Fit Mommy Friday

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It’s been another good week, and for that I am grateful. My parents are coming out this weekend which means more eating, besides other fun stuff. :D I’m learning more and more how to watch my portion sizes when I’m eating out or when there are lots of munchies around. I’m not perfect, but much better. It should be a great weekend.

My goals:

Eat more vegetables:

Yes, this has been going great. I’ve actually been craving broccoli! I can’t believe it, a craving for veggies. Thank you Lord. :D

Watch my portion sizes:

Yes, this is getting better, not perfect but better. I’m realizing that I’m starting to take smaller portions without really thinking about it, and feeling full with those smaller portions. It’s a huge step for me.

Eating slower and enjoying my food:

Still a struggle, but I will keep working on it.

Walking/moving:

My hubby is keeping me going with this. We are starting to walk together more and that really helps. He walks way faster than me, so when I walk with him I really get my heart going.

Doing my physical therapy exercises and watching my posture with my hip:

I am keeping up with them, but not as much as I probably should.

Watch my sugar intake for my IBS:

So far, it’s going well. I am having sugar, but I’m realizing what kinds effect my IBS and what doesn’t.

Remember to drink water throughout the day:

Yep, it’s going well.

Don’t push myself to exhaustion:

I was a bit worn out on Thursday, but I think that was more emotional than anything. I got out for a walk with hubby, and that had me feeling better.

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Mid week post

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I had such a great Mother’s Day last Sunday. Paul and the kids bought me a game I’ve really been wanting, Scrabble Flash.
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Yes, I was really that excited about receiving the game. It is a blast and I really wanted it.

It is such a fun game and we’ve been playing it a lot since I got it. We then went to church, and then a group of us went out to lunch after service. It was so much fun going out as a group. Paul and the kids took me out for dessert later. It was a blessed, fun day.

I’ve really been working on making bread from scratch with my KitchenAid mixer instead of my bread maker. A friend taught a bunch of us how she makes it in her Bosch, but I can’t afford one of those. I wish I could, then I could make 6 loaves at a time, but right now I can make 2 and that works. I usually make one loaf of whole wheat and one of either cinnamon rolls or this week I tried cinnamon/raisin swirl.

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I’m going to have to figure out a way to roll the dough tighter so that after it’s cut it doesn’t start to unroll. But oh my was it yummy. I need to make another batch and try it again. My family will just have to suffer through eating another loaf while I practice rolling it better. ;)

Sarah is completely done with school for the year! Yep, she is pretty excited about that. Paulie will be done by the end of this week. It’s hard for me to believe that our school year is done. It’s hard for me to believe because it’s not done for me. I still have to finish up their grade books, transcripts and portfolio’s. I did get a big chunk done today while I hung out with the family watching movies (it was Paul’s day off). I went through all their papers and picked out the ones for their portfolios. That is a huge step and I’m glad I’m done with it. Our state doesn’t require portfolios but I started doing them years ago as a way to throw out most of their school work and still have some of their work to look at as the years go by. It works out pretty good and the kids look forward to seeing their portfolios every year. :)

I’ve been busy with my work, but it’s been a good busy. I have finally gotten in a groove with my work schedule and how to get the things done I need to do. It’s taken me a while to get here, but now that I’m here, it feels good. Work goes pretty smooth most days, though there are days like today with some problems that made my work not as smooth. But all in all I’m still enjoying it and I’m blessed to have the job.

I’ve been on some good photo shoots the past few weeks. I’ll be editing my last batch of photos in the next day or so. I’m really trying to learn to see things differently and find the interesting things to shoot. It’s a learning process, but one I’m having fun with. This is from one of my photos shoots. I don’t know why, but I really like taking water shots. I’m thinking of changing my Facebook timeline picture and making a collage of different water shots I’ve taken. Are you on Facebook? If you are look me up, I’m JoAnns Journey on there. I would love to add you as a friend and keep up with what you are doing. And let me know if you think I should make a photo collage of my water photos for my timeline picture.

Today was the end of our weekend, but honestly with Paulie only having a couple of days of school left the whole weekend thing will change, at least the feeling of it will. Without a structured schedule like we have when doing lessons, weekends have never felt much different than work days except that hubby is home with us. I do like that relaxed kind of feeling. I’ve been telling my mom she needs to come out and see me since the weather is so nice and my schedule is now more open. (Just another reminder mom ;) lol).

