Healthy Lifestyles Check-in (2/23)

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Hi ladies! Welcome to the weekly Healthy Lifestyles check-in! The purpose of the check-in is to help us achieve a healthier lifestyle in general. Everyone is free to join so if you want to be added please respond below and make sure to let us know what your goals are!


Update: I will only be including folks who report back in the previous weeks post.  I'll re-add anyone who responds to the below post next week.


This weeks challenge: I'm thinking we need a dairy challenge this week (I'm sorry if this isn't do-able for some who may have to be dairy free for LO's...if this is the case, please make a challenge for yourself and share with the group!).  Let's shoot to have at least one dairy serving every day.  That may seem low to some but for others (myself included) I find myself having 3 servings some days and then zero the next.  Calcium is so important for our bones ladies - we've got to start somewhere for when we are older!



QOTW: let's brag about ourselves this week - tell us something you are super proud of so we can all celebrate with you!





@ducky719 - report back!


TJ - how did you do you with your plank challenge this past week?


chiwifey - so a salad for lunch 3x this past week...achieved?  


leahb12 - I saw that you have been making more green smoothies - any recipes you care to share?


luvboston - last week was a rough week for you - how are things now?


karabear4409 - how did the lower carb diet go for you and DH?


imoverit - hopefully you aren't sick anymore!!


richzep - how has your nausea been?  I know it's been making it hard for you to eat let alone eat well!

dp21 - how's your moderation approach going?  I love this approach.  


Robeano - I loved your goal from last week (3-4 food groups per meal) - how did you do?

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So umm...I did OK with last weeks stretching challenge. I needed to stretch yesterday to hit the 4x but I totally forgot. Augh. I also didn't eat all that well last week. Eating well is a big problem for me...WHY?? I know what I should be doing...why don't I just do it??? It makes me sad because I'm never going to be healthy and get back into shape if I don't start making better food choices.

This week I'm going to do a few weeks challenges combined: drink lots more water (I'm a total slacker) and eat 3 servings of fruits/veggies a day.

QOTW: So I may have made this qotw based on my own selfish need to brag (sorry!!!) BUT DH and I finally paid off the credit card. We are officially small debt FREE. The only debt we have now is our home. It's an amazing feeling and I am so happy that we were able to pay off all our small debts before DD2 arrives.

[luvboston]

I am a big loser, I didn't stretch once or go to yoga because of the weather. I ate ok mostly just fish, chicken and veggies. However my mexicola intake is disgraceful!

This week my goal is to get to yoga Sunday this is huge because my grandparents are moving and life is crazy.

Q: I'm proud i haven't killed DH yet.

[chiwifey]

Ducky you should be so proud of yourself! What an awesome accomplishment!

I did it! I had a salad 3x last week for lunch. I'm really proud of myself and will try to continue that trend. Ducky, I am much the same way where I know the choices I should be making but somehow very rarely do it.

Next week's goal: prenatal yoga video at home 3x/week. I am already fearful of the toll this pregnancy (especially being twins) is going to take on my body so I really want to try and stay flexible and strong.

QOTW: Not sure what I'm really proud of myself for right now. I'll keep thinking and report back

[Robeano]

I definitely increased the number of meals that had more food groups. Didn't stretch.

My goal for this week is to cut back on sugar and sweets intake.

QOTW: I'm feeling proud of myself for working hard (again) on breastfeeding. It is much harder with your second one when you have problems. The amount of time it takes, but things are going well now and I think we've mostly sorted everything.

[karabear4409]

I did really well on my low carb diet. I actually stuck to it all week, until today. I cheated like crazy today. R didn't sleep at last night, so I treated myself to a donut and large coffee with mocha swirl at DD. I had a big presentation today, and mama needed some caffeine and carbs!

I did terrible on the stretching challenge though. sigh.

Qotw: I lost two pounds last week! I had a pretty bad cold and didn't have an appetite, combined with my diet. But, hey, I will take it! Three pounds left of baby weight!

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Feb 23, 2015 15:52:33 GMT -5 Robeano said:

I definitely increased the number of meals that had more food groups. Didn't stretch.

My goal for this week is to cut back on sugar and sweets intake.

QOTW: I'm feeling proud of myself for working hard (again) on breastfeeding. It is much harder with your second one when you have problems. The amount of time it takes, but things are going well now and I think we've mostly sorted everything.

I was just talking to a cousin whose second daughter is two months. She said her supply relly didn't come in (again) and this time it was just easier to give up than continue. It makes sense to me. Good job for keeping at it!

[TJ]

Weeeeellllllll, I'm just gonna hide behind these moving boxes with my dairy free ice cream and my starbursts and hope @ducky719 doesn't call on me.

I stretched some but not enough. I did great with my planks even though I didn't want to.

We are dairy free (among soooo many other things) so I'll pass on this challenge.

I'll brag that I've survived the first day of moving. And I successfully begged mh to come home tomorrow night so I only have to survive one more day alone.

[imoverit]

Great job ladies.

TJ I'm right there with you but hiding on the couch with ice cream instead of behind boxes.

Ducky yay to paying off debt!!!

Luv men make it so easy to want to kill them don't they?!

Robeano great job keeping up with BFing. It's super hard.

I failed. Only worked out once. Does sex count cause then that would be twice. Anyway I'm going to start my 21 day fix video today. Didn't eat great but will try again tomorrow. I definitely eat my stress instead of work it out.

QOTW: I'm proud of standing up for myself instead of giving in as usual.

[leahb12]

Here's my green smoothie recipe: ice, banana, half a pear, almond milk, kale and/or spinach. DS1 loves them!

I had a bad weekend eating wise, but it was fun! The rest of the week was good. I'm back on track today.

QOTW: Is it bad I can't think of anything? Umm I'll get back to you.

[richzep]

My nausea has subsided but I'm having difficulty eating protein. Not sure what to do about it but I have been trying to make good decisions regardless. I really don't want GD this time.
I've been doing my stretches so that's been going well.
I can only take my mess with milk because water and meds cause me to gag. And I'm always eating cheese so this goal should be easy.
I'd like to eat more throughout the day so that I'm not making food decisions based on what doesn't make me nauseous.

QOTW. I'm proud that I've been putting my phone away throughout the day so that I'm not on it as much and spending more quality time with DS.

[dp21]

Hey guys,

Sorry I'm late!  I'm still going between boards and just not use to logging into this one/navigating it yet. 

As for me, I've done good with meals overall.  However, hubby bought giant box of Haagen Daz bars from Costco......they have been the death of my moderation lol.  I told him he is not allowed to buy them anymore, I can't help myself and eat them. So need to improve this week.  I also fell off the workout wagon.  I had a very stressful week of school and some baby blues and binged watched the bachelor/and ate a lot of those bars lol.  The school stress has passed, so trying to get back on track again.  I should be good with the challenge between my love for string cheese, milk, and those bars haha.  We just bought a ton of fruit and veggies and my goal is to continue eating those and less ice cream. 

@ducky719, that is awesome!  The only debts we have are our mortgage and new family car. And I know you mentioned credit card debt, don't do that again, but we put everything on our credit cards (regular bills/grocery shopping) and make money off them.  So we use it more like a debit card then for buying things we don't have money for.  It was the best decision ever, amazed at how much money we can make! 

QOTW:  My LO is 7.5 weeks old and I am so proud that I got breastfeeding to work after 5 weeks of struggles while taking two grad school classes while on maternity leave.