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Nutrition Headache

04 Monday Apr 2016

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I have ahead ache! It is spring break, so routine is messed up. I did not eat a good breakfast then at lunch time the Girl had Physical Therapy for her knee and I didn’t get a good lunch  either. In between all of that I had 4 massages today. I went back to work for my last massage I started to feel it coming on. I have been working out and my upper back is tight ( more than normal) so between everything it sets a prime condition for me to get a head ache. My glasses ey dirty from my hair when I am looking down and doing massage so I take then off and that adds to my head pain as well!

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I know better than to not have a good breakfast. I usually start with at least a Shakeology if I don’t have time to make eggs or some other high protein meal like cottage cheese. If I don’t get breakfast then I don’t usually drink enough water then when busy, like today, I don’t have the energy to make a healthy lunch so I just eat what’s easy and it’s sets in effect this bad cycle. That if I don’t catch it early enough ends with a headache especially if I eat too much sugar. This should be a good lesson to myself to eat healthier. Too much sugar gives me a headache.

So I need to take this lesson and learn to fuel my body and my mind. We all do! Eat healthier, get good rest, exercise and drink enough water (half your body weight in ounces if water).  I did have left over Parmesan chicken from last night and that seems to have helped my headache. However this screen is not helping. Go eat a healthy snack!

*This message is brought to you by my head ache!*

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Fresh Start, Tomorrow

07 Monday Mar 2016

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be strong MondayI am working on day 5 of an off and on headache! AND, Over the weekend I gained 3 pounds. I have been a little lax with my nutrition then I realized my headaches may be related to nutrition (too much sugar). I started getting them more often a few weeks ago when I was on antibiotics, I would eat bread with Nutella on it in the morning so that my medication didn’t upset my stomach.

So, since then I have been eating more bread and carbs and this weekend between the Girl Scout Cookies, Wine, Drinks, Jelly Beans and Cadbury Mini Eggs. I also have not been exercising so I am taking this Monday to have my last bowl of Ice Cream, finish off the Jelly Beans and Mini Eggs and refocus for tomorrow. I will be getting up early and working out with Shaun T doing Cize! Who wants to join me? (I will also get an adjustment tomorrow too!)

Now it’s time to pour that last glass of wine, dish up the ice cream and get ready for the Hubs to get home from work and have some sexy time! I think I will take my pants off and leave them on the floor by the refrigerator. He hates it when things are not put away but he loves seeing my clothes on the floor! Happy Monday!

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Pre Birthday Sunday!

01 Monday Jun 2015

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Happy Sunday Fun Day! Is it obvious that today has been busy. It has been fun though. We started with a baseball game. The Boy’s team played in their end of season interleague tournament. The won their second game in the tournament keeping them in the winners bracket! They play their next game on Tuesday against a team in our regular season league, we have played this team quite a few times and lost every time. It is a very well coached team. Our team is playing well together. Today’s game was probably their best this year, hopefully we can keep that energy going and kick butt Tuesday and keep it going!

Then we went to a birthday party for a friend of ours. His birthday was Thursday. He shares his birthday with my dad! Which of course gives him a special place in my heart! We had fun the kids played pool with daddy and I sat and chatted most of the time. And had my first birthday cake shot celebrating both our friend and my birthday! Happy Birthday!!!

So tomorrow is my birthday. I turn 36. I have loved all of my 30’s. 30s are fun but for some reason the number 36 is a bit daunting to me or something! I remember feeling about the same way when I turned 26 but still loved my 20s and survived the next 10 years. So I decided since it is my birthday and I have been having some problems following through with weight loss and dieting nand nutrition I am going to use my birthday as a reminder that I am not getting any younger and to get my health to place I want it to be for a long time I need to be more proactive and make better choices. I don’t know my specifics yet. As we all know I am the type that needs rules to follow so I can lose weight and so I can stay healthy. If I don’t have solid rules I tend to bend them too much and end up where I am at right now and that is not where I want to be. So other than my birthday party I am giving up alcohol for at least until after my next half marathon scheduled on June 13. Then who knows.

This is the first year in a while that I have not “pregamed my birthday! There have been many years we have gone out on the day before my birthday and at midnight is when we take a birthday shot or have a birthday drink or at least a birthday kiss. …..oooh I get birthday sex tomorrow too!!!! Yay me! But tomorrow morning I have to work at the massage office so I figure it would be a better idea to do it tomorrow night and for go the pre-birthday-gaming! The Hubs has his last night of school too. He teaches in the apprentice ship program for his industry and tomorrow is a final test so in theory he should be done early and we can celebrate that too! But you never know, we will see.

