Looking for working moms to add :D

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  • bhalter
    bhalter Posts: 582 Member
    Do stepmoms count? I have a 10 and 13 year old step child along with a husband who works 3rd shift. Finding time to exercise is next to impossible.:smile:

    Heck yes they count! In my situation, I have an 8-year-old stepdaughter, but I'm her full-time mom. Her biological mother is worthless and has barely any contact, does not help support her, and I'M the one buying her clothes, helping her with homework, fixing her meals, and doing everything a mom does.
  • oddree80
    oddree80 Posts: 71 Member
    sent you a request. I am a working mom and have 2 kids at home. 6 and 2!

    :wink:
  • PrincessKittenpants
    PrincessKittenpants Posts: 144
    I'm a single mother of a 2 year old! Feel free to add me:)
  • BrookesMom02
    BrookesMom02 Posts: 1
    Feel free to add me 2. I am a working mom of a 2 year old. I find it very hard to work out because she wants to be right in there and by the time she goes to bed I am beat to! I am so up and down in my weight. It is very hard! Good luck!
  • KCox8604
    KCox8604 Posts: 41 Member
    Wow! A lot of working Mom's on here. I'm 25 years old and work 40 hours a week in a childcare center. I work with infants and toddlers. I have a 6 year old son that is a big part of my motivation to get fit!! Anybody is welcome to add me also. Motivation and support has helped me through some "down" dieting days. Thanks!
  • emmabee87
    emmabee87 Posts: 13 Member
    You can feel free to add me! I still manage to work out a couple of times a week, but mostly just focus on my eating because that's all I have time to do. I have a 2 year old son, I work full time and I'm also a full time student!
  • bratius
    bratius Posts: 60
    I am a 26 year old full time working mother. I work 10-12 hours, 6 days a week and it's a very physical job so I hope that it will also help with my weight lose but I have a 2 year old daughter and 8 month old twin boys.
  • Tandi_S
    Tandi_S Posts: 439 Member
    Hi everyone! I've already got the OP on my friends' list, but feel free to add me for more support! I work FT and have 2 daughters, almost 4 and 6 months. Some days just getting the basics done can be challenging. I've had to slip some workout time in during my lunch break, but as I get a little more fit, it may not be enough.
  • bugs5697
    bugs5697 Posts: 85
    Working (single) mom here too. 14 year old daughter.
    Feel free to add me if you'd like! Looking for all support, especially with others like me!!

    :flowerforyou:
  • kriggs1976
    kriggs1976 Posts: 117
    You can add me, and so can anyone else interested. I am a single mom, 35 years old and I work fulltime out of the home and I also work out of my home in the evenings. Both are computer jobs, so I sit all day! My main motivation has been my dog, he makes sure I get up and get out to take him for a walk every day!

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  • xo_morgan
    xo_morgan Posts: 298
    I have learned that it is much easier to get to the gym after everyone is in bed!

    i definitely second this! i always go to the gym late at night around 9-10..im not a morning person..cant wake up at 430 to go before work!

    anywho, i sent a request your way...& anyone else who wants more working mommys as their friends feel free to add me also...i can use all the support i can get!! :o)
  • KXanthos
    KXanthos Posts: 189 Member
    Any of you may feel free to add me. I am a 42 year old divorced (well, divorcing) mom of two. I work full time and have 50% custoday of my kids. Balancing everthing is really hard, but I feel like I'm finally starting to hit a rythm on the days that I don't have my girls, The days that I do are a different story. LOL
  • katscoots
    katscoots Posts: 255 Member
    i'd love to be added - 37, working mom of one very busy child and my husband is out of town for the next 3 months - so i'm temporarily a single mom too. SO - I give props to all you single parents out there...I do not know how you do it, and I only have one kid
  • sbrouillet
    sbrouillet Posts: 64 Member
    Feel free to add me if you'd like. I have one daughter which is now a teen but work I work full time.
  • sexyminxinthemaking
    sexyminxinthemaking Posts: 451 Member
    feel free to add me im a single mum who works 4 days a work and college 2 days till i qualify as a midwife i have 2 boys aged 7 and nearly 2 HARDWORK lol :yawn: :yawn: :yawn:
  • mommydejour
    mommydejour Posts: 1
    I'm a working mom as well with FOUR kids! It's a blended family so I only gave birth to two of them LOL. It's hard to manage everyone's schedules and still have time to work out which is why I finally broke down and bought a Wii. It's got lots of fun games that really get your heart rate up there and I can have fun and work out with my kids and they don't know their getting exercise.
  • KXanthos
    KXanthos Posts: 189 Member
    I have learned that it is much easier to get to the gym after everyone is in bed!

