Mrs. G's Journey to Better Health

Tomorrow is a going to be a day I will never forget. The Space Shuttle Endeavor is going to be flying around cruising over various California landmarks. I am going to make an effort to view the Shuttle Endeavor. Fingers crossed!

Today is Wednesday. On Wednesdays I have a "Mommy & Me" class. The class itself is great. My problem is with snack time. The kids get a little snack, and, so do the parents. More often than not, the snack for parents is sugar. It can be cookies, doughnuts, brownies, ... sugar. It is very tempting to have one bite, and maybe one more bite. I used to think it was okay to have a bite or two since I'd be burning it off during class. When I started tracking my activity and the calories in the sugary treat, I discovered it was not true. I felt it was rude not to have the snack, but after a few times of passing on it, I'm okay with it. People have asked me to take ONE bite, but I still decline. Sometimes I will be asked why. Well, even if I get the rolling eyes, or other non-supportive remarks, I stand firm. I say, "I am counting calories." Bottom line, they don't care about my health or about my goals. So, why should I care about their remarks...

So 2 months ago I got clicked to get an offer for a magazine subscription. $5.99 for 10 issues. The offer said I would get my 1st issue in 4-6 weeks. It's been 8 weeks. In those 8 weeks, I have seen the bill electronically twice and once in the mail. I'm wondering if I will ever get my 1st issue. I feel funny about paying for the subscription when I have not even received the 1st issue. What health, fitness, food, weight loss type of magazines do you subscribe to?

The day started out pretty normal. Take the kids to school, do my usual Tuesday morning routine. And then things gotten shaken up a bit. My previous plans scheduled for today kind of fell through. I was a bit relieved because there were a few things I wanted to get done. But, I did not get them done any way. Had my plans not fallen through, I would not have gotten done to begin with. I took advantage of the chunk of time. I took a walk. As I began my walk, I figured I would take a 5 mile walk. I looked at my watch and figure I could get in a 6 mile walk and still have time for a shower, a quick, lunch, and start on 1 task that has been hanging over my head. Okay, a 6 mile walk it is. My mind started to wander as I thought about how tough it would be to get regular walking exercise in if I had a regular full-time job where I would have to drive to/from work everyday. I am fortunate enough to live close enough to some pretty nice walking paths. A couple of years ago, walking 0.3 miles ...

Monday. My Mondays are usually filled up with house chores, laundry, dishes, trash, picking up toys, cleaning up this and that, reading letters, filling out forms, returning calls, ... etc. Scheduled workouts and intentional exercise is not a priority on Mondays. Despite my usual Monday activities, I think I did descent. Not great, but descent enough that I hopefully maintained. My breakfast and lunch are pretty stable. For dinner I had a salad from Fresh Express Kit: Salsa Ensalada. To it, I added kale, celery, and tomato, and this is what it looked like: I also had a turkey hot dog with a small amount of turkey chilli. I did not think I would find this filling. To my surprise, I was full. As for my walking, I did not make it 10K steps today. I only made it to 6K. My day was not too bad, I kept busy all day long and did not go over my calorie budget.

Sunday is the first day of the week and it was good. I really hope I continue this way all week, all month! Okay, one day at a time. This morning I was supposed to get up and out the door by 6am for my morning walk. I hit the snooze the button. I got out the door by 6:40am. A little late, but I got out. I walked 6 miles at a pace of approximately 20mins/mile. The views were nice, the cool air felt good, and I got to listen to 3 podcasts. The 3 podcasts were all related to weight loss in one shape or form. When I got home, I felt good, and tired. A quick breakfast and then we started cleaning out the kids room. We got rid of toys and clothing the kids had outgrown. Now their room has room! The day seemed to go pretty fast, I did not snack mindlessly, yay! My DH kept my water bottled filled  with ice water so I was able to drink plenty of water, mindlessly. That is a good thing. After my morning walk and all that cleaning, I needed to cool off. The temperature in our area w...

A week ago I sent an email to SparkPeople.com's help support. I wanted to know why I could not post on their Facebook Page. I was able to do so for a while and then all of a sudden I was not. All of a sudden because I was not given a warning that I was doing something wrong. After the first round of emails I thought it might be because I was posting links on SparkPeople's Facebook page. Those links were always leading back into SparkPeople, my SparkPage to be exact. I was told I could do so, and so I did freely. I asked why I was being blocked again and they could not really say. I asked if I could be allowed to post again and I would not post any links. I was told they could not do so. This puzzled me greatly. What did I do? The person at SparkPeople.com helped me out by contacting the person over on SparkPeople.com's Facebook Page, apparently they related but the two are run separately. The following is the response I got from what I believe is the people over at Spar...