Week 2

Well the past 2 weeks haven't gone nearly as well as I had intended. I had started the 6 week mini challenge from bikinibodymommy and I got day 1 done. I was so sore I couldn't believe how out of shape I'd gotten. I had a huge test I had to take a few days later and working out got put on the back burner (I passed my test though!!!). Last week my husband agreed to start running with me 3 days a week. We started a 10 week to a 10K program I'd started when I was serving a mission. My companion and I made it half way through before I went home and I LOVED it. I didn't stick with it though. Well we made it through days 1 and 2 fine. I was really sore after day one and I have a LONG way to go-I don't know if you could consider some of it even jogging by the end ha. We couldn't get anyone to watch the girls for us to do day 3, but we did end up going on a walk with the girls. We don't have a double jogging stroller yet or else we could have just taken the girls. The stroller we have wouldn't work for even around the track like we were doing. Hopefully one day soon we'll be able to get a good jogging stroller. We're supposed to go running tonight, Wednesday and Saturday so that should be good. It's hard having to rely on someone else to watch the girls-it'll get even harder the longer the runs get.
As for my nutrition, it's been decent. Breakfast has been pretty easy for me. My new favorite breakfast has been a banana breakfast bowl (whole30 approved!). It's one banana cut up, mixed with pecans, cinnamon, shredded coconut and coconut milk, then heated in the microwave. It's super quick and delicious. I think it really should go as a side to scrambled eggs or sausage or some kind of protein, but at least it's been healthy. Lunches have been left overs and I've been trying to make sure we're cooking at home every night. Some of the meals have been flops recently but some have been pretty good. I've also been trying to go to fruit instead of sugar if I'm wanting a snack. I've had a lot of peaches with coconut milk in an effort to cut down my processed sugar. My downfall has been all the treats that show up at work. We've had candy, cookies, chocolate, mints, more cookies! I have no self control when it's here-I just keep going to it!! As for my water intake-I've done pretty good most days. I have a 32 oz water bottle on my desk that I try to fill at least twice while I'm at work. I also have at least 20 oz in the morning before work and at least 20 oz at night. I don't do as well on the weekends. I get distracted and just don't think about it until I'm already thirsty. That's one area I need to work on
I've had a lot more fails than successes but that's okay. I'm going to do better. I can't remember if I wrote this in my last post or not but I'd had some issues with my milk supply after I started taking a birth control pill a month ago-my supply dropped drastically (I had been pumping at least 12 oz at work, then it dropped to 6 oz-that just wasn't going to work with a baby in daycare that ate at least 12 oz while I was gone). I tried taking Fenugreek and it wasn't helping. I realized it was because I was put on a birth control pill that had estrogen instead of just progesterone in it. I immediately called my doctor and they switched it and gave my a prescription to increase my supply-now I'm pumping 12-15 oz a day at work. It's not as much as I was producing with R, but it's enough for now. I think being put on the first prescription also has made me hold onto a bit more of the weight than I did with R. With her, I got an IUD but it caused too many issues with irregular (and LONG periods-think a month and a half at a time!) so this time around I needed to make a change. Hopefully this prescription I got changed to doesn't make me hold onto the weight though! Anyway-where I was going with that-my milk finally seems to be up high enough that I'm not too terribly worried about it and I'm not concerned about starting an exercise routine affecting how much I produce. I know I just need to be diligent in eating good foods and drinking lots of water