Category: Stay at home mom

Helpful Weight Loss Tips THAT I USE

A vital part of achieving weight loss is knowing and understanding serving sizes. Get in the habit of reading the nutritional label before deciding to drink or eat something. Even though carbs and calories could appear okay at first, however there is a such thing as HIDDEN CARBS.

Beans can be a regular dieters’ friend, however with the Ketogenic and Low Carb diets, you want to stay far away from beans. They offer a lean protein, that can help you stay going for lengthy intervals. They are also very inexpensive and will satisfy you rapidly. Beans work extremely well in so many different methods and works extremely well in many foods.

When having to lose weight, try to eat slower and chew your meal far more thoroughly. This will give your body time to transition the human brain into responding towards satisfaction, instead of overly full.

Losing weight can seem to be almost impossible for many, but it’s essential to remember that slimming down is simply composed of two elements: realizing how you can shed weight and becoming focused on an ambition. Here are several techniques to shed weight that are equally useful and effective.

These guidelines will assist you to kickstart weight reduction. See the ones that match your life-style, and not quit researching ways to remain lean. Once you see the details that works for you, you’ll realize that slimming down doesn’t really need to be that hard whatsoever.

You must understand that there is absolutely no sort of magic diet pill that makes it vanish overnight. You must find ways to motivate yourself to continue, even when the times get hard and possibly discouraging. Think about your “WHY”, use that as your’ motivation and your’ reason to continue.  not doing anything. You need to get up from the chair and take initiative, this is something ONLY YOU CAN DO FOR YOURSELF.

What will make it easier? Ask yourself these questions and answer them, no matter how silly you may feel doing-so. How come you eat? When do you eat? Do you know your bodies signs of satisfaction when it comes to eating? Why do you over-eat? Why do you want to lose weight? What is your ultimate goal? How will you measure your milestones? Before you could properly find a new eating routine you have to look into the way you got over weight in the first place, and address it head on.

Other ways to make it easier to transition into a lifestyle change and not just a temporary overwhelming diet:

  1. Choose vegetables you actually enjoy.
  2. Choose cuts of meat that are lean and high protein with minimal processing. (Unless Keto or Low-carb, then you want fatty cuts of meat)
  3. Choose 3 fresh fruits to indulge in 3 times a week as a treat, to help curb any unwanted sweet cravings.
  4. Take measurements of yourself. These are vital and very important to your success. Here’s why: Every diet has periods of stalls where it appears no more weight is being lost. Typically, this is where people get discouraged and give up on their diets. DO NOT GIVE UP. Something even more amazing that pounds coming off is more than likely happening inside your body. Your skin is tightening around the areas of fat that has been lost, and you are losing inches. Inches are harder to see, but easy to feel. You’ll notice your inches in the way your clothing fits. Now if you take the initiative to measure yourself the first day of your diet, and measure yourself every 30 days, you will be less likely to experience discouragement from stalling on the scale because you are visibly aware of what is happening in your body.
  5. Take progress pictures. This will allow you to see firsthand, study first hand and evaluate your problem areas on your own without hearing it from anyone else. You can see how far you have come as well as how far you have to go! It’s a win-win situation.

You want to take a lower calorie consumption than you’re burning and munching in between meals goes against this. Of course, if you’re not taking in much less calorie consumption than you shed, you won’t lose any excess weight. Individuals who are centered on reaching weight reduction goals should take time to plan meals and choices in advance whenever possible. This facilitates simpler monitoring of calories, so it helps avoid impulse eating or unexpected splurges.

Avocados are a fantastic diet food when enjoyed in moderation. A lot of people assume they may be awful basically because they consist of fat. But avocados include monounsaturated excess fat, that is a great fat. The richness of avocado can make it a meal which will leave you happy as opposed to eager.

It may well seem countertop-instinctive but consuming a larger breakfast time will help you lose fat. Start the day off right by having an egg white omelet with cheese. If you eat a lot more calories before midday, you reduce cravings for later in the day. The larger your morning meal you eat, the much less you are going to over-at later in the day.

Utilize a smaller sized plate to your food. This enables you to psychologically think that you are eating an entire plate and never on lessened portions. This will help you to shed pounds. As opposed to clearing yourself of all food which you really like, use ingredients which are much healthier. There are several diet regime goods on the market. Take advantage of every one of these things.

