School woes, Pre-k and nutritional worries already!

Monday, August 20, 2012

My son is starting Pre-K next week. we are very excited! but I must say after this mornings meeting a little apprehensive as well.

Apparently there will be a daily snack for everyone to share provided by the parents. every parent has one day a month that they are expected to buy a snack for the class, it must be individuality packaged and include a drink.
My son is very healthy and I have done what I believe to be a good job with his nutrition. he doesn't get sugary treats as snacks or drinks in fact he only drinks milk and water, nothing else. and that's fine by him, why? because that's all he has ever gotten, he doesn't know there's a whole world of sugary crap out there, yet. I knew at some point he would find out but I wasn't thinking it would be this soon. really what some parents think of as healthy and what I think of as healthy is a world of differences. even among my friends there is only one who is as careful as I am with what she feeds her kids. take the "fruit" gummy snacks. ever read the label? OMG! colors and preservatives and loads of sugar! in something that claims to be a "fruit" snack. I know a fair amount of parents will just read made with real fruit and grab it. The occasional sweet treat disguised as a healthy one may not be so bad if it weren't being accompanied by a drink. I really cant think of one kids drink that is truly healthy that comes individually packaged. and he is going to be having this every day 4 days a week.
his doctor currently comments on how perfect his weight and diet are. but he has mine and my husbands jeans, we are not small people and we put on weight very easily! a sugary snack and drink 4 days a week and that perfect weight could be on its way out the door. yes the flyer did say a healthy snack and drink and then it says in parentheses ( "after Halloween sales are a good time to stock up on snacks" ) lovely.
Id really rather forgo the snack all together but that wouldn't be fair to my son.

I guess its just something I have to learn to deal with.

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Sunday bloggy Sunday #2

Monday, August 20, 2012

maintenance week, family & movie time week in review...

So another week in the land of the "elusive" 5%. How are things? They're good. I'm maintaining and actually preparing for another 5lb loss. I'm not happy with the higher end of my range. I start to hear a lot of negative self talk there and while a little bit may be healthy too much is well just that. I think if I drop to 130 my normal up and down swings wont bother me as much.
Ill let you in on a nasty secret... once you reach your goal you on a high for days or weeks even beaming with pride and confidence but then you start to come down and insecurity creeps back in. it may be a whole new worry but the base is the same your not happy with you and if you really want that "high" to stick around you better figure out how to accomplish that goal.
So my new emotional goal.. make five new friends this month and feed the friendship that deserve the time! Smile at 4 New people a day. Because its ok that I want a "BFF" at 33 friendships are healthy but they take work to cultivate.
Other than that how are things? Well I had a far to long self argument over if it was ok for me to be buying new pajamas a size to big. of all the silly things.

Family fun day review... awesome!! I gave the kiddo choice of a hike or swimming. He choose swimming. We went to our gyms family open plunge and had a great time!! I can't believe I haven't taken him more this summer.

Movie time!! Home made air popped popcorn ( 1/3 of a cup in a paper bag in the microwave for 3min perfect!! ) seasoned with paprika, salt, garlic and mist of olive oil to help it all stick yummy!!! Stone IPA to go with it WOW!! So good. Ok ok the movie... The LORAX. Loved it! Personal confession.. I'm a very very odd bread...I'm an environmentalist, Lliberal, rig wife.. yep my husband works for big bad oil and I dont think the're so bad maybe to big but that's a whole other matter.
Anyways being that girl I loved the movie. I loved the nod to the TED talks I loved the message I love the nostalgia. cute & sweet! I'd give it 4stars, Horton hears a who was better but I did still enjoyed this Dr Suss classic!

Hope everyone had a wonderful week & I hope the next is just as good if not better!!
its a beautiful day (yes I have a thing for U2)

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All this time I thought it was IBS

Monday, August 13, 2012

All this time I thought it was IBS turns out I'm lactose sensitive ( if not full blown intolerant ) I am finding this out purely by accident.

I switched to almond milk for my morning cereal for the lower calories. I went almost a full week with no dairy. I wasn't really trying, it just happened that I didn't have any other meals with cheese or dairy planed that week. then one meal toward the end of the week had a bunch of cheese, all my "IBS" symptoms came back full force. I didn't admittedly put two and two together though. The fallowing week was the same thing... only one meal with a fair amount of cheese, feeling fantastic til the cheese, then oh boy! now I start thinking humm maybe its the dairy. My mother is lactose intolerant so I guess it might run in the family? I decided to experiment, I didn't touch any dairy for a week and YAY!!! i felt so much better!!! but I was still a tad in denial... I mean I love cheese and I don't dislike milk. it cant really be the cause can it? Another week dairy free, yep still feeling good.

