Hello!
Exercise: Well, I haven't managed to dig out my Yoga Booty Ballet DVD yet. Shame, shame! It's in the basement, we moved our bookshelves (with aforementioned yoga DVD on one of the bookshelves) down there while baby-proofing our home last month. But, I did lug 3..that is three stacked laundry baskets up the stairs all at the same time. Man, that was hard! And, my baby officially weighs well over 19 lbs now as a 5 month old, so I have some pretty impressive biceps forming as we speak.
In all seriousness though, as soon as the snow settles here (we are in an, I kid you not, extreme weather warning) I am going to Target and buying a yoga mat because my booty will be doing no ballet upon our hardwood floors...ouchie!
So, the plan is as follows: begin yoga exercising no later than Monday, January 11th. Keep me to this ladies!
Diet: This is going very well. My goal was to begin adding even more foods to my diet and I have! I have been eating sweet potatoes (even though I do not like them) which have a lot of really great nutrients in them. Also, my hubby Cole has been making me these really yummy fruit smoothies the last couple of nights that are completely healthy. So, that was an easy way for me to down some fruit in a tastebud satisfying way! If you want to try one of these smoothies, here is the recipe (because they are super good!):
Pearberry Smoothie...
1/4 cup frozen organic blueberries
3/4 cup frozen organic pears
1/4 cup rice milk
*Throw it all in the blender and you have yourself a really delicious smoothie!
I'm drinking one right now, actually.
See...easy peasy!
So, I added two new foods within the past 5 days...
blueberries and sweet potato.
Caleb seemed to do fine with
both! I found out some delicious health benefits of blueberries (
here) and sweet potatoes (
here)
My goal to drink more water is going really well too. This week I purchased a large PUR water dispenser at Target that fits in our refrigerator. I have been drinking well over 8 glasses of water a day :) Previously, I had a water pitcher that held a lot less water, and it broke on Sunday! Well, that was a good thing because I think having the larger water filtration system has helped me to drink even more water. I would recommend this filter system if you are looking for one, it's affordable and the water tastes great!
Goals for the next week...
Exercise: I WILL begin exercising, for real.
Diet: My goal is to add more nutritious foods this coming week (1-2 more, as I need to wait and watch Caleb's reactions)
Hope you ladies are doing well with...
... your Body After Baby challenge!
Thank you for all your encouragement, it really helps! :)