Anyway I am going to get back to couch time with the hubs and hopefully tomorrow I will have more purpose flu things to write but you know sometimes these nothing matters posts are fun. They are for anyway!

Here’s to couch time!

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Love Yourself Without Loving Your Fat.

06 Friday Mar 2015

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Hello Friday! I just somehow deleted a whole post I had almost finished and was trying to highlight a sentence to delete and moved off the page somehow and lost my whole post!!!  Ah that was a waste of about 45 minutes! It’s probably better though because it was a bit of a negative ramble. I was rambling about my weight loss woes. Or should I say lack of weight loss.

I have been dieting or at least saying I am dieting forever! I have had some success and I don’t really know how. I lost a lot of weight on HcG. It was really nice! I felt so good while taking the hormone and I was never hungry, I was happy and felt in control. However it is not something you can stay on forever and the diet is not recommended for a long time. That is what gets me discouraged. Can I not follow a plan with out giving myself a shot every morning? I did loose like 10 pounds in January when I was doing no carb, dry January. I don’t know if that is sustainable for me either… I know that sounds like an excuse, But that is probably my best option!

I just want to eat and drink what I want. Or at least what I like even if it has to stay in the realm of healthy foods. I don’t really have a problem eating too much but really I know what not to eat, but most of the time my struggle is what to eat. So I end up not eating, which is just as detrimental. Especially after limiting calories etc for such a long time. My metabolism is all whacked out probably. Don’t we all want to eat what we want as much and whenever?

We have to fuel our bodies. Not our emotions, or boredom. Eat to live not live to eat. If you are a serial dieter (or lifestyle changer) you have heard this all. Don’t skip meals, carbs are bad, you need the right food combination, eat this not that…..diet soda is the answer then no diet soda is the plague… I could go on but I won’t!

Bottom line is we have to fuel our bodies. Not with artificial sweeteners or chemical laden foods that come from a factory! All the “diet” foods are mostly chemical shit storms! Eat real food. Foods natural to the planet, meat…yes! Veggies….yes!!! Fruits???? Of course. No Ice Cream, right??? NO! Eat Ice Cream….full fat ice cream the kind that has just a few ingredients milk and sugar come from this planet natually. You just have to eat less than you usually do. I think a “normal” portion of ice cream is a 1/2 cup, which is about one scoop-ish, I think, depending on who is filling it. We need to stop being so crazy with our food and diets! Eat healthy, mostly fruits veggies and meats that are lowly processed, without added chemicals, sugars or salts etc.

But the biggest thing we, OK maybe just I, need to learn is to love ourselves! Don’t accept being unhealthy but accept and love yourself! You can love yourself without loving your fat! I saw a news story this morning about Kelly Clarkson. A Reported (who’s name I refuse to say because she does not deserve the publicity) was talking really mean things about Kelly. Kelly Clarkson’s response was beautiful. She said “Oh, and she’s tweeted something nasty about me? That’s because she doesn’t know me. I’m awesome! It doesn’t bother me. It’s a free world. Say what you will.” Kelly was not wavered in her own self because of what people think about her weight Clarkson added, “I’ve just never cared what people think. It’s more if I’m happy and I’m confident and feeling good, that’s always been my thing. And more so now, since having a family — I don’t seek out any other acceptance.” Awesome

We need to take lessons from Kelly Clarkson here! We can be awesome even if we don’t get the approval of everyone. I believe we can work on ourselves and think we are awesome even when we want to improve ourselves. Accepting yourself does not mean you don’t try to improve. We don’t have to shame ourselves into a diet or out of one. You are beautiful, I am beautiful. Be healthy! Some of us will have muffin tops and thighs that touch and still be beautiful. Have a healthy relationship with yourself! Forget what the magazines say you should look like and forget the haters who call you fat or who pick at your every flaw. Don’t be a hater of yourself or even of your body or your flaws! Those, you are working on. Don’t give up on yourself, keep working but love yourself in the process. If you don’t love yourself you will never break out of the unhealthy cycle! Don’t seek out acceptance from others; first you must accept yourself! First you must love yourself enough to change for good!

Be awesome! Love you! Love your body! Focus on what you want out of your life not what you don’t want! You want to be healthy so make healthy choices! Don’t define yourself with a number! I will stop being down and sad because of the number on the scale on this Friday morning! I will be awesome and make healthy choices and let the scale fall where it falls. I will not over indulge and will not use food to fuel my emotions I will use food to fuel my energy! I am awesome, I will continue to be awesome! I will not let the models who are airbrushed on the cover of magazines tell me I am not!

