Hi there fellow moms!

Now, this is a chapter you won’t see in a lot of Intermittent Fasting books, especially those written by men.

But for me to not include my husband and children on my Intermittent Fasting journey would be so incredibly difficult, that I wouldn’t be able to do it! I’d be doomed from the start. In fact, a huge part of my own personal success has happened because I took my family into account, too.

So, this is a book that is for the mothers who want to lose weight. If you don’t have children, you can certainly get a lot of great tips from this chapter, too. I’m a mom who has committed to this lifestyle and not only changed my body for myself, but changed it in a better way that benefits my entire family. I feel better, and a happy mom equals a happier home life. That’s for sure!

The moms who commit to this and make a change for both yourselves and your children are super happy. You can read many success stories online 먹튀검증업체.

You want to be happier for your sons and daughters, too. They mean the absolute world to you, and it’s the easiest thing in the world to put them first. First, meaning above yourself.

But what about your own health? You want to live for your kids. You want to change the future of what you see for yourself. You’ve probably already tried different things to lose the weight, but the failures have piled up.

How about doing something different this time? You will feel better trying Intermittent Fasting than any other kind of dieting or eating or fitness plan. Let’s pick a diet you can sustain for the rest of your life. That also means starting slow with workouts, too.

So, whether you’re trying to lose weight after giving birth, want to get back to your former size before children, or just want to have more energy, vitality, and a better overall outlook with your husband and kids, I’m here to help you succeed on Intermittent Fasting!

Balance vs. Busy Life

If every woman who’s heard the term “work-life balance” was paid a dollar, we’d all be millionaires! It seems that no matter how hard we try, we can’t be super moms and have it all for longer than a few months before becoming exhausted and burning out. You have to look out for your kids, help out around the house, feed those hungry mouths, have your own full-time job (or multiple jobs), and somehow have enough time to follow an eating plan, let alone have success on it?

No wonder so many of us have been stuck in ‘yo-yo’ dieting purgatory for years.

Intermittent Fasting has so many extraordinary benefits for even the busiest lifestyle. In fact, the busier my life gets, the easier it becomes for me to fast and lose weight. Yep, you read that right:

The busier your life gets, the easier Intermittent Fasting becomes.

What kind of magical statement is that? I’m not surprised you’re skeptical.

The reason Intermittent Fasting is the ultimate eating plan for your busy lifestyle is because you customize it to work around all that hectic craziness.

As you read in Chapter 4, there are a bunch of sample meal plan templates for you to choose from. Each of them will work beautifully if you just follow them every day. Each of them is a path towards losing weight.

The only thing you have to do is pick one of those templates and stick to it. You can also definitely tweak and customize your schedule if life throws you a curveball. I talked more about that in the last chapter.

Doing Intermittent Fasting is actually easier than if you weren’t fasting! Do you have a certain busy time of day where it’s just impossible to prep and cook a meal? Then add that time of day to your fasting period, and set up your eating windows around it.

For me, this is the morning. I need to wake my kids up, get them ready for school, and make sure they have a packed lunch. I already meal planned to make sure that their breakfasts are ready to go, but it’s just too much to also try and eat something for myself at the same time. They finish breakfast quickly and get out the door. I break my fast with my first meal of the day two hours after they leave, which is plenty of time to prep and cook that meal. I’ve grown used to this schedule, so I’m not even hungry in the morning until that meal time comes around.

Pretty simple. It also takes all the guesswork out of trying to balance your life.

Life is full of ups and downs, but even more so when you have kids. Embrace the ups and downs. Add Intermittent Fasting and your eating windows to your life. They will help you work with your crazy schedule ? and before you know it, the weight will start to drop off.

Planning Mom Equals Happy Mom

As a mom, do you know what really helps both my sanity and my weight loss?

