2016 Goals

Happy 2016! It’s been a while since I posted on this blog, but I am determined to keep it up this year.

I am still focused on fitness, but being 35 weeks pregnant it has been difficult to keep up. I must say that I have definitely been more active with this pregnancy than I was with my first, which is a plus. Given that being active has taken a plunge with pregnancy I have decided to pay more attention to nutrition and overall wellness.

I have been learning so much from listening to nutritional podcasts like Dishing Up Nutrition by Nutritional Weight and Wellness and reading articles and books. Many of the things I have learned so far have changed my perspective on food and the biggest eye opener has been learning about nutrition/food and the direct correlation to many of the diseases and health problems being faced today. I will definitely touch more on this in detail in future posts but for now I encourage everyone to go on their own self-education journeys.

This New Year has also brought on many new goals. These include:

• Eliminate processed foods by the end of the year;
• Decrease sugar/carbohydrate intake;
• Increase vegetable intake;
• Start juicing at least once a day (after baby’s born);
• Plan ahead and start packing lunch to work after maternity leave;
• Buy better sourced foods; and
• Keep active

In order to achieve these goals I needed to figure out where I am starting from. To do that I kept a 14-day food journal detailing everything I ate everyday as well as how certain foods may have made me feel. Like everyone else, I am human so of course I have my days of indulgences, especially while being pregnant, but when I reviewed my food journal I realized that I indulged far too often. I won’t bore you with the details of my journal, but if you are interested you can view it for yourself here. I plan to journal again in the middle of the year to see how far I have come.

I have a long way to go, but with two little ones depending on my health and wellness it will definitely be worth it!