Beating the Bloat

Even with the BEST intentions to eat clean and workout regularly, any Fit Mommy will tell you toddler food is a diet disaster. After all, you have to SHOW little Tommy how you take a bite of your pizza so you grow big and strong, throwing away those grilled cheese crusts is so wasteful, the end bite of that hot dog most certainly will lead to a ketchupy, mustardy drippy mess so you must take the first bite so your toddler can eat it (relatively) mess free, and a bite (or two....or three) of the "treat" your toddler earned seems deserved! Forget about the extra calories, we Fit Mommies know how to manage calorie consumption with diet and exercise, I am talking about SODIUM INTAKE! All of the hard work we put into diet, weight training and cardio will go completely unnoticed if we are retaining water like the Hoover Dam!

So how do we maintain the WILLPOWER necessary to jut say no? It is a battle I struggle with (and lose) almost daily. So this blog is not intended to tell YOU what to do, but rather to see what tricks you use to overcome the constant temptations. I will let you in on some I use, let me know if they work for you. However I think the best way to overcome the willpower is to be accountable to other Fit Mommies via this blog or any other workout buddy you have enlisted to keep you on the straight and narrow.

1) Drink juice - low calorie juice mixed with sparkling water. Tastes like a sweet treat and actually AIDS in flushing excess water weight out of your system rather than holding on to every last droplet

2) Who has ever heard the saying "Nothing tastes as good as being fit and thin feels?" Yeah, doesn't work for me either. My mantra is "Nothing tastes so good that it's worth carrying around on my rear" or "With the muffin comes the muffin top!" Sometimes, okay a lot of times, I already have the food in my mouth when I think of these quotes but......shoot, I am going to go print them out right now and tape them all around my house!

3. Throw whatever leftover it is - grilled cheese crusts, 1/2 a brownie your toddler didn't finish, etc. IMMEDIATELY in the garbage. Pour vegetable oil over it if you most - I know more than one Fit Mommy who has admitted to taking something back OUT of the trashif it hasn't been touched by anything they would considered contaminating.......you know who you are.........

These are just a few - I am going to start practicing them in earnest!!!! Let me know how you do and what elose works for you!!

Yours in Fitness,


One Fit Mommy