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re: Its easier to live a healthy lifestyle with kids as opposed to without
Posted on 7/21/23 at 1:25 pm to baldona
Posted on 7/21/23 at 1:25 pm to baldona
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So you have one little kid in daycare and don’t do shite with your friends anymore because your kid is your wife’s only hobby, and you think everyone is this way?
Childless adults think having kids is no big deal.
Parents with a single child think they have everything figured out.
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Posted on 7/21/23 at 1:26 pm to WaydownSouth
I’ve actually started working out consistently again because the baby wakes up early.
Though my new job allows me to arrive 90 minutes later, I still wake up at 5:40 to workout.
Seeing all the big baw dads at Costco got me real motivated too.
Though my new job allows me to arrive 90 minutes later, I still wake up at 5:40 to workout.
Seeing all the big baw dads at Costco got me real motivated too.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 1:26 pm to WaydownSouth
It’s not when you start having competing schedules and varying taste buds of a growing kid. Add more than one and most people will add the element of needing a break on occasion so you order out or go out. Those schedules start interfering with workout schedules until they get older unless you are truly dedicated..
Posted on 7/21/23 at 1:26 pm to WaydownSouth
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If they never have a french fry or chicken nuggets, how will they know they want it?
Marv Marinovich tried this. It didn't work out so well.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 1:27 pm to WaydownSouth
I agree.
a) for the exact reason you mentioned.
b) eating out multiple times a week with a family is financially retarded and a waste of money.
c) we want our kids to eat healthy and home cooked meals. especially the vegetables we/they grow. and by leading by example, it helps us as adults eat healthy meals.
also, despite me nor my wife having a single food allergy. My kids do, so we can control what’s cooked, how it’s cooked, and the ingredients
a) for the exact reason you mentioned.
b) eating out multiple times a week with a family is financially retarded and a waste of money.
c) we want our kids to eat healthy and home cooked meals. especially the vegetables we/they grow. and by leading by example, it helps us as adults eat healthy meals.
also, despite me nor my wife having a single food allergy. My kids do, so we can control what’s cooked, how it’s cooked, and the ingredients
This post was edited on 7/21/23 at 1:29 pm
Posted on 7/21/23 at 1:30 pm to baldona
why are you sooo angered by others opinions? If it works for him and his family, why do you care?
Posted on 7/21/23 at 1:32 pm to VADawg
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Marv Marinovich tried this. It didn't work out so well.
Tom Brady Sr did too but results are still pending
Posted on 7/21/23 at 1:35 pm to WaydownSouth
If you're raising a bunch of woke pussies then yeah it's easy to eat healthy, but if you're raising kids that are active in sports and outdoor activities that have to eat 5 times a day then no it's not easier.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 1:36 pm to WaydownSouth
I’ll also add peer pressure
My oldest has sleepovers with his buddies
They drink soda
Eat Doritos
And pizza
Swim during the day/roughhouse
Game at night
I’m not packing celery sticks, a baked piece of chicken and almonds for his time away
Edit: We don’t have soda or much junk at our house, but I’m not going to chide every other parent, or feel like my kid can’t cut loose now and then
My oldest has sleepovers with his buddies
They drink soda
Eat Doritos
And pizza
Swim during the day/roughhouse
Game at night
I’m not packing celery sticks, a baked piece of chicken and almonds for his time away
Edit: We don’t have soda or much junk at our house, but I’m not going to chide every other parent, or feel like my kid can’t cut loose now and then
Posted on 7/21/23 at 1:37 pm to LRB1967
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It is certainly easier to provide a healthy meal at home rather than at a fast food place. Even if you make the same thing at home you can choose better quality ingredients and use less sugar, fat, etc.
that is 100% true, I don't think amny woudl argue with that. OP said:
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Its easier to live a healthy lifestyle with kids as opposed to without
A signle person with no kids can just as easily make the conscious choice to cook at home on their own instead of going out. IT is in no way, shape, or form "EASIER" to do these things with kids than without.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 1:48 pm to offshoretrash
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If you're raising a bunch of woke pussies then yeah it's easy to eat healthy, but if you're raising kids that are active in sports and outdoor activities that have to eat 5 times a day then no it's not easier.
there’s a concept called “Meal Planning”. Look into it. On the weekends we cook in bulk a lot of the meals. Then individually package them for the upcoming week. Also saves on time spent washing dishes / loading the dishwasher during the week.
