Alright, so this is the beginning of my journal. This entry is basically just background info.
My husband, our 6 month old daughter and I are Katrina victims, relocated to Texas. I was 7 months pregnant when Katrina hit (yes we stayed in the city during it). We lost our jobs, our home, the usual. We were suffering from PTSS afterwards, and this month is especially hard trying to face the upcoming hurricane season which starts on June 1. This is my first month back to work after Katrina hit, and in that time, we've been on food stamps.
He's a junk food fanatic, and I'm trying to eat healthy. Try feeding two different diets on $147 a month....doesn't work, so alot of compromise has been made. However, we have been able to come to some sort of "healthy" compromise.
So now, I'm away from the house 12 hours out of the day, 5 days a week, get up at 5 AM to spend two hours with my daughter in the morning, and get home to spend an hour with her before putting her down to bed, which leaves me approximately an hour to get to the gym, work out, get back, eat dinner, take a shower and hit the sack for hopefully 8 hours of sleep, if J doesn't wake me up in the middle of the night because she misses Mommy. And somewhere in there I still have to spend time with my husband.
I can get to the gym about 5 days a week (4 if I'm really lazy). The weekends are my weightlifting days, since its the only time I have that's long enough to do that. During the week is my time on the TM running. The nights that I get to the gym during the week, its so packed, it would take way too long to wait for others to get finished their routine to do mine.
So, that's my background.
My husband, our 6 month old daughter and I are Katrina victims, relocated to Texas. I was 7 months pregnant when Katrina hit (yes we stayed in the city during it). We lost our jobs, our home, the usual. We were suffering from PTSS afterwards, and this month is especially hard trying to face the upcoming hurricane season which starts on June 1. This is my first month back to work after Katrina hit, and in that time, we've been on food stamps.
He's a junk food fanatic, and I'm trying to eat healthy. Try feeding two different diets on $147 a month....doesn't work, so alot of compromise has been made. However, we have been able to come to some sort of "healthy" compromise.
So now, I'm away from the house 12 hours out of the day, 5 days a week, get up at 5 AM to spend two hours with my daughter in the morning, and get home to spend an hour with her before putting her down to bed, which leaves me approximately an hour to get to the gym, work out, get back, eat dinner, take a shower and hit the sack for hopefully 8 hours of sleep, if J doesn't wake me up in the middle of the night because she misses Mommy. And somewhere in there I still have to spend time with my husband.
I can get to the gym about 5 days a week (4 if I'm really lazy). The weekends are my weightlifting days, since its the only time I have that's long enough to do that. During the week is my time on the TM running. The nights that I get to the gym during the week, its so packed, it would take way too long to wait for others to get finished their routine to do mine.
So, that's my background.