Owen and I are both just a tad on the congested nose/coughing side of health right now. It's not fun feeling like your sinuses could at any moment cause serious brain damage because the pressure is so big... I took some medicine this morning, and drank coffee... and thought about how the heck I would move on purpose today.
So tomorrow I leave for Florida to visit my family, including my new nephew, I am very pumped. Needless to say today needed to be a packing/cleaning day. (It's 4:30pm, bags are still not packed.) My friend called around 10:30am and asked if I would be up for going to Millenium Park Beach today (not Chicago... I wish! It's a local park with a beach on a lake). I said that maybe this was the incentive to get stuff done today. So I started laundry and organized all Owen's clothes... Then got the two of us ready for the beach. On the way to the beach I decided I would swim when I got there for my movement of the day.
I pulled up to the round-a-bout thingy hoping that Theresa would be standing there ready to grab Owen, so I pulled his carrier out, and my bag and then a cop pulled up in his golf cart and I was all worried because it said, "No loading or unloading" right where I was parked. So after unloading Owen and my bag, I loaded both back in the car and sped away to the parking lot. This made it necessary for me to carry my bag and Owen in his carrier all the way to the park... Most mom's are saying, "Why didn't you have the stroller?" and at the time I was thinking the same thing. Then I began to feel the burning in my arms and realized I was exercising without even realizing it! SO, keep that in mind the next time you go to the grocery store, carry the carrier into the store instead of grabbing a cart in the cart corral... it will make you feel accomplished!
So when I made it to the entrance, my dear friend Theresa was there with $3 cash for me to get in (thanks Theresa!) and she took my beach bag... but I still lugged the infant carrier with sleeping Owen down to the beach. Which by the way is very nice! BUT you may not swim past the knee high area... so much for my laps.
So Owen napped for an hour in his car seat while I chit chatted and then drove home. An hour in the sun can make you feel like sleeping all day. But I still felt like I had to do something to blog about. This blog thing really works to keep you in check!
Since we are leaving for Florida tomorrow and I need to do loads of laundry, I went downstairs to fold laundry and began doing lunges while folding - voila! Exercise! Real exercise while I work. As soon as I began to feel the "burn" so to speak, I realized that it is possible to fit in bits of exercise here and there! In my mind I picture Jillian from Big Fat Loser (a.k.a. Biggest Loser) yelling at me so I keep pushing through the burn.
Note: Even mental images of Jillian yelling at you work for motivation!
I have also spent a lot of time on the floor of the nursery today playing with Owen who will not take an afternoon nap. While there I did some sit-ups too... thought I'd throw those in as well. I don't think I looked quite like the magazine women who do this next to there babies, but it was an attempt.
Theresa suggested I write about what I am eating too... I guess that may have something to do with losing weight as well! I've never been a fan of diets, I think I am more of a fan of being conscious of what you eat, and making sure there is some healthy stuff in there!!! So here's what I've had so far - an organic pop-tart for breakfast with coffee, a chicken sandwich with lettuce and light mayo (made from dinner leftovers) and an apple for lunch with grape juice, another pop-tart for a snack... and I am thinking frozen pizza for dinner! Something easy - if it changes, I'll let you know.
Owen's clothes will be finished soon, so I have another set of lunges to attend to!
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