Life Lately

The Way I See It, life is too short and we don't take advantage of it often enough. There are too many times I find myself plopped on the couch in front of the TV or even more so the computer, just staring at nonsense. I am trying to cut back on those things since I really only watch mindless TV and end up checking facebook 25 times while trying to earn more swagbucks or trying to find ways to save or eat better on blogs. I don't think there is anything wrong with checking fb or blogs or earning swagbucks unless it ends up being all that you do. I am trying to get out of my spending too much time with technology so I have bought several books. Now by several I mean 6. A little excessive I know, but I really wanted all of them. I find that I am trying to find myself spiritually lately, so those books pertain to those sorts of things, plus some bettering myself and my marriage books too.

Now as I continue my venture to live healthier and exercise, which I might add I am really doing well at. (I am eating much better and exercising at least 3 x per week, YAY ME!!!) I find that I need to cut back on my mindless activities that I have a love/hate relationship with. I love mindless TV where you don't have to think you just watch. Something about that calms me during a stressful day which I have many a days, but I could be doing so much more with my time. I find when I am not engaged in such mindless activities that I will give myself a to-do list or a making a list of ways to better myself that can end up stressing me out. So here I am on here rambling to you about my quirkiness.

My new goal is to cut back on computer and TV time and focus more on preparing homemade meals, reading good books, spending time with my family (dogs included) and friends, finding a church to call home and joining different activities through the church. Those are some things that I think can be productive instead of mind numbing. Have you noticed yourself spending too much time doing mindless things that lead to nothing? What would you like to do instead to benefit yourself, your family or both?

Healthy Living: Day 6

The Way I See It, I have to start this eating and exercising thing off on the right foot.

I consider this to be Day 6 of healthy living and so far in these six days the worse things that I had to eat were 3 chocolate chip cookies, 1 frozen meal and about ½ a cup of Hawaiian punch. Now let’s make this clear, I am not in any way trying to lose weight. I am simply trying to live a healthier life by eating less junk food like chocolate, fast food, packaged meals, etc. and to add in some form of exercise at least 3 times per week. I think I am doing a great job so far. On Saturday we went grocery shopping and we put no “junk” snack foods in our cart, it was mostly fresh veggies and fruits. I even bought 2 big bottles of low sodium V8 in case I found myself unable to build up the courage to chew any more veggies ;) Coming home Saturday I was so happy with myself. I did my squats that night and went to bed at a decent hour. Sunday we did about 5 hours of yard work all while still eating right. I consumed many bananas that day since they were easy to multitask with while eating. As the work week has come around I find that after Chester and I go for a walk I come home to eat some wonderful farm fresh organic granola (www.redtruckbakery.com) with yogurt and fresh fruits. Then when Chris gets home from work we have dinner and the left-over’s I get to take to work so I’m not eating frozen meals as much any more. I think my biggest challenge is going to be not overindulging when I do have a cookie or two. Yesterday when I had to make cookies for a coworker’s birthday, I found myself really REALLY wanting to eat as much cookie dough and right out of the oven cookies as I could. I surprisingly didn’t but after having the dough and a cookie I found myself at work thinking about candy and cookies and (I know this is weird) Dunkin Donuts jelly donuts constantly. So when I got home, before Chester and I went for our walk I had a cookie. Now every time I pass the bag on the counter I want just one more. So far I have avoided having another, we’ll see how after dinner goes…