Faith, Hope, and Sorrow

Well, I'm back from a wonderful 10-day trip to MI and it was great to see some fellow Faith, Hope and Sorrow friends! While there, I was able to see the accupunctarist Stephanie has been going to. Let me just say, I highly recommend trying Traditional Chinese Medicine! Accupuncture was amazing! And I was given some herbs that are the worst tasting thing in my life, but have already made a difference in how i feel. If considering going the way of needles, check and see if the accupunctarist has an MSAS (I think that is what is it called) machine. It stands for something like Meridian something Assesment something... ok, so I don't remember what it stands for, but it was AMAZING! I included a picture of one of the machines in this post. What happened was, I held the metal bar in one hand and then she used the little black pointer thing (it reminded me of a ball point pen... no needles) and she touched 62 or so different "meridians" or points on my hands and feet that c...

How did everyone do drinking water? I'm not sure I drank 64 ounces every day, but I definitely tried to down more liquids! Keep drinking away! Goals for week 2 Fitness- Add extra steps to your day. If you are going shopping park away from the door (hard to resist those close spots when you have kids and it's freezing, but use the cold as an incentive to walk quickly). Or abandon the remote- this way when watching tv/movies you have to get up to change the volume/channel/pause/etc. You could even walk around while brushing your teeth. Look for small ways to get those legs moving! Nutrition (please post recipes if you have good ones!)- Say no to white! Try switching from white rice to brown, white pasta to whole wheat, regular flour tortillas to wheat/brown rice, white bread to wheat... try switching at least one thing to a healthier whole grain version. Spiritual/emotional/mental- treat your husband to a week of surprises. Leave notes in his lunch/bag/coat, put candies in his sh...

Alright, so here are this week's goals to becoming healthier in 2009. Fitness/healthy eating- Drink 8 glasses of water a day. This week, make a conscious effort of drinking more water. If you already drink 8 glasses a day, great! It seems like every fertility site I go to, when reading about how to be more healthy, drinking water is always mentioned. Water has a lot of great benefits and is essential in being more healthy and losing weight. Give it a try and see how it goes. Try keeping a piece of paper by your faucet and making a tally mark each time you fill up. Or fill a water bottle and keep it along with you. I believe the recommended 'serving' is 8 ounces, so one water bottle can count as more than one glass for the day. Or set out 8 (if you have 8 to spare) cups and use a new one each time so you can keep track. However you do it, try to fit in the servings each day. spiritual/mental/emotional- Pick a favorite hymn and make it a part of your week. Write the words ou...

Melisa, Jill and Stephanie have all brough up weight loss and healthy eating in recent posts. Would anyone be interested in doing some type of "program" on this blog? A blog I am a member of did a "biggest loser" thing a few months ago... unfortunately that didn't work very well for me. But taking small steps to change my lifestyle and habits is a bit more appealing. It would work something like this: Each week, for a specified amount of time, we would post a new goal or goals. Perhaps one in a "fitness" category, one in an "eating" category and maybe even a "mental/emotional/spiritual" category. Just small things. For instance, I have a really hard time finding time to exercise (well, I'll be honest, I'm just not an exercise at home type of person. I like to walk and swim and bike... but those are sometimes hard to do... especially in winter and I have a hard time feeling motivated) but I started doing 5 crunches before I g...

I thought I'd share a couple of things I'm going to try next. I wish I was posting this because I had been successful with one of them, but some of them state they take up to 3 mos. so I don't want to wait until then to tell you about it, in case one of you wants to try one of these things sooner, with me! These are some things I've been researching, and gathering info about, because they are less drastic than some of the medical approaches. Other things I like about them is that they are geared towards becoming healthier-so even if you don't get pregnant, you're not out anything, and you may have gained some other benefit, like eating better. Last but not least, though there is some expense involved, I think it will still be cheaper than some of the diagnostic testing and procedures. Here are some of the things I am thinking about trying... A fertility diet: I learned about this from a co-worker. She used fertility for her first child, and it didn't work th...

This isn't directly related to fertility, so feel free to skip it!!!! Annie had asked me how I lost 45 pounds last year, but a few others seemed interested in weight loss as well. I had a forever long comment typed up, but just decided to make it a post. :) I have a weight loss blog on my Blogger profile. My email is on there too. If you get me your email, I'll put you into my weight loss blog since it is private. All you ladies are totally welcome. It isn't that exciting these days, so I'll sum it up. :) At 5 ft 8, I was 155 when I got married. Went up to 165 when I got pregnant with my first. By the time I had him, I was 205. Lost 20, and got pregnant with my second at 185. Gained 40, and had him at 225. Made it back to 195, but fluctuated a lot and was about 200 when I got pregnant with my 3rd. Back up to 225 when I had her. Lost it all and went back to 200. Had a massive depressive episode and went back to 225. At this point, I joined a company called Medical Weight...