Feeling Sick, Great Way to Lose Weight.

Last week I was feeling great at work. Then I came home all of a sudden I was sick. I felt so nauseated. I still had to take the two younger kids and pick up my oldest daughter. Every minute that went by the sicker I felt. I was feeling exhausted and weak. I thought it could be I was hungry so I ate an Eggo waffle and drank some Pepsi. Did not help.

My baby was sick at that time with diareah already for 3 days. I had not slept for a few nights. I thought that was why I was not feeling well.

I went and got my daughter from school. The whole time I was waiting for her I wanted to just crawl into a ball and go to sleep. I felt so weak holding my baby. As soon as we got home I just dropped everything on the floor and the baby and I laid down on the couch. I could not move for the rest of the evening and I was throwing up everything for hours. Even my vitamins I took that morning. Thank goodness for my two older kids, ages 6 and 4. They took such good care of me.

Well I was sick the whole weekend until now. My baby is still sick and I am changing up to 8 diapers a night. She acts like her normal playful self and has no fever. Just changing alot of dirty diapers. I have not slept in over a week and I still feel really sick and weak.

Needless to say. I am not getting much of my excercise done for my 21 day challenge. We did take the kids out for a walk and fresh air the past two days though. That was really nice. Most of the time I just want to be in bed but it is tough. I still have to go to work and school and be a mom.

At least I am losing weight.

21 Days to a New Me

My grandfather passed away last week, so my family took a 7 hour drive to the funeral. It was a nice funeral. My grandfather was a great man and will be missed.
While we were on this drive my dad mentioned a speaker from his last convention that he worked. This speaker talked about how it only takes 21 days to break a bad habit or create a good one. The concept is, if you do the same thing everyday for 21 days than you feel awkward not doing it. So if you start to run everyday for 21 days than by the 22nd day you will feel weird not running. If you want to quit smoking then you try for 21 days and by the 22nd day you should be smoke free. This is supposed to work with anything. If you want to cut out a certain food out of your diet by the 22nd day you will not want it anymore.

I am going to apply this to my life. I have a ton of things I would like to change but I am going to take it one step at  time. My main thing is exercise. I have the hardest time finding time to exercise. I have decided that I am going to do anything I can to squeeze it into my daily life for 21 days. Hopefully by day 22 I will be wanting to exercise and not forcing myself. I am already on day 3. There is a great article on Healthy Lifestyle that has tips for getting motivated to exercise.  I will keep posting my progress.