Praying for Matthew

Friday, October 29, 2010

Unfit

So I didn't make it to Weight Watchers last night. Thursday is a new night for me, I used to go on Wednesdays and a friend called to ask if I would go to a movie with her. I remembered W.W. about an hour before she came to pick me up.

But I did try a new recipe that was FANTASTIC!! I am always leery about eating cooked spinach because I think of canned spinach and well YUCK!! But fresh is so yummy. I really think you all should try this:

5.8 oz of couscous prepared (next time I am gonna cook with chicken broth)
1/3 cup chopped walnuts heated for 2 minutes in a sprayed pan then set aside
1.5 lbs cut up chicken breast (i added a little season salt) browned
6 cups of spinach add to chicken along with walnuts once chicken is cooked all the way. (I actually only used about 3 or 4 cups, 6 just seemed too much.) Serve chicken on top of the couscous. Once I topped the couscous with the chicken I thought it just needed some tomatoes for the eye appeal. I was right it was so pretty once I did that. And it tasted very good. My kids wouldn't touch it, but you know what I am passed caring about that.

Also yesterday I decided to walk on my treadmill during nap time. About 28 minutes into my planned 1 hour work out my legs started to itch. At the 34 minute mark my legs we so itchy and burning I just could not bare it any longer so I stopped and went to shower. My legs were bright red and starting to swell and felt very hot to the touch. After showering I went on line to look this up and see if there was a name for it and if I should worry. This is not the first time I have had this happen. I discovered what was going on.... I am unfit!! It was a hard thing to swallow. I guess while exercising my muscles get warmed up and require more blood but the capillaries can't supply the blood fast enough which causes the itching. This really broke my heart. It takes so much work and effort and time to become fit but it only takes minutes to become unfit. My new plan of action is to walk a little slower and maybe cut it in half and just exercise twice a day instead of all at once.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

A new begining

So yesterday I expressed my desire to blog again and asked what I should blog about. My friend Holly made some suggestions that got my wheels spinning. So here's the plan:
Monday- possibly blogging about date night. I love to do dates that as close to free as I can get. I thought it would be fun to blog what we do and how it was free.
Wednesday- "remember when" I will try to blog about passed things we did with the kids. You know before blogging was around.
Friday- health/nutrition/exercise stuff. Which works out great since Thursdays are my weight watcher days and the days I experiment a new recipe on my family and my sisters family. I am hoping it will give me an accountability to you guys and I will be too embarrassed to have a down fall so I will stay on track. here's to hoping.

So here we go with the first "remember when"

I thought it would be good to post pictures of my kids dressed up for Halloween. I think this is when Jessica was in Kindergarten and Bri was in 4th, so 2004. Bri had bugged me non stop for a scary costume. I caved! I didn't usually allow scary. But I only bought the mask he had to come up with the rest him self.



Jessica wanted to be a princess. But of course she refused to be Ariel. I couldn't talk her into it for nothing. So we went to the dollar store and got the gross hair spray, that probably causes lung cancer, because she wanted a wig and I didn't have that kind of money. Halloween in Utah is too cold for costumes. I think Jess has sweat pants on under her dress.
On a side note look at my tree it looks so tiny compared to today. Happy Halloween everyone.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Blogging

I have not blogged in forever. A couple of reasons 1. I now watch a baby. Jack's mommy had a baby for me :) Good thing too my baby itch was getting so unnerving. I find that I miss her over the weekends though. And 2. my kids don't do fun things to blog about. In fact if I blogged about my kids on a daily basis those of you who had kids would give them up for adoption the summer before they went off to junior high and those of you who don't have kids would never have kids.

So during the summer I decided I wanted to run a 1/2 marathon next fall. Why oh why do I shut down when I give myself a dead line. Do any of you do that. I gave myself a dead line for my weight loss because I wasn't doing so good and I am still not doing good. Just stressing that I will never be healthy and never fit into a normal standard of weight. It's quite depressing. So now that I have set the goal of running a 1/2 I no longer have the desire to run at all. Someone please tell me that they are this way too! (I have probably lost the 2 or 3 readers since I stopped blogging)

So I am looking for a subject to blog about. I think I really need an outlet, some where I can ramble on and on about a subject. It gets kinda lonely in the babysitting world. I can talk to the kids but they just ask me if I want a crabby patty or stare at me with a blank look. Plus nap time well yeah that is just a bore for me. I have considered putting the boys down at different times so I have someone to play with at all time but in reality I need a break. So if any of you have a suggestion let me know. I just refuse to do politics, not my cup of tea.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Another give away from my friend

For a chance to win a betty crocker give away go to my friends blog at www.familyfishbowl2.blogspot.com it's easy to do. Good luck to you all.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

It's breast cancer awarness month

Yep that's right it breast cancer awearness month. I am gearing up to do my annual run/walk with my weight wathcers group. This year it's not a 5K it's 5 MILES!! Woo hoo!! and Jeremy is gonna go with me.
On my very good friend Lori's blog you can enter to win a breast cancer package from yoplait, who have been a Susan G. Komen supporter for years. Go here www.familyfishbowl2.blogspot.com to enter for a chance to win. Good luck