Beck80’s Journey to Better Health

So I’m sitting here wondering how in the world do other moms do it all??? I try to keep the house clean, get school done with my oldest, attempt pre-school activites with the other 2, eat right, get workouts in (though lately is hasn’t been happening). Some days it all just seems like too much and I wish I could hire someone to clean my house and go get my groceries and watch the kids while I go get a kick-ass workout in! Our schools here are not the environment I want my kids in, so sending them to school is not an option, and I like teaching them. I need someone to watch them while I work out, and right now, there is just John and he’s been gone a lot with work. So that leaves me with early morning workouts in the garage and I have no clue if they wake up. I really need a baby monitor so I can at least hear them. Okay, I feel a little better after venting. But only a little.

Well, I didn’t have a doughnut at all the other day when John brought them home. Yea me!!! lol My kids have had Valentines day candy left over and I haven’t touched that. I REALLY wanted some sort of treat yesterday when I went to the store, but didn’t and then my mother-in-law dropped my daughter off with an ice cream cone today and Emily wanted me to lick it for her. She thought it was dripping but it wasn’t. I told her it was fine and mommy wasn’t going to lick her ice cream cone. So for 3 days, I’ve resisted several temptations. I’ve also been remembering to take my vitamins daily. I KNOW I haven’t had enough water and I am trying to change that. I need to make some iced green tea(which I make sugarless). I haven’t gone out to the gym at all. It’s like I either eat right and not workout or eat bad and workout. That makes me grumpy. But I am also trying to re-organize my house and do an early spring cleaning and get school done with my kids (did I mention before that I homeschool?) so some days just plan get out of my control. It sucks and a I am trying to change that bad habit, but it’s hard. Anyway….Gotta figure something out to make everything work. John may be getting a job closer to home (right now he drives an hour) and I REALLY hope he does because then we can workout together in the morning before he goes to work. It would mean no more working nights or weekends! It’d be awesome.

I’ve been getting around 1600-1700 calories the past several days. I am trying to stay around 1500-1800 calories. But I have no clue what is good for my macros. Yesterday they were:

75.25g fat

163.25g carbs

93g protein

My diet was:

8:30am-1 slice toast with PB, Chai tea with 1/4 cup low-fat milk

10:00am-chai tea

11:30am-1/2 cup peanuts, 1/2 cup raisins

12:20pm-protein shake with PB, 3/4 cup cream of wheat with 1/4 cup low fat milk

2:45pm-1 med. apple, 10 almonds

5:00pm-chocolate protein shake with PB and 9 grain cereal

8:00pm-lemon fat free yogurt

So basically all the carbs are complex carbs and the fat is healthy fat…I think. Am I right or way off?

Okay…I took the time to figure out my calorie count & macros. I am not happy with what I found out. So here it is:
2428 calories
60g. fat
292g. carb
173g. protein

Here I was thinking I did okay (aside from the mac & cheese). No wonder I can’t seem to move the scale!! Any recommendations on changes? Besides staying away from mac & cheese, since that is apparent. I don’t know what to eat, apparently.

So I haven’t made it into the ‘gym’ since Wednesday morning and before that was sometime last week (I forget when). We took a road trip to buy my hubby a new-to-him car Friday and then I woke up with a migraine Saturday that sidelined me until this afternoon. John says I need to go to the Dr. to get this figured out, but I hate going when they don’t hardly do anything but shove prescriptions at me! I’ve been having more severe PMS since Feb. last year and migraines are normally part of it, but I am NOWHERE near PMS, so I have no clue what my body is doing. Plus I’ve had gallstone-like symptoms BUT I had my gallbladder removed in 2003! ARGH So very frustrating!

Anyway, sorry i got off on a tangent there. Okay on our road trip I read through LL Cool J’s Platinum Workout book, which is actually pretty good and from what i know, fairly right on. Now I know I haven’t completed my 8 wks of my hubby’s workout, but I think I am going to try this out. It changes up and increases in intensity almost every week and at week 3 introduces cardio and has a food plan (though I would have to alter it since I’m a girl). It’s a 21 week program or 25 if you include the special 4wk section for women. So it will take me almost through the summer. Which is fine. I got my new issue of Oxygen in the mail yesterday and when I could actually focus and not have my brain hurt, I looked though it and it had some awesome recipes in it that incorporated protein powder! I’ve been looking for something like that for awhile. So I’m looking forward to adding those to out meals. And i finally discovered a way that my kids like protein shakes. I blend a little chocolate milk powder with chocolate protein powder and milk together and it’s like chocolate milk to them, which is a rare treat they get if they’ve been good. I have a very hard time getting them to eat chicken or any form of protein like that, so this helps. Hailey the oldest, calls it ‘her very favorite thing’. So the plan is to do a full body circuit in the morning after I have had a pre-workout meal and warmed up (which I never do, I know it’s bad) The second week of the Bronze body is just a full body circuit on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I think (hope) I can mange that!

Alright…I’ve been slacking. Worked out yesterday (biceps) but my diet hasn’t been great. Yesterday was the first day in a week since the last time I worked out. Sad. But I am TRYING to figure out what works here. Time of day, using a timer to help remember meals, using a pre-set meal plan, that kind of thing. I seem to have a lot of trial and error. anyway, tomorrow is a new day. We are going on a road trip so I’ll have plenty of time to figure some things out. Kids are doing better. I’m getting a jump on spring cleaning and trying to get down to bare essentials so there isn’t a bunch of wasted time looking for things or cleaning around things. Focus is my major goal for the year. That’s what it takes to achieve your goals right?  Focus and a lot of hard work. So tonight or tomorrow night will do triceps, then the next day is shoulders.