1. Create a Schedule & Wake Up Early. Try to wake up early before your little ones do and do what you need to do before all of the hustle and bustle of the household consumes your day. Make a schedule and try your best to stick with it. As moms, often times things get a little crazy and schedules are impossible – but try your best to stick with it, so you can feel accomplished at the end of the day. It is always a good feeling to look back and see everything you have done.
This doesn’t mean a list a mile long with things that can make us overwhelmed – sometimes on a schedule simple things like “read to my baby” or “go to the park” or “help my kids with their homework” are the most important things on our schedules.
2. Weekly Food Prep & Planning. I use Sunday as my Prep Day and I cut, slice, peel, bake, cook and prepare all of my snacks and meals for the week. This can take some time but it prevents me from eating junk. And believe me I can justify eating junk with the best of them, so I have to be prepared. Pick 2 days a week to plan and prep your meals.
3. Easy Healthy Snacks. If you are like me, you will find yourself looking through the fridge and the cabinets for a quick fix while chasing your 1 year old around the house. If you BUY it, you will EAT if! —> FACT. So, don’t bring it into your home. Check out this Pinterest board for some quick and healthy snacks.
4. Get Some Cardio In! It doesn’t have to be a 10K or a full-out sprint or hill-runs. Just take your baby for a stroll, or walk the dog. You can also take advantage of some great 30-Min in home cardio workouts, like my favorite’s —> The 21-Day Fix and Cize. Just get moving —> 30 min everyday. 
5. Go To Sleep On Time. This is a hard one for us, right? We finally get our little one’s to bed and have some “ME” time and we want to catch up on our favorite shows, or read a few chapters in our favorite book, and before you know it —> the clock read’s 11:00 PM – go to bed on time and let your body rest and be rejuvenated for the next day.
6. Eating More Is Better. Did you know that by eating small amounts of food, more often is better than eating a lot of food, less often? By starting your day off with a good breakfast, your metabolism gets going which will help you digest food and lose weight! Then by eating healthy snacks throughout the day, it keeps your metabolism going! We have breakfast, a healthy snack, lunch, a healthy snack and then dinner! That is 5 times a day! I like to eat – so I like it.
7. Track Your Food & Progress. What we track get’s measured! Right? So make sure that you are tracking that handful of M&M’s, or the miniature snickers bar in the Halloween bowl at work. here are a TON of fun and helpful programs you can use to track your food intake and progress. I LOVE to SEE results. I am a very visual person – so seeing a graph of how much I have eaten, how much I have lost and how I can do better is extremely helpful. A few of my favorites are Lose It and My Fitness Pal.
8. Remember Who Is Watching. One of the main reason’s that I started doing a workout program from home was because I wanted to spend as much time with my son as I possibly could and I wanted to feel better about myself and
be a good role-model for my family. Remember if Mom feels good about herself and is happy, the whole household is usually a happier place too.
9. Don’t Go At It Alone. As a personal trainer and online health and fitness coach. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard from a potential client…that’s ok, I am going to try to lose the weight or get healthy on my own first and then if I don’t see results I will reach out to you. Guess, what? Have you been successful getting the results that you want thus far on your own? Probably NOT! So grab and accountability partner or join an accountability group. If you would like to learn more about my upcoming accountability group CLICK HERE. I will be providing you with a healthy meal plan, recipes, fitness tips and motivation from other busy moms.
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