Diane

Supposed to be 5 miles, right?  Well, it ain’t for me.  Is there anyone who is 5′4 or under who can continually maintain a 32 inch step while walking?  I was watching some health show yesterday and they were having the people use pedometers to measure how many steps and kept saying over and over that 2000 steps equals one mile.  I need about 2400.  I’m still waiting to see the little mile number say 5 on it for any given day.  I’ve gotten to 4.75, but not 5. 

I’m totally unmotivated tonight to finish my 10,000 steps.  It’s that TOM, it’s raining, the kids won’t go to sleep and my husband has been asleep since 1:30.  He worked from 6 a.m. yesterday until about 1 this afternoon and had gotten only 3 hours of sleep the night before so I can’t rightfully get upset. 

Guess it all comes down to the fact that I would like to be able to sleep all afternoon if I didn’t get any sleep the night before because the kids were up all night.  The only day I’ve had off in nearly 4 years was when I had outpatient surgery.  The next morning I was the one bathing the dog after she tangled with a skunk.  Oh, well.  Guess that’s what being a stay-at-home mom’s life is about.

Unmotivated as I am, I’ll go put on my shoes and do my in home walking.  Have a good night all.

No, I don’t actually give them coffee, but they are always asking for it.  To them, coffee is the creamer, not the acutal beverage.  They want it in their milk.  I have one cup of coffee a day, usually when they aren’t even around yet the Mommy influence is so strong that they always ask for it.  Scary.

I have come to a conclusion about my dietary habits.  I am no longer going to count fat grams.  I know this sounds crazy, since I am most definitely trying to lose weight.  However, I have found that for my emotional well being I need to take a table spoon of flaxseed oil a day (I just can’t eat the seeds to get that amount).  That is 16 grams of fat right there.  I also need 1 ounce of chia seeds, also high in Omega-3 EFA’s, and that is another 9 grams.   My other goal is to eat at least 25 grams of fiber a day.   When I combine those two elements, I find that I lose weight more readily than if I try to keep the fat low.  I do still count over all calories, but making sure I get that much fiber doesn’t leave a lot of empty space in the tummy, that’s for sure. 

I’m just glad I’ve finally figured out what works for me.  I hope everyone else can do the same.

We got the puppy yesterday and she is a little live wire.  I took both dogs for a walk yesterday evening and she didn’t make it much more than a quarter mile.  I picked her up and she fell asleep before I’d gone more than 50 feet.  Hubby and I got no sleep last night because she cried for half the night and our son was up the rest of it.  At least he seems to get over things quickly so hopefully this cold won’t last long.

I hit the 20 pounds lost mark today!  I was so excited until I saw my reflection in the mirror.  Guess I can’t expect to look like a fit, healthy woman yet.  Would be nice, but I’m still glad there is 20 pounds less to lose.

   We got the puppy!  I can pick her up tomorrow.

Well, if all goes well, tomorrow my little family will have increased by one 4 legged little black puppy.  Can you believe they do a backgound check for dog adoptions?  I guess I can understand, but it still seems a waste of time.  Now I will have 2 dogs to walk, not just one.

Now I just have to figure out how to convince my husband it is a good idea.  I went to the pet store just so my daughter could see the puppies and this one whined everytime dd let the pen area or if someone else tried to hold her.  I put both of them in the back of the shopping cart to see how it would go and they played for a little while.  Then the puppy just went to sleep on my dd lap.  DD cried when I told her we couldn’t bring her home today.  Now all she is talking about is her puppy Abby.

I do think I’m insane, but I think it will be good for my daughter and for our dog.  I know Molly gets lonely.  And I did warn my husband that when I was exercising Molly regularly, I was going to get another dog.

Well, my husband has to work again this weekend.  Hopefully he’ll be home by midnight.  I will be so glad when he gets in all the classes he needs so he can move into management and not have to work all these weird hours.  It will still be long hours, but not weird.  He had to get up at 4:30 to find out if he had to be to work at 8.

  Anyway, my dog and I made it around the block in 11 minutes last night, 1 minute faster than before.  I think the cold may have had something to do with it.  I’m not going to be able to walk her tonight unless my husband gets home a lot earlier than expected.  I’ve tried taking 2 kids and the dog out and it just doesn’t work.

