You ladies can achieve anything you set your mind to. It will just take consistency and hard work. Im a mom to a three yr old and a 16 month old. I decided last december that I was tired of how I looked and felt about myself. So I made a change in my lifestyle. I learned to eat better and not starve myself and I also made exercise a part of my routine. I couldnt manage with my two girls to get out to the gym so I bought an at home program and dug in. It was hard, I cried more days than I didnt the first few weeks, and I was very sore. Making the change in all aspects is going to get you the results you need. I'm definitely struggling right now with not seeing the progresss like I had in the beginning. Would love to friend you...and anyone else can friend me that sees this post. Im setting a goal to log everyday. I just got a fit bit too! Ive been using it a month and looking forward to really pushing it with my steps too!

Welcome to the group! I think we have all struggled with the time constraints and stresses that come w/ motherhood, so this is a great forum for advice or just a good place to vent! My babies aren't babies anymore , but I still struggle with keeping myself motivated to work out and eat right. I'm a full time working mother with a 9 year old stepson, and 4 year old and an 18 month old (and a 37 year old child ) I was 200 lbs 9monts after I had Max (my 4 year old) and I'm only 5'5". I joined MFP and lost 68 lbs. I'm just now back to my pre preggo weight w/ Nora (those stubborn 5 lbs!), but I only gained 30 lbs and worked out and logged (lightly) all during my pregnancy. I was actually 10lbs lighter when I gave birth to my daughter than I was when I got pregnant with my first!
One main way I've been able to maintain at all is by making my workout time a non-negotiable 5 days a week. I'm lucky that I have a gym walking distance from my house and I work in a large building so if I miss my morning workout, I can walk and do stairs indoors. The second most important thing is allowing for slip ups... some days (or weeks) I don't eat that well and I miss more workouts than I'd like, but that's not the end of it all. I watch the scale and make sure I don't go over my "high weight" which I've set at 145. I used to have a bad habit of giving up if I messes up... but I realized that I may put on a few pounds here and there but I can lose them and it's most important to be healthy!

Welcome! My younger son is 7 months old, and I'm home with him until next August. My older son is almost 3 years old and goes to preschool during the week. My husband and I own our own law firm, so he's working full-time, and I do some work here and there from home. (E.g., management type stuff, like I drafted a rental agreement for part of our office that we're renting out, and today I drafted some letters in response to a complaining client - it happens from time to time)

Point being, like many moms, I'm incredibly busy! I live in Charleston, SC, so it's quite warm here compared to a lot of places in North America, but then I have the opposite problem as you in that our summers are unbearably hot and humid! Not that it doesn't get hot by you, but our summers run fromMarch/April to October/November. Yesterday's high temperature was 75... So if it's too hot for me to be walking around, it's definitely not something I want to (or probably should) subject a baby to! My baby was born in late May, and I didn't take any walks with him until late September. Even then it was spotty because we still had hot days.

Some moms do indoor workouts, and that's great. I've never been that into working at home. One thing I've been doing is the Couch to 5K program after the kids are asleep. With my older son, I did the program early in the morning, but if he woke up in the middle of the night, I'd always be too tired to get out. This time my baby still wakes up very early, so I'd have to wake up mega early (like 5AM) to run. Additionally I don't want my workout to be ruled by whether or not he wakes up in the middle of the night, and because I BF my boobs are really full in the morning. So evenings work best for me. If a teething baby ruins it (like he did all week last week), then so be it.

Otherwise after my first I got really into Spinning and would go to classes whenever my husband was available to be home with our son. This time I've found that harder due to BFing (my first was FF), but I'm going to try to get back to my first class this coming Saturday. My husband is very supportive, which is simply priceless.

My rule of thumb is not to use your kids as an excuse not to work out or eat well, but don't beat yourself up if you miss workouts. It happens, and your kids are important. It's all about finding a balance that works for your family!

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