21 Day Fix: My kids love this program too!

I have only been on this program for 6 days but I have realized that my entire family is involved and learning better habits,  My smallest children have started doing warm ups with me and the stretches to cool down.  

My 4 year old asked me for a healthy snack yesterday she now knows the difference between good and bad foods and occasional treats. For snack time she usually finds herself extremely content with an apple, a cutie orange or some other form of fruit .  She really loves when I add "Justin's Chocolate HazelNut Butter to her snack" but she is perfectly aware she can't have it every day.  If you haven't tried this spread I absolutely recommend it there is less than half the sugar and calories than other chocolate spreads and my kids and I love the product.  This spread is great with banana chips or sliced apples. 

My oldest daughter is 6 she has a set of 1 lb hand weights and she does some of the exercises with me.  Sometimes I have to remind her to slow down so she doesn't hurt herself but she loves to exercise with me.  She is so encouraging and I hope she is learning to be a confident young girl as she helps me obtain this goal . She has been asking me everyday when can we exercise together. I refer to her as my little coach now.

Although I am excited that my kids are getting involved in my routine, I think it is important to point out that I don't limit my kids calories intake ever! However I do offer them the same things as I am eating because they need to learn how to eat correctly to avoid unnecessary health problems in the future. Sometimes I have to modify their meals a smidge as well so that they will eat.  For example on salad nights they get carrots and celery with chicken and I have a chicken salad.  For dressing I a  yogurt based ranch dressing.   

Ranch Dressing 

1/2 cup greek low fat yogurt 

3 Tbs milk or buttermilk

1 ranch pack. 

You can add more milk if you like thinner dressing generally I taste it and if it tastes to salty I add a tablespoon more yogurt or a tablespoon more milk.  The best part about this type of ranch is that it now becomes a healthy fat. 

Menu

Breakfast:  small granny smith apple and  6 oz chocolate almond milk = purple container, yellow container ( remember three times a week you can substitute a tasty beverage for a yellow container.)

Snack: cherry tomatoes= green container

Lunch: turkey sandwich using a 90 calorie thinwhich bun slice of tomato onion and lettuce with mustard paired with carrot sticks = red container, green container, yellow container.

Snack: banana= purple container

Dinner: taco salad pictured above , 1/4 cup ground turkey taco meat and beans, 2 small carrots diced, 2 cherry toms sliced, 5 tortilla chips and a cup of lettuce with a table spoon of guacamole and a tablespoon yogurt ranch. = Red container, yellow container, green container, blue container.

I counted my ranch as healthy fats. 

Snack: air popped popcorn I did two cups instead of a yellow container full with a teaspoon of butter and a little salt.  =  yellow not sure on serving size with popcorn yet but the calorie count is 96. 

Remember I always add an extra yellow to my diet because I do extra during the day if I have a small workout day I only eat two servings of healthy carbs.