The Health Gazette

I did a poll on my facebook group “Ahhhhhhh for New Moms” http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2385934019 to find out what they missed the most after baby.  The number one answer…drum roll please… was “time to self”, close behind was “sleep”, and the third most popular vote was “time with husband”.  We give up a lot when we have children, but the reward at least in my eyes, makes it all worth it.  What do you miss the most since baby?

I've heard a few good things about this gadget and now I've just seen the Tefal Actifry on Amazon too (at least in the Uk - couldn't find it on the .com site).

The Actifry makes a whole kilo (2.2lbs) of crisp fryer-tasting healthy fries with just one spoonful of oil.

We don't eat fries much these days and of course there are ways of making healthy fries by par-boiling potatoes and mixing (or spraying) with a little oil and baking but they are just not the same as fries from a deep fat frier.

Apparently these ones are just like that and without the hassle of boiling up potatoes or watching over them!

If you are loathe to give up eating fries you will find this a healthy way to get them - now I just need to save up the pennies bcause good health does not come cheap :)

See the video

I did an exercise/quiz the other day which brought home to me how little activity most of us actually do - and I think this has a lot to do with why the population in general seem to be getting more and more overweight in the western world.

The exercise involved filling in a section of a chart for each hour of the day - 24 in total - giving each section a diferent color depending how active you were in each of the 24 hours.

The categories were

• asleep/lying down
• sitting
• on your feet but only mildly active - tidying, shopping, moving about the office
• active - walking, vacuuming, cleaning
• exercise - running, lifting weights, playing sports, swimming

Yikes! I don't know about you but most of my hours were in the first two categories! I am on my PC rather than on my feet an awful lot!

And this pattern would be a marked difference from say 50 years ago when we used cars and labor-saving devices a lot less.

And the point of all this?

To give you a shock (same as I had) about how little time you are actually active each day and to get you to think a little more seriously about getting moving even a little extra each day.

If you give yourself a break every hour or so and get active for 5 or 10 minutes, you may be able to color another box active and save your shape (and maybe your life).

And I'd better go off and do something now too that Ive sat here writing this to you! :)

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Gosh it’s been a while since I’ve written in my “daily blog”!  I’ve been busy visiting family and taking a little down time.  I found that traveling 6 hours via car with two young children (20 mo. and 4.5 yrs) works quite well if you have dvd players.  My husband bought the kind that has one plug (into the lighter) with two separate screens.  That way my oldest could watch his shows w/ a headset and the baby could watch his show with volume only.  Surprisingly the dvd’s kept them entertained for the most part and my husband and I actually got to have a few conversations free of interruptions!