Weight Loss Update - One Week Later

This past week, I've posted about my plan to rev up my metabolism to start kicking some of this extra weight off of me. Here's the change:

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This was last week's:

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I guess the volleyball games and walking might actually be doing something. I hope my metabolism will kick in like it used to and this weight will start to drop off but I really don't know. My thyroid disease really messed it up.

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Weight Loss

Well, I am still on track for increasing my activity level to lose some weight. I do not have an "exercise regimen" specifically. I've never stuck to those before so I decided to try something different.

What I decided to do was just increase my activity level in general. That means going outside to play kickball or volleyball with the kids at least every other day and walking with the remaining child not in school yet during the day around the neighborhood. We played volleyball a couple of times this weekend and I just finished my morning walk for today.

Now, the activity level isn't so huge that it is burning up tons of calories each time, however, I am hoping to jump start my thyroid disease challenged metabolism...rev it up a bit. I used to have fantastic metabolism until my thyroid decided to try to annihilate itself.

Here's to this next week of keeping the activity level up.

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Omega-3 Source

If you are looking for food sources with Omega-3 in it, Smart Balance has a peanut butter that has 1000mg of Omega-3 from flax oil in it. Surprisingly, my kids will eat it. I bought it yesterday with the expectation that it wasn't going to taste very good and that my kids would turn it down. They didn't. They asked for seconds! Of course, I didn't tell them it was good for them.

It looks the same as regular peanut butter, but the consistency is different. It is stickier than the average peanut butter but that didn't stop my daughter with braces from asking for more either.

It is a natural peanut butter but it doesn't need to be refrigerated so you don't need to worry about tearing up your bread the way refrigerated peanut butter does. It is also non-hydrogenated and trans fatty acid free!

This is not a sponsored post. Smart Balance is not paying me for this review. In fact, they'll likely never know about it, lol.

Omega-3 is something I am currently researching because of the reports I've read on the improvements seen in ADHD children after taking Omega-3 regularly. I've also recently read that parents of children with verbal apraxia (speech apraxia, dyspraxia) have also seen noticeable improvements. Since my husband's son has ADHD and our son together has apraxia, I have a huge interest in finding out if this really works.

A lot of children are given an ADHD diagnosis who don't deserve it. Sometimes, I think the schools want it diagnosed so it is easier on them (or a parent wants it diagnosed because a pill is easier to give than consistent discipline and structure). I am not saying ALL ADHD children or ALL parents of ADHD children, however, at the rate ADHD is being diagnosed, it is like an epidemic! We have a generation of children who are being medicated that wasn't seen before. If something as simple as an Omega-3 deficiency is to blame for even a small percentage of these kids, how easy is that to remedy? Simple!

As a parent, I would want to try everything safe first before drugging my child!

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Desperately Seeking Computer Knowledge

My laptop isn't that old but it is already obsolete! I am in serious need of an upgrade to stop the freeze ups and shut downs. Nothing is more annoying than being in the middle of something and having the screen freeze indefinitely on you.

I need more ram (random access memory) for my computer. Unfortunately, I am a bit "hardware challenged" so I've not been sure what to buy so I procrastinated on buying anything. With 4ALLMEMORY, I don't need to put it off anymore because I'm not clueless anymore. They have the ability on their web site to tell you exactly what you need after answering a few simple questions about your system. I don't feel so computer illiterate anymore!

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