Having a plan. Specifically, my meal plan each week. I actually plan out two meal plans into one large meal plan: my own Intermittent Fasting meal plan, and my kids’ meals. I don’t cook entirely separate meals from my kids, but I make sure that they have their own healthy things that they’re eating. I include what they want each week as part of their meal plan, too.

When I’m done meal planning for my kids, I post their meals on the fridge each week, so that they can see it. Do I still get asked what’s for dinner? Yep, sometimes! My kids can forget. But I pretty much always have the answer right there on my fridge.

In addition to just writing down what we’re having for meals in my family, I also include grocery shopping lists. That makes it super easy to shop for exactly what I need for those meals!

I’m a mom who plans, and boy, am I a happy mom because of it!

So, for my fellow moms out there, I urge you to plan out not just your own Intermittent Fasting meals, but those for your children as well.

Meal planning is definitely one weekly task of mine that I actually look forward to! That is because it saves so much time in the long run. I know that the hour or two that it takes to sit down with your kids on a weekend afternoon to plan out the meals and shopping lists for ingredients is time that will not just be saved, but will also pay me back in pounds of weight loss.

Remember that:

A Meal Plan Saves Time and Pays You Back in Weight Loss!

The same goes for you, too!

Eating for You, Eating for Kids!

What kinds of recipes are going to go on your meal plans for the adults and the kids in the house?

Children like to eat simpler, blander meals than adults do. Their taste buds are more sensitive, and they like to eat things that have lots of sugars, salts, and creamy or crunchy textures. They will gladly reach for the junk food! Kid fave food choices include ice cream, pizza, burgers and fries, hot dogs, popcorn, potato chips, chicken tenders with dipping sauce, macaroni and cheese, spaghetti with meatballs, and candy. While you can find some healthy versions of these foods, they are definitely not going to help you with your weight loss goals. It’s time for more greens and more proteins!

When you’re putting together your meal plan, don’t forget to slowly but steadily shift away from unhealthy recipes and choose healthier ones instead. Also, try to include common ingredients in both meal plans that will appeal to both kid and adult palates.

What kinds of foods are great for both kids and you?

~All those wonderful healthy vegetables listed back in Chapter 4. You can roast vegetables, put them into soups, add them to a wrap, stir-fry them, make salads, or puree them to serve with a main entree course of meat or fish.

~Fruits are also delicious for both kids and adults. Apples, bananas, oranges, berries, and sliced melon are usual favorites.

~Fill your kids’ bellies with a good amount of proteins for growing muscles, healthy brain function, and energy. You’ll both enjoy chicken, turkey, ham, pork, beef, fish, and different kinds of seafood.

~Kids love cheese, and moms do, too! Look for yummy full fat cheeses and other healthy dairy products.

~Kids can really enjoy fiber rich carbohydrates, like whole grain bread, oatmeal, canned beans, barley, and other options.

~Both you and your kids can include nuts and seeds in your diets.

Search online for more kid friendly and all natural breakfast, lunch, and dinner options. As with the adult options, stay away from packaged foods and anything stuffed with chemicals, artificial flavors, colors, and especially sweeteners. Kids’ smaller bodies are especially susceptible to spikes in blood sugar, which you will definitely see as they go crazy from a sugar rush!

I don’t know about your kids, but mine love eating the same ten or fifteen meal choices over and over. They don’t seem to get bored! I introduce new foods to them every couple of weeks, just for a bit of variety. It also seems like, since they have a lot of input into their own meal plans, that they understand the whole process of grocery shopping, cooking, and eating a lot more. They are interested in it, and they actually help me out quite a bit.

These are wonderful life lessons to help teach your kids. Your weight loss and health journey is a part of their lives, too. Maybe they will grow up understanding the essential links between diets, fitness, health, and weight loss. That is a valuable thing to learn!

Exercising and Intermittent Fasting as a Mom

When you’re a busy mom with a packed schedule, exercising seems a like a whole lot of extra work that you just wouldn’t be able to fit in. Unless you involve your kids with you, it takes time away from them, too. Who is going to watch them while you work out at the gym?

