Newbie with an emotional rant

[not2late]

Re: Newbie with an emotional rant

Oh about the food you have at home for the kids.....Start making healthier choices for them. Good eating and lifestyle habits begin when they are babies.

Toss the cookies and chips, replace them with fresh fruit, cheese and veggie sticks. Any grain products should be whole grains, not the refined stuff. No soda or fruit juice---that stuff is just fruit flavored sugar water.

Get yourself and your family healthy.



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See if your local community center offers age-appropriate classes for your children and you. In my area, the centers offer "Mommy and me" jazzercise and swimming classes. The exercise you will get counts towards your daily exercise allowance and will help you work off some of that stress (and get you out of the house!). For the kids, they'll get the benefit of exercise and the exercise will tire them out, so an afternoon nap might become a habit for them, and you'll get some additional "alone time".

[msnicksmom]

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OK, 2big's kids for resistance training totally works. I have a 3.5 year old and a 10 month old. I'm in Mnpls btw. My 3.5 year old won't let me lift him, but he'll do my leg stuff with me even a bit, and entertain himself or giggle at me for the rest. Benji, my 10 mo is 23 lbs. So he's GREAT for arms stuff!!! No kidding, my biceps are awesome. I also put him in the front carrier a lot, that extra load just may help me burn more calories. With this WOE and exercise added, you will have SO much energy. You will not want to eat after they go to bed, you will want to clean, organize, run, shop, type, whatever your things are, because you won't have sugar dragging you down.

Look forward to hearing your progress!!!

[fawn]

Re: Newbie with an emotional rant

Oh about the food you have at home for the kids.....Start making healthier choices for them. Good eating and lifestyle habits begin when they are babies.

Toss the cookies and chips, replace them with fresh fruit, cheese and veggie sticks. Any grain products should be whole grains, not the refined stuff. No soda or fruit juice---that stuff is just fruit flavored sugar water.

Get yourself and your family healthy.



Editing to add...

See if your local community center offers age-appropriate classes for your children and you. In my area, the centers offer "Mommy and me" jazzercise and swimming classes. The exercise you will get counts towards your daily exercise allowance and will help you work off some of that stress (and get you out of the house!). For the kids, they'll get the benefit of exercise and the exercise will tire them out, so an afternoon nap might become a habit for them, and you'll get some additional "alone time".

This has got to be the absolute best piece of advice. For all of you with children.......take the crap away and don't give in to the marketing! You are only setting your children up for the same kind of distress that you are under right now.
It does not have to be a diet to them. Or....explain what the word diet really means. A healthy well balanced daily eating lifestyle. One that helps us grown strong and healthy rather than changing their genetic make-up to encourage degenerative disease. This should be taught to children from the beginning. I read a statistic the other day (sorry going ot and hijacking) many many American children are drinking soda pop by the age of 2. Now that just sickens me to death!

Sorry to hijack the thread Kiki! Stay strong!

[Thinker]

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Okay, for whatever reason I can't post to indivdual responses. So thank you to everyone!

Brook, I'm so glad you brought me here.

All, you have some great advise and reminders for me! I read the book 6 mo ago, but thank you for reminding me to pull it off the shelf agian and get into Ketosis.

Kiki - I tried "low-carbing" on my own, twice - only managing to make things worse. Take the best advice. Go out and get a copy of Dr. Atkins book. Actually read it all the way through. I lost 100lbs after reading it. It's 4 yrs and 90 of it is still gone. All from the book - no kidding!!

[G-Mom]

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This has got to be the absolute best piece of advice. For all of you with children.......take the crap away and don't give in to the marketing! You are only setting your children up for the same kind of distress that you are under right now.
It does not have to be a diet to them. Or....explain what the word diet really means. A healthy well balanced daily eating lifestyle. One that helps us grown strong and healthy rather than changing their genetic make-up to encourage degenerative disease. This should be taught to children from the beginning. I read a statistic the other day (sorry going ot and hijacking) many many American children are drinking soda pop by the age of 2. Now that just sickens me to death!

Sorry to hijack the thread Kiki! Stay strong!

I realize I was one to say we still have crap in the house, but I would like to say that given the choice, my boys will usually choose the healthier snack or food. They actually WANT what I am eating--they love my Atkins meals. I DO NOT want to teach my kids that some foods are bad and some are good. I teach them that there are better choices. If we never expose our kids to the "bad" stuff, they will never acquire the autonomy to choose when we aren't around.

About the pop by the age of 2, my kids never drink pop and they are 3 1/2 and 6 1/2, and that is because I push water as best, not because pop isn't in the house, they just choose better.

[not2late]

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That's great G-Mom! You are teaching your children about making good food choices. When they start school, they will start making those food choices because many school systems in the US offer a la carte items in addition to the regular "hot meal". I saw the menu of the local school system a few months ago and I was appalled.

Fawn and I are referring to the folks who don't bother to teach their children about eating healthy and let them eat and drink junk at home, at school, etc. and take the attitude of "I need to start eating healthier, so I need to get some veggies at the market. That reminds me, I need to pick up couple of bags of chips and cookies for the kids!" Sometimes I get the feeling that these parents just give up any hope that their child would eat fresh fruit and veg instead of chips and cookies, so they don't even bother to change their diets.

My god children have home environments like that. When they come over here, they eat veggies and fruits. When they go back to their homes, they don't go near fruits and veggies because their parents have that attitude of "oh, they wouldn't like green beans, so why even bother..." It's really frustrating because their parents have them boxed into a "mac & cheese, pizza and burgers" stereotype that they don't bother to offer them different foods at home.

[kiki_chrissy]

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since you can't get away occupy your hands and mind borrow a tape from Brook that you and the little ones can do together and then workout spending some quality time wiuth them and your body. if they are little use them for the resistance training part of your atkins. Hard to eat and get stressed holding a kid in your hands doing bench presses with them just think bicep curls shoulder presses tricept extentions all with a big kiss from your little one at the end of each ( so they don't squirm or get scared and you got an excuse to bring them back to face level) after you have worked out you and the kids will be so stress relessed food should not be an issue. If you wear them out enough they should be ready for bed by the time daddy gets home and then you and he can well....

Ian does like to do Yoga with me. Also, Brook & I have gathered all the kids up together at one appartment, and the two of us escape to the weight room. This team-approach is very motivational for me. She's been a GREAT source of support.

~Kiki

[kiki_chrissy]

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I have a 3.5 year old and a 10 month old. I'm in Mnpls btw.

How wonderful we have so much in common! I'm in Plymouth to be exact. My son is 4, and my daughter is 7mo.

Thank you for the advice. I have done some walking with the front carrier, but it hurts my shoulders after a while.

Kiki

[kiki_chrissy]

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It's 4 yrs and 90 of it is still gone. All from the book - no kidding!!

4 years is phenominal! It's one thing to take the weight off, it's another to KEEP it off!!!

I do have a copy of the book that Brook gave me. I read the 1st half about 6 months ago. I do need to re-read it again. I tend to open it up lots for quick reference.

~Kiki