Thank you Kelly Clarkson for the inspiration today and thank you Sex Love and Washing Clothes blog for giving me an outlet on this Friday morning to refocus my negative energy, and hopefully inspire some of you to enjoy your awesomeness and accept that you are awesome, even if you don’t see the number you want to see on that fucking box you stand on that tells you your relation to gravity! Have fun my awesome friends! I will continue to have sex with my beautiful husband who loves me at any size, you do the same!

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Work Hard, Do You!

02 Monday Mar 2015

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It is Monday morning after a busy dance weekend! Guess what?! The Girl got a scholarship!!! $150 toward future dance conventions with Manhattan Dance Project! I am so excited for her. I would love to send her to AZ for their summer intensive. I really enjoyed this convention. The Girl did a great job, she still has some work to do when it comes to classes. She takes some of the time off if she is not “feeling it” but she is 10, I have to remember that and not expect more than she can handle. She was dancing in the advanced classes with the next closest dancer being 3 years older. I am so proud of her she is really growing…probably way too fast but she is so damn talented the only thing holding her back now is her age! I am really encouraged and excited about her future in dance she is breaking out and growing up on stage before my very eyes! I am even considering sending her with her teacher alone to AZ for this. I am a bit scared and an overprotective mom, so the idea of her going without me is scary but I know it will be so good for her. And I don’t know if we could afford both of us going… Anyway this was a great weekend, there is lots of potential to be found!

Back here on the home front on this Monday morning, my head feels clear and my sink is full of dirty dishes (shocking!?) I am feeling better today, this first Monday of March, than I did all month of February. As I have blogged about, last month I  felt kind of off all month. This weekend we ate healthier than we normally do. Got to bed late still, and didn’t do much different so I am saying diet for me is key to continue losing weight and feeling good and avoiding the sluggish hard to get going feeling. Today March is coming in like a lamb today sunny and bright. I have under the stove and fridge cleaning on the schedule and I am adding cleaning out the Washing Machine Soap Drawer and vacuuming the lint filter area in the drier. As soon as I am done writing today I will get on to the chores!

This month is a get in shape fitness wise, continue to work on diet and go back to work. It is a save money and make money month. Partly because I want to send the Boy to camp this year and the Girl to Nationals. Maybe I can look into getting her sponsors or something, look into fundraising for the boy too. Oh, and I want to buy my husband a new car that he has been Jones-ing for for 3 years! Making more money will be a necessity so I need to fill my schedule with massages and look into other opportunities to make some cash! What does blood donation pay? I could give up a kidney I think…. (Oh My Word did I just say that? Obviously I am kidding) The things we are willing to give up for our kids and husband! I wish I got paid dividends for being an awesome mom and wife and keeping my kids safe and staying off welfare…but no, we just get to pay more taxes and don’t get financial aid for anything! Technically we can afford it right? Right, well, we have to sacrifice in other areas…

I don’t know how people do it. I know a lot of people who make much less than we do that have their kids in more activities than mine. Or families who have multiple kids in activities. Maybe they have help from a rich uncle or something (where can I sign up for one of those?) Maybe they don’t have a retirement plan to pay into like the Hubs and I do. Maybe it is none of my business either! I just need to have faith and focus on what I need to do for my family. Karma will work itself out, good things happen to good people right? Hard work pays off…one day?! Right?! The Girl did get a scholarship for a portion of the fees…. I have faith. It will work out. We might not be able to do everything we want to do for our kids but we will do what is best and will be able to help them succeed and have happy lives. Oh, and we (Hubs and I) will have happy lives too. We will also teach them what is means to work for what they want and that you can’t always have it all. A very good lesson to teach children as some adults don’t even understand that! (Confession: sometimes the Hubs and I have trouble with that too, doesn’t everyone?)Good work today for tomorrow

I am focused and ready to begin a new month and a new chapter in life. Going back to work part-time and continuing to be an involved mom and care for my family. I need to continue to care for me too and make my priorities right. Make to do lists, plan meals, get off the couch and do work, and get exercise in to take care of me too. I can do this I will continue to be awesome and accept myself for who I am and know I am working hard and doing my best. And I will take some down time on the couch too!

Keep up the good work, all you moms out there. It is tough! We all are really hard on ourselves and we try to do everyone’s “work” for them all the while we know we can only do “ourselves”. So focus on you today. ‘Do you’ and the rest will fall into place. Or at least if you ‘do you’ and don’t waste your time trying to do everyone else’s work, you may have time left to “help” them, not do it for them…do you get what I am saying?… If nothing else, as I always fall back on, have good sex with your spouse, that will help you both realize something is going right! That’s what I remind myself every night! It has done wonders for me this year so far!

