Get your family involved in your weight loss goal's its easyer to stay focused..

fun spending time with your family.

And every one is getting healthy.

Take care keep the weight loss fight up!

Thats the method behind my madness. When I drop a few tons, Im going to buy a bike and go riding with dd and dh. Can't wait to be active with them instead of sitting on the sidelines watching

I take this extremely seriously with our rising incidence of childhood obesity. I do not want to instill a dieting mentality in my children's heads but I do not want to let them just slide into the average modern lifestyle and end up fat because of it.

My oldest son is a bit of a computer nerd, he's into the computer, DVD's, his gameboy and his gamecube. Half the neighbourhood can be outside playing and he'll be in his room on the gamecube. I get tough with him and ration it, make him go outside. They're allowed to have lollies occasionally but they have to walk the 15 minutes to the milkbar to get them. They both play 2 games of basketball a week, and during footy season they play Aussie Rules Football which is a 2 hour or so game, and has 2 2 hour training sessions a week. School is good, they enforce reasonable phys ed and they run lunchtime sports competitions called "Legend in your own Lunchbox" so they're active all day too.

We live in a quiet cul de sac with loads of kids so their everyday lifestyle is outside riding their bikes around, riding on their blades or shooting hoops, skateboarding, playing hide and seek and the like.

They see me exercise, and often we take them all down to the pool, Doug and I take a turn to swim 30 laps or so and the other plays with the kids, its a healthy family activity. We're also just about to go and invest in a tent and other camping gear now the kids are old enough and that will entail lots of bushwalking.

perhaps even more importantly for my almost 3 year old daughter, I never want her to see me agonising over my weight, dieting and having weird relationships with food. I'm so glad to be getting this band now at a time she wont even remember, and all she will ever know in her memory will be a healthy, normal weight mother.

I'm a bit of a meanie when it comes to packaged foods and processed crap too, we eat fresh and healthy in this family, biscuits and cakes are home made, we buy organic fruit and vegetables and often organic meat too although it costs a bomb. They have water or milk to drink, I've only ever bought skim milk apart from when they were toddlers, and we dont have and never have in Australia had a school dinner program, so they take healthy fresh food to school in their lunchboxes. They're used to eating fruit and nuts and carrot sticks and that sort of stuff.

I hope to heaven I'm doing a good job in instilling a healthy attitude in them (when I struggle with it myself) and not simply setting them up to rebel totally as soon as they're old enough.