Brooke, I wanted to address several things you've posted.
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How do you mommies find time to exercise??? Anyone work out with DVD's at home??? What do you use???
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I exercise everyday. Whether it's jogging in the park, a trip to Curves, or just working out to videos or on my stair stepper at home. If at home, I put the baby in his swing or let him crawl around in the large playpen (bedroom floor barricaded with baby gates). LOL For Curves, I either have hubby watch him for an hour, or my dad does and I attend Curves with my mom. As for the park...
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I have a jogging stroller, but I don't find going on walks with my daugher (7 months) very relaxing. I'd rather go out alone, or work out while she sleeps.
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Mine goes to sleep while I'm running. I take a moment first to feed the squirrels to entertain him, then I put him on the baby swings and tire him out a bit. I make it to the park after he's had breakfast and it's getting close to nap time. Once I start my jogging, after he swings, he's ready to nod off and sleeps for a good hour in the stroller. Plus, pushing that stroller gives you a bit of upper body workout with the lower body. I've hooked up an MP3 player and mini-speaker to the stroller to lull him to sleep with "Old MacDonald", "B-I-N-G-O", "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" and others. And...they're not too bad to jog to either. LOL
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What would you give to go to bed and wake up 8 hours later. My daughter is 8 months old, 14 lbs. I feel like this eating thing in the night has GOT to go soon....
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You can't sleep 8 hours at night. But you can come home from that park, after the heat, have a good lunch, and go down for an afternoon nap with the baby. If there are things I need to get done and know I won't have time for that nap, I just make sure to hit bed early in the evening, when he does. I'll break him of it eventually, but I found I get more sleep if I don't have to constantly get up and go get him from his crib since he's mom spoiled. So he sleeps with me and just nurses when he wants through the night and I can keep sleeping.
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My family all in town will leave tomorrow....so we can get back to "normal" around here, whatever that means. Doesn't your family have the WORST infulence on you? I come from an overweight family, and I swear my mother thinks that food is love. If she's not trying to feed you something she's asking you what you want to eat next. I've even started saying "mom, food is not love." I love her visiting but I can't wait to not have someone trying to feed me 18 hours a day....weird!
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Same here. Except my mom doesn't equate food with love. She equates it with her low self-esteem and thinks if she can get me to pile my weight back on, maybe she'll look better. Sad, but that's how it is. She's recently taken to stocking her house with sweets. Dad is a diabetic and mom just recently joined Curves. She never bought sweets before. And she buys them now and either throws them out or gives them away after they've sat in her house for weeks. She's hoping I'll gobble them all up. And there've been times I have, but I've had to take control of it and say no more. My willpower is stronger than her self esteem.
My family's also always been about eating out, and all-you-can-eat buffets are a hit with them. So when I'm there and they want to go out to eat, they of course will pick Golden Corral or the Shanghai Buffet or Coco's Buffet. I just always try and fill up with a huge salad before I touch anything else on the buffet.
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I too make a couple versions of dinner, and I've just cut back on pasta in general in our house...DH has no complaints about whole wheat pasta, bread and healthy cereals. He's great.
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Not me. Hubby's always had a strange eating schedule. Sometimes he only eats once a day. So I've never cooked for him except on limited ocassions. But for my son, we eat the same things, now that he's getting solids. Whether dieting or not, I figure whole grains and lean meats are still healthy foods.
