24 Hours is Plenty of Time

When it comes to childhood obesity many people tend to say they never have time to exercise or they don’t have a place where they or their family can work out. I understand all this but let’s just be real with ourselves; we all know these are all EVERYDAY EXCUSES!!! The good thing about this is that I am going to provide you a list of ways in which you can prevent childhood obesity when it comes to eating habits  as well as a list of ANYWHERE ANYTIME WORKOUTS!!!

·         Eat meals  at the table as a family and not in front of a T.V. or laying in your bed

·         Don’t snack before or after meals and make sure your kids don’t sneak junk food at night or between meals.

·         3 healthy meals a day

·         Limit the amount of fried foods you eat

·         Avoid soda or sweetened drinks with lots of sugar

·         Instead of candy feed your kid taste fruits or vegetables

·         Low fat milk, ear organic natural foods because they are healthier than processed foods.

Now some people will try to do these things without exercising lol. Sorry but there is no easy way out of losing weight. If we want our kids and ourselves to be healthy and get rid of childhood obesity we have to eat healthy, but we also have to exercise. IT TAKES TWO; EATING HABITS&EXERCISE.

Here is a list of exercise you can do anywhere or everywhere.

·         Push-ups

·         Sit-ups

·         Crunches

·         Squats

·         Running in place

·         Stair jumps up and down

·         Dancing

·         Jump rope/running/jogging in place

·         Workout Videos

·         If the weather is nice do things outside because it works better. Exercise also will help you relieve stress.  

·         Each person is different so reps and repetition varies. Start of low and increase as you fill your body changing and becoming healthier and in shape. Don’t be afraid to push yourself!!! No one knows your body better than you!!!  

This gives you and your family plenty of options to make sure that you are exercising and eating healthy everyday. 24 hours is plenty of time to get 30 to 90 minutes of physical activity done. That’s right out of 24 hours all we need to do is make time from 30 to 90 minutes. What’s that??? You ask why 30 to 90 minutes??? The reason is because it is proven by experts and specialist that 30 to 90 minutes a day will help in losing weight and maintaining healthy activity. To be honest I personally try 90 minutes a day, I’m not perfect I do miss some days but I have noticed a difference in what happens when I work out.  I have noticed that if I do nothing I start getting really chubby and if I work out 3 days a week I just maintain and stay the same weight, but when I workout every day I actually do lose weight. So come on people let’s not make any more EXCUSES about not having the time or a place to exercise. (including myself).

The TRUTH is we do have the time and place to exercise. Next time someone ask you why you don’t want to work out just say it’s because “I’m lazy and I don’t want to do it, I can do it but I just don’t.” DON’T MAKE AN EXCUSE. I believe in US, I know it’s hard but we can do it. Lets avoid having to answer that shameful question on why we don’t exercise or why are we obese and like NIKE let’s JUST DO IT!!!  Shoot for the moon (90 min) and if we fall short well land among the stars (30 min) either way we can do it J DEFEAT CHILDHOOD OBESITY even better DEFEAT OBESITY PERIOD. WE CAN DO IT IF WE TRY!!! LET’S DO IT!!!