I guess since my husband is working so hard watching a computer screen (he’s a quality controls engineer) I may as well get things done around the house, namely the dreaded laundry.

Have a happy Easter everyone!

  

My little beagle can now walk the half mile around the block and still have some energy left when we get home!  She started gaining weight when I started having kids and couldn’t take her to the dog parks in Vermont any more.  Of course, the move to Ohio put a stop that that completely anyway!  She should weigh about 22 pounds and last vet visit she was closer to 35. 

My husband thinks I’m a little insane for how much I care about this little doggie, but she literally saved my life.  Right after we got her I went through a bout of severe depression and I’m not sure I would have made it if I hadn’t of had her to take care of.  Even though she acts up sometimes and I have to haul out the carpet cleaner, I don’t think I’m crazy to feel like I owe her some quality of life that I haven’t been giving her.

I started walking her a couple of weeks ago and she was totally wiped by the time we got home.  Tonight we did it in 12 minutes, sniffing everything along the way and she was still able to come upstairs.  I’ll give her a couple more days of just the half mile, then I’ll boost it up.  She does seem a lot happier since I’ve started walking her.

I had all these plans for yesterday, only to be felled by a migraine.  I couldn’t stick to my eating plan very well and thus did go over on calories.  Most of my migraines can be aleveated by a carb overload if I catch them in time.  Tried that and did stick to healthy carbs, but all it did was make it worse.  I’m so glad my husband sort of understands how to deal with my migraines.  It’s taken 11 years, but he’s getting there. 

I didn’t get my workout in as exercise only made everything more painful.  Not into causing myself agony.  Thank God it’s gone today, just the lingering exhaustion that follows one.  Oh, well.  Not much I can do about genetics, is there.

Now I’ve got to get the kids dressed and hair combed so I can go to they Y and get set up on the stength training machines.  I’ve got my fingers crossed that they will both stay in the child watch area.

Have a good one.

I have read both sides of the blogging this morning and swore I wasn’t going to put in my two cents, but I have to. 

I am a member of the Blue Violets team and am very happy to be.  It has been very helpful to me to be pushed a little.  I have never once felt that I had to push myself beyond what I am capable of, just a little further than I might choose to do if I were not part of the challenge.  Not once I have I been made to feel bad if I didn’t lose weight in any given week, nor have I felt pressured to lose any specific amount.  Personally, I have lost between 0 and 2 pounds per week as have most of the others in the challenge.  I haven’t seen anyone posting numbers like they do on The Biggest Loser nor has anyone expressed the desire to do so.

The challenge that seems to have some BuddySlimmers quite upset is NOT for everyone.  It is only for the ones who choose to participate.  The team leaders are not expecting anything unreasonable - 45 minutes of cardio a day, eat healthy and push yourself just a little.  Some are on Southbeach, some are doing portion control and some are still trying to figure out what constitutes a healthy diet.  No one has said that just because one person on the team walks 5 miles a day that everyone must in addition to what they normally do.  No one has said that the challengers even have to walk for their cardio! 

My point is this - if you don’t want to participate in the challenge, that is your prerogative, but don’t condem those who do want to be part of it.  Would you go to your local Biggest Loser club and tell them they were wrong for having certain expectations of the participants?  Then why be so judgemental here?  We are all here for support, not incrimination.

That being said, I hope everyone has a wonderful, healthy day.

Well, I drank all 128 ounces of my water, plus a little more.  My diet was in line with what I wanted and I hit the 10,000 step mark, 7550 (3+ miles) of those being an aerobic work out.  I was planning to do the extra 1.5 miles for the challenge, but there was a rather nasty storm here so I did the 150 crunches.  That would be about 145 more than I have ever done before!

Getting my walk in today wasn’t easy.  The kids did NOT want to be outside for very long and I have a blister on the bottom of my foot.  It’s no worse for the wear today.  I’m not sure what my neighbors think of me now since both kids were crying when I finally got home.  Oh, well.  They’ve all got kids so I’m not concerned about it.  It’s just a tad embarrassing, but what’s a Mom to do when they start squawking over almost 1.5 miles from home?!

I’m hoping to get to the gym tomorrow morning.  Hopefully the kids will stay in child watch.

Have a great evening!