Healthy Eating? – I HAVE KIDS!!! –
I have two kids. I have a husband. I work full time. I coach. I train. I write. Then, I try to eat healthy. I do my best. I swear. My record for straight healthy eating, with the family, is two weeks. We went two weeks of fabulous healthiness. I was the only one that really didn’t mind. The food was good. Quite often, I don’t mind a healthy snack, a healthy meal, even a healthy dessert now and again.
But, I do need something not so healthy every once in a while. I won’t lie. I’m a woman, I have needs! Now, kids and husbands, they seem to need it more often. They complain and whine and say how about this or go out together when mom’s not around. Oh it happens! They’ve been caught! It’s hard to teach kids about healthy eating when every time they are out with someone else, it’s not so healthy. None of their friends eat healthy so mom of course is the no fun one. They all get whatever they want to eat, whenever they want and I limit sweets and chips and desserts and serving sizes.
I’ve tried a million times to talk to them about this, as people, and make it a conversation of why it is so important to me to eat healthy at least more often than not. It doesn’t matter. Their saving grace more often than not is something like ‘but I only had two slices of pizza and everyone else had 5’! I take that as a win almost every time!
Then will come a week where we have something going on every night and unless I take the entire day Sunday preparing healthy meals for the week, it’s not even possible. I’ve only been able to do that a handful of times, though. When I know I am going to be beyond busy all week, I like to take Sundays off, not cooking all day! It’s a give and take.
For the most part, I do well. I have smoothies or oatmeal for breakfast almost every day. I eat salads and sandwiches and bagels for lunch. I eat nuts and trail mixes and fruits and veggies for snacks. Dinner, more often than not, will be semi-healthy. We mix it up. I’d say it’s a 5-2 ratio most weeks but no worse than a 3-4 healthy to not-so-much. It keeps everyone happy that way. Kids get things they like, husbands get things they like, dogs get table-scraps they like, and mom doesn’t have to listen to it! J
I have two kids. I have a husband. I work full time. I coach. I train. I write. Then, I try to eat healthy. I do my best. I swear. My record for straight healthy eating, with the family, is two weeks. We went two weeks of fabulous healthiness. I was the only one that really didn’t mind. The food was good. Quite often, I don’t mind a healthy snack, a healthy meal, even a healthy dessert now and again.
But, I do need something not so healthy every once in a while. I won’t lie. I’m a woman, I have needs! Now, kids and husbands, they seem to need it more often. They complain and whine and say how about this or go out together when mom’s not around. Oh it happens! They’ve been caught! It’s hard to teach kids about healthy eating when every time they are out with someone else, it’s not so healthy. None of their friends eat healthy so mom of course is the no fun one. They all get whatever they want to eat, whenever they want and I limit sweets and chips and desserts and serving sizes.
I’ve tried a million times to talk to them about this, as people, and make it a conversation of why it is so important to me to eat healthy at least more often than not. It doesn’t matter. Their saving grace more often than not is something like ‘but I only had two slices of pizza and everyone else had 5’! I take that as a win almost every time!
Then will come a week where we have something going on every night and unless I take the entire day Sunday preparing healthy meals for the week, it’s not even possible. I’ve only been able to do that a handful of times, though. When I know I am going to be beyond busy all week, I like to take Sundays off, not cooking all day! It’s a give and take.
For the most part, I do well. I have smoothies or oatmeal for breakfast almost every day. I eat salads and sandwiches and bagels for lunch. I eat nuts and trail mixes and fruits and veggies for snacks. Dinner, more often than not, will be semi-healthy. We mix it up. I’d say it’s a 5-2 ratio most weeks but no worse than a 3-4 healthy to not-so-much. It keeps everyone happy that way. Kids get things they like, husbands get things they like, dogs get table-scraps they like, and mom doesn’t have to listen to it! J