Just cannot stay away....

Alright folks, I just thought I would amuse you with a pic of me and my husband from back in the day as well as a more current pic ;) For those who do not know, we met in high school........at band camp ;) Can you get more dorky than that? This summer will be our 15 year Kissiversary :) Aw ;) I will post a real post soon.....still under the weather but on the mend!!!!
ENJOY!!!!

Pregnant + Sick = BLAH!!!

No posts since about Friday.....yeah....this pregnant girl is not doing so well. With eating, you ask? Well, yes and no. I have been going back and forth with that. I have everything written down from Friday till now. Just have not plugged it in on here.

Really my deal right now is I am just plain miserable :( I have been sick for over a week. I thought last Thursday was the worst but as it turns out it was only the worst in one category. I am pretty sure I have a sinus infection and last Thursday I just threw myself back in bed when the hubs got home in the morning. My head was so stuffy and I was just not able to function. The next day I had work so I knew I needed to rest. Felt ok enough to go to work and had a pretty good weekend over all.

Here we are on Tuesday evening and I feel like I have been knocked in the head with a giant sledge hammer. Like I said, I am just miserable. Now it is not so much the sinus aspect that is making me feel so poorly. At this point, it is the lovely chest cough that is setting in :( I just took some cough medicine and I am about to get to bed. I am praying I will not be up all night hacking. It hurts to cough.

Going to the Dr. to get some antibiotics and probably an inhaler will be the next thing on my to-do list. That and of course.......REST!!!! So, my dear blogger family, please be patient with me as I may be out of commission for the rest of this week. I may just start blogging and logging the food again this coming Friday. I would like to do it every day but I have to give myself some slack here. I want this blog to continue to be fun for everyone, including me. So, if I force myself to keep up with it even when I feel like this then I think it may lose that "fun" side, ya know?

So.....until I am more "me".....night night !!!!!!

Finally Friday!!!!!

Today has been a pretty successful day in life in general. I was really worried that today would be really hard to get through. As I mentioned yesterday, I am not feeling well. Combine that with the fact that I was up until 3am and you could have a recipe for disaster!!!!

Not sure exactly why I was up that late. Part of it was probably because of the rest I got yesterday morning. Oh yes.....the other reason would be that the hubs and I had starbucks at 8pm last night. Those two things combined can make it pretty hard to sleep ;) The my mind kept running and running with details about next fall. YES...next fall. I know, I am crazy ;) I was thinking about work, MOPS and our small group from church. I kept wondering how all of that will play out schedule wise. I am confident that everything will fall into place ;)

Day two of work meant that I would not be sneaking in a nap during the day today. So, this morning I prayed and asked God to sustain me and help me to accomplish everything that needed to be done today. That is something I NEED to remember to do every day though ;) I got the kids all up and fed this morning, big guy off to school, showered when the husband man got home and then I went to work :) It is still strange to say "went to work" ;) I like it though ;) Had to make sure to pack stuff to eat for lunch while I was there. Good thing I remembered that !!!!

When I got home I WAS able to get a little nap in because my husband is awesome :) Then he took a nap after me. He had worked all night last night and then stayed up with the wee ones while I went to work. While he napped I worked on piano with the big boy and then got dinner prepped.

Turkey burgers were on the menu for tonight and they were GOOD!!!! Now the kids are about to head to bed :) Husband and I are planning on having ice cream and relaxing together :) Good start to the weekend if you ask me :)

Tomorrow morning is a women's event at church talking about marriage. I am very eager to hear what God has to say to me about that particular topic ;) There is always room to grow in that area!! The question I am asking myself is if I want to go work out at 6:45am and then head to the women's meeting. UGH. The immediate answer is NO!!! However, I KNOW that if I go work out I will feel SO much better about keeping myself healthy while pregnant !!!

In baby news, I have been feeling the little bean moving a bit more lately :) I am SO excited for that to become a regular occurrence :) Our BIG ultrasound is March 14th :) Hopefully the little booger will show the goods ;) For a while I was convinced it is a girl, now I am thinking it is a boy......only time will tell ;)

Friday foods:

Breakfast- banana, 2 pieces of toast with 2tbs of PB

Snack- nectarine

Lunch- 1 cup grapes, 6oz blueberry yogurt, mini cinnamon sugar bagel, WW multi grain crisps

Dinner- turkey burger, salad with fat free dressing, 20 light regular flavor chips

Treat- 1 cup monster cookie ICE CREAM!!!!!!!!! YAY :)

Sick.....not fun....

