Getting Healthy, Not Just Losing Weight

So, I've done the weight loss roller coaster. I have lost weight with a very low carb diet... but it was not very healthy. I lost a lot of hair while doing the Atkins diet, and while I tried biotin for the hair loss... it didn't seem to work.

I need to acquire a taste for healthy food.

My problem is, I love the taste of french fries... candy bars... fast food.

I hate taking time to make a healthy, nutritious meal for myself.

I've learned to make time for everyone else... but when it comes to me, the faster the better.

This is a wrong way of thinking. I do know, ultimately if I continue this vicious cycle... others will be spending more time on me because I will end up in a hospital with health problems.

I already am out of breath easily when going walking distances.

So, on this endeavor... I really need to learn to put time aside for me.

Not in a selfish way... but in a healthy way.

Wii Fit?

So, I'm thinking about getting a Wii after all the good things I keep hearing about the Wii and the physical work out you can do on it... what do you think of the Wii Fit?

I know there are a couple different games for Wii... what would you suggest?

Truth Or Fiction?

Okay, I could totally sit here and lie - saying I have been working out and eating healthy. LIES, LIES, LIES.

I'm not going to lie. I've been sitting at the computer too much. I've been laying around, napping. Feeling blah and I am sure it's because of my unhealthy eating habits and my gloomy outlook on life lately.

For those of you who do not know me, my husband can no longer drive because a head injury has caused him to have seizures. He has to be eight months seizure free in order to drive, and that has not happened yet. So, I have to play taxi driver. I drive him to places he needs to go, I sit in the van and wait for him. I take him to doctor appointments and everywhere he needs to go.

I tend to my kids, take them to activities and school. If I want "me" time - it has to come early in the morning or after I am done running everyone here or there.

I have tried to schedule "me" time, but because of my husbands unknown work schedule it is just about possible to make a plan and stick with it. In the next couple of months, my husband will be medically retiring... but for now, I am in limbo. For the past year and a half, I have been in limbo.

Now that I have all of that off of my chest... I really want to make a positive change in my life. I realized today, while talking to an old friend - I am 35 years old, I am not getting any younger. If I don't watch it - I'm going to be a fat 50 year old with heart problems who is on oxygen.

I really do not want anyone to take this blog as me whining.... I do enjoy putting my children and my husband first... but, I also know that I need to take care of me in order to take care of others.

So - now that I have your attention... follow me on my journey, help cheer me on! :)