Calling all mothers who manage it all (or most of it anyway)

[mostlyhappywithsomelowpressure]

Hello there.
I need to ask all you multifunctional wonders how you do it.
I ask for the following reason - I am nearing my 32nd birthday and I am a fatty. I'm tall so I can 'carry it off' and most of the weight's in my legs so i can hide it well, i'm not unhealthy (i have a small waist, which apparently is the best indicator of weight based health issues!!!)

But I work, I like spending time with my child, i have a good DH who does alot of house work but still clothes need washing and ironing, i enjoy reading and writing and watching TV, oh and I work.

I have tried to schedule in exercise but i can't in actuality fit it in.

Please can you tell me - does something have to give? Should i substitute something i have to or enjoy doing in order to fit in exercise?

How do you do it all?

Thank you kindly ladies.

and i'm doing a qualification at home.

Cor you sound well busy! Don't give yourself a hard time (easier said than done!!). I used to be v.obsessed with my weight but now have got far more casual to the point that I'm far too heavy!
You say you're tall, how tall are you & if you don't mind what do you weigh?
Some days I will set my alarm & get up well early but if you're not morbidly overweight then surely a good life balance is more important than trying to fit it all in!
Maybe you could try & include excercise with your family time i.e go swimming, for a walk etc.

Although exercising is beneficial when losing weight, it's not necessary, especially when you're probably plenty of running around after kids/DH etc.

If you want to lose weight, I'd say the best way to start is to look at what you eat.

Can you go for a walk or a jog during your lunch hour?

The same question I want to ask but as a SAHM and hubby never here I cant get out either. ALso different to you my OH does nothing but work and I have no hobbies - cant sew with 2 mad pre-school children running riot!

Baby waking 6am at mo so cant get up any earlier and after bedtime 8pm - I am flat on my face!

Can you batch cook and then thats one chore that hasnt got to be done in the evening. Then everyother evening go out to a class? Think your lucky that your OH contributes with the chores so really that should make your life much easier. I would assume you dont work weekends either? So Sat morning should be another class, get back shower and still have a full day with OH and child.

I have a schedule for chores and a cleaner but still no way can I get out without paying silly money baby sitting.

Thanks for that guys, sorry for the delay in getting back on here!!!

Getting up early is the most obvious of choices and something i really wish i could do!! I know it sounds so lame but I can't be arsed getting up earlier than i absolutley have to . I am 5'8'' and weigh more than 16 stone but less than 19!!! It sounds well obese but i know people who weigh less who are bigger than me. (Unless i have the opposite of body dismorphia and actually see myself as looking better than i do!)

Also classes and swimming. Hmm and grr. Too self conscious to do either. Jeez i sound pathetic.

At least i'm not alone!!!

Cheers.
x

I think we all feel like that. The idea is there but the inital start to change things doesnt happen.

I know how hard it is to get out of bed no one is worse than me and the idea of excercising on awakening would freak me out.

Can you go straight after work? Going home after work just makes more excuses to stay there and get your OH to pick up yr child.

I really do understand how you feel I am 3 stone overweight and as a small frame and flat chest look horrendous and getting clothes to fit is an absolute nightmare.

Have you kept a diary of what your eating? What about your OH is he concerned? Does he back you up and force you into it as I find I work better with a gun pointed to my head!

There are loads of shapes and sizes at these classes. You can get lots of lovely clothes to cover up lumps and bumps. You have a choice to do something about it now or leave it and its harder and harder. I hitting 40 and wish I'd kept trim in my latter years of the twenties. I want to shift it now before I look porkier and porkier and the fat going south.

Its entirely up to you in the end x

EAT LESS FIRST then worry about exercising

but tbh it sounds like you are making excuses

can you really not find half an hour an night to power walk/run/swim/ whatever?

I am a single mum, working full time and running a part time business, Oh and I'm studying too. And I mumsnet...
I manage 3-4-5 times a week to get an hour on my cross trainer and I have started to add in some Wii Your Shape sessions too.

I made a list of all the chores (housework, paperwork, business) I have to do each week and then work out which nights I'm going to do them, as well as which nights I want to do exercise. I then pencil it into a schedule.

TBH some nights I am just too tired but if the time is kept aside then I can use it in other ways(early night!)

I aspire to be an early riser and go out for a run before DS gets up but I'm not a morning person.

You could give up TV? I have not watched TV since the election though so I suppose I have given that up in favour of exercise.