I do hope that this has helped a little. I myself do the ketogenic diet, but every diet can work just as easily if you are willing to try. The keto diet has by far been the easiest and more rewarding diet that I have ever had experience with. I am available to answer questions via the “contact me” link if you are interested. Now I will not write your meal plans or grocery list for you, but I will answer simple questions.

 

Not The Job For A Wimp

530 am. I’m woken by the sound of a screaming toddler ready to start his day. Crap, I didn’t get to bed until midnight, oh well here we go. Simple tasks like diaper changes seem near impossible when its 2 vs 1, Toddler and Baby tag team mom. Sippy cups and bottles to be filled, diapers and clothes to be changed. Crap, I have to pee. Crap, I have to pee. I tell myself, “hold it”. Crap, I really must pee. Out loud I tell myself, “just hold it, one more minute”. Wondering to myself the entire time if my bladder can withstand one more second of holding it in. I finally get to pee, but not without a tag along who wants to turn on every light and shut every door before we make it to the toilet. I’m here now, finally get to relieve myself but not without tiny human hands grabbing for everything they shouldn’t have and not without saying “no” 75 times and being screamed at in rebuttal.

It’s fine, all ends well, but then comes breakfast time. I wonder if Chase will color while I prepare coffee and breakfast. “Chase do you want to color?”, I ask him, he responds “Yeeeah”, like I should have known. I get him in his chair, buckled in and safe, thinking “cool, this will be a breeze”. I give him his coloring supplies and he goes to town. I hear “Mom, Monk Monk”, okay let me grab the darn monkey. I give him to Chase, he protests and points to the chair across the table. I understand, he wants Monk Monk to sit. I set up Monk Monk and Chase throws a crayon directly at his hand. “Ok”, I say and mosey back to the kitchen.

I’m excited for some Bulletproof Coffee and Green Scallion Eggs with Bacon. Coffee is on, I can smell it brewing, it smells like unicorns and life. I get the eggs prepared and I start to hear protest for Roman. “Crap, let’s make this faster”, I say to myself. Faster isn’t fast enough for 3-month-old prince of Campbellsville. I get the eggs down for Chase with some fruit and a slice of Turkey Bacon. The coffee is done and everything I need to make the most legit coffee I’ve ever had is on the counter waiting.

Roman is awake, bright eyed and bushy tailed with hungry howling in full blown effect. I get Roman situated and now he’s eating. Behind me in the dining room I hear the lovely rattle of a plate doing spins on the floor and a soft spoken “uh oh”. I breathe deeply, hold it, exhale until I feel like my lungs look like prunes. I sit there with my eyes closed for just a few seconds trying to bring positivity and motivation to myself. Ok, I’m good now…I think. Roman is done, we’ve burped and been changed, I set him down for a minute while I tend to clean Chase, the table and the floor. Thankfully the dog has cleaned 99% of the floor mess.

Chase is ready to conquer the world and I’m still wondering if I’ll get my cup of coffee in before nap time. Its 9 am at this point and it’s not looking very favorable for the coffee consumption any time soon. I’m hungry, I didn’t get to eat, “mmmm string cheese will do”, I say to myself. I go to the fridge but once again Tag Along McGee has followed me. I turn around, open the fridge and bend down to grab a string cheese out of the bin. Behind me I hear the subtle sound of grabby hands. I turn around as quickly as possible, but it wasn’t quick enough to catch Chase throwing a box of pancake mix to the ground. The box explodes. I just stand there sort of in shock at the way it almost mushroom clouded the kitchen. The white fog lifts and Chase looks like a ghost, my black leggings are now white, my kitchen is now white. It’s everywhere. I just can’t help but hate the pancake company for not making a resealable container…. thanks. I don’t even know where to begin with this explosion of carbohydrates to my kitchen. I assume I start with the child but when I go to reach for him, of course he takes off in the direction of the living room. I catch him as he gets flustered with the baby gate. I get him showered and changed, a sippy cup for nap time.

Cool, let’s clean this mess up in the kitchen. No sooner do I make it to the kitchen does Roman’s internal feeding time ring like clockwork. Mr. Perfect Timing clicking in not a second late. The mess must wait and so does the coffee.

It’s 10:30 am and I’m starting to get motivated for my day. I’m wide awake now and so is Roman. Let’s do some tummy time! While Roman does tummy time, I peer through chapter 3 in my text book on Introduction to Human Anatomy. Well this should be interesting. 2 paragraphs in and little man is still content, get another 3 chapters read and Roman is done. He’s hungry again, damn he eats a lot. He eats and burps and does his normal thing, he falls asleep looking as cute as can be. I get him laid down and I observe him for a minute, taking in all the cuteness.