It is also both natural and normal to be intimidated, scared, or otherwise averse to going to the gym.

I know I was.

I had plenty of really good reasons why I wasn’t getting any exercise, but most of them had to do with fear. I was afraid of going to the gym and looking like an idiot, sweating profusely in front of others. Maybe that is a silly fear, but it kept me from exercising ? and it kept me from losing the weight I wanted to.

So, I just started out with Intermittent Fasting, eating windows, and choosing healthier ingredients. I put exercising on the back burner. After a month, I’d gotten used to fasting, I was much more comfortable with my eating windows, I’d already lost ten pounds, and I finally felt like it was time to add exercise to the mix. I wanted to up my weight loss, too!

But I really had no idea where or how to start. My favorite exercise has always been walking. I love to walk everywhere. Would walking be exercise enough to shed pounds while fasting? I had no idea, but it was a question I wanted to answer with a yes!

I began a daily walking routine of just fifteen minutes. That is once around the block of my neighborhood. After a few days, I increased it to thirty minutes by walking twice around the block. I kept up that routine for several weeks, and I was shocked at my results. I mean, all I was doing was walking twice around the block! But that was when the weight really started to drop off. My body also felt better, I felt lighter inside, and my legs felt better, too.

That’s when I finally bit the bullet and bought a gym membership. I was very scared the first few times! I just tentatively started on the treadmill and walked for thirty minutes, increasing my incline. But you know what? After that first week, it definitely got easier. The days passed, and I enjoyed the treadmill. It took me about a month to get used to just going to the gym as part of my daily routine. My kids sometimes joined me, too! They loved using the equipment.

Gradually, I went from the treadmill to using other machines at the gym, like the stationary bikes and rowing machines. Then, I started using kettlebells as part of weight training.

Nowadays, I’m a much more confident gym goer! I work out for thirty minutes each day, using a combination of different machines and the kettlebells. I still get a bit trepidatious, but then I remind myself of all the pounds of weight I’ve lost because I added exercise to my Intermittent Fasting. I also look better than I have in years. I feel stronger, leaner, and fitter.

I hope my story can give you some idea of how you can add exercise to your eating plan, too!

Just start with a simple walking routine. If you can’t get to the gym, then you can buy a treadmill. Just fifteen minutes of walking today, to start. Even with kids, you can do this!

Build a Support System

Any kind of diet plan while you’re a mom can feel like its own upward hill climb when you’re living in a house full of people who aren’t doing what you’re doing.

So, it’s absolutely essential that you have a support system. You need girlfriends and relatives and other Intermittent Fasting women to talk to! You need to be able to rant about a difficult day, vent about the rocky patches, and just share what you’re feeling and what you’re thinking with like-minded, compassionate souls.

The women who have experienced the most successful weight loss journeys have had support to do it. You can find this support system online or through reaching out to other women in your community. These women will help cheer you on, hold you accountable, and you can support their goals, too.

Don’t forget to include yourself in your support system, too. Support your own weight loss goals and fitness goals. Ask for help around the house when you need it. Teach your kids how to be there with you along the way as you get healthier.

The more support you have, the more successful you will be!

Your Body is For You

What’s great about Intermittent Fasting, is that I have done so much of the nutrition research for you! If you’d like, you can go back to Chapter 3 and read all about the actual science behind what is going on in your body. And yes, all of that stuff is true even after you have had children! Your body doesn’t magically stop processing nutrients the way it did before you got pregnant. So, that’s good news! That means this will work.

While you may be inspired to get healthy for your husband or your children, ultimately, they don’t live inside your body. They don’t know how you feel each day, they are different people with their own trials and tribulations, and they aren’t going to take the same journey as you.

Just like any journey, this Intermittent Fasting one begins with the proper preparations. That is what you will read about in the next chapter!