Enough is enough

Emotional stress not only comes from daily life and disagreements with loved ones. It can also come from lack of organization no matter what the room.

I have been noticing that when my own room even if all I did was make the bed. I feel less emotional then if my bed was strew all about the room or blankets just piled on top of the bed.

In today's blog and during the day I am focusing on emotional stress caused from my kids' room being a big cluttered mess. This clutter is not caused by too many toys or that the room does not get picked up.

This their clutter is merely caused from having to store their outdoor and indoor toys all in their small room that has absolutely no storage other then the 1 shelf in their closet, 3 small corner shelfs I installed a few years ago when we moved in, and their dresser which is not very wide and mainly used for their T.V.

So with all the clutter of their big toys and no way to really properly store any of their toys for easy view, I decided a few months ago that any cash I came across I would put aside in an envelope for the sole purpose of getting more storage for their room. The best best way I have found for our situation is wall track shelving and real wood shelves ( I do NOT trust particle board shelves for my kids especially with them being low shelving areas.

Now since this is not my room per say you are probably wondering why I would be emotionally stressed over this. Well the reason being is that I still have 1 of my 2 loves in a crib and well tripping over toys that should easily be out of the way tends to get me emotional especially when I have my 17 mo old in my arms where I automatically have less balance then if I were to be empty handed.

I will post before and after transformations when I find my camera and project is complete. (I already have before pictures)

well I guess that is all for now folks look back soon for those before and afters!

So I have been slacking on my Exercise and eating routine haven't eaten all day till dinner 2 days in a row and boy did I feel it tonight. I was so busy just hanging out with my dad and kids I totally spaced it till it was dinner time.

Today I was more rushed out the door as soon as I woke up and got the kids and I all ready and took him back to Phoenix. I took 3 bananas 2 I gave to 1 each of the kids and sent the 3rd along with 2 oranges out on the road with my daddy. We did stop at Denny's for a last little visit before I took off back home.

When we got home both boys had already taken their short naps and would be up my hiney as I am trying to get them some food, so of course I forgot myself

Now I have gotten out of a routine of going for a "walk" but we ( Daddy and I) took the kids to the park for about 3 hours one afternoon where I did spurts of walking around, so it was not an epic fail in that area.

The first of my 30 Min exercize routines

Well got my Saturday off on the right track after a not so healthy breakfast choice of Papa Murphy's S'mores Dessert Pizza slice and cup of Coffee.

I went to the park and took my two kids with me. I let my (almost) 3 year old play on the playground, while I took a 30 min slow paced walk around the playground with my (almost) 15 mo. in the stroller.

While doing so I concentrated on keeping my tummy in a firm posture. 15 min into my walk, I was feeling a warmth in my left side. It felt really good!

Also while on my circular walk around the park there were some people there that had brought 2 boxer pups and one decided to join me. On our second trip around with the boxer pup the second wanted to join this started a puppy argument with the first. I guess only he wanted to walk with me and not let the other join. It was so cute and really makes me want a pup of my own. I think this will be my every Saturday, Monday, Wednesday routine. ( Now to just keep my routine L O L) that is the hard part! Hoping to make it a full family trip on Monday's and Wednesday's since Hubby is off of work. I think once a month I will graduate to a slightly faster pace so that I can slowly strengthen everything that needs to strengthen in order to get to a full strength run! Afterwards I did a little bit of stretching of my legs!

As far as any strength training goes I am not sure how I will go about doing that yet. I am kinda a wuss when it comes to muscle pain. L O L so that may take some getting used to but for now going for walks 3x a week is a big feat!

Blog Challenge led on by Lexxy's Health and Wellness Group

Ok so today I read on my friend, Alexis's group, that she has challenged everyone in the group to blog about their health and life in general. She has made this challenge to help ourself in check.

So in starting this blog entry I am accepting her challenge.For most people weight "loss" is their biggest issue or concern. However I am on the opposite side of the spectum. I have difficulties gaining weight and as a breastfeeding mother has gone to the fact of keeping my weight on that I already have.Now I have always had issues gaining weight ever since I was little. No one really ever thought anything of it, "oh she will outgrow this" I never got over 115 in my weight until highschool in wich in highschool I really only gained 5 pounds. After highschool I was able to get up to about 120-125. Most would say this is a great weight but with my tall frame of 5'8" I have a hard time finding clothes that fit in my waist and are NOT highwaters on me.Now prior to my first "full term" pregnancy I was roughly 120-125 ( I say full term because My very first baby had misscarried). At full term prior to delivery I weighed roughly 140. Most of which was baby, water, placenta ( all that fun stuff). Post baby I guess I weighed 130. So really didn't have much ''baby '' weight to lose but I WANTED TO KEEP THAT WEIGHT!! Well in my nurturing ways I breast fed my child and lost my weight in a week. I was sad :(. However I did maintain my prepregnancy weight till close to 9 months post baby. Where then I was told I was looking too skinny and people were worried I was even eating at all. I love eating. Provided I like the food.

Problem starts with my foods of preferance fruits and veggies still good for me but not much for keeping weight on.My second food preferences is Italiano. Bring on the pasta!!!One of my other factors that I have to take in consideration is that my husband wanted to "lose" his weight and keep it off. Clearly a problem of opposites attract lol.However I did stay and maintain 125 after my first son. Same happened for my second son. But I did lose my weight a bit slower in the beginning(not much though).

Now he is 14 1/2 months and still nurses at least 2x a day. And unfortunatly I am now at 113 the weight I was at in highschool.Alexis showed me this site that I have just started today. I already love it!! Its not just made for those that want to lose weight. It actually has the option for wanting to GAIN.

This site takes all my info and personalizes how many calories I need in a day. It also tells me the amount of carbs fat and proteins I need and lets me know a safe amount of calorie loss I can have and still gain the weight I need to. It also has a water counter, counting how many glases of water I drink daily.But that is not all it also lets you put in the foods I eat that day and counts the calories and everything for me so that I don't have to try and figure it all out.So far I have dranken 2 glasses of water and taken in 1,270 calories of 2,020, g carbs of 278 g, 38 g fat of 67 g, and 31 g protein of 76 g through the day.

Now for most of you, you wouldn't want to go over your goal amounts but for me these are my lowest numbers that I should go. Starting today I am just going to eat what I eat and see what my numbers come out to be then I will start adding in more on top of what I had just so I can get a rough idea of what I was like prior to my changes. So after today, for 1 week I will only be adding my food log at night after my last snack. Then I will then figure out how many of each catagorie I need to add up to get my lowest goal ammount!

Well now seems im starting to babble so Im out plus need to make dinner!