Healthy Friday

It's Friday!

This week wasn't half as crazy as last week, and I'm so thankful for that. No getting pulled over or dragging things out of ditches this week!

You may have noticed that my ticker hasn't changed for a couple weeks. I kind of stopped weighing myself when I stopped working. Okay, that's not completely true. I've still been weighing myself but haven't updated the ticker. Why? Because I don't like it to move backwards. Snacking has become a little bit of an issue again since I've been back home. I knew it would.

Let's be honest though, it hasn't been a good week. It's the week after Halloween. We already had candy out the wazoo before Peanut brought home the chocolate covered peanuts I ordered a while back for her band fundraiser. Not cool.

I don't think the problem is all snacking though. Remember when I was working and I added up all of my calories for a day? It came out to something like exactly 1,000 calories, I think. So I know I wasn't eating enough when I was working and I was also very active. Just ask my glutes, all that stair climbing at work was not in vain! So I'd say my problem isn't with the snacking, it's with my current activity level. I'm no where near as sedentary as before though. I enjoyed being active at work and now that I'm home I find I have a hard time sitting still. My mornings are spent cleaning now instead of blog hopping (sorry I've been absent from so many of your blogs). But even being up and around, loading the dishwasher, folding laundry, sweeping and the likes no where match the repetitive 3 flight stair climbing I was doing just a few weeks ago.

But I'm fixin' to remedy that. Have you seen the new Wii Fit Plus game? I've had my eyes on that. We were at Best Buy the other evening and there it was, in all it's $19.99 gloriousness. $19.99 for a newly released Wii game! How can that not excite you? I have a birthday coming up so I took the game to Superman and started begging. That was what I wanted for my birthday. Anyway, I wish I could tell you how awesomely fun it is but we got it home and every single battery we own was dead. We have 8 rechargeable batteries and not a single one gave me more than 5 minutes. But the chargers are all giving me the green light this morning so I'll let you know next week after I finally get to play for real!

Superman and I also bought new running shoes. Obviously they will be used for walking at first but I plan to have those shoes run me across the finish line at next fall's 5K!

In other healthy news, I had new x-rays taken at the chiro. When we started going I had a slight curve in my spine and the arch in my neck was -2 (it's supposed to be 45 degrees, mine was starting to curve the wrong way). My new x-rays showed that my spine is now completely straight and my neck is 18 degrees! Almost half way to where it should be. That means my immune system is working better than this time last year and hopefully I won't spend 4 months with bronchitis again! I now go to the chiro twice a week instead of 3 times and have some equipment at home to do daily exercises. My neck will have the perfect arch in the next few months!

I cheated a little this week with my recipe. It's not actually a recipe. It's this box.

It came with everything needed. You just had to add chicken. Talk about easy! That's what I like!

I know I looked at the calories and I want to say it was under 300 per serving but I can't remember. And the box is long gone. Sorry.

It was pretty good! It's not something we'd have a lot because I think it would be easy to get tired of it. But for now, Superman says...

You know how I said I had a birthday coming up? It's Sunday! I must be getting older though because Superman mentioned something about where I wanted to eat this weekend for my birthday and it kind of took me by surprise. I mean I knew it was Sunday but I forgot. How do you forget something like that? Anyway, there will be some fun pictures included in Saturday Cell Phone Mosaic this weekend!

Even though you all love me so much, please don't feel the need to wish me a happy upcoming birthday in this post. You will get your chance. I might have something up my sleeve! *wink*

Oh, the suspense!