Healthy Mamas Monday 1/4

[Ray]

Woops - sorry ladies I kinda dropped the ball on this the last couple weeks. Let me know if you'd like a tag to remind/encourage you to check in. I also noticed a declining post trend. Should we keep this up? Make it bi-weekly/monthly? Invite S16 to participate? Let me know your thoughts on thinky things. and now...


Welcome to the weekly Healthy Mama check-in. No you don't have to be an Olympic athlete or a paleo-vegan-nutritionist to join in (though good for you if you are!). This is a place where we check in once a week to share our small victories and good choices, encourage each other to keep up a healthy, active pregnancy, and share new ideas to do so. As always, feel free to offer suggestions to make the check-in what we want or to suggest options for the next weekly challenge poll.



1. What did you do the past week to be active? (Yes doing the stairs 8 times while doing laundry, walking the dog, it all counts)







2. What are some of the healthy meals/snacks that you had? (bonus points for recipes)







3. What's something else you've been working on (social, emotional, mental, organizational) to make you happy the past week?







4. Any accomplishments big or small that you're proud of and like to share?







5. Any goals for the upcoming week?







**LAST WEEK'S CHALLENGE**

Do 3 sets of Kegel's each day.





**THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE**

Get x hours of sleep per night - you set the number.



**NEXT WEEK'S CHALLENGE**

if mobile click on web view to view poll and vote

feel free to give me some ideas for new challenge ideas!

[Ray]

1. What did you do the past week to be active? (Yes doing the stairs 8 times while doing laundry, walking the dog, it all counts)

Last week was really good! I ended up going on an hour long walk with my sister Sunday. M/T/Th I went skating for an hour each day with my step son, and wednesday I shovelled for almost 3 hours with my husband (not fun). 


2. What are some of the healthy meals/snacks that you had? (bonus points for recipes)

I've been eating a lot of fruit again. And greek salad. OMG greek salad. NOM NOM NOM. Not gonna lie, I've been on a hotdog kick too but I'm focusing on the fruit and salad OK!! lol


3. What's something else you've been working on (social, emotional, mental, organizational) to make you happy the past week?

I organized our tupperware cupboard toss zone. It is amazing how much stress this reduced for some reason. I also set up the PNP in the baby's room. My mom gave me a beautiful lamp for the nursery so sometimes I like to just go sit in there with the lamp on. It's peaceful.


4. Any accomplishments big or small that you're proud of and like to share?


Honestly, cleaning out that cupboard was a huge one, and the amount of activity I got in last week I also went into work today med-free and didn't lose my shit ( I absolutely hate/am miserable at my job) This is a big step for me. 

5. Any goals for the upcoming week?

We are putting our house back on the market in a couple weeks so my goal is to get the house back to showing ready. This week will be step one: clean and tidy all the things.


**LAST WEEK'S CHALLENGE**

Do 3 sets of Kegel's each day.

hahah....yeah...about that....

[rungirlrun]

I needed this post after all of the holiday indulgences! I like this check-in but wouldn't be opposed to having it every other week or 1x/month.

1. What did you do the past week to be active? (Yes doing the stairs 8 times while doing laundry, walking the dog, it all counts) I'm still staying very active. Fortunately, I feel pretty good in the morning so I've been working out regularly then before I start to feel lousy later in the day.

2. What are some of the healthy meals/snacks that you had? (bonus points for recipes) Ugh, I've been really bad with eating lately. Need to get back on track! Bought a lot of fruit and veggies so hopefully I'll grab those before grabbing the box of cookies.

3. What's something else you've been working on (social, emotional, mental, organizational) to make you happy the past week? I've been lazy with planning out dinners so we've been eating less than healthy lately so I started back with planning out the weekly menu to get back on track.

4. Any accomplishments big or small that you're proud of and like to share? This is not really health related, but our shower is so hard to clean and is pretty gross despite me cleaning it weekly. Finally, my H and DS went to Home Depot to get some hard core cleaning stuff, and the shower looks brand new. Makes me so happy!

5. Any goals for the upcoming week? I'm doing a 10k Sunday so while I'm not going to try to push myself to an extreme, I'm excited to see how I do. I haven't run a race in a few months that wasn't strictly for fun so I'm looking forward to getting out for a good run.

**LAST WEEK'S CHALLENGE**

Do 3 sets of Kegel's each day. Yeah I think I did 1 set once. Oops. Maybe this can be a repeating challenge.

[Ray]

Jan 4, 2016 17:03:10 GMT -5 rungirlrun said:

I needed this post after all of the holiday indulgences! I like this check-in but wouldn't be opposed to having it every other week or 1x/month.

1. What did you do the past week to be active? (Yes doing the stairs 8 times while doing laundry, walking the dog, it all counts) I'm still staying very active. Fortunately, I feel pretty good in the morning so I've been working out regularly then before I start to feel lousy later in the day.

2. What are some of the healthy meals/snacks that you had? (bonus points for recipes) Ugh, I've been really bad with eating lately. Need to get back on track! Bought a lot of fruit and veggies so hopefully I'll grab those before grabbing the box of cookies.

3. What's something else you've been working on (social, emotional, mental, organizational) to make you happy the past week? I've been lazy with planning out dinners so we've been eating less than healthy lately so I started back with planning out the weekly menu to get back on track.

4. Any accomplishments big or small that you're proud of and like to share? This is not really health related, but our shower is so hard to clean and is pretty gross despite me cleaning it weekly. Finally, my H and DS went to Home Depot to get some hard core cleaning stuff, and the shower looks brand new. Makes me so happy!

5. Any goals for the upcoming week? I'm doing a 10k Sunday so while I'm not going to try to push myself to an extreme, I'm excited to see how I do. I haven't run a race in a few months that wasn't strictly for fun so I'm looking forward to getting out for a good run.

**LAST WEEK'S CHALLENGE**

Do 3 sets of Kegel's each day. Yeah I think I did 1 set once. Oops. Maybe this can be a repeating challenge.

I literally just attempted to LT your post 4 separate times as I read it. All the LTs to you. Lol