What is up with me,
Well I wanted to tell you what Live In Fit is up to these days. We have been growing and attending a lot of seminars to be on the cutting edge to better our staff and clients. We have also been working with a few fast food chains in creating a healthier meal for your kids. Last but not least our corporate wellness programs are doing awesome! We start back again in June training Kaiser at some of their locations in the Los Angeles area. Over all it has been a very exciting few months for Live In Fit and I am very excited about where we are going!
Now on to the real story! A month ago I had some family members staying at my house for a week. In that week I learned a great deal about my little girls and their eating habits. My family does not eat very healthy and they decided to bring all kinds of cookies, chips, soda, and other snacks into my house. I told them I do not like to have those kinds of foods in my house but they said they were going to change my kids to become "normal".
So one day they took my girls to McDonald’s and bought them a chicken nugget happy meal. From that moment on my eldest daughter E’lise fell in love with McDonald's. I have taken her there before but just for a hamburger or fries not an entire happy meal. And that was fine with me until now. By day three my cousin had taken her kids to eat fast food every night and my girls wanted some too, even though I was cooking dinner. I sat down with my cousins kids and said, "why do like fast food so much? Aren’t you tired of it?" They told me it was fast and cheap and it was something their mom could afford. At that moment I decided to change everything.
The next morning I took all the kids to the grocery store. They learned a lot about shopping and buying healthier things that you can afford. We came home and cooked lunch and started on dinner too. We were all in the kitchen sharing real family time. I must admit that they were very nervous on how the food would taste. Well it came out delicious and they loved it. We had such a good time that they wanted to cook every night and morning. So we did a homemade meal everyday.
Now I know that not everyone can cook every night and such, but what we did do is marinate food for the next meal. Then we added the greens and veggies so the meals were very colorful and healthy. One night we made chicken nuggets for E'lise but we used a very healthy recipe and baked the fries and used a ketchup that did not have high fructose corn syrup. By the end of the week we were eating fruits, veggies, nuts, and very little chips, cookies, and soda.
All in all I learned if you take the time to teach your kids how to be better and live healthier they will listen. In one week I saw my cousin's family take leaps and bounds towards living a healthier lifestyle. The TV was turned off and her teenagers were talking to her again because they started spending real time with their mom. They saw that their mom was taking the time out to teach them how to better themselves and I believe we all grew as a family that week.
I would love for you to share a story with me on how you helped your kids eat healthy and how your family creates family time.
