Posts for Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Written on Wednesday September 03, 2008 at around 11 AM
You have to start everyday with,"It's a great new day or It's going to be a great new week". It can help but what helps the best is both eating good and exercise. I'm getting bored out of my mind since I can't do any real physical activity but I know that in less than three weeks I can and at the beginning of November that my favorite gym will be opening up so that will be great! I have a lot of training I need to do so I can get ready for a "fun run" with The Man.
I have been trying to eat healthier after my surgeries. I have found that for the most part it really isn't that hard. I'm supposed to eat smaller, more frequent meals which I think helps me not want to eat lots of big meals. I may eat about four times a day and some are better than others. I have changed what we eat for breakfast now and with B in school we have this schedule now where we are all dressed and at the table by 7am for breakfast which during the week is cereal/oatmeal and now when we have Activia yogurt I add Bear Naked granola. I also drink a probiotic yogurt too. I try to keep my digestion running smoothly. After my checkup I was put back on Imodium so I don't have to poop as often, up to six times a day is good but you have to watch it because anything over that and you run the risk of getting dehydrated, but now that I'm on the Imodium multi symptom I notice that my frequency is less and the painful gas I get isn't as bad.
After a reconstructive surgery like this it takes a long time for you body to heal, right now my entire body is very itchy, my hair is ruined and everyone will have this problem and that is: as gas tries to leave the body it inflates your small intestines and that can hurt but also if you have the pouch since it's still new, that will hurt as well. Little things that take some getting used to. The pouch does still need time to heal or learn to work. When you first start out it's stiff like mine is but as it gets used then it will break in and it won't be so bad.
I'm hoping that when I start working out that it will help with that too. So getting back to eating. After I drop him off at school, G and I are back home between 9-9:30am and sometimes we'll eat and we share a bagel. Lunch happens after we grab B from school and we're home by 1-1:30 when he takes a shower while she eats a sandwich of some sort. I end up eating around 2 and lately it's been a chicken salad with walnuts, romaine in a spinach wrap with some veggie type baked cracker things. Last night for dinner I made my favorite thing which has couscous, cucumbers, red peppers, onion, chicken, parsley and mint. Luckily there are leftovers and I'm eating that. It's also only 410 calories too which is nice. I do try not to eat past 7pm but sometimes I can't help it and when that happens I either make a mini bag of Natural popcorn or I make a small bowl of light ice cream. Last night I was bad and I went to McDonald's and got a kids happy meal but that's not normal for me.
When we went to the grocery store we spent $125 which is way unusual for us but I bought a lot of goodies. Stuff for salads, sandwiches and things that are healthy and if the kids want a snack then they can. I try not to eat my in between meals in front of them because I don't want them to eat ginormous meals all the time. G has hit a growth spurt because it's not like her to want to eat all the time, so I give her a little extra food. I'm tired of how society thinks that they have to eat huge meals all the time. It's no wonder we're as fat as we are as a society. I'm lucky in the fact that I know as long as I eat fairly healthy, I will not become fat. I want my kids to eat healthy so they don't have all the health problems other than the ones they inherited. One thing that if you are a snacker, you snack on fruits or veggies (and without the sauces!), make sure that as soon as the groceries are put away you take the vegetation back out so you can wash and chop it up so it's ready when you are. If you must snack on the potato chip junk then make sure that you put chip servings into baggies so that way when your serving is gone, you can't eat anymore unless you get up to grab another bag. Remember that it takes your brain 10-20 minutes to tell you that your full.
Tomorrow it's going to be tough for me to post because it's a really busy day with errands and doctors appointments. I will post though on Friday so if you have any questions though, please don't hesitate to email me.
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