Take control! Your Kids are a Mess, your Husband’s a Slob and You’re MAXXED OUT! What are you going to do about it?!

These are my kids… “Gotta love ‘em!”

They are my delicious mess makers and, sometimes, my little petri dishes – for all the germ breeding they do. I am constantly picking up after them and my husband (don’t get me started on him)!

As it happened, one day, instead of getting resentful and beating my head against a wall for the umpteenth time while I cleaned up after them, I went and put a work out routine together. Now I feel I’m doing something for myself.

I often felt that I was at the mercy of the clock, as I tried to accomplish a multitude of things, (exercise being one of them.)

When my alarm clock went off, I found that little was accomplished and a system needed to be found.

“Getting lean while you clean”, became a way of life for me.

By incorporating basic strengthening exercises to my daily household chores, I was really able to get the extra baby weight off, tone up and have some left over ME time.

I took the “ME” one step further. Like most of us mommy’s, we lose our sense of self. Once I felt good about by body again, I slowly began to incorporate the “ME”, back into my life.

• I learned about eating properly, and fueling myself throughout the day.
• I learned how to engage with my kids in a more productive way.
• I learned how to take care of myself.
• Mostly, I learned how important ME time was.

I worked out a way to:

• Warm up my body while I pick up random crap around the house, (a crayon doesn’t belong in the drawer with the forks and knives.)
• Clean my dishes while toning my tush. Dishes pile up endlessly in my house. Now, between sippy cups around the house and coffee cups left by the computer, doing the dishes have turned into the Brazilian butt burn!
• Work a routine around doing laundry. Did I tell you I hate laundry? It really pisses me off to have to do it. At least I finally found a way to do the laundry and get a work-out.
• Tone my arms while cleaning my countertops. I discovered the most amazing thing for my arms while I do my counter tops that I so have to share you.  I nostalgically call it Wax-on/Wax-off. It really works wonders, in isolating the muscles in your core, arms and thighs while you clean your counter tops!

Cheers to finding balance and finding your “ME”.

-C-