Time to workout? if so, when?

[AmandaKDT]

I was sick with a really bad cold for a month and FINALLY was able to start exercising again. I was totally in cope mode, everyone including myself had a horrible cough and it was really sucky to stop exercising on my treadmill because I couldn't do anything without coughing (one of my dck even got pneumonia so bad she was hospitalized). But I was back on the treadmill last night for the first time and it was awesome. I have also started doing yoga again with the kids in the morning, YouTube has awesome kids yoga videos to follow.

But I also wanted to throw the advice out there that the Mediterranean style diet has been proven to be incredibly healthy and those that follow it in the long term have been shown to have little or no chronic illnesses in old age. It isn't necessarily a weight loss plan, but is a lifestyle choice that makes for a healthy heart and body. I am sure many of you heard about it on the news.

[SevenwatersDaughter]

I was sick with a really bad cold for a month and FINALLY was able to start exercising again. I was totally in cope mode, everyone including myself had a horrible cough and it was really sucky to stop exercising on my treadmill because I couldn't do anything without coughing (one of my dck even got pneumonia so bad she was hospitalized). But I was back on the treadmill last night for the first time and it was awesome. I have also started doing yoga again with the kids in the morning, YouTube has awesome kids yoga videos to follow.

But I also wanted to throw the advice out there that the Mediterranean style diet has been proven to be incredibly healthy and those that follow it in the long term have been shown to have little or no chronic illnesses in old age. It isn't necessarily a weight loss plan, but is a lifestyle choice that makes for a healthy heart and body. I am sure many of you heard about it on the news.

I follow the Mediterranean style diet too! Have you read The Mediterrasian Way? It's an amazing cookbook!

I've heard of a lot of people going vegan, and I myself tried that for a month, but I ended up being extremely tired (even with proper meal planning and supplementing). I am still serious abut animal welfare, so I don't eat eggs (they just kill the baby male chickens by throwing them in a meat grinder because they are useless to the egg industry -- even organic egg farms do this) and dairy is a once-a-week treat when my hubby makes homemade Calzones. We don't buy poultry or red meat (except when we can get locally raised, organic bison) and so we mainly eat fish and shellfish.

A lot of people are also hardcore paleo, I've even heard about the (in my mind) absurd "Inuit Diet". I've seen a lot of people go Paleo and just gain weight! And when you look at the two healthiest cultures -- the Mediterranians and the Asians -- they eat a LOT of carbs!

[AmandaKDT]

I follow the Mediterranean style diet too! Have you read The Mediterrasian Way? It's an amazing cookbook!

I've heard of a lot of people going vegan, and I myself tried that for a month, but I ended up being extremely tired (even with proper meal planning and supplementing). I am still serious abut animal welfare, so I don't eat eggs (they just kill the baby male chickens by throwing them in a meat grinder because they are useless to the egg industry -- even organic egg farms do this) and dairy is a once-a-week treat when my hubby makes homemade Calzones. We don't buy poultry or red meat (except when we can get locally raised, organic bison) and so we mainly eat fish and shellfish.

A lot of people are also hardcore paleo, I've even heard about the (in my mind) absurd "Inuit Diet". I've seen a lot of people go Paleo and just gain weight! And when you look at the two healthiest cultures -- the Mediterranians and the Asians -- they eat a LOT of carbs!

I think a vegan diet requires a lot of work to really make it a balanced diet, I don't think I could ever do it.

My brother did the paleo diet for about a year, he lost weight while he was doing it but for some reason he stopped and seems to have gained back everything he lost. But I can't say he did it very well, he considered a steak and an orange to be a complete meal! LOL

I really try to make my meals really balanced and full of "real" food, I used to follow the South Beach Diet religiously before I had kids but I find it hard now. I eat a small amount of dairy and have started using olive oil a lot, which comes from the Mediterranean style diet.