a new job and a war with food.

To start this off on a side note; I got a job today!!!! I am going to be teaching fitness classes up at my gym 3 days a week at 5am & 6am. Woooowee that is crazy early but on a positive note I will get paid & get to finish work all before the kids wake up in the mornings! Perfect! =) Oh and on another unrelated note I sprinkled this post with super cute pictures of Paxton napping! What's a blog post without a few pics of my kids? =)

^^Okay seriously this NEVER happens that I can get a picture of him napping. He was out cold after a long bad night of diaper rash^^

Food and I have a love hate relationship going on.  I love food and I hate to give anything up that tastes delicious (pretty much anything unhealthy and bad.) Yet when I really focus on eating healthy I genuinely do feel so much better. I have more energy, I feel like I look better, I can even tell a difference in my demeanor and moods. Yet why oh why do I want to eat one million calories in mexican food and ooooooh anything with sugar is my downfall. I told Josh the other day that I am positive I have a legit addiction to sugar. I crave it. I want it daily. If I have it in my house I cannot deny it. I am also not the person that does well with portion control. If there are Oreo's in my house you better believe the entire package will be gone in at least a day and a half. I am not going to eat and savor one. I want to eat and savor like twenty before I am finished. Yet then I feel gross and groggy and bloated after!

The thing I struggle with as well is that as I have learned more and gathered information about healthy foods and eating, it seems like someone somewhere has done some research that practically all foods are bad in one way or another. Even freaking Kale, the super food has it's bad qualities to it. I know you are not supposed to over consume any food. If you do eat green smoothies you are supposed to switch up your greens and fruits and veggies that you add. (i.e. don't use kale every day of the week). We have watched a few documentaries focusing on growth hormones that are added to our foods that we consume on a daily basis and all the GMO's that we are mostly unaware of in the  things we eat. It's really quite scary if you really learn about what you are eating. The most shocking thing I have learned lately has been with dairy. The thing that most doctors tell you to give your kids once they are off breast milk/formula is Vitamin D/Whole Milk, yet it is not really that great for most people! It has all sorts of growth hormones in it and really dairy in general should be cut out of people's diets.

I went to my gym this morning and was talking with Mary, the general manager, who is also a nutritionist and works with children. I told her about how Paxton has been really constipated lately and would cry when trying to go to the bathroom. Without being too detailed it was not an easy process for him. Then the other night in the middle of the night he basically rid his body of all that was built up and woke up with the most awful diaper rash I had ever seen. The first thing Josh said was that we needed to look in to his diet. First off, I love that he said that. Instead of just assuming it was his diaper or a weird bug or that we needed to give him apple juice he thought of a long term cure for him over a band aid of medicines or sugary juices to help. Anyway, when I had mentioned this to Mary and she suggested that he probably has an intolerance to dairy. She asked if his stomach would look distended and hard and a few other signs of dairy issues. I told her that I have switched him over to Almond milk and she said that even better than that is Goat's milk. Apparently you can purchase it at most grocery stores and that it is naturally sweeter than cow's or even Almond milk so many kids really like it, plus it has more protein than Almond milk.

^^don't judge that he still uses a paci at 18 months to sleep. it's his one comfort item that i cannot seem to eliminate^^

Anyway, this is kind of a random babble about a little information that I have learned lately. It has peaked my interest in learning more and working on evolving the foods I eat and what I put in my body. Am I ever going to give up eating mexican food or sweets? Hell no! I will always love me some bean burritos and ice cream. Maybe if I balance it out a bit better we can prolong our lives to staying healthy and feeling better!