Fighting PCOS Naturally

I almost want to start over at day 1. I didn't really do any exercise at all. Yesterday, day 24, Hubs and I spent most of the day cleaning and organizing the house because the annual inspections for our complex are today and tomorrow. It's the one time of year that I know the house will get cleaned, because of the potential for management to enter our home. I felt really good about getting it done. We went to the thrift store with Mom last Friday to buy a bunch of containers to put my bulk items in, like oatmeal, quinoa and sugar. Somehow we managed to get just the right size on a few of them - my large oatmeal container is filled to the very top, but it held the whole bag. I'm really happy to have fewer bags all over the place. I think it will help me stay organized and a little cleaner. I've got other containers from Homemade Gourmet pantry staples that I'm going to use for the smaller bags of flours, since HMG doesn't exist anymore. They fit great into one of...

Day 13- 20 min yoga 14 - 20 min yoga 15 - 20 min yoga 16 - nada 17 - nada 18 - 20 min yoga? I hope! The last few days haven't been so great exercise-wise. I've done 20 min of yoga on most days, but I'm not happy with that. I should be doing a lot more. I'm headed towards Day 20, 20% of the way through this challenge. I'm going to get back to more exercise today, I hope. I slept way too late, got to work late and needed to stay late to make up some hours. But there's no reason why I can't do 20 min of yoga. We'll see how tonight goes. I hope that tomorrow will be much better.

I've been really busy the last week. The last day I discussed was Day 5(6) - Jan 15th. It's been an entire week since then! I've decided to start ignoring the count of official days, so no more 5(6)ish days. Day 7 - The basic 15 min yoga and some games on the wii. Day 8 - I took off work to help out my grandmother. I decided to take the time to start sorting through boxes in her garage. Half of them are mine and the other half are my mom's. We got a decent chunk out. My mom purchased a garage sale permit, so we would sell stuff we didn't want whenever someone drove by. Day 9 - This was the official garage sale day! We were raising money for a friend's son. He was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at 6 months, and was diagnosed with a rare and terminal liver cancer last fall, at 13 yrs old. It's a cancer that they don't usually see unless you are from overseas and over 50 yrs old. We ended up raising $115 towards his medical bills. I also got to han...

Day 5(6) Has been the longest and most fun workout so far. I did 15 minutes of wii fit yoga, and 20 minutes of boxing and stretching. I got a 93% accuracy rate on a 4 minute non-stop boxing, and even doubled Hubs' previous score. I had to take a pic as evidence. For only being 5 days into my workout, I was quite excited with the results. And I'll be doing even more tonight. This morning, on the way into work, I was singing along with the music at the top of my lungs, and it hit me. I'm happy. This is new. I haven't felt just plain old happy in a really long time. I LOVE the new meds I'm on, and wished we started these sooner. But hindsight is always 20/20, and I can't change the past. But I can be excited about the future, and I am. I'm so excited that I'm starting to come back to the real world.

Since day 4 didn't have any exercise, I re-did it. I'm going to be keeping track of both the exercise days and the full 100 days. So day 4 redo was actually day 5. I'm going to notate it like this: 4(5). My hope is that this will be the only day that I don't stay on track, but if I should fall by the wayside, I'll just get back up and keep moving. So what did I do for Day 4 take two? I did my first weigh-in via wii fit. I'm going to use it as my weight loss tracker for the challenge, mainly because it says I'm 10ish pounds lighter than my bathroom scale does. The result? Just shy of 251 pounds. Bathroom scale said 259.8 several days ago. I should have gotten on the other scale after I did this weigh in to get a firm answer on how off the results are. Anyways, for my work out I did 30 minutes of strecthing, boxing and karate using the ExerBeat game. I forgot how fun it was, so I'm looking forward to getting back into a fun exercise routine. Eventually...

My bank account is very low this month, so I'm being forced into being creative with what we eat. I've got a lot of stuff in the house, so I know we won't go hungry. I just don't want to get stuck in a rut and everything gets boring. I joked with Hubs that I need to do a blog series called 'What the F*** Should We Eat', that focuses on creating new recipes out of the basics we have in the house. So maybe, along with my giveIt100 recaps, I'll post some recipes I threw together. My hope is that it helps me and you!

Day 2: Today I waited until late evening to do my workout. I did a 45 minutes candlelight yoga session (http://www.amazon.com/Crunch-Candlelight-Yoga-Sara-Ivanhoe/dp/B00006FMB2). It felt great, and I went to bed right afterwards. I slept pretty good, too. That's a win in and of itself. Day 3: Just a 15 min energizer. I didn't really do much else. I wasn't feeling too hot. And that followed over to day 4. Day 4: Nothing. I thought about doing some sort of workout several times, but I never actually got up and did anything. So Day 5 is going to have a longer workout. I'll definitely be doing some yoga, probably one of the 20 min series (http://www.amazon.com/Sara-Ivanhoes-Min-Yoga-Makeover/dp/B00049QQUU), very likely the 20 min for weight loss. Can you tell I'm a fan of Sara Ivanhoe? hahah I like her sets. She's really good at explaining what to do without being annoying. Have you ever had that issue? Where you can't stand to finish a workout dvd because t...