Simply Fit Meeting

I had my meeting last night. They had me share my testimony as they were proud of me. After 9 days of being on the program, I'm off of my morning insulin shots. I've been about 130 at my fasting blood sugar. I take a Metformin and that levels me out for the day. I still have to do my evening metformin and insulin shots. But, I have faith that if I keep this up I'll eventually be able to do away with those too. We started the 7-day cleanse as well to rid our body of toxins. I'm down some weight too, but I never like weighing there...it's always right after I've eaten dinner. I'll stick to my Saturday morning weigh in and I'll post the results later. This is definitely the start to a new and healthier me. :-)

Simply Fit Meeting...

I didn't lose or gain anything last night...I didn't think I would since it was only my 2nd day on the program. In our discussion though, we got to talking about female things. Ever since my MIL moved in with us, my cycles have stopped. I've also gained weight. We are talking about having one more baby if God allows. I'd like to get my cycles back on track as I get healthier, but I can tell my hormones are all out of whack. They suggested that I go on Proleaf as it will help balance my hormones out naturally. So, I placed my order and will start that once I get it.

The journey to a new me...

is starting today. No dairy, gluten, sugar, caffeine, or alcohol for 30 days. After that, I can add them back one at a time to make sure that I don't have any allergies or weird symptoms from them. My first goal is 10 lbs lost and I desperately want to get off my blood pressure meds and my insulin. I figure if I make small goals, I can really make them.

Resolutions?

I have a couple goals in mind for 2011. It's my Mom's birthday (in Heaven today) and she unfortunately died from diabetes complications after some complications from surgery and some other things that went wrong too. She died at the age of 30, but I wonder all of the time if she would have taken better care of herself if she would have still been with us today. I owe it to my children to be the healthiest that I can be...and Andy too of course. I want to get back down to a healthy weight and off the diabetes meds and high blood pressure pills.

And, I spend so much time taking care of others that I barely make time for myself. I want to focus on making more friends and nurturing the friendships that I currently have and I want to get back to looking nice. I've let my clothing choices slide and I'm tired of looking frumpy all of the time. I took some time today and ordered my color palette and I'm getting fashion advice for my body type. I want to look nice again. I look back to when I was in high school and how I tried to look nice and my hair and makeup were done more often. I want to look that way again.

And I want to continue on my path of being a better Christian, wife, mom, sister, and friend. I'm looking forward to seeing what God has in store for me and my family this coming year.

Trying to take care of myself too...

I love my family more than anything, but I am realizing more and more that I am no good to anybody if I don't take care of myself too. I feel guilty taking time out for myself as so much needs to be done around here or the kids need this or that. But, I also know that nobody is going to take care of me and what I need for myself, if I don't take the time out for me. I got really upset at Andy this morning when I asked him to take Melina again so that I could take a shower before he had to leave for work and he just gave me a look like I was totally invading his time. I told him to forget it and went and fed Melina instead. I wasn't going to get in a fight over it, but it really hurt. All the juggling that I do around here and I can't even get a 5 minute shower. I haven't had a shower now for a couple of days. Part of it is my fault as I said that I was going to start taking them at night as this seems to be a sore spot for Andy in the morning to have to watch her for a couple of minutes so that I can get a shower in, but I have been so tired at night that I have been falling asleep on the couch.

I love to read and I love to scrapbook. I noticed when I got the kids involved in the summer reading program at the library that they had just started an adult reading program. I went ahead and joined. I've only read one book so far as it takes me awhile to read a book now with the baby and everything else going on, but I noticed that I've felt a little better with that time to do something that I enjoy.

I also got back into digiscrapping this week. I only did 3 pages so far, but it's a start. I felt better knowing that I got something accomplished in Josiah's scrapbook again.

I've also been trying to watch Joyce Meyer for a half an hour in the morning. I don't always get it in, but it's something to uplift my spirits and feed my soul with.

I am also back to doing sparkpeople and watching my calories and trying to start exercising again. I need to be healthier and take care of the body that God gave me. I need to be a healthy mom to all of my children as well as they all need me to be around for a long time (God-willing).

I am trying to pamper myself so that I can keep going. I hate feeling drained or burned out sometimes and I know that if I can indulge myself sometimes it will go a long way.

Kid Fitness

I started getting some fitness videos for kids last week on Netflix. I couldn't get over how much they loved doing them. We did them every morning and at the end of the week I sent it back and got a new one. This week we are doing Yoga Kids. I can't get over how much they love doing them. I joined in this time since I've never tried Yoga. We had a lot of fun doing it together and I can't get over how quickly the kids catch on to everything.

I hate health insurance...

the one downside to Andy's insurance policy at work is that it's over $400 just to add me to his plan and if we want to add both me and Deidra it's over $900 a month. They pay for Andy...he just has to pay for part of his funding his HSA.

So, we decided to put Deidra and I on a individualized plan of our own...I just hate that we can't all be on one plan to make it simpler. Oh well...it's not Andy's fault that his company's insurance policy is so expensive for a family plan.

Not feeling the greatest...

I woke up to the arrival of AF this morning. I'm cramping pretty badly and just feeling very tired. Add to the fact that I'm also trying to get a cold...ears are sore, throat is starting to hurt, and I'm running a little fever. So, I decided that since I had to cancel therapy for Baby D and Little J today that I was going to have myself a mental health day and try to get the house cleaned and back in order a little more. I started out with great intentions, but I haven't really gotten much accomplished other than one load of laundry folded and a new load thrown in the washer. The boys are taking a really long nap now that I finally got them down to bed and I have been taking that time to enter my sparkpeople.com stuff to try to get back to being healthy and monitoring more closely what foods and calories that I'm consuming. I also started exercise today and I did the strength exercises that they gave me to do and I also did 1-mile with WATP. Now, I'm extra crampy so I'm trying to take it easy. I really need to pick up the living room and vacuum, but I really would rather go curl up with a book on the couch.

Starting with my losing weight goals again...

If anyone is interested in being a weight loss buddy or anything this year...I'm posting on my weight loss blog again. It's www.healthiermom.blogspot.com if anyone wants to join me or help to keep me motivated.

Started my diet today...

Well, one thing I am going to work on in this new year is to get myself healthier and I'd like to lose at least 50 lbs. Today I'm starting with working on my weight loss and I started my diet today.