DOWN for the Holidays! (Page 36)

Two more glasses to go. I got this one in the bag!

Woot!  I met that one, at least 2 liters

Intervals on the treadmill.  Can I puke now?

Ok... any time a "half your body weight" water challenge comes up, I'm doomed to fail.  Especially during a 24 hour shift.

Anyway... weighed in yesterday, in uniform again.  I'm down to 241.  I think that's 5 or 6 pounds gone!!

Great job Speed!!!

Oh come on, it is not even 1 gallon   

Ok, just kidding - nice job dropping the weight!  When's your race with your daughter?

You keep dropping, we are not going to recognize you around here

Question for those of you with kids.....as you change your nutrition (I hate the word "diet"), do you make changes to what your kids are eating as well?  Do you talk to them about nutrition?  

This weekend I had a chat with my 10-year old niece about health/nutrition and I asked her if they talk about health/nutrition in school.  She said "Are you kidding?  We have the Dippin Dots (this is kinda like ice cream for those who don't know) truck come to school every Thursday as a school fund-raiser!"  I realize schools are way under-funded, especially here in CA (and my brother lives in a GOOD district) but this is just sad.

We talk to our kids about trying to make good choices and knowing what's questionable.  Also we talk to them about the effects of sugar or too much sugar.  

We know that they are listening.  Just last night, our oldest said she had a "good" lunch yesterday. She found out if they get "X" number of things they don't have to get the main course.  When asked what she had, she said she got carrots, broccoli, an orange and something else that I forget right now.  What is funny is the main course that day was pizza and that is usually one of her favorites.

When the kids lived here, we sure did. I have step-kids. Their mom fed them a lot of pre-made food and general crap. We went for lots of veggies and fresh food (still do) and variety. It was an uphill battle but it needed to be done. Proud to say both kids are on their own and make really good choices (for the most part) AND are fit and active.

in a round-about way,  i havent had any soda for over a year now.  one of the hardest things i had to do.  i got crabby, head aches ect.....  so not having it they dont drink it as much,  i basically only drink water for thurst. maybe some juice now and then.   stopped buying all the snacks,  so they dont have it at hand to eat, not that they dont, its just not easy watching tv and grabbing a bag of chips or bowl of ice cream.

My son eats very little. He's in great health and almost never gets sick.

Super picky though...

Just had to share.....for those that have followed my training log for a while, you know cooking is far from my strong suit.  In fact I have even screwed up on hard-boiled eggs....boiled the water, turned it off and then realized 20 minutes later I never put the eggs in the water!

Anyway, I have been getting a box of organic produce delivered to my place and this week I got an acorn squash.  Today I boiled it, scraped the "meat" off of the skin, then added a bit of coconut oil, cinnamon and salt....and mashed it all together....OMG it tastes AMAZING!!!!!!  It could be a side dish or even a dessert!

My kids used to eat better than I did.  We've always limited their intake of "junk".  Since January when I started to eat better we have improved on the diet even further.  Substituting a lot more vegetables for processed carb loaded dishes.  I like my veggies simple, raw or steamed, and untouched and so I'm working to get them there to.  We talk a lot more these days about healthy living and family health history etc.

As an aside since getting in much better shape I have noticed something that never stuck out to me before.  This nation as a whole is getting soft....mostly around the midsection.  I honestly never paid much attention to it before but people are just getting way out of shape, and their kids are doing the same thing.  I see pictures of my friends "husky" kids on facebook or something like that where they are just crushing some donuts or cupcakes or whatever and pounding cokes 2 or 3 times a day....it just baffles me how they are handicapping their own kids like that.

Watch Weight of the Nation online....

Abbie,

I have always heard that shildren are "born" with a particular palate taste.  I have an old freind with 3 kids, the oldest would take 1 piece of candy if offered to take from a bag.  Her son would eat the contents of the bag if not limited when offered.  I don't know how much of that is the personality difference in her 2 older kids vs "palate" (her husband is a chef, these kids learned to like LOTS of food)

I keep healthier snacks around, with a mixture of not so healthy stuff......I try to steer them towards the fruits and veggies.  But I am dealing with teenagers who think they are invincible.  When I lost the majority of my weight (8 + years ago) we didn't change their snacks.  We just switched over to the whole grain bread and pasta, brown rice.  They are okay with that, in fact my oldest doesn't like white bread or pasta.....or white rice.  The younger one is  a carb-oholic and eith our family history of diabetes on both sides will likely beocome a diabetic .

It is a hard balancing act.  They should have the occasional treat as kids....but when there are such bad risk factors and genetics playing into disease potential the families *should* be more proactive to prevent the potential.  Unfortunately.....a vast majority of our socciety does little / nothing to mitigate personal healrh risks for themselves OR their kids. 

+1

every sunday a group of us would go on a ride road/mountain and afterwards we would go to a resturant and eat. almost every time one of us would bring up the subject how fat everybody in there was.  next time you go out to eat, look around, its amazing how out of shape everyone is. the funny thing is seeing someone with four plates heaping full of garbage, and drinking diet soda.

I've never liked squash...at all.  But I took a butternut one and carved the skin off, chopped it in to little cubes and have been using it to make a 'hash' of sorts with onion, mushrooms etc.  Hubby LOVES it.  I'll eat it - I wouldn't say it's my favourite but it's nice to eat something new.