Salt is truly NOT my friend!
Posted by: happymommyof3 on: December 17, 2008
- In: Fitness | Food | Health | Weight loss | What's in my head
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Tony and I decided a couple months ago that I wasn’t going to be that concerned with my salt intake since when I workout, I sweat A LOT. I still was a little conscious of how much I was eating and trying not to consume too much. Since using myfooddiary.com I was able to track everyday. Well over the last couple weeks I have (not so much) not been worried about it at all. Seriously I was eating about 5000+ mg of sodium a day. That is A LOT!!! Well I am wondering if that is why I feel so bloated over the last week, why I have a 3 pound gain. Maybe I am retaining a good deal of water.
I have been watching old episodes of Biggest Loser and I heard one of the trainers tell a contestant not to consume more than 1200 mg of sodium a day. WHAT?? Are you kidding me???
I would have to only consume 1/5 of what I was. That is going to be hard. I told myself I would try over the next few days to eat less sodium. So I was looking in my cabinets and pantry and tried to find low sodium foods and well…….it was hard. I thought I could eat (just for a couple days) more oatmeal and some cottage cheese and then dinner will have the most sodium.
Cottage cheese, I was disappointed to read that it contains 400 mg of sodium per serving (1/2 cup). That is not good. At least for what I am trying to accomplish over the next couple days. No cottage cheese for me. Chicken and tuna even has a good deal of sodium. How ever am I going to only consume 1200 mg? Unless my fridge is packed with fruits and veggies and financially that is just not possible. Fruits and veggies down here is really expensive.
I need to see if my weight dilemma right now is water related. If it is not then it is either muscle gain or that I am destine to be overweight.
Another tearless nap time!
Posted by: happymommyof3 on: December 17, 2008
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I am shocked. My son was doing such a good job throwing the best temper tantrum when it was time for bed or nap time. He could be crowned king of tantrums. Full blown kicking and screaming. When it was a nice day and our windows were open I was afraid DCFS would show up at my door from someone calling and saying I was abusing my kids. We live in an apartment and you could hear him at least a block away. It was horrible.
Well yesterday close to nap time I decided to run to A.C Moore to pick some stuff up and on our way home he fell asleep. He woke up when I carried him inside but I changed his diaper and put him to bed. Not a peep. No crying, no fussing…..no nothing. WHAT? I thought it was just because it was a little past nap time and he was already half asleep from napping in the car. However to my continued shock at bedtime the same thing happened. I put him to sleep at 9:30pm, he was up playing and laughing just before and I laid him down and not a sound. He fell right to sleep.
Now I am thinking maybe he just had a rough day, just really tired.
Today is a new day, nap time came and AGAIN…..NOT A PEEP! He has also stopped screaming and throwing tantrums throughout the day. I have experienced a number of days over the last couple weeks that he would just scream all day. Not an “I’m in pain” scream….more of a “I want it my way and I want it NOW” sort of scream.
He seems to have overcome that. We still have an occasional melt down but nothing like before. I was so unhappy on those days that he was the most cranky!!!!
Bah Humbug!
Posted by: happymommyof3 on: December 17, 2008
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I just realized this is going to be the worst Christmas ever! For starters, we are strapped for money so I won’t be getting as many gifts for the kids as I would like to. That was upsetting. It was just pointed out to me that Christmas Eve is a Wednesday. Tony has to work late every Wednesday. His restaurant NEVER closes and hardly EVER closes early. So just when I thought he was going to get off at a decent time on Christmas Eve to come home and eat dinner together, he reminds me it’s a Wednesday and he will be closing. Then he usually closes on Christmas so he can be home for breakfast and opening of gifts but then he has to close Christmas Day too.
I was already feeling out of the spirit, missing my family greatly and now I won’t even have him home to spend time as a family on the holiday. I really hate his job, I hate that he is never home. He got home last night at 11:30pm and then was back to work this morning at 10:30am. He slept until 10am and then got ready for work. He got to spend 15 min with Bubby.
I am just so bummed. I tried to remain positive the first couple months he went back to work there because I knew this is what we needed to do for our children. I am appreciative that he does work so much so I can stay home with the kids but it is just getting out of hand how he is never home. He only gets one day off a week and even those days are spent part of the day at work. On Tuesday it was his day off. Bel had a doctors appointment and the doctor is right down the street from the restaurant. So while I was at the doctor he was at work. Even after I went back to get him after the appointment, it was still another 45min to an hour before he could leave.
I am thankful for my kids and happy I will get to spend the time with them on the holiday I just wish Tony could be there too. Really, I had to hold back the tears when he reminded me it was a Wednesday and he wouldn’t be home for dinner. I just really feel unhappy right now. I am depressed about our financial situation, unhappy about being at a plateau on my weight loss, unhappy about not seeing my family this year for the holiday and unhappy we won’t be seeing Tony much Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
I just want the holiday to be over with. I don’t want to hear about Christmas or families or presents or good food. BAH HUMBUG!!!!! I don’t even have a tree up and barely any decorations (just some stockings).