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Fuel Your Preparation

27 Friday Feb 2015

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Happy Friday! Today had a rough start. Actually it is not just today it is the lead up of the last week, no really month and today the results. I am in a weight loss challenge and it is weigh in day. I spoke a bit about it in my rant yesterday that this month has been rough. I had a great January, I lost almost 10 pounds! February I have gained half that back! This month weekly weigh ins have been up and down finishing off with today up 1.5 ish today from last week’s 2 pound loss, which was up 3 from my lowest!

I have been “off” this month. Diet has sucked, I haven’t been to the grocery store for a week and a half and I was on a roll cooking well and following my eMeals.com plan. But this last weeks has been rough. Schedule changes, and me being “off” has led to me not getting to the grocery store like I need to. Then the practices for baseball starting last week. Baseball and wrestling back to back, not to mention the Girl’s schedule has all lead to quick meals and crappy food choices… Bad food choices affect me in more than just on the scale. My brain chemistry is all out of whack! There has been a lot of research that I have read about food and brain chemistry. The problem being, I have read so much that the research kind of contradicts itself. And everyone’s brain is different and sometimes it seems one ingredient is causing the problem but a lot of food has a lot of stuff you just don’t know. Especially if you are going to restaurants, fast food, or premade meals. Which is why I tend to lean toward making everything from scratch but that takes planning and that is where I have slacked this month.

I feel bad because the Boy has been having a tough couple of weeks too. As previously stated, Baseball and Wrestling at the same time and I think he is affected by food the way I am. He won’t eat if he is not hungry but he doesn’t get that he has baseball at 5 then wrestling right after 6-8 and his sister has to be dropped off at 4 so even though he’s not hungry for dinner at 3:30 that is when he has to eat it. I think carbs or wheat or gluten is rough on him, just like me. He seems more flaky when he eats carb high foods. Last night he had a grilled cheese sandwich. Which is a favorite of his, but only ate less than half and it was just cheese with no extra meat like add for some extra protein to help him focus. He had a rough night last night. He was emotional (I think almost more than normal even) not focused. It was almost like he forgot that he is good at it! He was wrestling to not lose, not wrestling to win like he usually does. Yes he is the one on the mat so I can’t blame me but I blame me for not having fed him well this week. I know better than to have him eat a sandwich and crackers at lunch and then feed him grilled cheese for dinner, the day before they had pasta for dinner, no protein with it just pasta and he has had school lunch more than once this week which is always a bad choice for him… The Boy needs protein I know this it’s my fault. The Boy also needs to be responsible for himself as well. And I need to stop beating myself up but that is a different story…

Bottom line is I have failed to prepare all month! I have even failed on the Hubs this month, he has bought lunch this whole week. I have been too tired or have not had groceries to make lunch for him! It is time for me to get this shit together. Even if I have to go on the weekends to get groceries no more excuses! Feed your body right, and just pasta with butter is not a healthy meal to set your kids, husband or self up for success! Come on, Ruby, you know better than that!

This weekend is tournament day for the Boy and Dance Convention for the girl. Protein for breakfast. I will pack some meat and cheese slices for snacks for the Boy’s tournament for this weekend. The sugary or high carb snacks of crackers and chips are not a good choice to sustain the energy level they need! Same with the Girl. I need to pack her a snack bag for a convention same as the Boy they both need food that is easy to eat, not messy snacks and full of healthy nutrients for the day! I will also be applying oils and blending some focus and energy oil blend for them to apply throughout the day as well!Earn your body

You earn your life. What you put in you get out. It’s not just believing you can win it is preparing to. Part of the preparation to win is what your feed your body, or your kids bodies if you are the mom of young athletes. This weekend I will plan better and be ready and save on not having to buy all meals out. And then in our everyday life I will feed us all healthier meals. I will fuel my husband with lunches that will help him focus and sustain the energy that he needs to work as hard as he does. I am glad this month is over and it was a short one, as stated previously it was a rough one. It was like I was treading water to just stay up rather than actually swimming. I will in the words of Dory from Finding Nemo Keep Swimming. I need to reset my whole family! We will be healthier and happier. Mood and attitude in this house are definitely affected by poor nutrition! That is my department and I will be fixing it!

This is part of the Sex Love and Washing Clothes I am working on everyday! This is how I will be loving my family healthy and happy. We will have our nights of fast food but I think I am going to try to make it crock pot meals filled with nutritious ingredients, pre planned vs the grab and go food that really doesn’t work well for this family. I know this is sounding a little like I am taking all the blame for kids just needing to work harder or push through and be respectful but if they want to be the best and I know how much nutrition matters in my brain I need to give them the chance to succeed in the same way. Good enough is not good enough for this family of perfectionists! Maybe we need to work on self acceptance a little but in the mean time we will prepare to succeed in training, practice, the right mentality and nutrition! I will love myself and my family with healthy food! And the occasional fancy cake…but only occasionally!

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