If any husband reads this…please understand that if your wife goes shopping for herself and takes the kids; she is NOT having fun (at least if the “kids” are each under 3 years old).
My plan was to buy a mini-vacation wardrobe – a complete ensemble of clothes that look great on me right now and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘diary’
Day 50: PM Luxury Shopping for a mother
19
Feb
Day 92: Do Children have internal Radars?
03
Jun
Am I just lucky, or are all children born with a radar system that tells them when Mommy is not available? Mia and I had just finished our workout this morning, Alexandra was down for a nap & Mia was happily looking at her books when I decided I’d try to get a little work [...]
Day 91: Glycemic Bla Bla…the story unfolds…
02
Jun
The plot thickens (just from yesterday!).
So I woke up this morning determined to come to terms with this whole glycemic indexing thing. I mean, it can’t be THAT complicated can it? Actually, yes. It can. And it is. I am determined to find a way to duplicate this theory into a simple to [...]
Day 86: Hedge your Bet
24
May
If you have tried other diets and failed, or continue to gain weight back after successfully losing it just months before; don’t take another gamble before you read this article.
Hedge your bet by deciding to improve your health. This is the missing component that is hindering your long term success (when it comes to [...]
Day 78: The best Mother’s Day gift
10
May
There is nothing like good old fashioned, uninterrupted, restful, childless, comfortable, relaxing, blissful….sleep (yes, I also thought this only existed in fairy tales until recently)! Albeit something that I never get enough of and ironically, the first thing I think of cutting out of my life when things get more (shall I say) “difficult”.
Isn’t [...]
Day 70:Three Hidden Diet Killers
29
Apr
It has been almost 6 months since resolving to really get (and KEEP) my body healthy and fit. Being the Adrenal Body Type, I know I have a weakness for accumulating unnecessary stress. Dealing with this in a way that doesn’t involve food has proven to be just about the only thing I [...]
Day 58: Great Food That Cuts Cravings
29
Mar
Great find on a surprising treat that really does cut the cravings for sweets. A friend of mine told me about this and I had to try it for myself…it really does work!
Take a green apple (Granny Smith), and cut it into little wedges. Put them in a small Ziploc bag and [...]
Day 46: Rant!
15
Feb
Why is it that to a man, any little whimper from a baby translates to one universal solution: “Ugh . . . Baby hungry!” I mean seriously, if Alexandra would have drunk two entire bottles – so much that she would have spit up – and then made a sound while he is [...]
Day 45: “Liquid Gold”
14
Feb
Okay, after the breast milk tirade, it may have seemed like I had lost all hope of losing weight through extra pumping, however, there was still a small part of me that thought “maybe” . . . Today I realized I have absolutely no hope of burning extra calories through “milk production”…I almost bit my [...]