Yoga :)

This week we did yoga at for activity days, which is the midweek activities I'm over for the 11 yr old girls in my ward. I had forgotten how much I love it!

My kids and I just got done doing a 30+ minute yoga work-out. I feel very energized and relaxed... those of you familiar with yoga know what I'm talking about. The kids love it too (they do it at school), so I think we're gonna start doing yoga as a family a couple of times a week.

Chrissy's Nutrition Trip

This past Friday I went to a nutritionist. She was very helpful and motivating. Although, it was most things I already knew. She did however really encourage me to go the Low-Carb approach for a month and try it out. I took a nutrition test and gave her my health history with my Thyroid information.

She felt this would be a good kick start. She gave me a lot of tips. I would like to share after I test some out.

Have any of you ever been on a Low-Carb and found it successful? Do you have any recipes to share?

Blessings,
Chrissy from Meaningful Days

Weekly Report

Well... I can't seem to post on here more than once a week anymore. Once I'm done with the play I'm directing I'll be back in full force :)

Seriously I should be working on play stuff right now, but oh well!

As I've checked out the blogs in my blog list today, everyone seems to be doing really well. Not me. I'm slacking. I'm stressed out and crazy.

The only way I'm even finding time to do crafts and other things that relax me is I'm giving up on a couple of hours of sleep each night. Which is also not good. Since my painful work-out a week or however long ago it was (I lose track of my days) I haven't tried again. It hurt way too bad and not in a good way. My eating hasn't been extremely bad, but it hasn't necessarily been healthy either. I ate a lot of chocolate covered strawberries yesterday. Hey they're fruit, right? And I did use a high quality dark chocolate to make them, so that counts for something. ha ha ha just kidding.... I can feel the inches added on... LOL I'm making a goal to measure myself tomorrow. I need that accountability to help me along. Anyways... I'm rambling and not really saying anything, but I'm hoping to get back on track soon!

Okay! It is not working!!!!!

I have been doing so good for a while with eating and exercise. After 2 months. 2 MONTHS!!!! I lost only 5 pounds. 5 pounds!!!



Okay, for you people that are super positive I know this is good at least better than nothing. But the cupcakes and Diet Dr. Pepper are calling my name now. I mean I really thought I would have lost more.



Anyway, I know that I slacked a few times but I also did very good a lot of this time. I have to take a change of direction. I have regained 2 pounds after finding out. I am not for sure why I do that . I just quit for a week and half and binge. I eat because I am not losing weight. How weird.



So, I have to get back on the ball. I do have Thyroid Disease and this has made it so difficult for me to lose weight. I have been battling this for 2 years now.



Tomorrow, I am going to a nutritionist. I am really excited. Just to get some new motivation and see what she says. I am sure I have read and know most of what she will say. But sometimes hearing it direct from a person can really motivate you.



I have a lot of difficulty staying motivated. How do you stay motivated????

Blessings,
Chrissy at Meaningful Days

Monday :)

I had someone ask me what Pero is so I thought I'd share. I really enjoy it. I put a bit of sugar and some skim milk in mine. Mmmm


You can see by the nutritional facts it's a pretty good drink. I like to drink herbal tea or Pero at night when I'm really craving goodies.


I thought I'd also show what I made for dinner tonight. The kids hated it. Caleb even spit out the one bite he took into the garbage. So... it was pb&j for them (with no bed-time snacks) and I ate up my spinach bake like a good girl :)


I've been doing ok on my food. I need to get into the exercise habit, but after last time when I hurt myself I haven't wanted to risk it. My goal last week was to squeeze 90 minutes of exercise into my busy schedule and I only got 30 minutes... at least it's better than the week before, which was 0. This week I'm gonna try and improve.

Owww!

I worked out for about 10 minutes on Monday. Tonight I tried to do my first real work-out since I got in my car accident on January 9th. I started out on my ball. I tried to do sit-ups holding some light weights. After two minutes I got really sharp pains. It's hard to describe where. It's on my right side on my chest kinda on the side of and under my boob. So I dropped the weights and tried to go on. The pain kept getting worse. So I got off the ball and moved to the floor. Some exercises were ok. The pain was still there, but not sharp. Every once in a while I'd do something that would start the pain shooting again. I got a 20 minute work-out in, but here I am 10 minutes later and I'm still in a lot of pain. I thought I was feeling all better since my whiplash, but now I have my doubts :(

Checkin' In...

I'm just pluggin' along. My eating has been so-so. I haven't totally blown it or anything, but I did eat a lot of pumpkin bread last night which would've been really low fat except it had white chocolate chips in it. But I also had lots of spinach salad... yum and some meatloaf and corn. I had a cabbage chicken salad for lunch. Breakfast was whole wheat toast and scrambled eggs w/ a bit of cheese. So, you can see... so-so. Would've been fantastic if it wasn't for that blasted delicious pumpkin bread... good thing it's all gone!

Now I'm off to eat breakfast :)