Well I have always been very finicky when it comes to food. I don't like fruit...to smooshy. I don't care for vegetables...to smooshy, gritty and smell funny. Beef/pork/poultry...creeps me out due to the fact if under cooked it can make you sick, over cooked it tastes funny and is dry; when raw it bleeds and can have veins and other yucky things in it that just remind you that it used to be a living breathing animal. Oh and don't ever give me a piece of meat with a bone in it! Honestly I am surprised that I can survive off my current diet. Makes since though as to why I am not a stick...I only really like bread, pasta, some salads, Mexican and of course Caprese salad. Don't get me wrong I do eat meat every now and then. In fact last night we had shredded chicken with dinner. I do have to get protein from somewhere! I don't like milk or Vegetable juice. Every now and then I will have a small glass of OJ, but that better be pulp free. So that leaves water, Starbucks and every now and then an occasional soda...fountain coke to be exact. Deserts...eh...one bite and I am good. I do have my sweet favorites, but they are not a necessity in my world.
With my poor eating habits I do try to cook well for the kids and my husband (even though I don't like to; probably because of my lack of desire for food). I want to be sure that Emily and Nick grow up with an understanding of knowing what healthy eating is. I don't want them to struggle with weight like I always have and I want them to be happy in their own bodies and with who they are. Food has a lot to do with our bone growth, brain development and even when our bodies go through puberty and whether or not we potentially have certain diseases. Sure if we are prone to disease due to genetics then they potentially can happen, but we can try our best to combat the sickness and even prevent other ailments. Many say exercise is the key to health; which it does help, but to me what we put into our bodies is the key to happy living. There is the saying "you are what you eat" I really see that as being true. I can tell when I have eaten like crap for I feel like crap or even worse have a migraine. I am starting to believe since no one can tell me any other reason for my migraines that they are food related. So with that being said...time to start making a healthier us!
In order to do this we will make changes in the food that we put into our mouths. A lot more of cooking in and a lot more of trying new foods...that's the biggest stretch for me! I have been hearing a lot from friends that gluten free foods may be the way to go. So this will be our next diet adventure. We have eaten organic and all natural as much as we can for some time now. So taking the next step to gluten free will make us that much healthier. At least I hope. I have been researching websites thanks to Pinterest and friends for ideas and the proper way of going about this new diet. As the weeks go on and I make progress with this new diet (staying positive to be successful!) I will post recipes we have tried and liked and goals that we have met.
Any information on gluten free eating and websites, stores and recipes that you may have would be greatly appreciated. I am off to search a new recipe for dinner and see if I have the patience to cook it!
Thank you to many of friends Tiffany Norton, Michelle West, Lindsay Kotzebue and so on; who have given me knowledge and inspiration for a healthier me. :)
Here are a couple of websites that have been referred to me for ideas and knowledge of gluten free eating:
http://www.glutenfreemama.com/index.htm
http://bananahammocksandtutus.com/2012/01/3-months-paleo-before-during-pictures/
http://www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/
http://glutenfreegirl.com/
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
New Year; New Happenings
Well I figured I would try this blog idea and give myself a different outlet other then Facebook to tell what is happening in our family. So where to start???
I'm going to rewind a quick sec and recap 2011-
2011 was a very trying year for us and sadly has followed us into 2012. We shut down our business in August of 2011 due to lack of income, all the taxes and all the stress of owning a small business. Don't get me wrong if I can open another business I would...just not in the fitness delivery field! We cut back on many expenses and decided to get rid of car payments! We ditched the brand new loaded vehicles for used paid off more fuel efficient cars. Right now we are still trying to find Chris a used Tahoe or truck. We had to get rid of Chris's truck before the end of 2011 since it was in the business name. If not we would have had to pay a huge amount in taxes and sales tax since we would have rolled the truck into Chris's name from the business. I guess the state and IRS don't see that we already paid sales tax and depreciation tax since we were the business owners!
Chris is now working for Precor Commercial Fitness. Doing the exact same thing, but under someone else's business and we get a guaranteed paycheck. However he is trying to get on with Boeing for a better financial future so we are hoping that all works out. So prayers will be great.
Also in 2011 Emily was cleared from the Neurosurgeon to only be seen for her brain cyst every two years. I still really am paranoid though with her hitting her head and I am sad for her as well because she is limited in the activities she can participate in. She so badly wants to do competition cheer, but they are required to do stunts and she is not allowed to. The neurosurgeon won't clear her for that. So we will be letting her do dance come spring and see how she likes that.
Nick is well. Growing like a weed and full of energy. He is so mischievous and into everything. Nick's health issues have been stable and not causing any further problems. So we have been very grateful. He is speaking so much better and speech therapy has been so helpful with him. His tubes in his ears have been working as they should and he is getting closer to his age group in speech because of the tubes. I am so grateful we caught the issue early on.
