the morning after....

I officially became our PTO's secretary last night and I am very excited! Its a big deal, I am on the board of the group that helps bridge the gap in my son's school. At our meetings, we have Hot Topics-which are teachers presenting a topic that our kiddos are learning about. For example, our gym teacher talked about the Healthy Harrisburg iniative, where the kids get pedometers and get the chance to earn prizes to do 10000 steps a day. Its a pretty cool thing because it makes kids be more active. Also, it makes kids think about making healthier choices. Then we got to climb on the rock wall. It was too cool! The computer teacher gave us an overview of the computer curriculum. My baby is going to learn more about computers by 4th grade than I probably already know. Its amazing.
The downside is that the Little Man did not want to go to the meeting with me (there is free child care)so I saw him for about 20 minutes after work, and then about 15 minutes during bedtime. That is definately not enough time! But the pull of Hot Wheels on Wii with Daddy must be too great. And homework was not done, so we have double duty to do tonight. He has spelling homework every night, where we get to do something creative with our spelling words. Plus, we get reading homework once a week. (remember this is first grade) So, two spelling assignments and reading tonight, plus its bath night AND mommy's guilty pleasure tv night.
I will admit I love the show Ghost Hunters, and all its various spin offs. I look forward to Wedsnesday night all week. Its my one hour of tv that I set an appointment for. Big Man owns the remote most of the time but all I really ask for is that one hour a week. We do have disagreements on tv watching most of the time. He likes cheesy movies, and I prefer the History channel/Discovery/etc. We do have other tvs as options, but then I feel guilty that I am not hanging with the family. Then there is the Nick Jr. thing-the little man loves this channel and almost all the programs on there...and I've seen every episode at least ten times it seems. I tolerate it because its for my little guy, and it makes him happy. That's what its all about.
Its Wednesday and we are halfway through the week. At my job we have a program called Life Care, which is a healthy living program. There are a bunch of programs-a miles club, which is a walking program, monthly healthy living challenges, life coaching and exercise classes. This winter's classes kick off today with a cardio class. I am so excited! Its a great start to trying to get back on the exercise track. For the next 6 weeks, I get to learn to a new exercise technique. Today is cardio blast, which I think sounds like fun. I also participate in the life coaching and I think that helps me set perspective for things. Its helped me focus in on goals every month that I know I can achieve, especially professionally. I had my coaching session yesterday, which went well. I like being able to break down the steps to achieving a goal and setting about it.
My big goal for the next 3 weeks (until my next coaching session) is to bring my lunch to work and not eat junk. In order to achieve this, I have to break it down into baby steps-making sure I have healthy choices for lunch, healthy snacks, drinking my crystal light rather than soda. Its a bit of a struggle to switch out the mindset that I am depriving myself of something yummy by getting "healthy" food. I have to remind myself that when I make good choices I get a gold star, and that I am in fact rewarding myself and my family by being healthy. I am not just doing this for me, I'm trying to set a good example for the little man. I want him to make healthy choices and be his best. I want him to learn that exercise and eating right should be a part of life, and that its not punishment. I want to be my best, and I want my little man to be his best too.
So, I think I need to plan out meals for lunch and breakfast as well. I plan out what I want for dinner, but a lot of times that gets scrapped because the big man does the cooking since he's home and I am still at work.
I am going to focus on meeting this goal of healthy eating and making better choices, not to mention moving more. I was proud of myself. Going upstairs in my building at work, I made the choice to take the stairs vs. the elevator. Go me!