Sigh... School will be starting soon and I am not looking forward to it.
My children are enrolled in a Public virtual charter school and therefore they do their school at home. The start of school signals SO much more to fit into an already tight schedule. :( I think it is the best choice in education for them, but after four years of doing it, the summer isn't nearly long enough to recharge my batteries and burn out looms.
I am putting off doing anything in relation to preparing for this school year. I did send back last years materials and cleared out the art supply cabinet, but I haven't bought any school supplies yet. I keep telling myself I am going to wait until they are clearanced after school starts, but I really think it is just my way of procrastinating. lol
The boxes of new school books will start arriving next week and school starts September 2. I am SOOO not ready!
I also need to take some online courses myself to get continuing ed hours for my IBCLC recertification in 2012, I have my classes all picked out and it will cost me $700. Not bad spread out over 4 years, but finding the time for MY studies will be challenging. At least it is a topic that interests me. :)
Friday, August 22, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
I am worn out
My husband had a septoplasty and other sinus surgery performed on Wednesday. Since, I have been playing nursemaid as well as taking care of the kids, pets, household chores and my from home counseling job. I AM TIRED! I am looking forward to the break this weekend of leaving the house for my out of home job as it is a lot less demanding than being here! lol
I don't mean to be complaining as all this is necessary. My husband needed the surgery to stop the chronic pain, though I don't believe he realized how much pain would be involved with the surgery. I know he feels bad about the things he can't do. I am just worn out. :) And my needs are pushed to the bottom of the list (like THAT is anything new!) But I will keep plodding along. The man isn't even allowed to bend over for a few weeks!
On that diet note, so far, so good. scale this morning told me I have lost 7 pounds in 9 days. I am sure it will slow soon, but hopefully it keeps moving in the right direction to a healthier size of me.
I don't mean to be complaining as all this is necessary. My husband needed the surgery to stop the chronic pain, though I don't believe he realized how much pain would be involved with the surgery. I know he feels bad about the things he can't do. I am just worn out. :) And my needs are pushed to the bottom of the list (like THAT is anything new!) But I will keep plodding along. The man isn't even allowed to bend over for a few weeks!
On that diet note, so far, so good. scale this morning told me I have lost 7 pounds in 9 days. I am sure it will slow soon, but hopefully it keeps moving in the right direction to a healthier size of me.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Yeah yeah, I am another chick on a diet...
NO this is not a weight loss blog. This is a blog about me, though, and therefore weight loss will be mentioned as it is a big part of what I am doing to change my life. I have tried many many many times to lose weight, all with limited and temporary success.
My current endeavor is a combination of low carb and intuitive eating. I suppose die hards of both camps would say they can't go together as intuitive eating says to eat whatever you want but pay close attention to your satiety signals and hungers signals. Low-carb limits your choices to foods that are not high in carbohydrates and to focus the carbs you do eat on healthy, lower glycemic carbs.
BUT the reason I am combining the both is that I find low carb allows me to listen to my signals easier. Sugar and high carb/glycemic items causes my blood sugar levels (no I am not diabetic, but I think I was heading that way before I kicked high carb to the curb in 2003) to swing between Hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia. It is really hard to listen to the body's signal of REAL hunger when you have the shakes and feel faint from hypoglycemic levels of blood sugar. Everything in your body screams to eat something to normalize the sugar level in your blood. When I eat low carb I am not on the roller coaster anymore.
So why not go straight low carb? Well I guess intuitive eating IS a part of low-carb, but not one that is stressed as much. Those of us who are very literal read "Eat as much as you want of low carb items" as PIG OUT! For those of us that have been blessed with a slow metabolism, (Which will protect me in a famine and probably allow me to live longer as long as I don't keel over from some other obesity related disease.) and eat for reasons other than hunger, we can't loose weight eating as much as we like. We like to eat whenever we are bored or excited, happy or sad. We fill the down time with the past time of eating like others might do playing cards, lol.
SOOOOO, I eat low carb to make it easier to listen to those subtle nuances of hunger and (this is a bog one) satiety. When I feel real hunger I am trying to eat much less then I expect will do, and I find often it DOES do. I am thinking of it as eating like a Lap band surgery patient would, without the whole "cut me up and mutilate my beautiful body God created".
As of now I have only been doing this new experiment for 6 days and have lost almost 5 pounds. I was already eating low-carb so it was just scaling way down how often and how much I ate. This is a PERMANENT life change. Yes, I will eat small amounts forever, that is the way this body was made, it is darn fuel efficient. If I was a car, I would be coveted by all. :) If I stop eating this way, I WILL gain it all back, because my body is not meant to be fueled with Diesel in large amounts.
