We’re 3/4 of the way done with this pregnancy now at 30 weeks and this little jumping bean isn’t far off from making his debut! The most exciting news to share is that I passed my glucose screening and I don’t have gestational diabetes!!! I had fully expected to be told that I’d have to go back for the 3-hour test so it was a huge relief to get the all-clear. I think it would have felt like too much to be put on a strict diet for the rest of the pregnancy on top of dealing with my daily (soon to be twice daily) shots and nausea. My test wasn’t until 2:15 in the afternoon so I ate a breakfast of 6 scrambled eggs around 9:30-10 am. I don’t know if it made a difference but I didn’t want to be on the border of having to go back so I avoided carbs that day until after my test. We stopped at Wawa on the way home and I got a side macaroni salad, a sub, and a donut.
We’re trying to power through projects on our new house before the baby gets here so our upstairs is still a construction zone. We just had new windows installed and we’re getting ready to paint after all the wallpaper stripping before the new carpet comes. You can barely tell that this is a really old faded green carpet. Can you spot the cat?
March has come and gone and another birthday month is in the books. It’s kind of crazy how fast this year has been flying by because I feel like I only just wrote my goals for the whole year and we’re already 1/4 through it! It’s time to move on and share my April goals, but first, a quick March health and fitness recap:
Eat vegetable centered meals for lunches and dinners
Start weight training
Strengthening my back and core
Posture awareness
Keep track of my steps and water intake for this month: Iโd really like to try and be getting my 10,000 daily steps in at least 5 days a week. Iโm obviously in favor of 7, but if I can get 5/7 each week this month, Iโm going to be pretty happy.
Run
I’d say that for most of my goals, they were moderately accomplished and I’m improving in each category. Considering that I was sick for most of the month of March, I’m really happy with what got done.
I’ve only started running in the last week because I felt like I really needed to just be walking. Even now, I’m taking up running slowly because of some issues with my knees. You can see a general workout recap below.
The biggest accomplishment for the month was getting in my daily 10,000 steps! I really had to work for this one because if I wasn’t being proactive or dedicated to the goal, I would have come way under on most days. The crazy thing is, I’ve started to notice changes in my body due to the step taking and I wasn’t expecting much of it to happen at all. Over the last month I’ve realized that –
I’m getting more workouts and walks in. I’m not spending days just sitting around and I’m making less excuses
My back still has the same triggers but overall I’m in a better place
I don’t think I’ve really lost much weight, but I feel that my body is toning and looking a little slimmer.
Sure, some of this could be because I’ve also been working out as well, but I will definitely attribute most of my success this month to taking my 10,000 steps. It’s like having this goal as a central goal is keeping everything else in line.
I didn’t start until March 2nd so for the purpose of making better calculations, March is going to be 30 days long ๐
22/30 days with 10,000+ steps
296,129 steps total
Average of 9,871 steps per day
Most steps in a day: 16,187 steps
Part of the step counting motivation has been to prepare for our Disney World trip next month. We’re going to be in the parks for 5 days and if you’ve ever been, you know that there’s usually a ton of walking. The last 2 times I’ve gone, I’ve ended up in a wheelchair for part/most of the trip. I’d really like to be able to handle all the walking and not have too much pain so I’m trying to prep myself to be ready.
Here are my April Goals:
Again I’m going with trying to get in at least 10,000 steps in for every day in April. I didn’t get a full 7-day streak in last month so I’m attempting to get a really long one this month – maybe even 30 days! ๐
Running 3 times a week.
Getting in a proper stretch after each run and workout — I really need to start doing this because I keep forgetting and I’m paying for it. I need to do more yoga.
Strength training. I have horrible muscular endurance and I’d like to do at least 3 20+ minutes sessions a week with some random throughout the day exercises thrown in to help build up strength
Mindful eating. I’ve been realizing more and more how much of my life is focused on food. I love to eat good food and sometimes I just love to eat which leads to overeating. I’d really like to focus on eating slower, enjoying my food, and not stuffing myself.
Do you count steps?
In terms of overall health, is there any one thing you can point to that keeps you on track to accomplish your goals?
Hello birth-month! March is finally here and we get to spend the whole month celebrating me! If only. But my birthday is in just a few weeks on St. Patrick’s day and my sister is getting home from college that day so I have a lot to look forward to.
The time has come to check out what I accomplished in the month of February and see if I met any of my goals…
February Goals
Keep a food/health diary: fail. This didn’t happen at all except for a couple days where I logged in to My Fitness Pal to log a soup I had just created.
Do yoga every day: Another fail. This is actually pretty depressing because I wanted to do this a lot but I think I accomplished 3/28 days. Ouch.
Run 3 days a week: Another nope. I was totally wiped of all energy at the beginning of the month that I had a hard time doing anything and all I wanted to do was sleep. It got to the point where I was like, I need to get out and do what I can do even if it’s not much. Just getting out the door is going to get the streak rolling. So I walked. A week of walking turned into a week of workouts which turned into an even better week of workouts. I feel like I’m going into March with positive momentum and I’m looking forward to seeing my board for March fill up.
Can you believe that today is the last day of summer? I can’t believe fall is already here!ย I don’t love when sundown is getting earlier but it was perfect timing for me last night when I was picking up hubby from work. It was a spectacular drive.
On Sunday I went to the B&O Railroad museum with my dad, brother, step-sis, and hubby. I don’t have half the photos though because my phone is now dead forever. See below.
I’ve unofficially officially left my job! If you’re confused as to what that means, it means that I’ve turned in my badge and I’m not planning on returning but they’re keeping me in the system for up to 90 days in case I change my mind. They’re going to miss me so that makes me feel good. For a little over a year, I’ve been working as a “floater” in a large office building moving between departments as they needed help. I’ve done so many jobs ranging from web to administrative assistant, editor, office grunt work, inventory, and handling international visa applications. There have been a handful of fun moments, but I’m really ready to move on now that I’m not the main support for our little family.
I did have a moment of sadness yesterday when I turned in my badge because while it wasn’t at all what I wanted to be doing, my dad works there in a different department and it was really nice being able to eat lunch with him regularly.
There’s something about the sky. There’s a change in the air. The pool no longer seems as inviting and all I can think about is eating more apples and going hiking and camping… Fall is coming and I can’t resist its advances anymore. I love summer but there are many things I love about fall so I’ll try not to be too sad.
Hallelujah for long weekends! I had a rough day Friday and had to cancel our plans of going kayaking because I was doing bad enough that I knew it would mess me up to a level I wasn’t ready to deal with. We went shopping instead for some new pants at Gap for Brady because he starts work next week! He was in love with these really stretchy khakis, it was kind of cute lol. I also picked up a $50 Eddie Bauer shirt for $15 on clearance. It’s going to be my base layer for hiking/camping trips or anything outdoors during the cooler months. We went apple picking and got about 13 pounds of fresh honeycrisps and also got 3-4 pounds of sweet and ripe raspberries.
