Week two, day 4

I’m in North Carolina at my daughter’s home.  She gave birth yesterday to a little 7 lb.19 ½” baby girl named Avreigh Joy.  The baby is healthy, beautiful, and happy and so is her Mommy (and sister and Daddy).  We brought them home from the hospital today exactly 24 hours after the birth.

Here's a picture of Teal, Avreigh, and Grandma getting in the car to go home from the hospital.

Dieting and exercise is really hard to keep up with in the middle of all this.  My 5 year old granddaughter Teal and I got our exercise in early this morning.  I walked and she rode her bike with training wheels.  We did a lot of stopping to  look at butterflies, bugs and pick wild flowers. I was walking in place, waiting while she was picking a flower, and she said, “Grandma, do you have to go potty?”

It was really fun.  My goal this week is to teach her to ride her two-wheeler without training wheels.  I hope she’s a quick learner, I’m not sure how long I can run up and down the street!

I’m sure glad I brought my protein powder with me.  It comes in handy when you’re hungry and all you have to choose from is fast food at the airport, fast food at the hospital, and fast food with the family.  Today on the way back from the hospital, we stopped for lunch.  I thought I was eating smart by ordering a charbroiled chicken wrap from Chick-fil-a.  It had a bunch of vegetables and some chicken wrapped up in a tortilla and sounded pretty healthy. It was, but when I got home and looked up the nutrients in that innocent little wrap I was shocked.  It had 410 calories (I’m only supposed to eat 300, 34g protein, (good, I should have 30g), 46g of carbs (I should only have 25) and 12g of fat (I should have 8g).

It wasn’t a catastrophe, I just went home and had a healthy home-made dinner and ended up pretty close to my daily number goal.