just a little tail about how my children help me with my approach to a new diet 🙂

1. do you know that feeling after you shouted at your kids unnecessary and you feel guilty, and think about it for ages. You go to their bedroom at bedtime and apologize? My son normally looks at me like I’m from different planet and tells me he long forgotten about it and that he still loves me

lesson: if you feeling crap about that chocolate, big mac or ….. (fill the gap) just move on, don’t beat yourself about it.

2. when you have a newborn in the house, you know you will have sleepless nights for months or even years thou you would like them to sleep all night within weeks

lesson: will take months or year to reach the goal, but you can’t quit now

3. when your toddler throws temper tantrum in the supermarket over chocolate bar you don’t give in

lesson: if you feel like you can’t resist one just don’t give in yourself 🙂

4. when you potty train a child you don’t expect them to ‘get it’ straight away, you allow them to take time to learn a new skill

lesson: learning how to eat ‘properly’ is a new skill for many of us. It will take time and there will be many days when you fail.

5: when child ask for treat you make a conscious decision. You wouldn’t usually give him/her a cake before dinner, or just before bedtime.

lesson: if you want a treat, think what your mum would have told you at that moment.

6: we make sure our kids diet is healthy

lesson: eat only what you would be happy to give to your children

7: and finally… if you give a child variety of food everyday, they’ll eat till they are full and leave the rest on the plate

lesson; stop eating when you had enough

so let’s take a new approach to life. be active, happy, and don’t worry to much about yesterdays dinner.

Fall seven times, stand up eight!:)