Feeling good...

We walked about 30 mins yesterday, but more at a stroll than anything since Noah wasn't in the stroller. No big deal though it was nice to get out of the house.

Today was a beautiful day and since our church starts at 1pm this year, we decided to walk to church. Allen was at drill so with Noah in the stroller and Lily walking with me, we made the trek to church in 45 minutes!! I have no idea how far away it is, I am guess around 2 miles. We would have walked home too but it got cold and were offered a ride so in spite of Lily's protests to walk, we hitched a ride home. She loves walking with me, I think it makes her feel more grown up when she can keep up with me. Poor thing almost ran the entire way trying to keep up with me and had her shoes on the wrong feet as well! Luckily she's a super trooper so she's just fine. I hope we can keep this up! I am planning to go tomorrow hopefully with Allen for the first time as well so wish us luck!! :)

Today was good :)

We went walking today for about an hour, maybe a bit more. I was so excited Lily wanted to walk faster than a turtle today so we actually burned some calories :) so it was a good day. After lunch, I took the kids to Arctic Circle to play (not eat!) and let them burn about a good hour's worth of energy so they were quite ready for bed tonight! Good thinking mom! We had a good day and am looking forward to another good day tomorrow! YAY me :)

It's the pits being sick

I tried numerous times to get out of the house yesterday and go walking but if it wasn't one child, it was the other....so better luck today for us. Poor Lily was on the pot 1/2 the day...I really need to call her GI doctor and make sure her test results came back. Any 3 year old really shouldn't have to deal with that on a regular basis. Between that and Noah not wanting to nap until 4:45, I'm hoping that today we get on out there! Maybe even twice!! Good luck to me! :)

Winter Blues are getting better :)

I have been fighting the winter blues pretty bad. I've tended to turn on the tv to a movie or pbs and park the kids in front of it while I nap or crochet or just poke my nose into a book. I really do enjoy a good book, but not at the cost of my health and my kids health. I decided last Monday that we needed to just get out of the house and move! So I bundled the kids up and took them for a 60 min walk around the neighborhood in the snow and ice! It was so much fun for them that we did it again the next 3 days. Of course this made sure that we all got sick for the weekend and are finally well enough to go back outside today so we went out (fresh snow again, about 6-8 inches) and didn't make it very far but came back and played in the snow in the yard building a snowman and whatnot. It was very refreshing and a good workout. We put our things in the dryer so we can go out again after nap time and jump in the untouched snow of the backyard this time. Since I started this pregnancy ahead of the curve on the weight side of things, I wouldn't mind keeping the weight off as much as possible. Besides, staying fit and trying to be healthy is not going to hurt the baby! :) I'm just not going to overdo it but am trying to make a conscious effort to stay active at home, watch minimal tv and be productive. We'll see :) Monday's check in weight at the dr: 180. Better than I thought, but still a lot...

Sorry for the novel Mary and Sarah. I hope y'all are having good luck with staying healthy and losing weight.

Challenge YOU!

Sarah, I challenge YOU to see which of us can do best about exercising and eating right until I get to Virginia. We've got 9 days, who can do the best?

Everyday we need to log what we did for exercise, and how many eating mistakes we had. By that I mean, like senseless eating, snacking on something we shouldn't've snacked on (fruits and veggies don't really count so much here), or eating something at too late of an hour. No food diaries, but just any mistakes we made according to our gut feeling of what was a good choice and what was a bad choice.

Are you ready? I'm ready!

It's been a long time...

...and I need to lose weight again. I still fit into my size 12's, but the size 10's that I bought are a wee bit too tight and the 12's fit good again. GAH! >.<

My eating is TERRIBLE, it's SO HARD to keep from eating while here at college. I need to not count calories necessarily, but just eat SLOW and eat LESS and STOP myself after 9:00!!!

So, my goal is to eat slower and eat less and be active and exercise everyday.

Controlled, again.

My eating has been very good. I've been doing pretty dang well, not really snacking (although since this isn't my house, I have had snacking urges but I have no food source), and eating slowly and not a whole lot at meal times.

I've even resisted overeating my beef jerky and pretzel sticks that are stowed in my car.

Really, if you have a snacking or "I just really want to eat something" issue, get fat free wal-mart brand pretzel sticks. Eat one at a time, munch 'em with your front teeth because its fun, and make sure you stop yourself after a bit. A serving size is 39 sticks (takes a LONG time to get there if you eat them one by one and slowly), and that's 100 calories. Awesome deal, huh?!

Sarah, you NEED to post. Although I don't think you have internet so that could explain...