November 30th we lost our health insurance and at 12:35pm on December 1st I broke my right ankle...the tibia and fibula both had fractures. The tibia being the severe fracture and the bone broken completely off. The orthopedic wanted to do surgery but I refused. With no insurance the thought of surgery scared the crap out of me. Plus it sounds horrible but I did not want the scar that it would leave! I am still hobbling around. I was in a cast for six weeks and now in a walking boot for another four. The broken ankle was basically the icing on the cake of 2011.
2012 I am hoping will start to shape up. I really feel we can't hit bottom any further. We are taking the necessary steps to gain financial freedom. The thing we are fighting now is to modify our home loan. We have Chase for our mortgage and they are just horrible to work with. We refinanced our home back in 2007 in the height of the housing market and unfortunately we were scammed on the mortgage. I don't know how it worked, but the papers we signed were not the papers and loan we got from Chase. It has been really depressing and stressful. Chris and I have decided that if we are denied a modification then we will just walk away from the house. We are so not willing to pay the jump in the mortgage and feel this house is not worth that jump. I know it will hurt us credit wise and we will be renters, but hey crap happens and we just will have to rebuild our credit, plan for the future and learn from our past.
Just know I won't use this blog to vent about my crazy life. It actually feels good though to say what is happening in our lives. It's kind of refreshing. I am not normally the person who shares my life and let people in, but our struggles come to find out are not much different from that of many American's. I just keep telling myself that I am not the only person going through this. However a lot of the time it feels that way.
I'm going to rewind a quick sec and recap 2011-
2011 was a very trying year for us and sadly has followed us into 2012. We shut down our business in August of 2011 due to lack of income, all the taxes and all the stress of owning a small business. Don't get me wrong if I can open another business I would...just not in the fitness delivery field! We cut back on many expenses and decided to get rid of car payments! We ditched the brand new loaded vehicles for used paid off more fuel efficient cars. Right now we are still trying to find Chris a used Tahoe or truck. We had to get rid of Chris's truck before the end of 2011 since it was in the business name. If not we would have had to pay a huge amount in taxes and sales tax since we would have rolled the truck into Chris's name from the business. I guess the state and IRS don't see that we already paid sales tax and depreciation tax since we were the business owners!
Chris is now working for Precor Commercial Fitness. Doing the exact same thing, but under someone else's business and we get a guaranteed paycheck. However he is trying to get on with Boeing for a better financial future so we are hoping that all works out. So prayers will be great.
Also in 2011 Emily was cleared from the Neurosurgeon to only be seen for her brain cyst every two years. I still really am paranoid though with her hitting her head and I am sad for her as well because she is limited in the activities she can participate in. She so badly wants to do competition cheer, but they are required to do stunts and she is not allowed to. The neurosurgeon won't clear her for that. So we will be letting her do dance come spring and see how she likes that.
Nick is well. Growing like a weed and full of energy. He is so mischievous and into everything. Nick's health issues have been stable and not causing any further problems. So we have been very grateful. He is speaking so much better and speech therapy has been so helpful with him. His tubes in his ears have been working as they should and he is getting closer to his age group in speech because of the tubes. I am so grateful we caught the issue early on.
November 30th we lost our health insurance and at 12:35pm on December 1st I broke my right ankle...the tibia and fibula both had fractures. The tibia being the severe fracture and the bone broken completely off. The orthopedic wanted to do surgery but I refused. With no insurance the thought of surgery scared the crap out of me. Plus it sounds horrible but I did not want the scar that it would leave! I am still hobbling around. I was in a cast for six weeks and now in a walking boot for another four. The broken ankle was basically the icing on the cake of 2011.
2012 I am hoping will start to shape up. I really feel we can't hit bottom any further. We are taking the necessary steps to gain financial freedom. The thing we are fighting now is to modify our home loan. We have Chase for our mortgage and they are just horrible to work with. We refinanced our home back in 2007 in the height of the housing market and unfortunately we were scammed on the mortgage. I don't know how it worked, but the papers we signed were not the papers and loan we got from Chase. It has been really depressing and stressful. Chris and I have decided that if we are denied a modification then we will just walk away from the house. We are so not willing to pay the jump in the mortgage and feel this house is not worth that jump. I know it will hurt us credit wise and we will be renters, but hey crap happens and we just will have to rebuild our credit, plan for the future and learn from our past.
Just know I won't use this blog to vent about my crazy life. It actually feels good though to say what is happening in our lives. It's kind of refreshing. I am not normally the person who shares my life and let people in, but our struggles come to find out are not much different from that of many American's. I just keep telling myself that I am not the only person going through this. However a lot of the time it feels that way.
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