This school year is proving to be an exciting one! We have decided to home school the last 2 remaining children that we have! Which means a ninth grader and a third grader! One of my concerns was...oh my..if everyone is home, then we are going to be baking more, eating more etc. because we will be in the house. Well we decided to nip that in the bud really quick. We have been making a weekly menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner so that we aren't so tired that we make bad choices with our food or we just can't think of what to eat for a meal so we just do the easy thing and go to a drive through. Now don't get me wrong, I still love a good french fry every now and then but I am learning more and more I don't like fast food fries. I would just rather make my own fries...by baking them in my oven.
So here we are on week 3 of school and so far the menu planning is working out great! Although we did settle for fast food on Saturday night because 3 out of the 4 of us had participated in a 5K earlier in the day and we were all very tired!
We have only made one batch of chocolate chip cookies since school has been in session and that was while the college student was home, so he ate most of those and we didn't have to worry about them.
So I am once again learning that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail! I don't want to fail on this journey. I want to succeed and continue to become more healthy!
It truly is making a difference in my life! Just went to the doctor last week for a yearly blood work check up. I try to keep close tabs on that due to my family history of high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol etc. Several years ago before I started on this journey, my numbers weren't horrible, but they were slowly creeping up to what I feel were dangerous levels! But when I got the results from this last battery of tests, I was thrilled beyond belief as to what is happening to my system as I improve my health!!!
My fasting blood sugar was 95 the last time I had it checked. This year it has dropped to 88!!! They want it to be between 70-100!
My cholesterol has dropped from 155 to 145!
My HDL needed to be above 40 and came in at 51!
My LDL needed to be below 130 and they came in at 76!
My triglycerides needed to be below 150 and that came in at 91.
My blood pressure was 108/over 60!
I can't tell you how much better I feel now that I have realized that taking care of me is just as important or more so than taking care of the other people in my life that I take care of. The one thing I am remembering is that If I don't take care of me, who will take care of those that I take care of?
If you want to do something special for yourself, please take care of you!
Keep on keeping on!!!
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