Dieting with kids in the family  

Maintaining a diet or weight loss is difficult enough. For many people it becomes even more difficult when you have children in the house demanding sugary or fatty foods. However, you can make your kids your allies in your diet and weight loss efforts, furthermore, showing discipline and improving your health will improve the health of your kids and make it less likely that they will have weight issues of their own as they get older.

Just like you need incentives and rewards when you are on a diet and weight loss program, your children will be better about demanding certain foods or fattening activities if there is an incentive for them. Try including a desert night, if they go the entire week without making demands about certain foods; treat them all to an ice cream at a favorite ice cream parlor. If you are uncomfortable using food as a reward, you can reward your children in other ways, by tacking on a few extra dollars every week to his allowance, letting her have a friend sleep over or allowing him to stay up later than normally allowed on a weekend night to watch a movie or play video games.

You can also use your weight loss and diet routing to work in more time with your kids. You can se your new found energy to play tag with your kids in the yard, avoid the kitchen and leftovers by taking a walk with your family. Even if they would never admit it, your kids, even the older ones, love spending time with you. Furthermore, by improving your diet, you will make healthy living a part of their lives. They will have an easier time being healthy as adults if they learn healthy eating and exercise habits when they are young. By improving your health through diet and exercise, you are helping to ensure that your children lead long healthy lives.