Health and Wellness

With two active kids, my wife and I find it hard to go to the gym these days.  We just bought the Nintendo Wii Fit and Wii Fit plus.  We don't have enough room in our house to set up a gym. This has been a savior for us, exercise wise.  We've been using this five days a week.  It gives a pretty good sweat and burns a decent amount of calories.

We have limited out intake of sugar.  Where the water is now in our fridge, this used to be filled with soda.  I used to drink a six pack a day of regular soda.  Those days are long gone.  Both my wife and I may have one soda a month now. We also limit the amount of juices, ice cream and candies for our kids no matter how much they beg.  We want to teach them good habits early in life.

We are also buying more "light" and fat free food options.  It tastes just as good as full flavor foods.   We couldn't even tell the difference between these types of food.  If it's better for the waist line, then why not try it?

Finally, with San Francisco law on restaurants posting nutritional values of food options in plain view, it's hard to turn away from reading the fat content of food as well as sodium intake and the such.  We balance that by buying more healthful foods, as mentioned above, with less sugar and "lighter" foods.  Fast food is and will be a part of our lives and we are not going to change that.