I remember that there is a mess in the kitchen. I tend to it and get it over with then move on to the dishes from the previous night. I get the whole kitchen cleaned and looking brand new. Now I’m not sure of I have clean jeans, so I throw my clothes in the washer and continue picking up the tornado of toys sprawled around my house. Man, Chase really lives up to his name, that kid is always on the go.

I bend over to pick up Elmo and put him in with the other toys and I hear the coffee pot turning off. 3 beeps. 3 beeps reminding me that I failed. I forgot again…3rd day in a row. I waste so much coffee and I hate drinking old coffee. Oh well. It’s a little passed noon and I get the laundry switched over and well, I have to pee again. I contemplate just using the upstairs bathroom or risking all the pickles in the jar on whether I’ll wake up Chase or not if I go to the downstairs bathroom. I risk it. I enter that bedroom like Jackie Chan sneaking up on an unsuspecting bank robber ninja. I slowly creep through the bedroom and make into the bathroom. I gently shut the door behind me, get my business done and exit the bathroom like 007. I make it out and Chase is still asleep, a huge victory that I celebrate with bacon and a few paragraphs of Chapter 3.

Its 1 PM and Chase needs to wake up, so I open the bedroom door and he’s already standing in the crib saying “Mom”. I get him out and change his diaper, get him a drink and a snack. I turn on the vacuum and here comes tag along, he wants to help. Now, I love that my son takes interest in cleaning, but at the same time I just want the vacuuming done so Roman doesn’t wake up and the dog doesn’t go into full blown attack mode on the wheels. But, he isn’t having it, he must help so I let him. A simple 5-minute task just doubled in time but whatever. Eventually he loses interest and runs away so I quickly finish up.

“Eat mom eat”, Chase says. Okay let’s get you some lunch, we go to the kitchen and he wants Chicken, Broccoli and some chips. Cool, he doesn’t protest. He sits and eats, and I get to join him, peacefully. After lunch we grab some craft supplies and get busy with finger painting, knowing it will be a mess but a fun one at that. I get the table set up and we start painting, having fun and giggling and in general just making a mess. We’re done so we both get cleaned up and the table cleaned and our pictures up to dry.

We mosey into the living room to watch some Mickey Mouse Clubhouse because Chase is yelling “Hot Dog” and breaking down in dance moves. We hang out with Roman and all lay down on the floor doing some much needed tummy and tickle time. The giggles from my children literally make everything better.

It’s well past 4 and going on 5 so I put Roman in his chair and Chase in his playpen while I prepare dinner. I make skirt steak, Brussel sprouts and a salad for Chase and I. Roman has fallen asleep so we eat at the dinner table. Chase isn’t interested much in eating anything but the broccoli and tomatoes. We get cleaned up again and time for our bedtime routine. Changed and milk in the sippy wit fb a bedtime story and then off to “nih nih” as Chase says. I tuck him and Monk Monk in and give them both kisses, hoping he will fall asleep easily with no protest.

Roman and I hang out and then do our typical 3-hour bedtime routine of cluster feeding, spitting up, diaper changes, singing, reading and tickles until he falls asleep and I get him laid down.

Its 10 PM and I finally get to work on some writing and studying. I write a little bit and study even more. Its past midnight again, I need to sleep. I get myself ready for bed and of course I have a hard time getting to sleep but I finally do.

Its 6 am. Chase is up.

The moral of this story is that stay at home moms don’t have it easy. There is nothing easy about being mentally tested every day, day in and day out. I used to think it was a cop out for just being lazy, then I was faced with the reality of what goes into being a stay at home parent. Its draining, not so much physically, although there are many days where you’re constantly on the go, but mentally exhausting. I’m an extrovert through and through, I NEED human interaction to feel complete. And yes, my children are human, but they don’t exactly have conversations at this point. I love my children and I wouldn’t have it any other way than to stay at home with them. However, I hear people bashing the SAH parent all the time, claiming laziness.

It’s not easy, it’s a job we take for granted and it’s highly underappreciated. SAH parents bust their humps day in and day out, hour after hour with little to no break. You don’t get to click in and click out, go home and relax in a nice clean home. You are the person providing the nice clean home and without you, there is no nice clean comfortable home. Appreciate yourself and what you do, if you don’t appreciate it yourself neither will anyone else. Buy yourself some flowers and know that you deserve them.