This past weekend I had a reality check with myself about my family's nutrition. I made a post on my Instagram that I was going to go on a nutrition journey with Seth. I found that since I came home from the hospital with Lexi our nutrition took a hit.
I mean a new baby, a 4 year old toddler, my mom coming up to help us, Adam did not arrive as yet, my sister-in-law coming up, my emotions all over the place .. Sigh! I mean that was more than enough to deal with at the time.
Looking back on it now both my husband and my mom had to remind me to eat. I felt like I was in mom survival mode trying to figure everything out. Hmm I think I will do a separate blog post about that story, What do you think?
Ok now back to the nutrition. For the whole time I was pregnant I paid close attention to what I ate. Yes I indulged now and then, not nearly as much as my first pregnancy but I did. The difference this time was that is it was a decision I made. I never blamed it on the fact that I was pregnant. Yes that is a thing, I had someone tell me, "Your pregnant you have an excuse" Ah no I don't and its even more important for me to think carefully of what I choose to eat when I am pregnant because I was fuelling my baby.
So when Honey our nickname of Lexi Grace, and my nutrition went all over the place I started to feel very unhappy and guilty. I felt out of control and guilty because I was not the one cooking, I was extremely grateful for all the help but I just could not find the time to figure out a meal plan in the middle of figuring out how to be a mom to two kids.
So the first few weeks were rough but as time passed it got a little easier everyday. The one thing that I made sure I had though was my Shakeology. I made sure that no matter what I drank it so that my body could be fuelled and get the daily nutrition it needed to push through.
Its been almost 3 months and I am finally feeling like I am in control again. This weekend I decided that I HAVE to make a better effort to clean out both my diet and Seth's diet. The other big think that I was totally consumed with was trying to figure out how to help Seth through all these transition stages and all these changes. It was and is not easy and it was something new for all of us but that part is definitely another blog post.
We had this thing with Seth that when we picked him up from school, we would take him to the Starbucks around the corner and sit with him and have, special time with him.
We meaning my husband, my mom and or myself. We love this outing with him, it did not happen everyday mostly once a week while I was working. After Adam left I tried to use this time with him as bonding time. I would pick him up with out my mom or Honey and take him there. While there I allowed one to many cake pops (something he never ate before but now devours). It hit me this weekend that I need to stop, assess and fix and control what was happening to Seth's "diet".
As Seth grew up I paid so much attention to what he ate, he never had chocolate before he was 1 year old. He has never drank a swee drink (the Trini was of saying soft drink) aka pop. I give him water, juice and milk. The artificial sugars were very very minimal and only came in the form of ice cream oh and a surprise egg now and then. He was more interested in the toy than the egg at first but as he got older he wanted the whole egg.
We always made the effort to cook his food for him at home. Take out was always hard for us if we got trapped out because I would never buy him oily or fried foods. But even though it was hard I loved that because I was doing his body good by being so focused on what he ate.
Now don't get me wrong Seth does not have the worst diet ever; its not like I feed him McDonald's eww I never will. He is actually a great eater, he has a very hearty appetite however, the snacks just became too much of a normal treat.
So I decided that I have to fix what can be fixed before I do to much damage. So I am on a journey of cleaning and eliminating sugar and other "snacks" from his diet. Argh I do not like the word diet, let's use meal plan, so much better!
Of course I am not going to do this for him and not do the same for me. So we are both on this journey together. I just finished 5 weeks of my workout program and it was a huge and happy accomplishment. However, I wanted to do better and by that I mean I want to dial into my nutrition more.
So there is no better time than the present to go on this journey. I am going to share my preparations, the ups the downs the good and the bad times. Everything about the journey I am going to share here on my blog and on my Instagram stories.
So come follow along with us :) and if you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out to me.