Also, for the record: no one in our house is remotely woke and our kids have a ton of weekly scheduled activities.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 1:49 pm to offshoretrash
quote:hell yeah brother
If you're raising a bunch of woke pussies then yeah it's easy to eat healthy,
Posted on 7/21/23 at 1:53 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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hell yeah brother
Posted on 7/21/23 at 1:54 pm to WaydownSouth
Without.
I stay active all the time on my land because I don't have kids at home to "delegate" the mowing, trimming, bush hogging, feeding cattle, etc. My stepdaughter is home for the summer from college so she's at least doing the push mowing inside my picket fence.
I stay active all the time on my land because I don't have kids at home to "delegate" the mowing, trimming, bush hogging, feeding cattle, etc. My stepdaughter is home for the summer from college so she's at least doing the push mowing inside my picket fence.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 2:02 pm to Klark Kent
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why are you sooo angered by others opinions? If it works for him and his family, why do you care?
It’s not his opinion he is wrong.
His argument is adding a 3rd person makes a family easier, when all he really is doing is choosing to do less with friends to do more with his family.
There’s absolutely no way that my 3 kids schedules makes my life easier or opens my schedule up, it fills it up.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 2:02 pm to WaydownSouth
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Since becoming parents, its actually been easier for the wife and I to eat clean and find time for the gym.
Just the thought of loading up a child and having to get them to sit still in a restaurant is enough for us to want to stay home and eat.
Way more difficult with kids.
You make your own choices before kids but your kids’ lives make choices for you once they are here.
It gets even more difficult when they get older because your after work schedule revolves around their after school activities.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 2:05 pm to WaydownSouth
For me, waaaay easier without kids.
Three kids at home, they don't want to eat chicken and rice or ground beef and rice every night. I can eat the same meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday. While the group "don't give them junk" crowd sounds off, you literally don't have time to prepare all these different foods every night or every other night. Once a week, it's chicken fries and tator tots in the air fryer. Working out is a bigger chore. Imagine both your wife and you want to go to a gym to work out. You either have a gym daycare or they need to stay home. Either way, you're home an hour and a half later and now it's an even bigger shite show to cook an actual dinner. Find something easy. Your option is to work out in the morning. Hopefully theres someone to watch the kid or kids at home. If not, only 1 can go. List can keep going on. I've made it a priority to stay in shape.
So short answer, its a hell of a lot easier to be in shape without kids.
Three kids at home, they don't want to eat chicken and rice or ground beef and rice every night. I can eat the same meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday. While the group "don't give them junk" crowd sounds off, you literally don't have time to prepare all these different foods every night or every other night. Once a week, it's chicken fries and tator tots in the air fryer. Working out is a bigger chore. Imagine both your wife and you want to go to a gym to work out. You either have a gym daycare or they need to stay home. Either way, you're home an hour and a half later and now it's an even bigger shite show to cook an actual dinner. Find something easy. Your option is to work out in the morning. Hopefully theres someone to watch the kid or kids at home. If not, only 1 can go. List can keep going on. I've made it a priority to stay in shape.
So short answer, its a hell of a lot easier to be in shape without kids.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 2:05 pm to WaydownSouth
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Sad to see so many Americans feeding their kids garbage instead of setting a good example with clean food.
The working poor don’t have a lot time. You can see why they stopped cooking.
But this is a top down issue. The government, largely due private lobbying, encouraged the creation of chemically altered junk foods. And they made these foods incredibly cheap.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 2:06 pm to Antonio Moss
You guys can raise your kids how you want and feed them only certain things and not allow them to eat certain things, I don’t care. Just know that kids are fricking smart quick. Unless you keep them locked in a dungeon and home schooled they drive by chic FIL an and their friends talk about it. If you don’t allow them to eat something their friends do, they’ll find a way when they can.
I’m not by any means saying let them eat anything they want. I’m simply saying it’s laughable to act like completely cutting out crap food from a kids life is easy or really possible when they are 4-5+.
I’m not by any means saying let them eat anything they want. I’m simply saying it’s laughable to act like completely cutting out crap food from a kids life is easy or really possible when they are 4-5+.
This post was edited on 7/21/23 at 2:07 pm
Posted on 7/21/23 at 2:08 pm to Lima Whiskey
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The working poor don’t have a lot time. You can see why they stopped cooking.
Who is this? People that work aren’t poor these days, poor people are only those that don’t work.
If you aren’t a criminal and are willing to put in 40 hours a week with 2 people than you aren’t poor.
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