Stay at home with 3 under 3, struggling to stay on track.

Would it help if you journaled out your day first thing in the morning or before you go to bed the night before. And then during the say just follow the list? I love a good list and it takes a lot of the "work" out of it....just thinkin. Good luck mama

Mine are a bit older than yours (7,5, and 3) and I remember those days of just finishing their plates because I absolutely hate wasting food. One day, I told myself that my health and goals were more important than their last bit of mac & cheese. The few dollars you'll throw away are worth it. Or else you could just wrap it all up or feed those crusts to the birds. I seriously used to keep an old bread bag in my freezer just for those crusts. It was a winning situation for all of us-no more crusts for the kids, an outing to feed the ducks or birds, and no more garbage for me. That being said, I totally ate some bites of my kids' pizza & cheeseburger today. Oh well!

I had some success with get my eating and exercising on track last year and then had some life stuff happen and started back sliding. So I have been trying to get it together since December in hopes that I would be back on track, but no such luck:( I would like to hear from stay at home parents with toddlers under 4years old. How do you do it? Its seems like my 3.5 year old son and 2 year old twin daughters, always come first and I end up eating their pb and j crust. I would appreciate any suggestions.

Zee

First off self control! I have a almost 3 year old and 5 month old. My 3 year old always try's to feed me her food and sometimes won't eat it if I try it first. I have barely a schedule to mine or my kids day. I put effort into my food so I can enjoy it instead of the nugget or pbj, as for exercise goes I saved up and got a treadmil, weights, and a workout DVD and I do my workouts when I find time. I wish I had a better schedule but I am losing weight slowly

I struggle wih the same issues. Just trying to get back on track as well. My goal lately is logging EVERYTHING I eat. Before I pop that last chicken nugget from my 2yr olds plate in my mouth, I think, do I really want to take the time to go add that to my "food tracker"? So far it's working. Also, my kids love to exercise with me and are getting pretty good at push ups! Good luck! We can do this!!

Hi! I know how hard it can be when you are forced to not put yourself first! I have a 2 year old and 4 year old and what has worked for me is to work out at home. I'm lucky that I have a supportive husband that takes the kids when he gets home so I can work out. We converted our extra bedroom into a workout room, so all my gear is there and there is no time wasted for packing a gym bag, driving to the gym, etc. If he's out of town I just work out at night after they go to bed. I also have a little calendar where I schedule my workouts and try to reach a certain number of workouts each week. Then I check it off when I do it. Eating - that's my struggle, hence why I'm here. I snack too much being home all day. I've been logging for about 15 days now and I'm down 5 pounds, so I would recommend to log everything (if you aren't already) and it really does work! You can do it, you're worth it!!!