Catch up time

This past week, whew, another whirlwind week of meetings, meetings, and more meetings. I felt like I was running everywhere and nowhere, all at the same time. Foodwise... not much to report, did eat out several dinners, and lunches weren't all too eventful. I've made a conscious decision to make a lot more of the meals I eat, so that I can monitor what I consume and keep tabs on, especially, the amount of salt and unhealthy fats I'm eating. Eating out, it's too easy to just eat without actively thinking about what it is that I'm putting into my body. So this upcoming week, let's call it detox week.

Otherfoodwise, I've still been eating a lot of fruits each day, varying what I'm eating to keep my palate entertained. The daily variety usually consisted of an apple, an Asian apple-pear, and either a pear or some grapes. I also supplemented with small snacks of Stoned Wheat Thin crackers and plenty of water. And when I stepped on the scale this evening, whoa, what to my surprise - I've picked up a whopping 16 pounds already. Detox week, this is a definite. If anything, I need to get back on being more active - been missing my bike rides and yoga, and I've just been vegging out on the couch.

So the prospect of the fact that I'm growing so fast, and the developing pain in my lower back got me thinking. First, I don't want to become the poster child for the middle-America, Wal-Mart-toting, Wonder-Bread-devouring, hypocritical people that I detest - the ones who blame everyone for the problems with their lives but themselves, and those who refuse to change simply because it's easier to just do what's easiest thing, not necessarily what they know deep down they have to do. And I definitely don't want to become the slogan I've heard over and over, from one person to another: Don't worry about eating everything right now, you're pregnant, and eating for 2! Right...people, that's one person and a maybe-7 or 8 pound baby. Not two 135 pound adults. My frame is small enough, and if I don't keep a watch on it, I'll end up turning into the 500 pound sloth that will need people to help move out of the bedroom. It's time to keep things in check, to make sure that I make each calorie count, and to not eat absentmindedly.

It also got me thinking. I want to make sure that when we have this child, I am walking the talk that I tote. I sincerely believe that we, individually, have the power to create change in the world, and that settling for just what everyone else does is not acceptable. I hope that when we have this child, I will be walking the walk, so that the child truly has someone to look up to, and not just someone who spews the talk without true example. Settling for second best is not acceptable, not when innocence of a developing and receiving mind is at stake.

If we all were to truly walk the walk that we talk - bringing the two together may be the most difficult thing for a person to do. I'm going to try my best to walk my talk, for future's sake.