Healthy Lifestyles Check-in (3/2)

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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've been dying to add yoga into my life for awhile now...let's try starting small this week!  Add 3 - 15 minute sessions (or more if you choose!) to your week.  Lots of workouts to choose from on the internet.  Don't forget to report back on last weeks dairy challenge!



QOTW: Any cool or relaxing vacations planned in the future?



ducky19 - report back!





TJ1979 - how is the move going chickie?  




chiwifey - were you able to start the prenatal yoga?  I hear ya on worrying about the toll pregnancy takes on your body...but I would be very conscious of it if I were pregnant with twins!




leahb12 - thanks for sharing your smoothie recipe - I def have to try it.  Were you able to eat a little better this week?




luvboston - did you make it to yoga on Sunday?  Not sure if it happened since you are having LO TOMORROW!!!  




karabear4409 - wow, 2 lbs last week?  Stinky reason to lose weight (being sick) but shoot I'd take it.  After the fact of course...no one likes being sick while they are still sick.  




imoverit - did you start the 21 day fix?  How's it going?  I've heard great things about it but I am scared to commit...




richzep - I really hope your nausea has let up this week.  I know you've been having a tough time with it.


dp21 - GAH!  Darn (and thank) YH for buying those ice cream bars.    Hahaha!  




Robeano - were you able to cut back on the sweets like planned?  How has breastfeeding been going btw?

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Hey girls - gotta post and run. I had no idea I'd be this busy while on LOA...I have more time when I am "working" - haha!

Dairy challenge - nailed it. Exceeded it. BOOM. LOL! Drinking water? Not so much. Eating 3+ servings of fruits and veggies each day? I'm getting close each week but not doing it 7 days like I should. My goal this week is to continue trying to clean up my eating habits. Why? Because I will never get better if I don't continue to push for it.

QOTW: nothing planned for the immediate future other than maternity leave (and I am still pregnant so that technically hasn't started yet). We are making plans for another Disney trip but that won't be until the fall/winter. I cannot wait to take DD back and to bring DD2! EEEK! We also were told that we can use DH's aunts/uncles shore house in Holden Beach sometime this summer if we want - free of charge. We may consider taking them up on the offer...

[blueinred]

I realize I am not a regular poster on this thread.

I have not been doing so well in terms of de-stressing and being kinder to myself.

My water intake is good, my diet mostly very healthy and no junk or fast food consumption. I only consume organic dairy products and have mostly replaced cow's milk with either almond or coconut milk.

I love practicing yoga and attend a class at least once a week. I also try, but don't always succeed, at doing planks every day.

QOTD: We are planning a rather extravagant vacation to Lago Maggiore, Switzerland thanks to DH's mother to celebrate her 65th birthday in July. We will already be in NYC so the overnight flight to Europe probably won't be too bad but I am already dreading the multiple flights home from Zurich to Arizona.

[richzep]

Nice job nailing the dairy challenge, @ducky19!
My nausea is much better. I can usually stop it before it starts if I eat every 1-2 hours. It's a lot, but I'll take that over nausea.

Dairy challenge was no problem (living on milk, crackers and cheese lately). I'm doing so much better with my water intake. I bought a water bottle and it's helped so much knowing that I have to finish it twice every day. Better than keeping track of 8 glasses (not that I ever made it that far).

I'm going to substitute the yoga challenge with a walking challenge. I'm nervous to do anything I really haven't done before with the twins (although everything is going well). Hoping to get out there a bit more. My OB encouraged it as well, so that gives me comfort.

Hope you all have a great week! DH is out of town until Wednesday, so this should be a fun 48 hours. Hoping the travel slows down a bit as I get bigger.

QOTW: No vacations planned but we should do something before (and if) I get put on bedrest.

[chiwifey]

bad girl here. I only had 2 salads last week and one of them was while out to lunch with DH after my OB appt. He went back bought me a caramel chocolate brownie and how could I resist... he's sweet though and I did share with him, ha! I also only did yoga 1 day... what is wrong with me?!?!!!

This is a new week though so I'll try harder!

I did well with the dairy and water challenges though so at least I'm doing ok in those depts

This week I'll stick with the yoga challenge and try it again.

QOTW: If we find a house relatively soon we are going to go somewhere this spring, probably Florida just to get some sun. This cloudy gray awful Chi weather is just too much!

[imoverit]

I can't do dairy and sucked at water intake but I did work out SIX times last week. Started 21 day fix just the workouts and I love it even if I have to modify all the time. Ha!

Personal challenge is to continue 21 day fix, drink more water and incorporate the food plan.

QOTW taking the fam to Maui in June. Scared of the 5 hour plAne ride with two kids.

[leahb12]

I did a pretty good job eating last week. I also did all my workouts. The end of this week will be bad because DH and I are traveling to Atlanta for the possible job.

QOTW: We are going to Atlanta Thur-Sun. I've never been a flight away from my kids, so I'm pretty nervous. I'm also anxious to see the area. The VP of the company is taking us out to dinner on Friday, so I'm kind of nervous about that as well. I guess this won't quite be a relaxing trip.

[karabear4409]

I did pretty bad last week. I cheated a ton on my diet, and didn't walk at all.

I did ok on the dairy challenge. I eat a ton of cheese when I am on a low carb diet.

My goal for this week is to keep up the diet and walking.

Qotw: unfortunately, our vacation budget went to an unexpected new a/c system for our house in January. And, we just found out that DH's company isn't giving out bonuses this year. So, no big vacay for us this year. My aunt has a cabin in Sugar Mountain, NC. We can't use it when she rents it out during ski season, but we will probably try to go up during the summer or fall.

[Robeano]

So I totally posted here on like Monday and my phone lost connection.

So to keep it short, did well last week. My goal this week is to record my food on My Fitness Pal