Posts under ‘Shannon's Blog’

Phew…
I’m back…again…
I think that is partly the life of a mommy and partly what happens when the universe turns your world upside down and lets you live that way for a month or so, every once in a while giving you a shake like a snow globe and letting you settle back in, but still [...]

So, I’ve been for four acupuncture sessions now and wow, some of the sensations are bizarre! I haven’t noticed any changes yet, apart from an unconscious change in serving size when I serve my meals – smaller, not bigger.
The last couple of times I’ve been certain there were still needles in my feet [...]

I think the answer is pretty straight forward – to fuel our bodies. Right?
Yeah, but it’s not that simple. Right?
For me, at least, that’s right.
Something changed after we had our baby. Alex had been working nights for at least a year and he’d been working screw ball hours for a couple of years before that. [...]

So, the crazy diet seems to have done the trick…or at least part of the trick. The fatigue is totally letting up. I’m sure the aquafit has a lot to do with it too, but I am certain the diet played a big role!
When I was battling fatigue before, I saw a bunch of doctors, [...]

As I mentioned before, my hormones have been running wild since I had my daughter and they just don’t want to calm down…my doctor has run the tests and changed my pill, three times in the last eight months, but things are still out of whack. And I’m positive that some of my weight loss [...]

We’ve all said it…and most of the time we know it’s not true.
That whole I’d like to work out but I don’t have time excuse.
Well, now I do have time. To be fair, it wasn’t that I didn’t have time to work out as much or the way I wanted, it was that I had [...]

Today is the last day of the four week crazy diet. I’m not sure how well it worked…some crazy things have been going in our lives – work stress, sick toddler, other not-so-fun-stuff – that have resulted in not as much sleeps as I need, so I’m not sure if the fatigue I’m feeling now [...]

So I was talking to Stacey and after our conversation, I figured it was time to address the ever so complicated issue of hormones.
After J was born, I lost weight steadily. And then my milk production almost stopped. There were all kinds of reasons for it, but the result was that I was put on [...]

I survived the first week on the crazy diet and now it becomes less crazy. And even though it wasn’t as crazy as it was the first time I did it, I found last week hard.
Besides the fact that J got sick, it was harder to do with a kid and husband than when it [...]

Day one and day two went the way day one and day two always go…fine, but hard. I had sushi on Tuesday because it was a colleague’s birthday and I know it had soy, vinegar and sugar in it, but I figured it wasn’t a huge amount and it was only one day. Besides, this [...]