[Robo]

Originally Posted by Wormius

My only comment, sort of disposing of all the candy in the house is start tracking your intake with Myfitnesspal or Fatsecret or something. I think just being conscious of the calories in splurging on chocolate or juice can sometimes give you a bit of pause.



I was kind of at your spot, I was about 185 lb, and I looked at some photos of myself when I had a more active lifestyle before kids, etc, and I was like - what the hell happened? Then I just started tracking everything, except exercise at the time. On the app, I just said, I am basically sedentary and ate as much needed to support a sedentary style. I think that was 1270 calories per day at that time was recommeded, but now its higher. Probably about 3 months in, I was down to 140 lb and felt more comfortable with where I was at. Then my car broke down, and that meant more walking and biking to places so that helped. Then spring came along and I thought it would be good to get back into running, so I did that. Then the only issue was finding that balance between how much food to now eat to not hit a wall when exercising and not then not going overboard in eating when you're sidelined with an injury or something.


You could probably find some activities to do with the kids that would get you all active. Try to find something everybody likes. Xcountry is good, or even instead of doing all of your grocery shopping once a week, do a couple of smaller trips where you walk to one that's further away. We have a couple of Co-ops that are about a 5km round trip from our place, so it doesn't eat up a lot of your time, but its a decent outing, and you're probably carrying some extra weight with you on the way back.

Good suggestions I am looking forward to when the kids are able to do stuff with me besides getting carried my 6 year old is at a good age where we do a lot of stuff together actually the reason I started swimming is because she was finally able to do swimming lessons without me being in the pool so i would use that time to do laps the other 2 are a bit young ages 2 and 3