I really do hope everyone has a great Christmas though. This is usually my favorite time of year. I didn’t want to bum anyone out I just needed to vent in the hopes of keeping myself from breaking down.
Merry Christmas to all!!!
Mommy’s pride and joy….
Posted by: happymommyof3 on: December 14, 2008
- In: General | Kids | Pictures
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These are the 3 that keep me going everyday! I love my kids with all my heart. I am proud of them each for different reasons.
I am going to throw their nicknames at you because I am going to start using them in my posts. It seems more natural to me since that is what I call them all the time.
And here they are:
First, my first born…….Nicki aka Boo aka Boo Boo (11yrs old)
Next, my boy, my little man……Lil Tony
aka Bubby aka Stud aka Boy (17 months)
Last but certainly not least….sweet Isabel
aka Bel aka Pretty Pretty Princess (5 months)
I have some more proud mommy pics:
Daddy and Bubby
I didn’t want to post pics of me until I lost all my weight but I love this pic, me and my kids
Lovin his sissy
This was when we lived in Vegas so it’s 2 yrs old but I love it
Jingle bells, Batman smells…..
Posted by: happymommyof3 on: December 14, 2008
Jingle bells, Batman smells Robin laid an egg……LOL! OMGoodness only 11 more days until Christmas. The clock is ticking and soon this whole year is going to come to an end. I have mixed feelings about all this. I love Christmas, I wait all year in excitement for this time of year and this year, holiday and all, has just flown by. I am however, excited to start a fresh new year. Get past all this financial slump my family has encountered and on to a straight path to our future. Saving to buy a home and getting our debt paid off.
I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe holiday. Enjoying the time with your family!!
Christmas Concert….pictures
Posted by: happymommyof3 on: December 14, 2008
I am a little late getting these pics and video up but it seems to have been a busy week. Better late than never……
Man’s best friend
Posted by: happymommyof3 on: December 14, 2008
- In: Abby-doo | General | What's in my head
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Why do they say a dog is a man’s best friend? Not sure but I do know that my son loves our dog. My Abby-doo is the BEST dog ever. She is kind and gentle and she puts up with a lot. My son pokes and pushes and pulls on her all the time and she just lays there and lets him. When she eats he is right there in her bowl too. He pulls her bowl away from her, puts his hand in her bowl while she is eating…..and she doesn’t care. He loves her and she loves him. I don’t know what I would do without her.
The sad thing is she is a chocolate lab and I haven’t done research but I have known several lab owners whose dogs have died at an early age from health conditions. I believe it was cancer for both dogs. I have great concerns that I will lose my dog to cancer within the next 5 years and it breaks my heart. It breaks my heart that my son will lose his best friend. Right now I don’t really do anything extra for her health. Maybe I should get her on some pet supplements. She is 5 yrs old and I am afraid things are just going to go down hill and I want my dog to live forever.
Maybe I should take a different approach?
Posted by: happymommyof3 on: December 13, 2008
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I have hit another plateau in my weight loss. Is it because I am gaining more muscle? I don’t know but I am stressing too much over this whole process. I let it consume my days. Well in the last day or so the website I use tried to charge my debit card for the month and was declined, not because of no money but because I had to cancel the card when I threw my wallet in the garbage. So at this point I have no access to this site unless I give a new number. That is ok with me, I think I really just need to take a different approach. I wasn’t really keeping track like I used to. I mean I still counted calories, measured my food and exercised but I wasn’t logging it all on the computer.
I am still going to eat healthy and exercise but not going to be so anal about all of it. I will say though that sometimes I have a lack of energy too. I want to nap and sit on the couch and I have a hard time getting the motivation to workout. I think most of it is my lack of sleep at night. However, maybe I need to try some Fenterdren. It is a weight loss supplement to help me get through my plateau I seem to hit more than I would like. It is also going to give me the energy to make it through my day.
I just don’t know what else to do. I have changed what I eat, how I eat, when I eat…how I exercise, when I exercise and how much I exercise and for every 10 pounds I lose I seem hit a plateau for a week or two.
I think I can, I think I can!!!! LOL! I will lose the weight, I am done being fat and out of shape!!!
Finally…..
Posted by: happymommyof3 on: December 13, 2008
…..I made it to bed before 2am. I am almost over my cold too. Tony and I went to exercise and got home around 11pm. We hadn’t received any new movies from Netflix so we really had nothing to watch. We had rented Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian at the dollar rental machine in Publix the night before and hadn’t returned it yet so Nicki was watching it. We watched it again with her and I surfed the blogosphere.
Tony was falling asleep on the couch and there wasn’t a whole lot going on, on the world wide web, so I decided we just needed to go to bed. Holy Moly it was only 12:30am.
Now I still had to get up at 6:30am to feed Bel but I got about 6 hours of sleep. That’s usually the most I get all night and I still was able to get more after I put Bel back to sleep. I feel pretty darn good this morning. Maybe I will actually do some laundry or dishes or clean my bathroom. It has been so long since I seriously tackled those chores.
However right now, I am off to Sam’s Club. My fridge is bare and that is no joke. I have some juice, condiments and milk in my fridge.
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