Day Three on 'Mama's Bootcamp' :)

Today was my first 'tired' day of chugging through things. For the last three days I have run/walked at least 2 miles on top of doing weight training and monitoring my food intake on Spark People. For the last week until today I'd been feeling great.

And it has nothing to do with my regime of diet and exercise. I'm coming down with a cold.

I'm not shocked. The boys have all been dealing with it off and on for about a week. Usually I'd be much quicker to succumb.

All in all it's not so bad. I'm just a little stuffy and slower today. I still managed my 2 miles AND I did some Bollywood dance workout (which was ridiculously fun, especially when my youngest crawled between my legs and I danced my feet around him :))

It was also HOT again today, which always slows me down, so I only ran the length of the street, instead of running at least once around the park as I usually do. (Nothing too exciting-- that's 3/10ths of a mile!)

I'm keeping up with my supplements and I've even found that when I forgot to take my Zoloft the other day, I didn't realize it until it was bedtime, and that was only because I was mentally going through my day, not because I was cranky, which would usually be the case.

No serious allergy or joint issues thus far. Yay!

This is Me

I am me, meaning the me that I am in this moment, the ever-changeable, maleable person on the road to who I can be.

I had a wake-up call in my life recently, in which I realized that, if anything happened to my husband, I would have no way to support my family. With this in mind, I decided to start living more actively and to become the me-to-be.

I am a nearly-thirty year old stay at home mother of three young boys. I have food allergies and auto-immune issues. I have unresolved questions about my health that I have put on the back burner because I can. I always put everyone else first.

But it's time to make a change. This is my diary of that change. This is my place for goals, short time and long-term.

Stats, as of a week ago:

5'1"

135 lbs (soft baby weight)

Food issues and migraines, no energy. Very sedentary.

Chronic back pain

No job or income of my own

That was a week ago. Since then I have jumped feet-first into becoming a Gold Ambassador with Shaklee, a company that I have been around my whole entire life as a product user. I have started taking Vitalizer everyday as well as Vivix.

The day I started taking Vitalizer I started feeling better, more clear headed. I started remembering things better. I am breastfeeding my youngest son and I know that I am nutritionally depleted.

Vivix has helped with something completely unexpected, for me, it took care of the swelling in my back. Then, when I twisted my back while nursing my son, I heard a loud CRACK and I could feel it twist back into place. Since then I have had little to no back pain. As I have to carry my baby around, that is really nice not to have to worry about.

With my new-found energy I logged into Sparkpeople.com. I love that site, it keeps me organized and aware of what I am and am not doing. For one, I drink way too much water.

I also keep track of the exercise I am starting to have the energy for.

So, goals for September.

1)Find three people who want to be Gold Ambassadors like me

2)Do my bloodwork and allergy testing

3)Run at least three days a week and weight train every Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat

4)Eat well and keep my milk up for my son, while not over-eating

5)Switch all my household cleaners, etc, to the green products at Shaklee.

6) Help ten people feel better like I do.