When my wife left to go on her trip to Belgium, I was left home alone without a car, and without any fresh fruits or vegetables. This reminded me a lot of when I was first living on my own after College. I had a one bedroom apartment that pretty much always had a small stockpile of junk food, and barely any fresh food at all. I would eat canned ravioli, make up some Kraft Dinner macaroni and cheese, or toss a frozen pizza into the oven.

I didn’t have any easy way to get to the grocery store and back, and so the convenience store that was close by was my primary source for food. Chips and soft drinks were cheap and fairly filling, and since my wife has been gone, that is more or less how I have been living.

I decided last night, while thinking about the junk food I have bought over the last two months or so, that it is time to turn my life around. The bachelor life is for “young” people, and now that I am a twenty-five year old adult, I have to make responsible food choices so that I can continue doing the things that I love for a very long time.

It makes me wonder if most people go through a shift in their dietary needs around this point in their life? If you are a twenty or thirty-something, and you are have made the shift from junk food, to healthy food. I would love to hear about your process. Was it your wife that made you make the shift? Or did you do it on your own accord, one step at a time?