Being sick is one of my least favorite things in the world. Ok, seriously, what kind of crazy person would say that they LOVE being sick? He he he ;) I could feel it coming on for a couple of days now. My throat was sore on Tues. and Wed. This morning BAM!!!! I was hit full force with the sinus yuck that haunts my life! I usually have sinus issues from Sept. until May. I have had all kind of tests done to figure out what my problem is. Turns out I have an immune deficiency thing that I was born with and there is nothing they can do to treat it. Bummer!

This morning I felt so icky that my hubby stayed up after working all night last night so that I could rest. I was in bed from 8am-11:30am. Got up, had lunch, laid the little guy down, put blue's clues on for sissy and then I laid on the couch for most of the afternoon. I even had someone bring the big kid home from school.

Of course, now, here it is going on 11pm and I am still awake when I should be back in bed sleeping. I am scheduled to work tomorrow so I KNOW I need to go get my rest. I just wanted to make sure to post my food intake for the day ;) Until I hear back from my boss, I will not be posting any points values. After reading some of my top secret employee info. I am not sure if it is "allowed'. So, dear readers, I will continue to log what I eat, I just may not be able to share the pts values with you. I will keep you posted ;)

Breakfast- 1 cup strawberries (remember I went right back to bed, otherwise I would have had more than just a cup of fruit!!!!)

Lunch- sandwich- 1oz ham, 1 slice american cheese, lettuce, mustard, 2 pieces of healthy life bread, 1 cup Mrs. Grass chicken noodle soup (YUM!), 1 cup O.J.

Snack- 1 egg and half a piece of toast with jelly

Dinner- Smart Ones Ravioli Florentine- SO GOOD!!!!, salad with red wine vinaigrette dressing, vernors ginger ale

Treat- Skinny pumpkin spice latte from starbucks (a.k.a. the devil as my hubby would say ;) He will drink starbucks but his heart is with those little mom and pop local coffee shops!!! I like them both!!!)

Log for Tues. 2/15 and Wed. 2/16

HOORAY!!!!!!! Today was a GREAT day for my tracking!!! Do you know WHY today went so well? If you read my previous post from today then you will know the answer.........because I PLANNED!!! YAY :) Now check it, I DID have McDs but the rest of the day I chose very smart things. At this point in the evening I still have 3 pts left :) Part of that is because I went to Jazzercise and earned myself some extra points ;) Anyway, I have lots of other things to get to tonight before I crash. So, here is the food log from yesterday (Tues. 2/15) and today :) I am "planning" on making wise choices tomorrow as well :) Won't you join me?

Tuesday Feb. 15th-
Breakfast- yogurt- 4pts +, 2 pieces healthy life toast- 2pts +, 2tbs PB- 5pts +

Lunch- Chunky soup- classic chicken noodle- the entire can- 6pts +

Treat- more of that darn rainbow chip cake- 10pts + (the cake went to work with hubby last night though!!! Thank goodness!)

Snack- banana- 0pts +

Dinner- Smart Ones mini pizzas (four of them)- 7pts +, McDs small wild berry smoothie- 5pts +

Snack- popcorn- 7pts + (I really do not know for sure since it was on the stove. I should really try to figure that out some day!!!), Vernors ginger ale- 4pts +

Wednesday Feb. 16th-
Pre-MOPS snack- banana- 0pts +

Brunch at MOPS- grande java chip frap (that an AWESOME friend surprised me with!!!)- 6pts +, 1/4 cup of some cheese potatoes- 5pts + (guessing here), 1/4 cup of yogurt and fruit- 2pts +, cookie- 3pts +, cherry crumble stuff- 5pts + (guessing here too)

Lunch- mighty kids meal from McDs- 6 piece chicken nuggets- 7pts +, small fry- 6pts +

Dinner- Fussuli (pasta) with yellow pepper sauce- 6 pts +, broccoli- 0pts +

Jazzercise- 4 activity points :) YAY :)

Snack- nectarine

Another little snack.....who knows what it will be ;)

Cliche?

Failure to plan is to plan for failure.

Ok, how many of you want to smack me in the face right now? Your initial reaction may be a defensive one "No, I can still succeed in making wise choices even if I do not "plan" for them." Now, take a deep breath and ask yourself if that statement is 100% accurate.

Honestly, I think that the old cliche is definitely onto something but I do not think it is always 100% true. I think that we CAN still make wise food choices, at times, even if we have not planned ahead. I do however, know that planning ahead can REALLY REALLY help us stick to our healthy lifestyle!!!!!

