Food preparation and eating healthy can be challenging. It can be especially challenging if your children do not want to eat foods from your new lifestyle.
I know you are wanting to change your life and get healthy but the way to ensure your continued success is to include the entire family. They don't have to eat all the things you do or work out to the degree that you are, but you do want to include the children so that they won't have to struggle with healthy living when they are adults.
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Also if they help, then it makes healthy living so much easier. Sometimes I pay my children to help with the preparation and the cooking. Sometimes they enjoy it and welcome the challenge, other times they bark and hate it. (I don't always pay them but the extra cash can work as an incentive, other times it becomes apart of their regular non paid chores.) Trying to find a balance works best. I look at it two-fold. Its easier if all hands are on deck with everyone helping out and it also teaches them healthy living for their own personal lives.
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This doesn't mean they won't or can't eat their* foods but everyone participating occasionally works best for the entire family.
*Their, meaning some unhealthy foods that kids tend to lean toward. Most kids are bombarded with unhealthy choices on a regular basis, so for some of us, it may be extremely difficult to ban these items completely. We limit these foods and explain to our children about the nutritional information (or lack thereof) of these foods so that they can make informed decisions.
*Their, meaning some unhealthy foods that kids tend to lean toward. Most kids are bombarded with unhealthy choices on a regular basis, so for some of us, it may be extremely difficult to ban these items completely. We limit these foods and explain to our children about the nutritional information (or lack thereof) of these foods so that they can make informed decisions.
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