I would have had to throw away about 1/3 of my pantry contents. Ok, maybe not that much. But there were things in there that I *thought* were at least semi-healthy like my beloved pumpkin bread mix. Pumpkin is very good for you. If I were to make pumpkin bread entirely from scratch and used unbleached flour and lowered the sugar a bit it would actually be pretty healthy stuff. But the mix I usually buy...OMG!!! I had no idea the bad stuff that's in it. Trans fat and corn syrup city. Sigh....
I guess it's a good wake up call. I wish I were a pear shape sometimes and could store fat in other parts but I am all waist and belly. Even at a supposed healthy weight if I go buy charts or BMI my waist size is just large. It takes a lot of exercise, weight training, and calorie deficit to get my waist to shrink.
Here I go....