What Good is a Slim Body Without a Healthy Body? Why not Have Both? Exercise is One Way, What if I Tell You How to Exercise Without Going to a Gym?

What Good is a Slim Body Without a Healthy Body? Why not Have Both? Exercise is One Way, What if I Tell You How to Exercise Without Going to a Gym?

It’s difficult enough to keep your family moving along in some semblance of normal or at least a happy medium.  Stress builds within your body and soul and you wonder if it will ever get better.  I guess, in time, it will.  So how are you going to take care of yourself?  The thought seem irrevelant.  Putting food on the table, paying bills and getting everything done at home, is definitely more important.  So why am I talking about exercise?  If you have children, especially young ones, they have a special ability to make a mess, within a very short time,  Toys are never picked up from the floor.  Their beds are never made.  Food is left on the table and spills are never wiped clean.

 

For years, I had to be both mother and father to my three children.  To think, for one moment, that I don’t understand what you are going through, is wrong.  As the old saying goes, “Been there, done that.”  The only way I could get my kids involved in household chores, and not only want to, but like to help, was to use my ability to make it fun for them.  Children need us, and with so little time on your hands, make most of the chores in and around the house a fun game.  Use music, sing and dance with them, while doing chores.  Remember, dancing is movement, and is exercise.  There is also a difference between running and jogging.  Jogging is calm and great exercise.  Allow everyone, even you, to jog to your next project, like emptying the trash. 

 

When it comes to picking anything up from the floor, use the bend from the waist, legs straight and pick each item up, one at a time.  You will bend, pick up, and stand straight with each item.  The kids will love this, especially if you all do it to music.  When you have to reach into a closet, or cupboard, on the top shelf, reach as though you are doing a stretching exercise.  You do the top shelves, let the kids do the lower shelves.  You will find, as I have, your chores will get done in no time.  You will feel stress free, which is good for your well being and the kids will feel they had some really good quality time with their parent or parents. When it’s time to dust or vacuum sing and dance around your project. 

 

I know this works.  I have done it for years and the good health, weight loss and energy you and the kids will gain form simply doing chores, will amaze you.

 

Theresa Duff, chef/ret. is a former member of the IACP. As a cookbook writer, her objective is to create recipes that are not fattening and are lower in sugar and fat calories, while retaining the taste and texture we all love. Theresa is an expert at recipe recreation, research and kitchen testing for diabetes and weight loss. She uses a smart concept in food preparation, while introducing her new ingredient technology.

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