I’ve also been crocheting a lot and getting some gifts done for some friends. No pictures, I should probably take some though. I’ve been crocheting and listening to an audio book series by Janette Oke and T. Davis Bunn. It’s been an interesting story and I’ve been getting a lot of crocheting done while listening to it. Speaking of which I think I will go do that now. Have a great night or day, depending on when you are reading this. :D

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Fit Mommy Friday

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Ok, really, it’s Friday already?!?!? Where has this week gone? Should I say again that I’ll try and post more next week like I said last week? Nah, you all know I try and post as often as I can. ;)

This week has gone pretty good too. Some more of my clothes are looking and feeling loose, even some jeans! :D That’s always encouraging. I don’t own a scale, I get too obsessed with it if I have one in my house weighing myself constantly, so it works better if I just don’t have one. I’ll just wait and see what kind of actual weight I’ve lost next time I’m around a scale.

My goals:

Eat more vegetables:

I did eat some, but I realized yesterday that I’ve lagged with this this week. I’ll have to think of some sort of dinner with veggies tonight. :)

Watch my portion sizes:

Yes, and I’m learning something new about myself too. I think my feeling of ‘full’ takes longer than 20 minutes. Last night I went out to dinner with friends and I was eating extremely slow, and trying to judge my fullness. I felt fine, and didn’t even finish my whole meal but then about 30 minutes later (after my meal already took me about 30-45 minutes) I felt a bit over full. Hmmmm, not quite sure about this one. I can’t always take 1 1/2 hours to eat, that’s a little ridiculous. I’m definitely taking this one to the Lord.

Eating slower and enjoying my food:

This is still a struggle with me, but I was more conscience of it this week. I can be all relaxed, mellow and all ready for a nice slow meal and then the minute I sit down for that meal I feel the need to ‘rush’ through it. :( I just don’t understand it. Maybe it’s from all those years of eating fast so that I could eat more than I should before I felt full. (I know I’m not the only one who has ever done that ;) ). Whatever the reason is, I’m still working hard on this.

Walking/moving:

This went real good this week. Paul and I went for a walk the other morning, and we walked the whole 1 1/4 miles that I use to walk all the time last year before I hurt my hip! :D At first my hip felt a bit tight, but by the end of the walk it felt great. That’s one of the great things about Paul’s afternoon shifts, we can walk together during the late mornings.

Doing my physical therapy exercises and watching my posture with my hip:

I did take a couple of days off this week to see how I would do, and I’m doing pretty good. My physical therapist had said I only needed to do them for another 30-60 days, and it’s been over 30 days. So I’m starting to not do them as consistently, maybe 2-3 days a week instead of every day. We’ll see how it goes.

Watch my sugar intake for my IBS:

Doing ok. I did eat a certain dessert one day and felt real bad shortly later. So I now know that I can’t eat that dessert. Glad right now it’s only one dessert that does that. ;)

Remember to drink water throughout the day:

About the same, though there was a day or two that I didn’t drink as much as I should.

Don’t push myself to exhaustion:

This has been just fine, even after our walk. That has made me happy.

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I didn’t realize this is the only post I’ve written this week. :( I’ll have to try and change that next week.

But this has been a great week for me as far as health and food. The biggest thing is that I put a shirt on that hasn’t fully fit me in months. I usually have to wear something over it because it’s just too tight. This time the shirt was loose! :D I was so excited. Plus I made two different batches of whole wheat bread, one from red hard wheat and one from white hard wheat. They both turned out well and were quite yummy, plus, for being a yeast bread they were so easy to make. I’ve also kept up with my food journal and though I’m not using it to watch my calories, a couple times this week I came in under the calories they say I am to eat. Yep, all in all it’s been a good week.

My goals:

Eat more vegetables:

Yes, this continues to go well, especially when I make a yummy soup.

Watch my portion sizes:

I am getting better with this. It’s still a bit of a struggle, but I’m getting better.

Eating slower and enjoying my food:

Again, a bit of a struggle, but getting better. Besides putting my utensil down between bites, I’m trying very hard to make sure I’m actually chewing, really chewing the food in my mouth. Have you every really paid attention to how much you chew something? Because once I started watching it, I realized how little I chew. Another thing that makes me eat too fast.

