Becoming Healthy in Mind, Body and Soul!

 On this journey I want to be as real as I can so here’s a confession… I’m obsessed with my weight! Like seriously obsessed! It is always on my mind and consumes my thoughts. So much so that getting ready for an outing, catching a glimpse of myself in a mirror or getting on the scales can send me into a deep depression that I have to fight against. Every time I leave my house I am thinking about how I look. When I go to work, when I get groceries, when I walk my dogs, when I ride motorcycle…it is always there. Seeing pictures of myself are the worst! At times it can be crippling and creates such an insecurity. I’m good at faking it but it definitely gets the best of me. It affects all areas of my life, my relationships, my job, my confidence everything!  I don’t remember a time that this hasn’t been the case. It doesn’t matter my size, big or small and I have been both, it is always there, a demon that won’t go away. I weigh myself in the morning and a lot of time before I go ...

  Vegetables... Another great start in your weight loss journey, health journey, whatever journey you're on is to incorporate more vegetables in your diet.  Certain veggies have gotten a bad rep from time to time or from diet to diet but overall are so good for you! Vegetables offer an array of health benefits, are a good source of fibre, full of nutrients,  are low calorie for the most and low fat.  Diets high in vegetables are known to help reduce blood pressure, help control and reduce blood sugar spikes, help reduce the risk of cancer and help strengthen your immune system.  The list of health benefits is so long I could go on for pages!  The struggle is incorporating veggies into your diet.  A lot of people aren't fond of vegetables or they load them with unhealthy sauces and dips.  For instance we tend to have a salad for lunch with grilled chicken and then load it with ranch dressing or even worse, high sugared dressings like French or Cata...

  Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired In the past my main focus has always been to lose weight.  I have spent YEARS being obsessed with my weight! When I decided I was finally ready to lose the weight, I would do every trick under the book to lose it fast.  I would try the current fad diets, I would over exercise, I would not eat enough, I would completely deprive myself of anything I enjoyed...and it worked...temporarily.  After I lost the weight, I had a hard time keeping it off because I was unhealthy.  I was tired and felt like crap!  Obviously I still want to lose weight, but more importantly I want a life.  I want a life where I can go out with my kids and not feel exhausted after playing ball for 30 mins.  Where I can walk my dogs and not be completely pooped afterwards.  Where cooking supper isn't exhausting.  I want a life without bloat and tummy troubles.  Where I don't half way through the day feel so bloated that my p...

  New Beginnings    For a lot of people, January 1st is the time for new beginnings, a time to look at your  life and evaluate where you are at and where you want to be.  You come up with a plan to make changes and start to implement them into your life and routine.  Even though I do look at January as a new beginning,  September is actually more my time.  We've just finished a couple of months of no routine, no school and a lot of fun.  The last few weeks of August we get the kids ready for school, plan our routine and I look at this as a time to get serious and do some life planning and evaluation after a few months of playing.   The last few weeks I've been getting things in order like normal, but I felt like I needed more.  I really have a beautiful life with a supportive, helpful and loving partner, 5 kids who I adore, 2 beautiful but crazy dogs, a job that pays me well and...