Evasive weight loss, first cereal, scorched pots and other random thoughts
So, it's 11:30pm and I am still wide awake thanks to the half a dr.pepper I had with dinner. So after an hour of laying in bed with thoughts running through my head I decided to blog and be "productive" with my time.
First off, I'm asking for suggestions. Maybe I'm just not patient enough, but I've been working out regularly now for going on 4 weeks and the scale has not budged a bit. What's up with this? Here's the bottom line. I had triplets 4+ months ago. After being on bedrest for 4 weeks previous to this, it was difficult to walk period after they were born. However I've recovered from this and lost about 55 of the 75 pregnancy pounds I put on. This was all without work. I am currently 20 pounds from my pregnancy start weight and 30-35 pounds from where I would like to be. I have been working out regularly 4x per week (cardio) for like I said almost 4 weeks now. This week, I just started to add in pilates on my off days. I refuse to change my entire eating plan..I have done small things like cut down on white flour, eat more whole grains and protein, etc. But I refuse to completely change everything. It makes me grumpy and besides that, it's expensive to go buy all new food. I just read an article about how drinking enough water is essential for weight loss and I am going to start doing that tomorrow, which I should be doing anyway. Anyone else have any more suggestions? Am I missing something?
I started the girls on their first cereal this morning. Well, Kynden and Ellyanna anyway, Adelynn doesn't seem to be needing it quite yet. They did great. They of course need some practice with the spoon and tongue movement in relation to the spoon, but they smiled through the whole thing and seemed to enjoy it. They're growing faster than the weeds in our front yard in summer!
Since last Sunday (three days ago) I have managed to scorch the bottoms of three pots. What's up with that? That never happens to me! Today I put in some bean with bacon soup and put it on medium on the stove, then I got distracted on the computer (probably reading blogs) and I came in like an hour later and the whole house was stinky and filled with smoke. I ran to the stove and pulled off the scorched pan and took it outside. Then I opened the windows and used a fan to pull out the smoke. It still smells in our house. Anyone know a good way to get scorched beans out of a pan?
It's a good thing however that our massive "cold front" hadn't moved in yet when I had to have all the windows open to get the smoke out. We would have frozen our butts off in the house. Every time there is even the smallest chance of snow in our part of northwest Oregon, it is like the biggest news story of the century. It is absolutely hilarious to see the poor news people out in different parts of the community peering up at the streetlamp to see the 5 snowflakes fall. And holy cow, you better stock up on all your essential supplies and get out the snow suits and shovels because we might get up to an inch of snow! And don't forget the all-important rules such as drive slower and don't expose infants to the elements. Come on people! Seriously, Josh and I have friends who live in Alaska and we are thinking about taping a newscast and sending it to them to laugh at.
The last thing I was thinking about as I lay in bed wide awake is: "why are people so mean and nit-picky to other Christian brothers and sisters whom we are supposed to show Christ's love to?" This applies to many, many..many examples that I can think of, but I was specifically thinking about my brother in law Jay. He is a worship pastor/leader of a significantly sized church who will remain nameless. (Not that it is probably any different from any other church.)I'm not married to him and don't really even see him that often, so I know I don't even know the half of it. But I know that almost on a daily basis (weekly at least) people are criticizing just about everything he does. Wether it be what he's wearing (I'm guessing on that) to what he does during his time off, and most "importantly" what songs he picks to sing at church that weekend. Why is it that we do that? Jay is one of the godliest men that I have the privilage to know. He has integrity, a good heart, loves his wife and daughter to the ends of the earth. But he is under attack every single day because he picked a song that someone didn't like to sing. Come on! I'm just using this as an example. In my own family I know that my two younger sisters were all but turned out on their ear at our former church because our parents got a divorce. They lost their "friends" because of that and it has changed the course of their lives forever! My youngest sister now wants nothing to do with Christians and I can't say that I blame her a bit. We are probably the most judgemental and unforgiving and self righteous group of people there is out there and I'm including myself in that statement. The God I know is greived to the depths of His being because of this. Our number one job is to show His love to the world. They are supposed to know us by our love. It's right in the bible! And we are failing miserably. The $64,000 question is how are we going to change that? I suggest getting down on our knees or face every single day and asking God to change our hearts. The world does not know us by our love. It knows us by our judgemental attitude and wants nothing to do with it.
