You may be wondering what the title is all about, well I have been thinking about my health and the health of my children. I was a thin child. I was a fairly thin teenager, but after having 4 children I find myself at 225 and holding. I can't lose weight and I keep creeping up on the scales. What can I do to make things better. I feel like I have read every book, and heard advice from all sorts. Even those who have no room to give it. I have never been able to help myself.
But now comes the true test. I have a daughter, a BEAUTIFUL daughter who has the most incredible giggle. Her shy smile can light up a room. Lauren is 115 pounds. She is 7 soon to be 8 and I do not want to see her struggle with obesity all of her life. I don't want her to be hurt by the cruel kids whose parents didn't teach them to see the inside before the outside. I don't want to hurt because of me, because of the choices I have made in her life. So I have to make it right. I have to start now and make a change. For all of us so that we may become a healthy family and so that the future can be rewritten. I want her to enjoy all the things I did and not be afraid to live. Right now she only knows that she is bigger than her brother and sisters. She was held back in Kindergarten last year and was the largest child in her class. It was sad for me but they didn't notice. She had a little boy/friend named George and he was always so sweet to Lauren. He often wanted to hold her hand and she gave him piggy back rides on the playground. :) Cute....Right!
Lauren will be a first grader this year and I fear she will still be the largest one in her class. I know one day they will all catch up to her height wise, but that day seems far away.
Anyway our first step is water! No one in our family drinks enough water. In fact most of us don't drink anything until we are all about to die of thirst. Why is that? When we had our water cooler we couldn't keep it filled. The simplicity of that was nice the ice cool water at our fingertips made it desirable why? Who knows, but since the water cooler kicker the bucket we must drink from the faucet. Which is not cold, which makes us reach for the ice bucket, which in these hot summer months seems to always be empty. So maybe that is why most of us don't bother. To much hassle not to mention who wants to be peeved when they find no ice in the freezer.
So upon doing research today I found that I should be drinking at least 4 liters of water and Lauren should be drinking 2. This is going to be our first step. I am hoping a few friends will jump in as well to make this journey less painful and I will be able to bounce ideas off. I would love to make it a game. So for drinking your water daily you get 10 points. That way you are working towards a goal. A prize will be awarded at the end for the one with the most points. The second week we will add in something else to go along with the water challenge, maybe exercise, maybe journal your food, maybe giving up a bad habit, maybe we will be stuck on water still and will try to better the following week? Right now I want to focus on getting myself hydrated. I meet with a personal trainer next week and maybe they will have some insight on would be my next move.
More than Obesity I care about our health, my baby making days are over, but I don't want my child to harm her chances by being obese. I don't want to think about diabetes for either of us. Gestational diabetes was bad enough, which has me at a higher risk already. I could go on and on about the health risks but I won't.
Ok so here goes nothing, that I hope turns into something really big! Or little depending on how you look at it! :D
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