As I mentioned earlier this week. I did not "plan" for the days when I had training last week. So, I ate out more than I would have liked. What is my weapon for this week? I PLANNED out meals for dinner. I then went to the grocery store with a LIST for those meals and anything else that we NEED for the next two weeks. I stocked up on lots of fruits and veggies. You know what? It feels SO SO SO SO SO good to have a plan!!!! There may be a few days here and there that the plan does not play out exactly how it is written on my calendar. I have to realize that I will survive and that it is OK!!!!

The point is that I am setting myself up to succeed!!!! Most likely, if you buy food for a specific meal you will try to use it up instead of letting it go to waste. We know that letting food go in the trash is not only wasting food but wasting money as well. Neither of which we would actually want to do.

Planning for two weeks worth of meals may seem quite overwhelming. Let me assure you, I do NOT cook a "real meal" every night of the week. I take a look at our schedule and figure out who has to be where which nights or what the activities look like during the day. I then plan accordingly. I know that if I have MOPS and three other activities in one day (Lord I hope I never have that much going on in one day ;) He he he), then the dinner for that night needs to be quick and simple. That may mean that we have a frozen pizza that night. You may be thinking "Wait, did she just say FROZEN PIZZA? I thought this girl was blogging about eating healthy!!!" You see, writing it on my calendar that we will have frozen pizza on Wed. night will help me to plan to eat more strategically for the rest of the day leading up to pizza time. Make sense? I will also plan on NOT eating 5 pieces of said pizza!!!!

Let me encourage you to start some kind of planning of your own. It may be for two weeks, it may just be for two days. It really depends on what you think you can handle at the moment. There have been weeks where I was SO overwhelmed at the thought of planning dinners for two weeks that I could only bring myself to plan for one week. TOTALLY fine!!! What have I been telling you this whole time? You CAN make wise choices!!! You CAN change the way that you eat and live!!!! YOU CAN DO IT!!!! Let's do it together!! You are NOT alone!!!!

New train of thought-

Pregnancy. Yes, that is something still on my mind. Makes sense, considering I am pregnant and all that ;) I figured I would just give you a little update on how things are going. I am 16 weeks along. We heard the heartbeat on Valentine's day :) SO excited :) Up until this point I have gained 13lbs. This is a hard thing to think about. I KNOW that I have to gain while pregnant, it just takes some time getting used to watching the numbers on the scale go up ;) However, my husband did tell me the other day that I am a "hot" pregnant chick this time around ;) I'll take it!!!!

There are some possible changes coming up concerning my prenatal and delivery care. During this pregnancy I have been less than thrilled with the treatment I have been getting from the medical staff at my OB's office. It is kind of hard to put my finger on exactly what it is. Things have just changed over the years since I first started there. Lots of new employees is part of it. Also, I just end up feeling like a number. I do NOT like feeling like a number!!!! I want to feel like my Dr. and the staff actually CARE about me and my baby. I know this is hard with so many patients but I think it is still something to strive for.

Also, I am planning on trying to do this labor and delivery thing without any drugs!!!! I have had an epidural with the first three but now I think I want to end my pregnancy years by going all out to try and do it free of pain meds!!!! One day I just said to myself "Let's do this!!!". With everything at my OB's office along with my desire to have a natural birth, I am looking into going to see a midwife. I found a lady who accepts my insurance and everything :) My next step is to meet with her and decided from there. We shall see ;)

On that note, I think I better scoot. Little guy will be waking up from his nap very soon and then I need to go get the big guy from school :) Check back in later tonight as I will have my food log from yesterday and today posted!!!!

Monday Munchdown :)

Ok folks here is the food log to go along with my post from earlier today :) If you did not see my post from earlier, take a second to scroll down and read it :) Also, keep in mind, my house is pretty much void of any nutritious food at the moment! I am heading to the grocery store in the morning!!!! Must stock up on fruits, veggies and good proteins :)

Breakfast- banana- 0pts +, yogurt- 4pts +

Snack- 2 mini doughnuts- 3pts +

Lunch- leftover tortellini from our Chicago date night- 10pts + (it was a pretty small amount but I am sure there was a lot of butter and cheese packed into it)

Treat- grande light java chip frap- 6pts +

Not a real dinner- McDs small fry

Late night dinner type thing- burrito with 1 slice of American cheese- 9pts +

Treat- 1 piece of hubby's b-day cake!! Rainbow chip with rainbow chip frosting!!! THE best!!! 10pts +
That is for 1/12 of the cake. I think my piece tonight was smaller than that but I will go with the big points anyway ;)