Mrs. G's Journey to Better Health

Enjoying a cup of chicken and wild rice soup while listening to some tunes. Not skipping meals, making better choices. Every little steps adds up and progress is made.

First week is always a little wonky while we all get back into the swing of things. Hitting the pause button and re-evaluating. So soon? YES! I need to re-evaluate our routines, especially  my routine. Can't expect to get different results this year if I do the same thing I did last year.  Taking a moment of silence to really listen to myself think. Need to step away from outside influences to really listen, listen to my heart beat. I have to be quiet and listen to my heart because it beats to a different drum than anyone else's... it makes it's own music, my music. Can you hear the music your your heart makes? What is it telling you?

Oh! My! Goodness! Tomorrow is Monday, August 20th. It is the first day of school for my kids and I am treating it as my 1st day too! Not my 1st day of school but the 1st day in my new chapter in the book of My Health Journey. To prepare myself I decided I need to be more organized. Not perfect, but better than I have been in the past. In doing so, I will be able to be more consistent in planning, scheduling, and managing my time, my health, and my emotions. It may sound weird to mention my emotions, but, yes, my emotions. When I am well prepared, I do not stress out, I do not get tempted to stress eat. When I am well prepared, I able to handle life's hick-ups much more easily.  The little black table on picture on the bottom right is what my desk looked like. I "managed" to do all my work on that little table. Not much room, but I made it work, and handled one thing at a time as best I could. Sometimes I wanted to have a book open, my laptop open, and a notebook a...

What a day! After yesterday's big let down of finding out we were not getting new floors, we opted to have the carpet deeeeep cleaned. It was not a smooth day because we got blocked in our garage by a large worker truck, had hole about 5'x10' dug up by our front door, I had an allergic reaction to raw wood (I remembered to wear gloves but leaned it against my leg and I was wearing shorts), while moving furniture the glass light shade fell off the ceiling fan...twice. The 2nd time for shattered. The list goes on.  *sigh* So why am I smiling, laughing, and thankful for today? Simple. I don't live near the Holy Fire which means my home is not threatened by fire, not being evacuated, not inhaling smoke, not getting ash, the glass from the fan didn't hurt the kid that knocks it down, I have a job, and recently got a raise too, I have food on my plate and let's not forget the other end, I have a new dual flush toilet ready to be installed. Last but not least, one ...

My kids are getting ready to start a new school year. Day 1 is next week. It's not Day 1 of never ever being in school, it's Day 1 of this school year, a new chapter within their school journey. They will take what they have learned in previous grades/levels and build on that. Fall starts next month, and new seasons of my favorite shows will air. As each new season starts, they always do a recap of what happen last season. It brings me up to speed and it's a good refresher on what issues are being worked on, and resources. I declare today my Day 1 within my health journey. Not Day 1 of starting all over from 221 lbs 2 years ago. I've learned a lot in the previous 2 levels, had success and failure, strike that, not failure, setbacks. I also had some Ah-Ha moments. My 1st year lead me to explore weight loss methods and learned a lot about what did not work and a non-sustainable lifestyles. My 2nd year, which is now, has shown me a sustainable path with results that have p...

Everyday is a choice. Life goes on whether I do something or not. I can act or react, walk into a situation or walk away, accept what is in front of me or change it, I can eat this or that, I can drink water or soda, I can damage my health or improve my health. Bottom line, I CAN.  My life is not perfect, I am not perfect, but I CAN make a positive difference each and everyday.  I have real everyday struggles and challenges AND I have improved the quality of my life and my health. I re-took the Health Assessment I took just under a year ago and I have significantly improved. My doctor ran a number of tests on me and found significant improvement in my cholesterol, A1c, blood pressure, kidney function, heart function, and the list goes on!  How would you like to see results similar to mine? How about results better than mine? 

I am tired. Did a lot of walking. I'm sure not all my steps were counted since I had a glitch happen... but still got a good number for the day AND I drank 3.5 liters of plain water too! Sent from my iPhone

This applies to so many areas of my life. Life gets busy, priorities change and sometimes while things seems okay, they really are not. I reached a point where I was not happy with my weight because it held me back from things I really wanted to do. I wasn't happy with the threats of serious health problems and the medications I had to take, and the side effects didn't look good either. I started this health journey with a brand name program. In one year I lost some weight but my health still got worse. So I did this health assessment as a starting point. From day one it made sense. I have had some setbacks. Especially this summer, still trying to figure the cause, damage, and course of action. The setbacks, no biggie, I am bouncing back better than ever. In 2 weeks under doctors guidance I gained 7.5lbs. Took me over the 200lbs mark again. Ugh. BUT the threat of serious health problems were all diminished, some even eliminated. Then I got the all clear and I was able to go bac...