Ok- While I cannot understand fully what you are going thru, because my kid is typical, but my neice is 5 and Autistic. So I know the difference between a typical child screaming for Mommy and a special needs child screaming for Mommy. With that being said...I am NOT going to suggest stick to your morning routine and let your husband deal with it. Do you have any downtime at work? When I work long hours, I will workout at my desk. I will do pushups on my desk. Really helps with form to do them on your toes the normal way. I will do a few sets of 10 whenever I can. Do you have something heavy at work to hold? Bear hug and do a 3 sets of 10 squats. Stairs? sprint them?? I know that might require having sneakers at work... so not sure if it is an option for you. But when I workout at work (i work alone from 3pm on...so it is easy for me) I will do 15 squats, sprint the stairs, 15 push ups, sprint the stairs, 15 tricep dips on my chair, sprint the stairs..I will do that for 3 or 4 rounds. Not sure of the calorie burn...but i will be tired after.

And just remember...the key to losing weight is diet.

I work out after work or even after dinner.. if my husband is home he helps with the girls if hes not home I just kinda work out around them... or I let them watch me or "work our with me". I do Insanity so I am infront of the TV but I like the fact that they want to work out with me... I'm going to try very hard to start getting up early to work out but it might just be the death of me(I LOVE my sleep a bit to much)

I am very fortunate to have a gym right at work for employees. I try to get there at least 4 times per week and just plan it around my meetings, etc. So that may mean a morning workout, or at my lunch break, or late afternoon. Whatever works. They also offer yoga and zumba classes, so when I can I enjoy those as well.

This is the hardest part for me and I don't have young kids. It's much harder in the winter because it's dark and cold. I used to work out in the mornings but in the last year I got pretty lazy and chose to sleep later and I'm having a hard time breaking myself of that habit. I worked out both days over the weekend which is easy because I can fit it in whenever.

I keep thinking I'll work out when I get home after work but I haven't done that either... :yawn:

In the past it worked better for me to get up a few minutes earlier in the morning and work out before I went to work, it gave me a lot more energy through out the day. I just need to make myself get up!! :blushing:

I hate mornings!! So I workout at home (DVDs) after my mini goes to bed about 8-8:30pm. I can sometimes get it in while she is doing homework/before dinner, but that is very rare.

It's such a challenge but so nice for everyone to post what works for them to get other ideas!

Most days of the week I get up at 5am while my husband and daughter sleep and go to the gym. When I get home I wake them up and feel like I didn't miss a beat. It usually sucks getting up that early but I LOVE being done that early too.

Some days I can't get up that early if I get to bed too late the night before. Those days I will either force myself to go to the gym after work or do a workout video at home. My daughter is 7 and loves doing these with me to whatever extent she wants/can. She also then asks to do a Yoga video every time - and I hate yoga - and now she wants a mat - haha.

When it's a decent temperature outside I go for a run on my lunch break. No, I don't shower before I go back to work because I can't. I bring a washcloth and I wash myself up with soap and water from the sink and put deoderant on and dry shampoo and I'm good to go. That being said, my office isn't very formal and I don't see customers face to face. I know this doesn't work for everyone. I do otherwise go for a walk every lunch break and I can get a few miles in in one hour. When it's cold or crappy I walk to the mall that's about a quarter mile away and walk through there.

Throughout the day I do little things - walk up and down the office stairs, tricep dips at my desk, jumping jacks in the bottom floor of a quiet stairwell, etc.

I do try to get my workouts in when my daughter is sleeping but I don't beat myself up the day or two that we end up going to the gym and she goes to the day care there. Sometimes I need my peace and quiet when she's sleeping to do homework or other things.

One thing I can tell you is that if you pick a time and place, a workout that you WANT to do, and schedule it like everything else, it's so much easier. If you have everything ready to get up and workout at 5am and you told yourself you are going to do it, no questions ask, you will likely do it.

I am NOT a morning person but after 2 years of trying different things, AM is the Only time I can be consistent. So, its AM DVD Series. Now I Love it. I get mad if someone gets up too early (Like today) and throws me off.

Its even easier now that I'm doing T25, only a half hour, I know what I'm in for and can schedule the time. Alarm starts at 5, I get up at 5:30. takes me maybe 15 min to drink something be dressed, get on HRM, etc. Then I'm DONE for the day and don't have to think about it.

While I am by no means doing any of this NOW as I have fallen off the wagon, this is what I was doing last year:

- Walk around the office complex during my two 15 minutes breaks. As long as it wasn't raining, super cold, or super hot, I walked. I keep a pair of slip-on sneaker-like things at my desk. I bought a cheap pedometer at Target - 15 mins at a fairly brisk pace burned around 43 calories for me, that is 86 calories at the end of the day and in the beginning that is all I did.
-After the kids are bed (8-8:30pm), I would watch TV, fold laundry, do dishes etc. If I was watching TV, I started doing lunges, squats, push ups, planks, sit ups, tricep dips using the ottoman, leg lifts, etc while watching my shows. I bought some 3 lb hand held weights and started doing an arm routine (biceps curls, dead lifts, tricep extensions, and the like)
-I got really ambitious and started getting up early and did a work-out DVD. It had several different routines to choose from, some were only 15 minutes and one was around 30 minutes, plus the warm & cool down. I would get cardio and strength training in one!
-On nice weather weekends,I would take the kids for a walk, go to the park, or we would all go to a wooded-trail park for "hiking"

I lost about 10 pounds by logging everything on here and doing what I though was pretty minimal exercise. This year I don't want to lose focus and I want to become a BEAST!

These have been my options, and I have rotated depending on what worked for me at the time:

Work out first thing in the AM, but that means I have to go to sleep early.
Work out right before bedtime, but I usually fall asleep putting my son to sleep.
Work out during my lunch hour.
Work out AS SOON AS I GET HOME FROM WORK, but then dinner is a little later.

Sometimes I can hit a run or a workout while dinner is heating up, if I am cooking chicken, or warming up something I had previously assembled.

As a working mom (2 jobs) with a 2 and 4 year old and a hubby, I am struggling with finding time for me! I love all the ideas so far and am going to try a few of the suggestions! I have a really nice Lance Armstrong elliptcial trainer that has a nice layer of dust on it and I come up with every excuse not to use it! Some excuses are valid (I hate where it's at upstairs in the "loft" area beasue I feel so closed in and its louder so it wakes kids up in the AM) but other excuses are not valid and are just adding to the reasons I am in the condition I am! I am about 40lbs over where I'd like to be but that changes THIS YEAR. My "baby" will be 3 this summer so the "baby weight" is no longer an excuse LOL!!!! I am hoping to start forcing myself to wake up earlier and stop using my friend the snooze button so much Keep the ideas coming ladies! Thanks!

We have a YMCA very close to our house (10 minute walk). So, on Tuesdays after work and Saturdays before the day gets crazy ,my husband and I take the kids to the childcare they offer there and the kids love going and playing with friends. On Tuesdays I do a sculpting class that uses weights for a fully body workout. Saturdays are an 8 am step class and yoga right after. Thursdays and Fridays are my wild cards... meaning it depends on the family schedule and what we have going on. But, I try to get something in on either of those days. Sundays after church we try to do family activities, like go on a hike or play at the park.

Mondays and Wednesday are out of the question due to work, classes, and Bible study group.