Today tried to see if maybe my tummy would be ok with yogurt. I love yogurt! please not yogurt too... DAM IT yogurt too! now I'm upset :( I know there are people who are intolerant/sensitive to lactose that can handle yogurt but apparently I'm not one of them. that really sucks!! I have a hard enough time getting enough protein now I have to cut out yogurt too. Oh well what do ya do. on the upside I now know how to rid myself of all my "IBS" misery completely... It better be worth it!! I'm really going to miss yogurt and ice-cream and cheese and ...I'll stop now, this is getting depressing.

good thing I like goat cheese, apparently it almost never upsets the lactose intolerant. huumm....goat cheese pistachio ice-cream??? Ok maybe not LMBO

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Sunday bloggy sunday. week 1 ( few hiking shots )

Monday, August 13, 2012

( This will be a weekly movie and hike review as well as some updates on how it is in the land of the weight maintainers )

Ok so I think blogging might help keep me accountable and give me a little outlet to make it a tad more interesting than just my ramblings I'll start this on Sunday because that's my weekly hike/movie day so I should have a few shots and maybe some family movie incites to share... today's camera was an HTC galaxy pro... that's right my stinking phone. hay its not the camera that makes the shot is the photographer ..right... HAhah in that case your screwed they both suck!

Ok so first maintenance thoughts and plans.. my workout plans to cure my current workout rut have yet to come into a fully formed concrete plan but really until I find out if my son will be in the morning or afternoon pre-school class its all tentative anyway. as for now I'm going with my dream scheduled ( posted yesterday ) cross training on Tuesdays and Thursdays there's a new boot-camp class at the gym so who knows maybe that will fill-in some strength training sounds like more cardio though.

my food plan. well I'm doing 1600 calories this week and I gained a few ( probably water pounds ) the first few days I seem to have leveled out for now. I was always on the low side of SP recommends even when I wasn't dropping drastically to lose in a hurry so maybe that's just me. honestly I was hopping for a tiny bit more but I think I can live with around 1600 I'll just take it as it comes I guess.
only a few days left til my husband comes home and the real challenge begins again. he was less than supportive ( though not in a jerky way ) while I was trying to lose weight and now he thinks we can go right back to the way we used to eat. the whole life style change thing never really hit him. though, according to him he does want to lose some weight too.. yeah he has been saying that since I started two years a go. I even singed him up. I don't think he has ever logged on. anyway I was thinking I would give him the good old diet cheat days. I never really used them but for him it might work. if I tell him no, just cut the sweets or make them as rare as possible and the booze/beer too. he will just say ok and never do it but if I give days for such things grocery shopping might goes smoother ...might. so my plan is... the day he comes home he can pick what ever beer/booze he wants, then latter in the week we will have date night and we can drink what we normally do on date night. if finances wont allow date night its my pick for beer/booze. Sundays will be family fun day, we will go hiking or in the winter we might go skiing or ice-skating or indoor swimming .. anyway you get the point . that night we will watch a movie as a family and have desert. That's the plan, we shall see.

So how was the fist weekly family fun day??? not fun! of course my child didn't cooperate at all! never mind this is almost already a usual thing. he just wasn't into it today, for what ever reason. he didn't want hike. he didn't want the movie .. he of course wanted a cookie but that was it. this week was a bust. so sorry no movie review. unless you want me to moon over how much I still at the age of 33 love the princess bride! which is what I'm watching now that the kid is in bed LOL. hopefully next week will be better.

My ho so very very short hike up the Grand Mesa for your viewing enjoyment.... I will not review as we didn't really even make it all the way up the hill.. yep it was that bad

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Maintenance is more involved than I thought!

Saturday, August 11, 2012

I did read a lot of the articles and thought I had a plan. I figured I would just keep on plugging along as I have with my workouts and slowly up my calories week by week to my suggested range. but then I had to really really look at what I had been doing. a really hard honest look. it was right there on the SP chart, I dipped way under my goal line. I was losing 4 or more lbs a week toward the end. my calorie range was I believe 1200-1500 and I stayed at 1100 as much as possible. I was so determined to make my goal I nearly drove myself into the ground! I was beat!! I worked-out twice a day a few times a week (ok most days of the week ) now I know I cant, nor do I want to keep that up. but I cant change all at once...right...well maybe?

