One Way You Can Find The Time To Exercise

I have been so excited about my total lost of 10lbs recently, that if you are following me on facebook you are probably tired of me tooting my own horn.  It only took me 3 years to get out of the 180′s and 3 years to lose a total of 10 lbs.  Now it took that long for a variety of reasons.  One I was doing 15 – 30 minute work outs, and to be honest that just wasn’t doing it for me.  All I was doing was maintaining that current weight.  Another reason was the lack of energy.  By the time I got home from work, I was exhausted and  I still needed to cook dinner, pick up the little one, review homework and maybe tidy up a few things here and there in the house. And my last excuse or reason for not losing the weight faster was the lack of time.  Working 8 hours a day, then coming home and realizing I only have about 4 hours to spend with my children and spouse before I catch some sleep to start again tomorrow actually made me even more sad.  What was I suppose to do.

Well I finally reached a point where enough was enough.  Either I was going to make it happen or it was just not going to happen and I was never going to see that ideal weight of 140 again. And when I went to visit friends and family all I will here is how much weight I have gained and what I need to do in order to lose that weight (don’t you just love when people who weigh more than you tell you how to lose weight, WTH!!!).  So my decision was to lose the weight and that meant that I would have to do things a bit different. Get a little uncomfortable, and include my family.  Well the very first step I did was really thought about how I spent my day.  As I mentioned in a previous post, Do You have a routine, I took inventory on what I did each and every day. When I did this it seemed that I honestly didn’t have any time to add in exercising.  Because I’m away from my children for at least 8 hours of the day (actually more if we include travel time) it was important to me to spend some time with them, can you relate.  Well I remember what an older woman said to me.  She told me it’s not about the quantity of time spent but the quality of that time spent.  So that led me to another inventory.  What was I actually doing with my children and how can I make it more fun for him and me?

I figured it out! I decided that time will be spent exercising.  I told my little one it was exercising time and I helped him put his shoes on as he helped me do that same.  I popped in the insanity dvd (a brutal workout, brutal) and we went at it.  Boy was I tired.  But little man had a blast. It seemed to be a great compromise.  I didn’t have to change anything with my routine, just replaced one non-productive session with something a bit more productive.  The next day (and everyday after) little man would say “c’mon mommy it’s exercise time”.  He would run and get his sneakers, and turn on the dvd’s.  He really enjoyed it.  He even became my little coach.  When I would be tired he would say “c’mom mommy you can do it”.  If I wasn’t paying attention he would yell out the right moves. He motivated me to get my butt up and exercise on days I was just not in the mood.  Even to this day he would break out into power jacks and squats.

This is something that we all can do.  Depending on the age of your child(ren), and how many this can be really run for them.  It’s gets them moving, burning some of that energy and kids love to feel like they are helping.  So what do you think? Do you think you can try to exercise with your kids just once.  Just to see how they like it or if you like it.  All you have to do is just pop in that dvd and get started.  Either they will follow or they will go to their room.

Share with me below one thing you did that helped you find the time to exercise?

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