Over exercising and undereating

butterflyrae2010

Also you need to eat, don't forget. Get up a little earlier and eat breakfast without the kids. Mid morning have a small snack - for instance a yogurt or a piece of fruit. Eat lunch after your little one goes down for a nap and your other one is at pre-school. As for dinner eat early before you go to the gym or have a snack and eat when you get home.
It can be done. We all have busy lives. I had five kids before I was 30, babysat 4 children whille I was raising mine,and always could sneak some meals in.

You can do it!

velvetkat

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fitby38

Thank you everyone for your help I already upped my exercise and I will try eating more. As for the gym I'm sticking to my 3 hours because that is my 'me' time but I will tone it down to more pool time and maybe I'll start doing some more weight lifting.

sounds like you are stuck on doing what you want to do ... hmmm .... what was your reason for posting this??? :huh:

breezymom81

I'm a stay at home mom with two very active boys and finding time to eat is hard because I'm always running to do something for them. Yesterday for example I spent from 12 till 5 at three different Dr. appts. Then at 5 when my hubby got home I rushed off to get my 3 hours in at the gym. So I completely missed supper. In the mornings I'm up getting breakfast for the kids and their clothes and baths and general house cleaning before dropping my son off for pre-school and then running to afternoon appointments. I don't really get hungry during the day (which is what led to being overweight) and I would eat late at night. But I'm trying to change that so that I don't eat 5000 calories a night. My oldest son eats at pre-school for lunch and my youngest son eats baby food so I don't usually cook lunch and I forget to eat it because I'm taking my son to school and my little guy takes a nap then as well so I'm rushing to feed him and put him to bed and then I'm rushing to do what needs to be done before he wakes up.

I am mom of two chronically ill children-I spend hours a week at drs, on the phone with drs, schools pharmacies you name it, plus work 40 hrs a week. I find time to eat, if you are busy then prepare your lunch before hand, take 20 minutes to eat before the gym...I have never really felt hunger but I do get dizzy and unfoucused if I let my self go too long before eating. There is no excuse for this! Secondly MFP is over calculating your burn I would bet. Last weekend I spent 4.5 hours doing the same activities you listed...my HRM(Polar F7) gave me a burn of 848 calories....

But really try to eat more, you are no good to anyone if you get sick!!