Healthy Parents Have Healthy Kids

That was the biggest reason I started trying to improve my diet and get more exercise. I've known I was overweight for awhile, and even knew that I was slowly losing my ability to do things that we tend to take for granted, like a push up or a pull up. I just didn't really find that this was overly important to me. I still had an absolutely positive life and was happy as can be.

Then my wife became pregnant and we learned that what she eats then and while breast feeding would make some difference in what he wanted to eat on his own. Soon it sunk in that beyond that, what I ate during dinner with my family, my little boy would want to eat too, and the same for anything I ate for a treat and so on and so forth. Without a doubt, our level of activity would also dictate his level of activity to some degree and we would be teaching, by example, whether exercise was fun or not.

Adjusting our eating habits has been a slow process, which has allowed us to really cut back on the bad and add to the good things we eat over the course of a couple years without as much desire to rush back to old ways. Adding exercise has also been a rather slow process, and probably the harder of the two as we lead rather busy lives. We have started to get some amount of a schedule together in some respects in recent months, however and the benefits are really starting to show.

I am really looking forward to a good, active summer with our boy this year, now that I can keep up!