Healthy for Life: After Dinner

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

After Dinner

Just felt like posting. Supposedly I have eaten 1276 calories today. I feel like I have eaten waaaaay more though! I hope that I'm adding things accurately. I had some eggs, baked potato, salad, cottage cheese for dinner. I have drank 5 bottles of water so far today. I'm feeling HUGE right now. Feeling extremely bloated! Hopefully this water drinking and etc. will really start to show/pay off fairly quickly. I wonder when I will start to notice my body "looking" differently. Being pregnant it will be interesting to see if I can notice any changes in my appearance, other than the obvious belly growth. Hopefully this really bloated feeling will go away soon enough. I feel like I can hardly move.

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When I'm on I'm on and when I'm off, I'm off!! That is pretty much the way I would describe my physcial well being. As of late I'm definitely OFF! I am tired of being on and off. I would love to be "on" forever more! Hence, the beginning of this blog.

A few months ago I began training for my 3rd marathon to run. ~Just to clarify, a marathon is in fact 26.2 miles. It seems I have run into people in the past that are mistaken for how many miles a marathon is. It is definitely important to be aware of the mileage of this event, as to understand the intensity of it.~ I started the training in July of 2008. When I started I was once again OFF! I had some work ahead of me, but knew it could be done, and must be done! I exercised very zealously and ate extremely healthily. Things were going well, the weight was melting off. Right around the time that my training began my husband headed off to Baghdad, Iraq for a 4 month deployment. Myself, our 4 year old son, and our 2 year old son were left to take care of things at home and to proudly support him in his diligent efforts in working for Operation Iraqi Freedom. As I'm continuing with my training out of the blue I started feeling a little odd. I began feeling faint during runs that I should be feeling great for. I remember specifically I was supposed to run a 10 mile long run and could only get to 7 miles before I knew I had to just stop before I literally passed out. I wasn't sure what was wrong, but I knew that I was going to keep training and working until I was able to keep up with what I really should be doing. Finally my last run that I completed for my training was a 16 mile long run. Typically the most miles you run before you actually run a marathon is actually between 20-22 miles. I oddly could barely make it through .5 a mile without needing to drink water, but I was determined to do it! So I did, I ran all 16 miles, despite needing to drink water every few minutes. Finally I started feeling sick and abnormally tired. I finally decided that there's something not right here. I pretty much had ruled out being pregnant, because my husband and I both knew it was impossible for that to be (that's another story). I decided though to start by ruling out that I was pregnant. I took a pregnancy test, lo and behold it was positive! I did not believe my eyes! I knew it had to be wrong! I took my second pregnancy test, to rule it out again. This time I did EXACTLY what the directions said, to make room for zero error. The result for the second test simply, yet life alteringly confirmed the first test. It was hard to deny it because it was digital and said the actual word 'pregnant' on it! This was definitely the farthest thought from my mind. In my mind I was preparing to look a certain way physically in a couple months, and to be able to run a full marathon! These ideas were both complete opposite of the truth of the matter! I had to change my thoughts mentally which took some time for me. During this time I turned to food to console and stopped exercising. Granted I was very nautious and threw up a lot the whole first trimester. This sick feeling that hardly went away caused me to not feel well enough to do any exercising for fear of throwing up at the gym, and just the mere fact that I just didn't have the energy or the wellness feeling to get out and exercise. Well here I am now. 16 weeks pregnant. Feeling GREAT! I haven't felt sick for a couple weeks now. The only thing is now that I'm not preoccupied with the morning sickness, reality is setting in! I have really veered far from the healthy living lifestyle! I have already gained too much weight! It STOPS NOW! This site has been started as a support system for other people who might not have the exact story I have, but who are also in need of some networking and resources to enhance the already planted desire to change and become healthy! Together we can do this! I invite all of you to join me in my journey to learn how to be healthy no matter what life hands you, or what current circumstances are. Let's conquer the unhealthy demons together, lol!!

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

After Dinner

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