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Multivitamins for my picky eater

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Jun 272011

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Walgreens for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

With Steev away at university and far away from home, I’m always concerned about whether he’s eating right. Being the picky eater that he is, and very new to the kitchen, he may not be eating a well-balanced diet.

Obviously I can’t be there to cook for him but I want to be sure he stays healthy. When I was visiting him last winter, we stopped by Walgreens to check out Walgreens Brand Health & Wellness Products.

I was looking for multivitamins to supplement his diet. I find that Walgreens Gold Seal Multi Vitamins Dietary Supplement contains pretty much the same active ingredients as other national brands but is much less costly and the savings can go to another cup of Starbucks .

There’s also a pharmacist there who can answer any questions he might have. Steev tells me he’s been taking the multivitamins regularly (when he remembers) and he thinks it’s pretty good. He also likes that he can order online when he’s running low.

Walgreens has a�Walgreens Way to Well Fund� and right now, some bloggers are having gift card�giveaways which I have just told Steev about.

So Raine was working out in earnest, totally focused on what she was doing… when her back kick landed on something. Let me tell you, it can really come as a shock when you’re moving about and some part of you hits something or someone at the gym.

Well, common sense would tell you to pick an open space far away from the next person, and common sense would tell you not to walk blindly into another human being exercising nearby.

In this particular instance, Raine was in a space far enough from the next person that they wouldn’t get into each other’s way. Along came the guy in the yellow t-shirt (we’re guessing he only owns one t-shirt!) who decided he was going to walk right into Raine’s space at the very moment she was doing a back kick…

… which landed hard, very hard on, how shall I say this, a place, or rather, the place where the sun don’t shine!

OUCH!

That must’ve hurt! Bad!

She turned around and apologized. He, on the other hand, was trying to put on a brave front, a weak smile even. Somehow he didn’t strike me as someone who was having a ball?!!

So we missed gym for an entire week due to my car being in the shop for a day. Talk about an ingenious excuse! Well, we were going to go, honest, but you know how busy it gets around and before you know it, the morning’s gone and it’s time for lunch.

Important thing is we made it this morning, bright and early. You wouldn’t believe it, we’d been counting down the hours! You know, these days, we wake up in the morning and it’s 82 degrees out with a killer humidity to boot which, if you ask me, is one heck of an incentive to get our butts to the gym ASAP.

Here I am, in my corner of the gym, right under my beloved air-conditioning and fan going full blast. Another morning in paradise!

Darned good workout that was. Worked off all that Mother’s Day pigging out. No guilt, no gain. Have you worked off yours yet ?

We had another fantabulous workout this morning, Raine and I. Ever since we became gym partners, I’ve really been inspired to ramp up my workouts.

When Raine joined me at the gym, I became her personal trainer of sorts though she’s so motivated herself I hardly need to do much except get in there with her.

I guess she’s the kick in the butt that I needed to ramp things up. After years of working out at pretty much the same pace, I’d sorta hit a plateau.

It’s great to have someone to chat with about what works and what doesn’t, to challenge and have friendly competitions with and of course, to sneak off for a quick yummy reward with. We’re pretty excited about the results we’re seeing too.

Do you go solo or do you buddy up with a friend, and which do you find works better for you?

So Raine and I are back to the gym after a week’s slack. Shame on us! Blame it on Sam and Dean, and the incessant rain.

Well, we may’ve been away for a whole week but it’s still the same old, same old over there. Like it being 85 degrees outside, rain or shine. Like some people showing up in long sleeves, long pants and wrapping themselves up in bath towels to work out for 2 hours in a gym with no windows.

The minute we get in, we switch everything on – the fans, the air-conditioning. It’s a thankless task, let me you. I’ve lost count of how many glares we’ve gotten for doing everyone a favor and ensuring they can breathe!

They claim to be shivering cold or that they want to sweat it out. Either way, they don’t want any air circulating in that gym. And anyone who dares touch that switch gets the evil eye!

So far, no one’s confronted me – yet – though I daresay I often hear them cussing me behind my back.

Anyhoo, this is how I look at it.

When you work out, you tend to require more oxygen than usual to fuel those strenuous activities. So you need air!

Without any fresh air, we’ve got a closed up area rapidly filling up with carbon dioxide replacing any last bit of oxygen. So you need air!

The windows are only open a teeny tiny crack which isn’t enough for a roomful of oxygen-deprived lungs. So you need air!

Your body produces heat when you exercise and you need to cool it down so you won’t faint. So you need air!

No brainer, right?

Not to these ladies. I assure you they can’t wait to see our backs, and the moment we’re out the door, they jump up and turn everything off again! At the rate they’re going, they might as well stay home and work out on their Nintendo Wii.

As for me, I’ve got to have air when I exercise or I will feel nauseated and then I get a freakin’ migraine that ruins my entire day!

I’ve been asked many times how I manage to get my teens to come to the gym with me at the unearthly hour of 7:30 in the morning. Apparently� it’s common for teens to sleep till noon time. One mother even told me her teens wake up at 5 pm in the evening !!

I’m one of the very few parents who brings her teens to the gym on public holidays and days when college classes start late. Over the years, I’ve been bringing one teen after another as soon as they were old enough, sometimes 2 of them at once, sometimes all 3.

To be honest, it’s not so hard to get them to come along. My teens have been trained from young to be in bed by 10:00pm on school nights and they’re up at 6:00am. Yes, even now!

On the weekends, if they’re not up by 9-ish, I will wake them up and they know they have to be at the Delta faucets brushing their teeth within the half hour. They’re used to it.

As for getting them excited about working out, I didn’t have to do much. Guess I’m just lucky they enjoy working out as much as I do .