"You Cannot Expect To Achieve New Goals Or Move Beyond Your Present Circumstances Unless You Change.”

Hello Followers.

Its 11:50 on a Friday night and I can’t sleep. So I decided to get a head start on this weeks blog. I wasn’t able to write an entry last week. Last Sunday was Mother’s Day and I spent the day with my family. As for the rest of the week, my son, my husband, and I had a cold all week, so most of my time was spent on taking care of the kids while TJ was at work and then resting when he got home.

So far my plan to stop having soda has gone pretty well. I have only had soda if I was out for the day and needed to get a drink, which was only about 4 times in the last two weeks. That for me is a big change because I used to almost go through a bottle a day. I am proud of myself for not giving in yet and buying a bottle for home, but I also want to stop drinking soda when I am out too. I really enjoy the sparkling waters that I have been buying and think that is a good replacement. I am hoping that eventually I wont even think about drinking soda, like I am right now.

I have started incorporating more vegetables with our dinners. We did have potatoes a few times last week but that was only because I had already bought a bag and do not like to throw out good food. Starting this week I will only buy enough potatoes for 1-2 meals. Other than that I plan on having green beans and broccoli, which I already enjoy eating, and others that I don’t like cauliflower, onions, peppers, mushrooms, cucumbers, zucchini (ehhckk), and possibly spinach (really really ehhckk). I know that I don’t like them now, but I didn’t always like broccoli and now I do. I just need to keep eating them until I like them.

I still need go walking more, I do find that the more I keep taking my antidepressants the more motivation I have to do things. I just am not sure how well walking will go for me if Abby has to walk. She enjoys going in her stroller when I go for a walk with my husband or mom, so I just don’t know if she will cooperate with me or if she will get tired of walking and want me to carry her. I honestly should just suck it up, try it out, and see what happens. I don’t want to have to wait until my husband gets out of work to go for a walk. Sometimes he works late and if I wait for him I won’t get to walk at all. So I guess for now a cranky 4 year old who I may have to carry half of the way home and push Eddie in the stroller, is better than no walk at all.