No Couch Potato’s Here

For a good bit now we have all been moving towards leading a healthy lifestyle at our house.  I had been a little overweight for the majority of my life and continued to over eat on a daily basis.  I noticed that my bad habits in my eating rituals had started to rub off on my children’s food choices.  We started to see them getting a little bit pudgier than they had been before and I knew that we all had to make a change.

We started eating a whole heckuva lot better.  We cut out quick solutions to meals and really started watching what we ate and what ingredients went into our meals.  We stopped snacking just because we were bored or just liked the thought of eating something and when we did notice that we wanted a snack we chose wisely.

We have been a good bit more active not only around the house but we have getting outside more.  We live in Texas and right now an immense drought is going on and really makes time outside in the heat really unbearable.  So, we head outside and go fast and furious in running, playing catch with various round things, and even doing some free weights.  We even get our dog involved and just get outside and run around like crazy to get our heart pumping.  

As autumn is slowly creeping up on us we are hoping that the kids will take an interest in maybe some sort of organized team sports.  Taylor used to play soccer but didn’t care for it much.  Hopefully maybe they can all latch on to something like baseball or softball that way they can all have a sport in common and play at home as well.  I think that this will teach them something that they desperately need….how to work as a team towards a common goal.  My children can never work together at home.  Maybe this will be a way for them to see it in action and then hopefully incorporate it into their home life.  

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August 21, 2011 | Filed Under Family 

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