I am so glad that you started this group! I've been on Fitness Pal for a few years now always trying to stay on track but struggling along the way. I'm hoping being a part of this group will help me with re-starting my motivation. I am having a hard time trying to get a workout in with working full-time, 2 kids who are also busy with activities, and I'm also taking an online college course. The scale keeps on creeping up though and I can't take it anymore! There was a time where I was working out 5-6 days a week and I was feeling good about myself and I really want to get back to that. Just like you, I was also getting up earlier. I have been struggling to get out of bed in the morning so I'm going to force myself to have a bed time starting tonight. I really have no excuse. I can get up earlier and I also am lucky to have access to a gym at a nearby apartment building that the property management company I work for manages. I can go on my lunch break, but I allow myself to stay stuck at my desk and I need to take advantage of my lunch breaks. Wishing you all the best and looking forward to keeping each other motivated.

I started the T25 workouts five weeks ago after months of deliberation. I couldn't justify the price at first and told myself I didn't need the DVDs to create and stick to a high intensity interval routine, but truth be told, months went by and I was no closer to my pre-baby #2 body. Each workout is only 25 minutes. My husband and I do them at night after we put the kids to bed. I feel so much better already and can see a difference in the way my clothes are fitting. Love this idea for a group!

This is my problem now. I'm so busy with my work aside from taking care of baby, it's hard to squeeze in work out time.

Hi ladies....It's nice to have this group to check in I've recently started not giving my myself any more excuses of why I can't work out. Now I'm waking up to work out at 5am with Jillian's 30 day body shred 2-3 times a week, doing a stair workout in my office building once a week...I walk up 25 flights of stairs twice and at the end of that I'm sweating like crazy but it feels great and my last workout of the week is a 3-4 mile walk/run pushing my son in the jogging stroller. Before I had my son Logan I ran half marathons once a month and when I found out I was pregnant I was training for a marathon so I had to cancel that out. I don't think I'll ever do a marathon, but I would like to do a half marathon next year. My goal now at this stage in my life is to do a half once a year

Good luck everyone, looking forward to giving and gettng advice.

Any coffee drinkers? what do you do to keep it calorie friendly? I have this horrible weakness for white chocolate mochas. I caved this morning and bought one on my way to work, it puts a HUGE dent into my calories for the day and I did it anyway. I usually have coffee with the sugar free sweet cream creamer when I get to work but lately I keep stopping for a mocha, I can't seem to kick this bad habit of stopping on my way to work. So frustrated with myself

Yes thanks for starting this group. It is so hard to workout with kids unless you can include them in it. I find that when I do my dvd workouts and they are around I get upset when they want or need me as I am struggling with the exercise. So as a result I get up at 5:15 during the week to get up.

I also got a fitbit to watch my calorie burn and it pushes me to move weather I am walking running etc.

My children are 6 and 8, my goal is to keep them active with me this summer, riding their bikes or just sprints and walking to keep them in shape for their winter sports.

But sometimes after work I just want to lay down and rest my head (but it never happens as I have a house to clean, yard to maintain etc). Thanks to summer all of my kids activities are on hold and more time is available.