Here's to Your Health...

      Ok, so I went back and read my last post and I had commented on what a horrible blogger I was and that I was going to try to blog more regularly. So much for that... that was May 1. Oops. ;-)
      Yesterday I posted on Facebook that I was going to try something new to help me lose some weight. I have tried for the good part of a year to watch what I eat, count calories, etc. My husband has been on the same journey, both of us kind of doing our own thing. In his words "I just don't eat as much." It has totally worked for him. He's lost somewhere between 30-40 lbs! He looks AMAZING! :-) If I'm honest, though, I have to say that I am jealous. He keeps telling me that #1 - He's a guy and #2 - He hasn't had three kids. I get that, but its still frustrating. I am so incredibly proud of him, but I want to experience the same success.
      In May I started going to Boot Camp Madness for 3 reasons. #1 - to help with weight loss; #2 - to get healthy and toned; and #3 - I just LOVE anything active! I have loved going to BCM. In fact, since May 1, I have gotten up every morning at 4:40 to go work out. Anyone who knows me knows that I am NOT a morning person. But I really have not had a problem getting out of bed. I feel so good when I'm done working out, that I don't want to miss it. I've missed only 3 times. Once for sickness and twice because I overslept. (It happens to the best of us) Reasons #2 and #3 have been fulfilled... I am definitely healthier and more toned than I was 10 weeks ago and I love it! Now on to my #1 reason for starting BCM... weight loss. Zilch, nada, nothing, big 'ol freakin' goose egg... Ok, I'll be honest, maybe 3-5 lbs, but it fluctuates so much that I can't keep track of it. Lately I have been so frustrated and depressed at the lack of movement on the scale, that I really didn't know what else to do.
      I had shared my feelings with my workout partner, Jeana, at BCM one morning and the very next day she came back so excited about a book that she had read the night before. The Belly Fat Cure. The author of this book explains how much of the reason people plateau or can't lose weight to begin with is because they aren't attacking the really problems: Sugars and Carbs. These are the culprits when it comes to fat storage, especially around the belly... MY problem area. So, yesterday I began. Basically, you don't worry about counting calories, you just watch your sugars and carbs. I can have 15g of sugars a day and 6 servings of carbs. Anything less than 5 carbs you don't count, 5-20 = 1 serving, 21-40 = 2 servings, 41+ = 3 servings. Anything more than that and you really shouldn't be eating it! You would not believe some of the "healthy" foods that are packed with sugars and carbs. For example: A Lean Cuisine meal has 47 CARBS and 14g of sugar!!!! That is almost your entire daily allotment in one little meal! Wow.
      Another reason that was in the back of my mind for starting this new way of eating, (hesitate to call it a diet, because a diet implies that you will only do it until you've reached your goal. This is a life-style change) is that diabetes runs very prevalent in my family (especially my dad's side). I have got to get things under control now, for the sake of my children.
      Who knows if or how much weight I'll lose by making this changes. (I had Dan hide the scale so that I quit tormenting myself) I have my physical on the 17th, so I'll be weighed then. Time will tell. Bottom line, I know I'll be healthier than when I started.

I'm not a very good blogger...

I really stink at this blogging thing... I am constantly thinking, "I should blog about that!" But I never get the job done! This morning I did something new and so I decided today should be the day I get back on the blog train. :-)
I'll start by saying, I am NOT a morning person. I'm not crabby or difficult in the morning. Its just that my blankets and bed REALLY love me and I hate to disappoint them by abandoning them too early. So, when Boot Camp Madness made its way to New Sharon I had two choices. 5:45 in the evening (which would be difficult because Dan mows and I would have no place for the kids) or 5:15 AM... Well, at 4:55 this morning, I rolled my tired rear out of bed, pulled myself away from my warm blankets and made my way out into the darkness before dawn. Dan is an early riser, but I even beat him today. He's always said, "If you would just get up and get going, you'd feel better!" Ok, ok... I give in. It's not very often that a wife says this to her husband (and I hesitate to even put it in writing, much less on line for fear that it will come back to bite me in the butt..) here it goes... "Dan, you were... right." UUUUGGHHH.... That was tough. ;-) Not really, but you get my point. I actually feel really good and the prospect of getting up again tomorrow to go get the snot beat out of me actually sounds appealing.
I supposed I should explain a little bit about BCM (Boot Camp Madness). It is a 30 minute, high intensity, interval workout. Today we did squat jumps, tricep pulls, trunk twists, mountain climbers (HATE), suitcases, high knees, bicep curls, and crunches. Three rounds of one minute of each exercise with 15 seconds to transition to the next. Thought I would hurl... People who had experienced it before kept saying, "Just throw up, you'll feel better." They don't know me very well... Throwing up might give the illusion that I couldn't hack it and THAT was not happening. As awful as it was while it was going on, I loved it! I am ready for tomorrow! Boot Camp Madness, I give you permission to kick my booty again. :-)

I love germs... Seriously!

Strange title, eh? Well, its the truth. Sunday-Wednesday this week found me sick. Not the piddly little sniffly nose type of sick. Oh, no... The OMGosh someone find me a bathroom, NOW type of sick. It was awful! I had plenty of time to think over the past four days and I found myself wondering, "Why do I even bother with GermX and flu shots?" Now, I know the flu shot is for the respiratory flu, but even at that... Are we really doing what's best for our bodies? Getting the flu shot doesn't mean you WON'T get the flu, only if you do, it won't be as severe.
I think back to when I was in school. We washed our hands after we went to the bathroom and before lunch. No GermX, no flu shots. Our bodies had their own immune systems that were tough enough to handle germs. Yes, we got sick, but not like we do now. We've taught our immune systems to "Take a load off, and don't worry about doing your job. Someone/something else will take care of it. They may not do a great job, but hey, its good enough for who its for!" Interesting parallel to our society today...
I could go on and on, but I won't. Instead, I will say, "Good-bye, GermX! Hello germs! And btw, Immune System, you've got some catching up to do!"

Could be fun...

I know quite a few people who blog about their families. I love to read about what is going on in other people's lives and thought, "Why not do a blog of my own? Could be fun..." So, here it is. "My Three Sons" seemed an appropriate title because that is probably what I will be blogging mostly about. My kids. :-) I'm sure there will be times that I might fill you in on what is going on with Dan and I, but we are not nearly as exciting as the three little monsters that live with us!
Trace and Cory are wrestling this year and are really loving it! It is so much fun to watch them grow as a wrestler and a person. Trace has had to learn that he won't always win and that has been VERY good for him. Cory is just there to have fun, which is great, too! They have a wrestling meet this Friday and I'm excited to watch them go at it!
Dawson is full of energy and has quite the personality. He is Trace's little sidekick. It just melts my heart to see how good Trace is with his little brother and how much Dawson adores him. Cory, well lets just say he basically tolerates him. I'm hoping as they grow they will become closer, but right now, they are pickles and peanut butter... They just don't go together! (I know some of you would disagree with the pickles and peanut butter statement, but, I'm sorry, that's nasty!)
Well, not much else to fill you in on for now, but stay tuned for the next episode of "My Three Sons" -Goemaat style!