    I wish that was an option! I'm divorced (getting one anyway), have 50% custody of my girls, and can't leave them home alone to go to the gym...Luckily I have an elliptical trainer that I bought a few years ago and can easily do workout dvd's in the morning before they work out.
  • isaac007
    isaac007 Posts: 3
    Hi I'm a working mom too kids are 5 and 3. Find it hard to exercise but trying to eat healthily
  • busyblkgirl
    busyblkgirl Posts: 264 Member
    Hey hun, i'm a mother of three, a full time police officer, and a business owner. Add me :o)
  • qdiggs
    qdiggs Posts: 27
    I'm a FT working mom with three kids 21, 18, and 7. I try to work in a brisk walk at work for a half hour and get on the bike in the evenings (20-30 min.) My seven-year-old likes to do the bike also, so its time we can spend together!



    Feel free to add me :flowerforyou:
  • jelicaa
    jelicaa Posts: 83 Member
    I am a 31 yaer old working and single mom. I am thankful for having my parents though (living under their roof). Since having my son (now 5) I havne’t done any field work realted to my profession – I’m a aquatic/coastal ecologist..stuck in the cube, writing reports, and got heavier and heavier. Exercise was 2-3 days aweek, 2-3 miles with walking the dogs.
    On meetup.com I found a bootcamp class for free this past Thanksgiving day. I went and tried it. I LOVED IT!!! Love hate relationship with it…the pain sucks but when the class is done you’re personally thrilled that you survived! I am now a full paying member…signed up for the next 5 months. On my calendar at work I made the executive decision to make my bootcamp sessions a “meeting” that I cannot miss. It means coming to work early, working through lunch, or working from home to make up my time lost for leaving early. I have enough time to pick up my son after the session, or have my parents pick him up.
    This is the only way that I can commit myself to exercise..not only the $600 spent, but realizing that this is a “meeting” that I cannot miss, if I do, both the $ and weight loss go bye bye with no good result.
    Feel free to add me too!
  • chele1028
    chele1028 Posts: 248 Member
    You can add me! I am 41 and a mom to two young daughters (7 and 10) and I work for a company full-time from home. This allows me to be able to get to the gym at lunch or in the evenings after my husband gets home. I can't go first thing in the morning since my husband is out the door by 5:30 for work, and then I have the girls to get ready and to school before work. I have lost 50 pounds since Aug 1st, it can be done!! :) I have another 50+ to go!
  • Leigh_b
    Leigh_b Posts: 576 Member
    working mom here too... I am 42 and have two young girls (2 & 5). Would love to connect with others in the same boat!

    I will have been on MFP off and on for a year in March and have lost 6 pounds but know if I were more consistent... and how difficult it is to be consistent with young ones running about... I could do better.

    Would love to create a group. I am happy to create it and will invite everyone that responded to this post. Is anyone else interested?
  • Marylynnrocks
    Marylynnrocks Posts: 2
    Will definitely add you. I have a daughter who will be 15 in April and a son who is 24. So i guess we're in the same boat. I'm going to be 51 in April and work full time.
  • KXanthos
    KXanthos Posts: 189 Member
    working mom here too... I am 42 and have two young girls (2 & 5). Would love to connect with others in the same boat!

    I will have been on MFP off and on for a year in March and have lost 6 pounds but know if I were more consistent... and how difficult it is to be consistent with young ones running about... I could do better.

    Would love to create a group. I am happy to create it and will invite everyone that responded to this post. Is anyone else interested?

    Count me in.
  • cherigurl
    cherigurl Posts: 184 Member
    Feel free to add me, i am 30 i have 3 girls I work 40 hours a week and take care of my girls, a cat and a dog.
  • BeckyBell918
    BeckyBell918 Posts: 7 Member
    New here, downloaded the app on the 20th and first time on the site! Feel free to add me too!! I'm a 30 year old working mom to a 3 year old! My husband travels for work, so it's just me and my daughter half the time! I'm trying to get the exercise in during the evening (Just Dance on the Wii with my daughter) and thinking of starting the 30DS tomorrow after she goes to bed!! I envy all of you that can find the motivation to get up in the morning. I'm not there yet, but maybe some day!
  • ssquirarte
    ssquirarte Posts: 24 Member
    Hi, feel free to add me, I am a working mom of four. Their ages range between 6 and 17. With work, homework, house and sometimes more work, it is very difficult to find time to workout. Most of the time, I workout after everyone is already in bed, which puts me in bed about 11:00pm.

    Its been working so far so I am happy :happy:
  • Calibayby
    Calibayby Posts: 23 Member
    You can add me....I am a working divorced mom of 3....:)
  • Aem2381
    Aem2381 Posts: 89 Member
    Feel free to add me!

    I am 31 (well will be on Friday) and a working mom of 3! My daughter is 6 and I have twins that just turned 4 on Sunday. I get up at 4:30 during the week and do a workout video then get the kids up and out the door to the bus and to day care. I work from 6:30 to 2:30 at a desk (no lunch break so I can get home in time to meet my oldest at the bus stop). Then we get the twins from day care. I try to fit in some type of workout in the afternoon but find it difficult with the kids being home and fitting everything else in!
    It is possible though! (oh and I do go to bed rather early during the week..usually around 9:30)
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