Healthy Living Journal - Day 1

What perfect timing this contest came into play for me.  The day before I had decided it was time to start living a healthy life.  Four months ago I had a beautiful baby boy and ever since then my focus has been 100% on him.  Most of my daily activities include sitting on the couch to feed him, playing with him while I'm sitting on the floor, sitting while I rock him to sleep, and just sitting so I can rest from all my exhausted hours of SITTING! And between all this sitting, somehow you hardly find time to eat and if you do, it's fast and furious and usually loaded with calories and fat! 

Even though I had lost all but about 11 pounds of my weight, mostly from just not eating, I was feeling sluggish.  I knew a lot of it also had to do with the fact that I no longer have any adult interaction now that I'm a Stay At Home Mother.  Although I wouldn't consider myself to of really experienced the "Baby Blues" I certainly was experiencing boredom on a new level.  Unfortunately, when emotions aren't in check, eating right is out the window, and an exercise program was nowhere in site, simple activities like walking up the stairs becomes quite the challenge.  And that does nothing for your mood! So I decided it was time to get some SYNERGY back into my life!

• Emotional Well Being
• Eating Right
• Exercising

The day before I decided to do this, which was this past Sunday, I was feeling like crap. Arguing with my husband, feeling physically down and out and overall just not feeling up to par.  So come Monday I decided it was time to get myself into gear.  I pulled out one of my many dusty and never opened exercise video's and popped it in the DVD player while Jacob took his morning nap. I decided that no matter what, I was going to finish this 55 minute lower body workout (that's where I store my fat) even if that meant I had to do it in 13 different chunks of time during my day.  Thankfully Jacob decided to sleep like a log so I finished all 55 minutes in one sitting! Boy did that make me feel good! Not only was I on my way to getting back into shape, but my emotional level took a new found hike! Yay!

Next thing on the list was eating right! I knew that this was probably going to be the biggest challenge because eating right is not always an option when you're a mother.  Time constraints lead to take out food or TV dinners and the now one income household means buying what's cheap, not what's healthy.  So how do I deal with this?  I figured supplementation would be my best bet while I learn to cook healthy (I really don't know how to cook) and learn to do it within my budget.  After all, this is a work in progress right?  Thankfully before Jacob was born I bought a few great supplements from New Health which are suppose to be wonderful.  I know it's important to get all your daily vitamins and minerals so you are healthy in all area's because not only do they affect the body, but they affect the mood! So I pulled out my Green Barley which has a plethora of benefits like keeping the body's alkaline and acidity ratio balanced, my multi-vitamin, my B-Complex, C-Complex & Calcium pills.  I consulted a specialist at the time and this was my recommendation so I wasn't just pulling this combination out of the air.  At any rate, I in no way, shape or form believe I should substitute healthy eating for downing pills but I know it is essential for me to not waste one more day of not getting my necessary vitamins and minerals and now I have it covered.  Now I can make sure I'm getting what I need while I learn to cut out the fat and sugar and can gather up healthy and easy recipes to make, incorporating a healthy eating experience into my life.

Last but not least was emotional well being.  It had already taken a spike just from working out, so I knew that that was going to be my "ME" time every single day! NO EXCUSES.  And so it was set...my plan to incorporate Synergy into my life.  After all, a better me equals a better mom and a healthy child! How can I expect him to grow up healthy when his mother isn't doing it for herself!

Stay tuned for day #2!