Walking/moving:

Yes, I got out quite a bit this week.

Doing my physical therapy exercises and watching my posture with my hip:

Every day.

Watch my sugar intake for my IBS:

Much better, especially with some yummy whole wheat cinnamon rolls I made. They aren’t nearly as sugary as regular cinnamon rolls.

Remember to drink water throughout the day:

This is becoming quite natural for me now.

Don’t push myself to exhaustion:

Only one day, but it wasn’t quite exhaustion, just very tired. Just did a bit too much work, but one good night of sleep and I’m fine.

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It went pretty good this week. I did have one day that I didn’t feel real well, and I know it was something I ate. :( But I’m doing better now. I’ve also started using MyFitnessPal again. I need to find out what exactly made me feel ‘off’ the other day. I have an idea of what it might have been, but I’m not sure. So I need to start keeping a food journal again. I’m not sure if I’ll keep using My Fitness Pal or not. I do like it, but honestly it’s a pain to have to keep putting in the foods I eat. It really isn’t that user friendly, but it does seem to help. We’ll see how it goes next week after I’ve used it.

My goals:

Eat more vegetables:

I’m still doing pretty well with this. Eating more than I ever have in the past. :)

Watch my portion sizes:

Getting better. Now that I’m keeping a food journal, it will help, hopefully.

Eating slower and enjoying my food:

This went better this week, thankfully.

Walking/moving:

Not as much as I would like, but the weather hasn’t been all the best either.

Doing my physical therapy exercises and watching my posture with my hip:

Yes, I’m keeping up with these.

Watch my sugar intake for my IBS:

Doing fine, though that odd day I had during the week, messed me up a little.

Remember to drink water throughout the day:

Yes, I’m doing fine with this.

Don’t push myself to exhaustion:

I had one day with exhaustion, that like I said, I think had something to do with food I ate. We’ll see what the food journal shows me.

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New schedule update and more

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Paul’s (and hence our) new schedule is going pretty well. He’s been at it a few weeks, and though it’s taking some time, we are getting use to it. We’ve started doing some things in the morning together, and starting school around lunch time. But honestly, getting use to starting lessons around noon and not finishing until after dinner is hard. It doesn’t matter that we start lessons after lunch, when I see that it’s 5:00pm and we are still doing lessons it’s just hard on me. I’m more of a morning person and tend to be more productive in the early hours of the day. Which makes this change even more of a stretch for me. The kids are adjusting. I think they feel the same way as I do in the afternoon. Paul is getting used to starting in the afternoons too, though again it’s an adjustment.

I was asked about our family meal, and I thought I would answer it here. At this moment we don’t have a ‘sitting at the table’ meal together, except for on our weekends. But then since he took this retail job two years ago our meal times together have been hit or miss anyway, which is fine. I know what people say about how important eating dinner together is, and I agree with them, if that’s the only time you can spend time together as a family and talk and such. But for us, we spend lots and lots of time together. None of us have many other outside commitments, so we are together a lot aside from our meals. But with all that said, I do plan on trying to have a meal or two together on work days. Actually tomorrow I’m making a baked oatmeal breakfast for us. I don’t usually make a breakfast for all of us, so this is something special. And this might be the one meal we do share together on work days sometimes. We’ll just have to see how it goes.

So that’s the update, which really isn’t a huge update. ;) We are just taking it day by day, and I know though we are having some tough times adjusting, I can feel in the long run this hard time will be worth it. I’m trusting in the Lord that thats true.

But with the ever changing, fluctuating schedule, blogging has been hit or miss, and that bums me out. :( I just can’t seem to get into a rhythm with it. I’m writing this on Tuesday night and feel like I’m trying to squeeze it in. I find what really helps is if I write a lot of my posts on Saturday or Sunday and schedule them to post automatically during the week. Which is probably what I’m going to need to do for a while. Trying to write multiple times during the week just isn’t working right now, so I guess I need to adjust with that too.

