My Pooch, Inverted

Yesterday, while doing a shoulder-stand I came face to (face?) with my body nemesis: my lower belly pooch. My nemesis usually doesn't look that bad. Standing, gravity is not too cruel, it just looks like a somewhat happy-faced belly pouch...but inverted! Oh my goodness!!! I was faced with a lose-skin/stretch marked/eater of belly-button monster. Maybe the problem is that I came too close to It so I could clearly see all of the imperfections that I normally ignore and sometimes jokingly shake and pat to show "It" my appreciation (it gave up its good looks to support my growing children.) While I don't think I will be able to look at my pouch and think it looks great anytime soon, it comforts me to know that I would do it all over again, if I have to/or if I could. I wouldn't change the reason[s] why I have "It" for the world...although it would have been nice if It had gone back to "normal" after the birth of my children...but I am trying my hardest to improve Its appearance.
I am planning to face my belly pooch again on Friday, and I hope then to look at it with loving instead of critical eyes, or maybe I should do what I have done countless of time previously, I will tuck my shirt into my shorts to avoid being shocked by the way It looks inverted.

A Week of Food in Colors

I decided that along with my exercise I should post my meals. that way (maybe) I will feel the urge to have more color and healthy food added to our diet.
Monday, we had fish (tilapia), avocado, squash, tomatoes, cantaloupe, and peaches. I tried to have different colors in our meals, but I realized we have been missing red.

Aiden had a tomato shish kabob

Isabella enjoyed her squash so much she had a 2nd serving of them

Wednesday we had potatoes, corn and bean salad with avocado sauce, cantaloupe melon and peaches (yellow, orange, green and red)

 On Tuesday we had creamy tomato soup (orangy-RED), corn bread (yellow), and hot cocoa with sweet cream (brown and white).  I made the soup with fresh tomatoes and it doesn't have any cream or milk, healthy and delicious.

 

On Thursday we had honey mustard chicken, potatoes with sour cream and salsa, corn, bean and avocado salad with cherry tomatoes (yellow, red, green, and white). I know it all looks messy and not so appetizing, I had already began to eat so it was a little mixed in, especially the potatoes; they are smothered with sour cream and salsa, it tastes great (in my opinion) but its looks yucky. The chicken was very good, I added regular yellow mustard some honey and salt and pepper and cooked it just until no longer pink. It was so moist and tender the children ate them and Bella asked for more.

Exercise accomplishments and failures

Since I am feeling like I email Liz, Melodie and Shannon too often about my daily exercise accomplishments and failures, I have decided to post it here instead.
Jared and I began our exercise program about a month ago and we have been doing good (enough). There has been a few breaks in out routine like during our vacation trip to Utah, on which I am happy to say that we manage to exercise every other day on the first week, and then on Saturdays when we feel to lazy to get out of bed early, or today when, again, I was to lazy and too sleepy, but I plan to go for a walk with tiny and Bella or maybe a slow jog (I always hope for an afternoon jog but come the afternoon I am too full or too hungry or not in the house) anyways, while we have not been following our exercise plan to the letter, we have been exercising 4 or 5 days a week with the exception of the aforementioned vacation break.
We plan to continue our program for the next 2 month, it takes 90 days to complete. I need to mix in more cardio/jogging into my routine since I hardly do any. I do like running (a little) but I can't do it regularly since the kids can't be left home alone and I don't like to run on the treadmill. But maybe now that school has begun it may be easier to do.

Since I always like to add pictures to my posts, here I am today