12 Tips for Improving Your Families Health.

Creating healthy habits in our children starts at home. Sometimes the hardest part to creating a healthy and fit household is changing our own bad habits. Children will model their parent’s behavior. If you want to create healthy and fit children here are 12 tips to help improve your families health, and create a lifelong love for fitness.

1. Create family goals that relate to fitness. Like signing the family up for a 5k run or walk that you train for together. This is an easy and fun way to exercise as a family

2. Find fun and interesting ways to make healthy low calorie tasty foods. Involve the family in menu planning and cooking.

3. Clear out the kitchen. Pack the house full of healthy snacks and foods. Get rid of high calorie processed food and sweets. If the junk food is not in the house you cannot eat it.

4. Plan a family trip that involves exercise. Like taking hikes as a family or biking.

5. Eat homemade dinners as a family, and talk about all of the physical activities you did for the day or are planning to do.

6. Learn about how our bodies work. Like what is a calorie, how my body burns calories, and how to read food labels. Then educate our children about them.

7. Stay positive about your body and appearance. Teach our kids how to love themselves and think positively about themselves. Always praise healthy decisions and effort, celebrate each goal achievement.

8. Make daily exercise a priority, lead by example with your health and fitness routine. As often as possible do family activities together like going for a walk together, playing soccer or, basketball together.

9. Drink lots of water. Get rid of sugary drinks and drink only water and unsweetened tea. Encourage our kids to drink 4-8 16 oz. glasses of water a day.

10. Eat your fruit and veggies: Make eating plenty of fruit and vegetables a staple of your diet. Try to eat the recommended 5 portions of fruit and veggies per day.

11. Teach our kids how to handle stress and eliminate it from their lives. A regular exercise routine helps eliminate stress and is a great outlet.

12. Cut out excess salt, and fatty foods from your diet, make eating a healthy well rounded diet a priority. Teach our children how to make healthy food decisions on a daily basis.

Creating a healthy fit home environment is possible if you use these 12 tips. Start off slow, by making small changes week after week. Before you know it you will be incorporating all of the healthy tips to your daily lives. Remember our children are lead by example. If we want our children to be health and fitness conscious throughout their entire lives, we have to model that within our own. You can do this! Get started today and change the roadmap of your families’ health and fitness history for generations to come.