working full time and have a toddler. When to exercise?

1. What does LO mean? I mean, I assume it's the toddler, but...just curious what it actually stands for.

My guess is that it means Little One...

I do it at lunch time or when my son (7) is watching a tv show after dinner.

Good question. I have a 2 and a 3 yr old. I remember the days of exhaustion, heck I'm still there. I haven't been able to start loosing my baby weight until now. Now I have them do it with me. They think it is fun to go for hikes through our woods and explore while I am getting exercise they are too.:drinker:

I have a 2 year old- we excersize together... she runs me ragged!
My schedule is as follows:
6:00 a.m.- take the dog for 1/2 hour speed walk.
6:30 a.m.- shower/get dressed
7:15 a.m.- wake up my daughter, get her hair and teeth brushed, use the potty, out the door by 7:30. I am lucky that my day care lets the kids come in their jammies, and fixes them breakfast.
8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.- work. I am a project manager at an archictectural design & signing company. I'm on my butt all day :yawn:
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.- I go to the gym for my lunch break, and then eat at my desk when I get back.
2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.- more work.
5:00 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.- I leave work, pick up my daughter from day care (spend a few minutes being informed of her day/activities/behavior etc.), and drive home.
5:45 p.m.- make dinner. Toss a load of laundry in the wash machine while dinner's cooking.
6:15ish (depends on what I'm cooking) to 7:00ish- we eat dinner.
7:00 p.m.- the whole family goes outside and does something together. We walk, we go to the park, we play soccer, we work in the garden, we try to stay active. If it's raining, we do crafts together (hubby's getting pretty good with glue and pipe-cleaners :laugh: ).
8:15 p.m.- bath time for my daughter.
8:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. - time for prayers, then story time, then I tuck her in and sing her a couple of songs.
9:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.- I throw the laundry from the wash machine into the drier. Then the dog gets another half-hour speed walk.
9:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.- I clean the kitchen & pick up the house. Serious deep cleaning & scrubbing is on the weekends.
10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.- I fold the laundry while I watch TV.
11:00 p.m.- off to bed! I get 7 hours of sleep, which is plenty for me.

So, I get cardio in the morning and in the evening for a total of 1 hour of cardio at home (plus the extra excersize of running around and playing outside with my daughter!). At the gym, I do a 20 min. interval course on the Precor machine, and then spend a half- hour on weight training. The other 10 minutes of my lunch break is 5 minutes to the gym and 5 minutes back. This is my general schedule- life happens... sometimes dinner takes longer to cook and throws the rest of the night off a bit, sometimes I'll have a lunch meeting with a client, but this is a pretty good timeline of how I keep it together.

You can workout immediately after you eat as long as it doesnt bother you. Its not like the old wives tale telling you not to swim after a meal. Lol. Maybe it will encourage you to eat a more sensible meal, knowing that you are getting ready to exercise. If you wait 15 minutes and it bothers you somehow, wait longer the next time. Every person is different. I always eat right before i exercise.

I work full time and have a almost 4 year old and a 9 month old. I get up at 5am in oder to leave the house at 6am with kiddos in tow. And get to work at 7am. What I did was I joined a Planet Fitness that is located between my work and my home/daycare. That way, when I leave work I go straight to the gym and get 30 minutes in of cardio and then go pick the kids up from daycare. That extra 30 minutes they are there is not even noticed because on other days I will run errands and still get there at the same time to pick them up.