OUT WITH THE OLD, In with the new

Today, Alicia, our trainer, brought over a dietician, Carla, and they went thru our refrigerator and pantry and analyzed everything and then processed to throw everything out. They even went into the basement refrigerator where Chris Sr. keeps his beer and threw everything out in there and the freezer too. If you could have seen the look on my children's face. Cynthia held back from crying at this point. Chris Jr. was riping mad. He actually stole a big box of various little bags of chips and two boxes of oatmeal creme pies and brought them up into his room. Stealing food within your own house. Doesn't that sound desperate. Cynthia had an answer for why we had every food and what we use of did with that food. She was so funny. Right in front of Alicia and Carla she reaches into one of the 20 or so garabe bags and pulls out a breakfast bar and a juice box and starts eating and drinking. The producer got their attention and it was a funny scene with them asking Cynthia what she was doing. Getting in my last meal she told them. Don't we sound like we are addicted to food. Yes, we are. Then they made us load it all into the back of my pickup and take it to the local food kitchen. Now mind you my husband during all this was shopping for a new pair of sneakers and they wouldn't let him into the house so he had no idea what they were doing. He was so shocked when we came out with the food and this beer. Alicia and Carla took us girls grocery shopping. They only bought enough food for us to have 3 breakfasts, 3 lunches and 3 dinners. That would be enough until we went on vacation. Cindy later broke down when she saw there was only 3 or 4 items in the pantry and like 8 in the refrigerator. Alicia, counceled her on what she was feeling. She felt like someone took the rug and pulled it out from under her. Chris Sr. was angry for the most part but starting letting go of his angry feelings and replacing them with happy ones. Alicia gave me my assignment for the night. It was to make my family their first healthy dinner. Since it was 9:30pm at night I created a nice salad with tomatos, cukes, horseradish hummus, and a few small rolled up pieces of Boarshead turkey. In the end we all were o.k. We knew this was a fresh start and we needed it.