Health and Fitness

With the weekend house guests, I kind of gotten off my eating plan. For the most part I managed to continue to eat clean but my proportions were way off!  Gigantic!!   I am hoping to get back into my clean eating and exercising now.  I am even thinking of adding a little 15 minute workout when I get home with my little guy for some added cardio.   I do have a couple of weddings at the end of the month that I could use as motivation for sticking to everything and maybe even going that extra mile.

Life can be busy with a toddler, so my regular workouts happen at lunch time.   I have committed myself to them and it really does work well for me.  You can work out if you have a family, you just need to sneak it in when you can.  Sneak whenever you can 20 minutes here, 10 minutes there, whatever – but it is possible .  I am really committed to exercise because I have a fat gene that dwells within. I don’t have the genetics or the metabolism anymore to just eat whatever and not worry about exercising. I have to do both, I have to eat well and exercise -  I can’t do one without the other-  it simply doesn’t work.  Don’t start picturing me as some super athletic tiny bodied person, I am not – I have a leftover baby belly which will probably always be there. I have made peace with that.  I would say I am average size with average proportions, so I am very far from being a supermodel (I am too short anyways).  I may not be a model but I do have a very solid health and fitness goal : to be healthy and active.  

My goal used to be to be healthy and active for myself, but now I do it for my family. Not only do I want to be around a long time, I think it brings a certain cool factor.   My parents never played any sports as adults or ran any races, but I had a couple of friends whose parents did and I thought that was so cool.  I am not doing it entirely for the cool factor, I am doing it really to keep up with my family.  People will tell you that a toddler keeps you in shape but I think I need to stay in shape to keep up with him. The other day I got him out of his car seat and set him down, as I started to walk up to the house coaxing him to come along, he decided it would be funnier if he bolted for the road. I darted as fast as I could and cut him off well before the pass. I looked at my husband and he said – that’s the real reason you work out.  I think it is….