Genetics are a bitch, but I need to stop whinning about it and fighting it and instead learn about THIS machine, the electric hybrid, I have been blessed with and stop being envious about the Mac truck that can guzzle fuel all day long and still operate optimally!
So yeah, I WILL be talking about diets, so LIVE WITH IT! ;)
My current endeavor is a combination of low carb and intuitive eating. I suppose die hards of both camps would say they can't go together as intuitive eating says to eat whatever you want but pay close attention to your satiety signals and hungers signals. Low-carb limits your choices to foods that are not high in carbohydrates and to focus the carbs you do eat on healthy, lower glycemic carbs.
BUT the reason I am combining the both is that I find low carb allows me to listen to my signals easier. Sugar and high carb/glycemic items causes my blood sugar levels (no I am not diabetic, but I think I was heading that way before I kicked high carb to the curb in 2003) to swing between Hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia. It is really hard to listen to the body's signal of REAL hunger when you have the shakes and feel faint from hypoglycemic levels of blood sugar. Everything in your body screams to eat something to normalize the sugar level in your blood. When I eat low carb I am not on the roller coaster anymore.
So why not go straight low carb? Well I guess intuitive eating IS a part of low-carb, but not one that is stressed as much. Those of us who are very literal read "Eat as much as you want of low carb items" as PIG OUT! For those of us that have been blessed with a slow metabolism, (Which will protect me in a famine and probably allow me to live longer as long as I don't keel over from some other obesity related disease.) and eat for reasons other than hunger, we can't loose weight eating as much as we like. We like to eat whenever we are bored or excited, happy or sad. We fill the down time with the past time of eating like others might do playing cards, lol.
SOOOOO, I eat low carb to make it easier to listen to those subtle nuances of hunger and (this is a bog one) satiety. When I feel real hunger I am trying to eat much less then I expect will do, and I find often it DOES do. I am thinking of it as eating like a Lap band surgery patient would, without the whole "cut me up and mutilate my beautiful body God created".
As of now I have only been doing this new experiment for 6 days and have lost almost 5 pounds. I was already eating low-carb so it was just scaling way down how often and how much I ate. This is a PERMANENT life change. Yes, I will eat small amounts forever, that is the way this body was made, it is darn fuel efficient. If I was a car, I would be coveted by all. :) If I stop eating this way, I WILL gain it all back, because my body is not meant to be fueled with Diesel in large amounts.
Genetics are a bitch, but I need to stop whinning about it and fighting it and instead learn about THIS machine, the electric hybrid, I have been blessed with and stop being envious about the Mac truck that can guzzle fuel all day long and still operate optimally!
So yeah, I WILL be talking about diets, so LIVE WITH IT! ;)
Monday, August 11, 2008
Like I need MORE to do!
Why am I blogging? I have no freakin clue! Like I need MORE to do.
What all do I have to do that I have the time to blog at 2pm in the afternoon? A LOT!
I am not going to list everything about my life int he first entry! Then you would have no reason to keep reading. Things about my life will trickle out as I write from time to time I am sure. This is a BLOG, not a memoir. If you want a memoir or a book, GO BUY ONE. Until then you will have to be happy with the snippets you get here!
I have so many things I juggle at once that it makes my head spin and maybe have a place to blog it all out will allow me to keep my sanity. :) What am I in real life? I am a wifemotherlactationconsultantsupportedliving
specialistgamerpeercounselorintuitiveeaterdog
walkersexgoddesscookteachermaidcomputer
programmertherapistfriendhairstylistetc.
Good luck with that one...
Damn, my throat hurts, SOMEONE has made me sick I bet!
What all do I have to do that I have the time to blog at 2pm in the afternoon? A LOT!
I am not going to list everything about my life int he first entry! Then you would have no reason to keep reading. Things about my life will trickle out as I write from time to time I am sure. This is a BLOG, not a memoir. If you want a memoir or a book, GO BUY ONE. Until then you will have to be happy with the snippets you get here!
I have so many things I juggle at once that it makes my head spin and maybe have a place to blog it all out will allow me to keep my sanity. :) What am I in real life? I am a wifemotherlactationconsultantsupportedliving
specialistgamerpeercounselorintuitiveeaterdog
walkersexgoddesscookteachermaidcomputer
programmertherapistfriendhairstylistetc.
Good luck with that one...
Damn, my throat hurts, SOMEONE has made me sick I bet!
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