Invasion of the Green – A Geek Girl Mommie Makeover Entry

June 19, 2012 Leave a Comment

It’s been awhile since I’ve done a post about this Geek Girl Mommies makeover progress. Honestly it’s been a couple of weeks since my last post. I’ve been so busy trying to find a 9-5 job that posting just went right out the window. But now I’m back and ready to chatter about anything and everything. You poor poor people. You probably thought you’d gotten rid of me didn’t you?

Long ago and far away (okay, so it was only a year ago or so) I decided that it was time to really step up the campaign to get me fit, back on track and back to looking and feeling the way I did when I felt svelte and pretty. There was a couple of reasons for this: 1) I was sick of feeling like a frumpy mass of unsightly jiggle and 2) I didn’t want Little Lass to look back and remember me as a frumpy mass of unsightly jiggle. It’s been a stop and go process and the last month I’ve actually gained weight instead of losing it. My wardrobe project faltered. In other words, I fell off the wagon and watched it turn a corner without bothering to chase it down. Now I’m tracking it all over the country side, following the cryptic clues it’s been leaving at every stop it makes.

I keep reminding myself that I only fail if I never pick back up where I dropped off. On the plus side Flyboy has been passive aggressively supporting me on the journey. I say passively aggressively because what he does is mention he’d like something for dinner or a snack and it reminds me to actually eat healthier and stick of my commitment. One of those things is a Green Smoothie. Initially it was introduced to me on Facebook on a mommie group I was a part of at the time. I admit that I was a little unsure about it at first, it sounded so health foodie. And it is. Really health foodie. But just one a day makes so much of a difference and it’s become something that Flyboy looks forward to before he leaves for work.

What exactly is a Green Smoothie you ask? It’s a smoothie made with spinach and tofu at it’s base. Here is what I use:

1 cup (approx.) of spinach

1 medium banana

1/4 of a block of tofu

1 cup of chocolate almond milk (or soy milk)

That is my starting point, every one of my smoothies starts with those ingredients. To that I mix approximately a cup of whatever fruit we have on hand or in the freezer. Or a tablespoon of peanut butter. The peanut butter is really one I love but Flyboy could do without. If you love peanut butter and banana sandwiches you’ll love this addition.  Trust me.

I’ve got this smoothie making process down to an art. It even rivals my mad skills with deviled eggs and I’m finding more and more that it’s a welcome part of our evening. The making of the daily smoothie means that Little Lass is comfortably in bed for the rest of the night, that adult time has started. It pretty much heralds the end of the day for us. It’s a little blessing we look forward to.

Maybe, just maybe it will benefit you too.

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When the Passion Doesn’t Meet the Gumption

April 21, 2012 3 Comments

So earlier in the week I was sitting with a friend and the subject of what someone should do when they feel the need to create but they just don’t feel the get-up-and-go to make it happen came up.

When you love something so much you can find yourself indulging in it for a period of time. It could be a few days or a few months, but you obsessively dive into it. You write every day, you sit at your sewing machine and stitch, or maybe you bake anything and everything you can find. And then suddenly you wake up one morning and even though you still love your indulgence you somehow just can’t seem to make yourself do it. She had reached that point and I know I’ve been there myself.

So the question arose, how does one fix the issue where the spirit is willing but the body is rather “meh” about the whole idea? I’ve found that there are two ways to tackle this. You can just rest for a bit. Acknowledge you’re still passionate about it but that you need to take a break. Not every passion needs to be indulged constantly. Recharge the batteries and revisit it again for however long it takes. Or you can try and just sit down and try it. It’s a little like when you feel like you want to go out and do something fun but you can’t seem to make yourself get up off the couch and leave. You just needed to make yourself do it and you found yourself having fun after all. Sometimes a wall just goes up that you need to break through so that you can keep following that passion instead of risking its stagnation.

Have you ever reached that point? How did you handle it?

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