Cooking Kids

Have you ever had a day where you felt that all you did was eat? Since I’ve become a full-time stay at home mom, I’ve gained 10 pounds. I know it’s because I’m always home with the kids, eating when they eat, eating what they don’t eat and snacking with them. Granted it has taken me three years to gain those 10 pounds, but I didn’t need to gain them in the first place. The problem is that I don’t think about what I’m eating when I’m hanging with my kids. Am I the only one? Am I the only one that mindlessly grabs an extra handful of fries or eats at the pizza buffet 2x a week for 3 weeks because the kids LOVE their pizza?

Tonight, for example, the kids asked for a meatball pocket at around 9:00pm. We had eaten  dinner around 6, but they chased the dog around outside for over an hour shortly after dinner. Needless to say, they burned off all the calories they took in at dinner. I didn’t. But  what I did do was join them by heating up some chicken and rice. I didn’t need the chicken and rice. Heck, I didn’t even really want the chicken and rice, but I ate it anyway. You know how yawns are contaigous? I think eating is contaigous in my house. I’m determined to break my bad habit of eating just because the kids are. And it’s not because bathing suit season is here (I’ve already depressed myself by shopping for a new suit,)but because I can’t teach good eating habits if I can’t practice them. I’ll keep you updated on my fight to eat 3 squares a day instead of 3 squares, a snack, a nibble, a bite and a half a square meal at night. Wish me luck!

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