I'm writing this becasue I think it pertains to the majority of moms that are here, including myself. Why is it that we are in 2005 and everything with the children still falls onto the mother. Why isn't it parenthood, where both parents equally share the raising of the children. One of the many things that lead to me being overweight was I would eat my face off when I finally got the kids to bed. I was so stressed with everything that I had stacked on my shoulders, that I wanted comfort. Is it our fault that this is still ahppening? Why do the majority of men have more choices when it comes to parenthood? Why can they pick and choose when to take care of the children?
I never blame my husband if something is going wrong pertaining to the children. I heap it all on my shoulders. Now that I'm homeschooling, it's worse. I'm the one who is responsible for educating our girls, but why? My dh works 40 hrs. a week. He has two days off, yet it's all on my shoulders. I will tell him ways that he can help out with teaching the girls different things and he agrees with what I'm saying, but it never seems to happen. What if we did that? What would happen to the childen then?
If a man works all day at an outside job and a woman works all day at home being a homemaker, why don't they both share parenthood equally when they meet up at home. If both parents work, why isn't everything shared at home? Do you think this has anything to do with the divorce rate?
Anyway I wanted to touch on this subject because it's been one of the stresses for me that's led to eating in the evenings and I thought it may be for some of you as well.
I did one hour of biking today. I went to the farmers market and bought some amazing peaches, plums, green beans, corn on the cob, apples and potatos. I love the market because it's all so fresh. I love it when they tell me it was just picked today.
I came home and I ate 1 cob of corn with 1 tsp of butter, steamed green beans, a lettuce salad that hubby made and a homemade turkey burger on a small ww bun w/mustard and veggies.
Sheree-Have you read Dr. Phils book? I wondered that because of some things that you said. It is really a great read and it has some great tools in there about eating behavior. They really helped me a lot. With the Mcdonalds drive thru, you based your food choice on which food would be less awkward to eat while driving. You ended up with a much less healthier choice that could have been avoided if you only stopped and parked to eat, or if you took the salad home with you and by doing that you could have added your own dressing at home. I'm just trying to give you some tips, not lecture you at all. I think your doing really well and I think your weight loss for last week was great. If you have some tips, I would be very open to listening to them as well.
Have you ever seen the movie "super size me"? That may turn you off Mcdonalds altogether,lol.
Some of their salads have as many calories as a big mac.
Wendy's has some good choices if you are going to get take out. They have a grilled chicken sandwich and in place of the sauce you could ask for mustard. A garden salad is the healthier choice for salads. I sometimes get a baked potato with nothing on it and I add some vinegar, salt and pepper. I'm a vinegar fanatic. It really helps out a dry potato.