Boy, that paragraph took on a life of it's own! I wasn't expecting that to all come out. I was just going to tell people to be nice! Well, maybe now I'll be able to sleep.
First off, I'm asking for suggestions. Maybe I'm just not patient enough, but I've been working out regularly now for going on 4 weeks and the scale has not budged a bit. What's up with this? Here's the bottom line. I had triplets 4+ months ago. After being on bedrest for 4 weeks previous to this, it was difficult to walk period after they were born. However I've recovered from this and lost about 55 of the 75 pregnancy pounds I put on. This was all without work. I am currently 20 pounds from my pregnancy start weight and 30-35 pounds from where I would like to be. I have been working out regularly 4x per week (cardio) for like I said almost 4 weeks now. This week, I just started to add in pilates on my off days. I refuse to change my entire eating plan..I have done small things like cut down on white flour, eat more whole grains and protein, etc. But I refuse to completely change everything. It makes me grumpy and besides that, it's expensive to go buy all new food. I just read an article about how drinking enough water is essential for weight loss and I am going to start doing that tomorrow, which I should be doing anyway. Anyone else have any more suggestions? Am I missing something?
I started the girls on their first cereal this morning. Well, Kynden and Ellyanna anyway, Adelynn doesn't seem to be needing it quite yet. They did great. They of course need some practice with the spoon and tongue movement in relation to the spoon, but they smiled through the whole thing and seemed to enjoy it. They're growing faster than the weeds in our front yard in summer!
Since last Sunday (three days ago) I have managed to scorch the bottoms of three pots. What's up with that? That never happens to me! Today I put in some bean with bacon soup and put it on medium on the stove, then I got distracted on the computer (probably reading blogs) and I came in like an hour later and the whole house was stinky and filled with smoke. I ran to the stove and pulled off the scorched pan and took it outside. Then I opened the windows and used a fan to pull out the smoke. It still smells in our house. Anyone know a good way to get scorched beans out of a pan?
It's a good thing however that our massive "cold front" hadn't moved in yet when I had to have all the windows open to get the smoke out. We would have frozen our butts off in the house. Every time there is even the smallest chance of snow in our part of northwest Oregon, it is like the biggest news story of the century. It is absolutely hilarious to see the poor news people out in different parts of the community peering up at the streetlamp to see the 5 snowflakes fall. And holy cow, you better stock up on all your essential supplies and get out the snow suits and shovels because we might get up to an inch of snow! And don't forget the all-important rules such as drive slower and don't expose infants to the elements. Come on people! Seriously, Josh and I have friends who live in Alaska and we are thinking about taping a newscast and sending it to them to laugh at.
The last thing I was thinking about as I lay in bed wide awake is: "why are people so mean and nit-picky to other Christian brothers and sisters whom we are supposed to show Christ's love to?" This applies to many, many..many examples that I can think of, but I was specifically thinking about my brother in law Jay. He is a worship pastor/leader of a significantly sized church who will remain nameless. (Not that it is probably any different from any other church.)I'm not married to him and don't really even see him that often, so I know I don't even know the half of it. But I know that almost on a daily basis (weekly at least) people are criticizing just about everything he does. Wether it be what he's wearing (I'm guessing on that) to what he does during his time off, and most "importantly" what songs he picks to sing at church that weekend. Why is it that we do that? Jay is one of the godliest men that I have the privilage to know. He has integrity, a good heart, loves his wife and daughter to the ends of the earth. But he is under attack every single day because he picked a song that someone didn't like to sing. Come on! I'm just using this as an example. In my own family I know that my two younger sisters were all but turned out on their ear at our former church because our parents got a divorce. They lost their "friends" because of that and it has changed the course of their lives forever! My youngest sister now wants nothing to do with Christians and I can't say that I blame her a bit. We are probably the most judgemental and unforgiving and self righteous group of people there is out there and I'm including myself in that statement. The God I know is greived to the depths of His being because of this. Our number one job is to show His love to the world. They are supposed to know us by our love. It's right in the bible! And we are failing miserably. The $64,000 question is how are we going to change that? I suggest getting down on our knees or face every single day and asking God to change our hearts. The world does not know us by our love. It knows us by our judgemental attitude and wants nothing to do with it.
Boy, that paragraph took on a life of it's own! I wasn't expecting that to all come out. I was just going to tell people to be nice! Well, maybe now I'll be able to sleep.
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