PadawanOfHappiness

in many different areas.  I am still in showed up mode just skating by and maintaining but not breaking out of my rut. In some ways, I want to say it is ok because I spent two weekends in NJ visiting my Aunts and helping clear away some things at their house and the funeral.  I think everyone in this house has been sick not all at once so it seems like it has lasted forever.  So yeah there has been a lot of stress and uncertainty. I spent a good chunk of today focusing on some business-related things that I am really hope come to fruition.  I have also been doing some planning on Pinterest to try to incorporate some fun with my boys.  One of my fears is that as a 'Boy Mom' that I don't engage with them as much as I should or could because quite frankly I love them to bits but their interests don't really align with mine.  As the parent I know that it is my job to focus on them and come up with ways to join their interests, I get a lot of support from ...

I am still working on getting back into the groove of weighing food, and counting calories, it is less successful than I had hoped it would be.  Part of the issue is that for dinners I love casseroles and one-dish meals, and those are really hard to count calories.  In my previous posts, I think I had mentioned something similar because NOOM doesn't have a place to input recipes and have it spit out portion and calories, and while MyFitnessPal does I find the interface clunky and therefore I don't use it.  To combat that a bit I have focused on this month's menu to not feature casseroles as much even the ones that I have altered to make a bit more on the healthy side.  I realized today as I was in the middle of my cardio work out that even though I had the intention of doing better in January, in reality, I was just in what Jillian Michaels calls 'showed up mode'.  This isn't necessarily a bad thing because some is better than none, but since I want to see pr...