Fit Mommy Check-In: Curvy and Slender Friends

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encouraging each other

to care well

for the bodies God has given us

Welcome to the Health and Fitness Check-In column of The Christian Home Carnival, posted weekly. For encouragement and accountability, you can check in using the comments at the bottom of this post. Please feel free to join any time, and at whatever level of fitness and health you currently have.

Did you know that peer pressure seems to influence adolescent’s weight?  Well, perhaps adults also influence each other in the same way. 

My curvy friends discuss food, shrug off exercise, and talk about their extra pounds—and now that my celiac disease is under control, I’m becoming more curvy myself.

My slender friends, however, talk about everything else.  They get excited about active things they’re doing, don’t spend much time thinking about food (except what they will feed their kids), and avoid unhealthy foods.  And they exercise.  It’s built into their day, like a shower, and they do it.  Regularly.  Because it feels good and is important.  

I find my behavior mimics those I hang out with.  Now, I love my curvy friends, but perhaps I ought to become more like my slender friends.  They are healthier, much healthier.  And I want to be, too.

Who influences your fitness journey?

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Here’s my health record for the week:

Record my fitness goals each day…I recorded my steps and activities.  Next week I’ll also be recording my exercises.

Do my eye exercises 3x a week …  Yes.  All 3x this morning, so that I could say I did them….  Sigh! That’s not supposed to be the way this works.

Go for a daily walk and take at least 6000 steps a day …I did a lot of walking, although not too many actual walks.  Instead I ran around the house, cleaned up some more of the garden, and played with the kids.  I’m very proud of this week’s steps: 8500, 6500, 4400, 5500 (and four swimming laps), 5500 (and biking), 6500.   Note the swimming laps!  And for the first time in a decade I rode a bike!

Do my physio exercises daily and slowly build up to the full program by November 30 … I started my physio exercises several times…but never finished them.  Like my curvy friends, I don’t have a specific exercise time.

Avoid sugar five days a week … Yes, until we made this amazing bean fudge.  We altered the recipe to make it more affordable, so our version contains sugar rather than stevia and butter rather than coconut oil. (OK, so I’m sharing recipes like a curvy friend.  Because I am. )

Eat lots of vegetables, including fresh ones, and yoghurt … Yes.  We’re enjoying the last pickings from the garden.  Did you know that lightly-cooked Brussels sprout leaves make good gluten-free burger wraps?  We always used to use romaine, but it’s expensive and full of pesticides. 

Relax daily…Not enough.  I might accept a whole box of review novels just so I will have to relax and read them….

Have fun with the kids, including active fun… We swam together, wandered the woods, and did the annual carrot harvest.  And we read aloud, laughed, and enjoyed life together.

How about you? Did you exercise, eat well, and relax happily this week? Let’s encourage each other to care well for the bodies God has given us. Please link up your health and fitness post in the comments below, and don`t forget to link back here from your post. Then enjoy visiting and encouraging other Fit Mommies just like you.