When do you find time to workout w/ having busy kids???

I work out 35 mins a day whenever I can. You can gain during the first few weeks of working out, it's only water retention and it WILL come off (if you're eating in a deficit)

I try to do it in the am so it's done and I can get on with my day. Otherwise, I will find excuses.

Best quote I tell myself "If you want something bad enough you will find a way, and if you don't, you will find an excuse"

I work out when the kids go to bed....no matter how late it is. Sometimes, okay it sucks a lot, but that's how it gets done! I'm not a morning person at all.

I have a three year old son and twin 9 month old girls. I set the alarm for 4:30...drive to the gym...work out for about an hour and come home to get ready for work...drop my son at preschool...start my work day. I only manage this twice during the week and then i go on the weekend.

when im cooking i keep moving that burns calories, cleaning the house burns calories, i have a 15 month old child and he is very much a mommas boy and likes to be carried and bounced around so doing that while walkign around burns calories, while sitting i do leg lifts, and i tighten my stomach muscels and release, i do breathing as well, when i can get to the gym i do, but other than that i am constantly consumed with four small children. 7,4,3,and 15 months.... so im very busy all the time.... and i dont drive so if we go anywhere we walk everywhere... plus i live on the second floor, and have to carry a stroller and a baby up and down the stairs, plus the trash i have to carry down the stairs as well... every little movement you do if you really think about it and consentrate on it it can burn calories for you.

I have a lot of 10 minute DVDs and I have workouts on my iPhone via YouTube. Whenever the kids are sleep, playing, etc I squeeze one in!

during my lunch hour at work! I have an hour commute (and a 2 year old)--- leave the house at 630am- home at 6pm. Getting the exercise at lunch time works great for me then I just eat lunch at my desk.

Im a single Mom of a very active 4 year old little girl, Im was in school up untill 2 weeks ago, and it all comes down to what you eat, I have an elipitical and I try to do a workout everynight or first thing in the morning, its 20 min. Now there were days that i was way to tired to even try and do the workout or eating right. Its really not easy but you have to make time for yourself, even if its just a 20 min workout its time for you, you do so much for your family that you forget about your self. Keep trying you can make it work.

i found a gym that has limited babysitting hours so i try to go during those times. but even so, i get paged for various reasons--like ill be doing bench presses and ill hear my name on the intercom cause i have to change pull ups. lol

I get up with my husband when he leaves for the day at 5 am.

I get my husband to do bath time - sometimes I work out while they are having dinner and I just have a shake or something light. Lunch time from work is possible too sometimes.

if I need to squeeze excercise in, I will turn on some music and dance with our youngest. Oldest is 16 so dancing with mom would be well, socially unacceptable. we both have a great time and then sometimes he brings me hand weights which is his way of signaling to me to that he wants the music on and to shake our booties!

I'm a single mom of 2 (ages 3 & 6), work full-time out of the home and home owner. With the nice weather I'm able to get in a 45 minute walk at lunch time, I do Wii zumba 2 or Just Dance 3 with the kids, take the kids to the bike path/park or I drop them at the Y childcare areas while I do some cardio or zumba. They were doing all kinds of activities a couple of months ago (swimming, gymnastics, basketball etc) and I told them we were going to take a break until fall so I could focus on me. We still do fun things for them, just when we can fit the activities in (no stress and they still have fun). I'm sure with older kids it might be more difficult to put their stuff on hold, but the younger ones were a pretty easy sell. I cook and clean when I want...so right now those are also some "sacrifices" I've made.

I'd say have some of the older kids pitch in for making meal or get the crock pot out. It really is a tough balance, but even a 30 minute walk will benefit you!

I've been there myself. If you take your boys to ball practice nd stay until they are done, you can take the 4 year old on a nature hike or play ball with him. It will wear him out and get you excercise. I forget what sport your daughter plays, whether it is inside or outside, bleachers are a great workout, again the 4 year old will have a blast on this one as he tries to ebat you up and down them.

The one thing to remember if you are excercising, you are turning fat into muscle, which weighs more. So even though you are losing, the scale may not show all your hard work. This si where I have problems. It is real discouraging when you work so hard and find the scale going in the wrong direction. The best way to measure is not the scale, but the tape measure. Inches usually fall more quickly than the pounds will!

Good luck!

I am a working mom of three- one busy 7 yo and 2 yo twin boys one of whom has special needs and enough appointments in a week that it's like he has a full time job! I work out at 5am. I run outside tues, thur and Saturday and I go to to the gym 2-3 other days. Usually I get to the gym Monday and fri or sat. For some reason I don't want to do anything on. Wednesdays. I also walk on my lunch at least once a week (usually on Wednesday).

I have worked out at night but that cuts into my time with my husband so I really try hard to get it done mornings. Good luck! It's hard but you're not alone!

I walk my eight year old to school in the morning (about a mile and a half) and then have another mile and a half up a steep hill to get to my work. Then the reverse at the end of the day. Does us both good and saves on gas. I also jump rope while he's doing his homework...12 minutes at a fast pace jumping rope burns around 230 calories. Add in some pushups, burpees, planks and hill climbers and you can cram a lot into 30 minutes.