That Quirky Wife

Okay so, how many people are so sick of bouncing from diet to diet and either getting no results or just not being able to stick to it? That's me. I've tried cutting carbs, cutting calories, cutting fat, cutting all three at one time. I've tried adding exercise to all of them and to no avail...NOTHING. I've even tried the all powerful Keto diet and while I lost 7 pounds but it was just water weight (of course.) If you don't know what the Keto diet is, its where you cut your carbs down to less than 20g a day, your calories are around 1,500, and you need like 100g of protein a day! Now, while that was easy enough, that means no bread, no sweets, no potatoes, no veggies, and as far as fruit, you can only have select berries. Cheat days? Nope. What happens is when you cut your carbs down to a certain amount, you body no longer uses them as an energy source and it will start using fat to power itself....hence why you lose weight right? That "state" is called...

Through the generations, every mother has worked their butt off to produce and raise tiny humans…It’s hard, no one can argue that. But I feel that apart from a mom just being a mom, everything else is different. When I was born, my grandma literally lived across the mobile home park from us and she spent every waking second at our house taking care of me, and even my mom. She needed naps too, I mean all the other moms can relate to that right? Baby’s up for 20 out of the 24 hours a day and we’re still expected to be bright eyed and bushy tailed the next morning. Back then not being completely put together was okay and it was easy to hide “mom hair” (you know what I’m talking about, those mile high perms am I right?) Many of us grew up in the 80s and 90s I’d assume, where we roamed around the neighborhood by ourselves or with a big group of friends, where we’d walk all the way across town just to see if our friend was home instead of calling them, where all of our time and I mean A...