Healthy Changes?

It's been 1 week since I decided my life needs a change.  I'm turning 30 this year (eek!) and am in the worst shape of my life - overweight, out of breath going up the stairs, chronic pain and fatigue, and the worst part is I just plain can't keep up with our daughter.  She's two.  There are no excuses.

After receiving some great encouragement and advice from friends and family I started back to tracking calories and trying to making healthier food choices.  Livestrong.com has a great FREE food and exercise tracker that I highly recommend.  I'm doing well on calories but it's definitely been an adjustment.  Baby Bird nursed till just a few months ago.  While nursing I was hungry all. the. time.  When she slowed down then weaned completely I just kept eating as if she was still nursing like a young toddler... not so good for my waistline.  I was feeling good about making some healthy changes.

Life has a way of throwing curveballs though.

The day after I announced my goal of getting healthier I felt the teeniest tickle at the back of my throat.  By Thursday all three of us had full-fledged nasty coughs, fiery throats, and aches all over.  Thursday was supposed to be my PCS work day... A whole day dedicated to cleaning, sorting, and packing while Baby Bird played with friends.  The ONLY day we had available to get that amount of work done without a little helper.  A whole day.  Spent coughing in bed instead of packing.

Well, the movers come in just a few days and the house still looks like a tornado blew through it.  Our suitcases aren't packed, the shipments aren't sorted, the fridge and pantry are still full of old food, and we're still hacking, coughing, and sleeping away our sickness.  We don't have TIME to be sick right now.

I'm trying to make some healthy changes in my life right now, but I think for this week I'd be thrilled with NOT SICK!

Oops, sorry.

Well, that was fun.  In an effort to make this blog address easier to type and remember I decided to change the web address.  It didn't occur to me till AFTER I'd already changed the address and entered a new post for 2013 that it would mess with my followers' blog feeds.  Sorry!

I've changed the web address back to the original:

meanderingsofaclutteredmind.blogspot.com


I will be changing it to a NEW address this Sunday, 6Jan2013:

drops-inabucket.blogspot.com

I'm sorry for the confusion; please let me know if you have any questions or run into any more glitches!