"E" has dance class Tuesday afternoons, so today rather than driving her up the street, I made an extra effort to get her ready early so we had time to walk. I bundled the girls up and "E" walked with me half of the way, but in true 3 year old fashion, she stopped every five seconds to pick up a leaf or nasty trash that someone had dropped along the road saying "we don't want garbage everywhere." Luckily today was garbage day so there were garbage cans out at every driveway to toss it in. I love that she wants to keep the world clean, but it's really quite nasty when she picks up an old fry sauce container that has god-knows-what sticky goop all over it.
My sister told me the other day that "E" is just like me. I'm not exactly sure how she meant, but I'm going to assume that's a good thing. LOL
So on this walk, even tho I was going at a 3 year old pace, my toes went numb, my calves and hamstrings were burning and I could feel myself struggling to keep any kind of consistent pace. Then when I got home I started to get a bit of a headache, but it didn't actually come. It really disturbs me that I am SO out of shape. But I must plug in here how much I LOVE our B.O.B dualie. What an awesome stroller!! I know pregnancy can take a lot out of a body, expecially since I didn't really do anything to rebuild it since "E" was born, but I've got a LONG way to go to get my body back into a healthy state!
On the food front: I feel like I did OK today. We had a DiGiorno spinach mushroom and garlic pizza for lunch and I'm sure I had at least one piece too many (I ate 3) but I had a sensible breakfast (nonfat cherry yogurt, some cashews and ... I can't remember what else) and Husband made whole grain spaghetti with homemade marinara sauce for dinner. I'm already noticing that my problem is going to lie mostly in my snack foods. I am most certainly addicted to sugar. I CRAVE chocolate. And I have decided, like I said, that I am going to stay realistic in my efforts. I know I'll never stop eating sugar, chocolate, pie, cake, etc. We'll just call them "treats." I tried to cut them out of my diet completely once before and I did loose quite a bit of weight and I did feel great, but it backfired in the end. So this time I'm just going to try to keep them to a minimum.
I think this blogging thing is already helping. Tonight after dinner (we usually eat around 5ish so I end up snacking later because I don't usually go to bed until around 10) when I was scanning through the fridge and cupboards, I thought about what I would have to report to the world that I had eaten, but I did still end up eating a packet of organic toaster pastries (I'm going to try to remember next time that I don't HAVE to eat both of them) a glass of nonfat milk and a cascadian farms chocolate chip granola bar. Still ended up with sugar, but I did forgo the ice cream I really wanted to eat. AND this afternoon I consciously took a handful of chips out of the bag to snack on rather than just eating them out of the bag (and inevitably eating them all).
On the water front: I definitely didn't drink enough water today. Aside from the regular 8 glasses that are recommended for everyone to drink per day, I have to make sure I get even more than that to keep my milk supply up. This is also something that I am REALLY going to have to work on.
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Woohoo!! I am horribly addicted to sugar as well. I am slowly trying to cut back to avoid the withdrawl issues. I am trying to up my fruit and out my sugar. We'll see how it goes. Good Job!!
ReplyDeleteI find that I THINK I eat a lot of fruit, but actually when it's all said and done, I only have a couple of bites and give the rest to "E." Yet another thing I'll need to work on.
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