Mamavation Monday

I'm a day late mostly because I think because I missed a post or two, I was taken out but was put back in so I was transitioning on the e-mail notifications.  Luckily, I went on Twitter to get Leah's welcome back message so yeah!  I'm back ...again!  I thought of writing all the excuses as to why I had been hit or miss on posting by I think back to the Biggest Loser of No Excuses last season so that will be me.  No excuses.  It's been almost one full year since I began my journey to get healthy for myself and my children.  I had an eye opening experience after noticing my then seven year old packing on the pounds due to too much McDonald's after school and immediately put a halt on it.  I can't see subjecting my children up for bad habits, bad health and eventual teasing for weight issues.  Now I can happily say, we're all healthier.

We even had a Hello Kitty party full of all sorts of yummy yet icky bad for you foods.  Although wasteful, I ended up throwing out much of it because it was just us for the party and I didn't want them to go crazy eating too much and my oldest daughter, 23 years, and I didn't want to consume the calories.  My oldest came to visit about a month and a half ago and we've kicked up our desire to lose the last bit of weight we both are trying to lose.  It's been hard.  I've been trying to turn her to Mamavation but she is limited with time given her young daughter, school and everything else.  I wished she would because I think she would find the comfort and encouragement from another source that would keep her on the road of being healthy.


I'm not an over zealous person who is monitoring their every bite rather I'm just being sensible with the volume of snacks, the choices of food and the limiting of fast food.  It's a healthy medium to where they can still have their beloved Hershey bar but it's not a Hershey bar, Cheetos, soda and so forth.  Another big elimination was soda.  I buy one 12 pack a month and it has to last the month and this goes across six people.  I don't drink Coke rather Coke Zero so it's a no-no I'm still trying to break.  I only drink one a day.  This week's theme on Mamavation TV was healthy snacking which tied in nicely to my "I'm back!" message.


Healthy snacking for us includes fresh fruits and vegetables.  We also liven it up with pistachios and almonds and sometimes, Pirates Booty and Pop Chips.  I also have string cheese on occasion because they love their cheese.  With summer fastly approaching, I'm planning on making real fruit juice popsicles.  I have found that the snacking is a big pound packer and have eliminated bad choice temptations by not purchasing as many unhealthy snacks.  Again, I don't eliminate all because I truly feel a little is not going to be detrimental and I also feel that if it was totally restricted, they would go hog wild once given a chance.  I noticed how my now nine year old doesn't over indulge and has learned it's about being healthy.  I've been careful to not turn her into a kid obsessed with being overweight or worried about eating rather picking choices that are healthy for your body.  Now, it's time to turn my almost five year old into choosing the right foods!  She's still a bad food snacker.