Ok, sorry about complaining about my sugar dilemma last week. I guess I never realized how much sugar is in certain fruit. Well, I am no longer discouraged and I changed my smoothie recipe a little so it doesn't have quite as much sugar. I found fruit that has less sugar than the fruit I was using, I switched to using water instead of milk, and I add more greens. The smoothie isn't as sweet and creamy but Madison will still drink the smoothie and I feel better about my sugar consumption.
Also, I wanted to share a little tip. Maybe everyone already does this but I recently started focusing on always tightening my stomach muscles. I read this tip in an article that listed little things we can do to burn calories. Tightening your stomach muscles not only helps you burn calories but it improves your posture and can help with lower back pains. I feel like I haven't tightened my stomach muscles since before Madison was born so this is challenging for me right now. Anyway, this tip is helping me so I decided to share with everyone else.
Happy Friday everyone!