My first week after I hit my goal I went to Vegas and didn't really track at all. but I did eat as healthy as I could in the morning and afternoon. I believe for having to eat out every meal I did pretty well. At night I still ate mostly healthy but had more than my share of liquid calories thankfully walking around in the Vegas heat for hours on end kept my weight from shooting way up. When I got home I found I had only gained 3lbs. I was quite happy with that.

Week two- I concentrated on losing those 3lbs but keeping my calories at least 1500. I still pretty quickly lost those 3lbs ( surprised again! I thought for sure with my calories being at 1500 it would take quite a bit longer ).

Week three - I tried to stay between 15-16 hundred but found myself at 1700 more often than not, even higher a few days. My husband was home. The weeks he is home are always the hardest for me to stay on track. but all in all my weight did OK. by weeks end was down to 134.

Current week- I'm upping calories again this time to 1600. this week is not going so well. it might be hormonal, I am expecting that time of the month any day now.. but I seem to steadily be putting on weight. My husband is gone so its not him and his ice cream love doing me in, this is all on me. I have been pretty good about my calories. in fact I would say this it the first week I have really been at the calorie range I set for myself more or less every day this week. Still I'm gaining ( BTW I count my weeks from Wednesday to Wednesday as that's my husbands work weeks ) but I'm only a few days into this week and again aunt flow should be on her way so maybe it will all even out by weeks end.

My struggles so far are; figuring out my calorie range.. maybe closer 1550 ish will be better? figuring out if this really is the weight I want to stay at... I have a large frame. every frame calculator I have tried, even when I fudged the numbers slightly to account for human error, says I am indeed big boned. When all my tall friends were telling me there goal weight was also 135 my first thought was 'wow I'm a good 5" shorter then her.. maybe I need to rethink my goal weight?', fallowed very quickly with a 'nahh I have a larger frame 135 will be fine'. now I'm here and while I am OK with 135 I'm happiest at 133 and upset and frustrated with anything above 137. I'm wondering if I should readjust to 127 to 130ish that way even if I gain a few with normal fluctuations I wont be so upset. but then again maybe that disappointment will help keep me in line??? and if I lose any more breast tissue I really will cry LOL.. so I don't know. guess I'll see how this week goes, see how I feel at the end of the week. I know I shouldn't be worried about the number and really I'm not but the number does correlate to how puffy my tummy looks. I'd be happy at 140 if my tummy was flat


The other frustration is my workouts... I like 30 minute runs! they feel good and leave me with energy for the rest of the day ( something I really struggle with! ) they burn a decent amount of calories and I have a goal I can keep working toward with them ( running further ) but where to fit them in?... I know I need weight taring and I have one class with weights I'm ok with. but the suggest amount is 2 to 3 times a week :( I like kickboxing and I'm told I'm quite good but its a very very strenuous exercise and it completely wipes me out for the day. my friends have me taking it 3 times a week, so they don't have to go alone. that's just to much! and it wipes me out for my runs.

currently;
Monday- Kick-It ( kickboxing )
Tuesday- kick-It
Wednesday- run and Body-Pump ( weights )
Thursday- Kick-It
Friday- run and Body-Pump
Saturday- Body-Flow ( yoga/tie-chi )
Sunday- light family hike
This kills me!! I'm so tired everyday. I hardly get anything done. I feel awesome at the gym but a few short hours after I'm cranky tired and HUNGRY!!

whats recommended;
Monday- Kick-It ( kickboxing)
Tuesday- strength training ( Body-Pump but its not available at my gym on Tuesdays and really I wouldn't want to )
Wednesday- rest
Thursday- light cardio ( zumba, short run, swim )
Friday- Body-Pump
Saturday- Body-flow
Sunday- family hike or family swim
problems here... there's not enough running to keep my endurance up and there's to much heavy weights for my comfort.

My dream schedule;
Monday- Kick-it
Tuesday- Run, cross train: rock-climb or Pilates or ????
Wednesday- rest
Thursday- Cross train: Rock-climb or zumba or swim
Friday- Run, Body-Pump
Saturday- Body-Flow
Sunday- Run( only do able every-other week ), Family hike or swim
Problems here... Tuesday as usual is a problem in and of itself. Sunday there is no day care so I could only run when Hubby was home. this is supposedly not enough weight training.

Things to think about I guess. I'm a little OCD. I really like having everything written down and planed out so this being up in the air is bugging me! I need to get it worked out. but right now I'm off to body-flow, maybe the meditation will help me work it out LOL. wish me luck!

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