So, you’re ready to make the commitment to raising fit kids, being a fit kid or being the fit parent. Then you must understand that the most direct route to success is to make small changes in your current lifestyle. Too many programs are designed with a lot of change and restrictions that only make you very unhappy, setting you up for failure because you won’t be able to maintain that lifestyle.

Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on which way you look at it, habits only take a few weeks to form. I am a very habitual person so it is even quicker for me…that means it takes no time at all for me to firmly entrench a bad habit into my lifestyle. I concentrate on replacing old less healthy lifestyle habits with new, healthy choices so I do specific things in order to avoid failure.

I’m very human, and if there are treats in the house I will find them. So I don’t have it in the house. If I bought a bag of chocolate chip cookies I would eat them by the row, so I don’t buy them. I make a healthier version of my own, but if I didn’t like to bake I wouldn’t have them.

Many parents and caregivers put a lot of effort into their kids’ healthy eating but not for them selves. What are you telling them…that you aren’t important, or that different rules apply for adults? Think about it. Children learn what they live, and hear, and see and eat!
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