Besides those adjustments, life is going well. We have about 3 weeks left of school, and believe me, I’m just as excited as the kids are about it. They are slowly finishing up different subjects, so they might even finish before 3 weeks, but we’ll see. I’ve been crocheting a lot too. I finished a yarn bag for my mom (yes mom I’ll get it sent out to you soon ;) ). And I’ve started another one for Sarah, this one will be all pink. Then I want to make a set of coasters for a friend of mine as a ‘Thank You’ for something she did for us, I just have to get the color yarn I want for that. You would think with my stash of yarn I would have the color already. But no, I want to do a southwest color, that’s what her living room decor is. So I have some fun craft things planned too. But I’ll be honest, I’m not getting a lot of that done either, but that has nothing to do with the adjustments we are making. Sarah and I are in a huge Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman marathon. :D We are just on the first season, and we having a blast watching it. I’m glad our library as all of them. I remember watching these when they were on tv, but I don’t remember each episode, so they are great to watch. Of course Sarah’s never seen any of them, and they are kind of like a grown up Little House. We get started on one, and I’ll have my crocheting in front of me, but then I get caught up in the show and never do a stitch. lol Oh well, Sarah and I are having a blast together, and that means more to me.

Well that’s about it with me right now. I hope you enjoyed this ‘catch up’ post, and of course I couldn’t leave without ending with a picture. We had a beautiful rainbow the other day. I just love this picture.

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Fit Mommy Friday

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I can’t believe it’s that time of the week for Fit Mommy Friday, which also means its Friday already. Goodness where did the week go. Overall I had a pretty good week, though on Wednesday and Thursday I caught a bit of a bug that had me very tired. I thought it was my IBS kicking up, but hubby had something similar last week, so I guess it’s just a slight stomach issue. What I hate the most about it is how tired I feel. It shows me that I really have been feeling better and having more energy. Because believe me, I can tell a difference in my energy level the past couple of days.

My goals:

Eat more vegetables:

I slipped on this a bit this week. I did still have some, but not as many. Which probably isn’t helping at all with me not feeling the best. I think I’ll make some broccoli/potato soup soon.

Watch my portion sizes:

Always an issue with me, always. I wish it wasn’t and that I could say I finally have it under control, but no not yet. I won’t give up though, I will continue to work on this with each and every meal.

Eating slower and enjoying my food:

I have made a conscience effort with this, and again, though it’s not perfect, it is getting better.

Walking/moving:

Yes, I have been walking more, except for the past couple of days that I wasn’t feeling the best. Plus we keep getting rain, which doesn’t help me trying to get outside more.

Doing my physical therapy exercises and watching my posture with my hip:

Yes, I am keeping up with them, and my hip feels good most of the time. Only when I tuck it up underneath me does it hurt me afterward. Guess no more sitting indian style for a while.

Watch my sugar intake for my IBS:

Didn’t do real good in this area this week. Thankfully tomorrow is always another day.

Remember to drink water throughout the day:

Yes, I’m still doing well with this. I missed one or two days this week, but my body immediately told me I needed to drink more.

Don’t push myself to exhaustion:

No, well unless you count the exhaustion I felt when I wasn’t feeling good. Otherwise my energy level has been good.

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I finished physical therapy this week, which is a blessing to me. I have to keep up with the exercies at home, but at least I don’t have to run to the PT office 3 times a week. :)

My goals:

Eat more vegetables:

Yep, this is still going strong. I can’t say that I’m eating them with every meal, but I am eating more than I use to, which means a lot.

Watch my portion sizes:

Some good days, some bad. This will continue to be a work in progress for me.

Eating slower and enjoying my food:

No, this was my one weak point this week. I was feeling so rushed all week that I realized I was practically inhaling my food most of the time, so I could rush to my next thing. But it is something that I’ve noticed and I’m now working on.

Walking/moving:

Not as much as I would like. Our weather has been rainy the past few days. I need to get out and walk more.

Doing my physical therapy exercises and watching my posture with my hip:

Yes, this is still going well. I don’t want my hip getting tight again.

Watch my sugar intake for my IBS:

It’s going pretty good. Not much change either way.

Remember to drink water throughout the day:

Yes, I’m still doing pretty good with this. One or two days on the low side because of the rushing around, but other than that, doing good.

Don’t push myself to exhaustion:

This has been the best. Even though I have been running around like crazy, I have not been pushed to exhaustion. For that I am blessed.

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