Back on a Healthy Kick

Back on a Healthy Kick blog

So, I keep bouncing back and forth with the healthy eating and exercise thing. I'll go for a couple weeks where I feel really good so I can walk and stretch and eat the kinds of foods I feel like I should be eating, then something happens. The morning sickness comes back and I start eating whatever I can keep down. The temperature spikes (in the 90's for the past 2 weeks!) so all I want to do is sit at home in my AC-ed bedroom. Long days at work so I end up napping all evening....

I know, I know. An excuse is an excuse, but I just get so nervous about the line between staying healthy and being unrelenting. With exercise, everything says you shouldn't push yourself or you could get hurt or hurt the baby. Well, what's pushing myself? Should I make myself go for a walk even if it's really hot and I'm tired? Which is a more dangerous risk: activity or inactivity? When all I can think of eating is Italian dressing--like, I want to get a bowl of lettuce and drown it in the stuff and eat it with a spoon just so I don't feel like a complete crazy person for drinking it straight from the bottle--to the point where eating anything else makes me feel sick, should I give in to the craving or force myself to stick to "healthy" choices? Some days, I just don't know....

Today, however, I'm feeling better after being sick for a few days and back on a healthy kick. I even shaved so I can go swimming! (Planned to go tonight, but then it started thundering and lightening....) I don't have anything to do tomorrow but some classwork, so I'm going to try and get in an hour or so before the day gets too hot. And it's grocery shopping time for the week, so I'm putting together healthy meal plans so I only buy good stuff.

It all sounds good and I'm really excited about it, but I'm still nervous for when I start feeling bad again and fall off the wagon.