{"id":11153,"date":"2012-02-01T07:52:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T12:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/?p=11153"},"modified":"2014-10-29T10:08:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T15:08:47","slug":"living-healthily-when-your-kids-dont-want-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/living-healthily-when-your-kids-dont-want-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Healthly When Your Kids Don&#8217;t Want To"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/living-healthily-when-your-kids-dont-want-to\/5138598995_bd1bcece77_z-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11160\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"5138598995_bd1bcece77_z\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5138598995_bd1bcece77_z2-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<dl id=\"attachment_11158\">\n<dt><\/dt>\n<dt>In a perfect world, when you want to be healthier, everyone wants to be healthier and everyone supports one another. But that&#8217;s rarely the case. Many parents find themselves in the predicament where they are trying to eat healthily and the kids complain and whine for pizza. It&#8217;s the classic, &#8220;When Mom&#8217;s on a diet, everyone&#8217;s on a diet&#8221; scenario and I can imagine how it would be downright dreadful for a kid to find out he is having cabbage soup for dinner.<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>So what can you do, as a parent, to have full control over what you are eating while being included in the main course for a family dinner?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make the main course your side. Always have a healthy soup, veggies or salad at hand as your main dish, and have a small plate of spaghetti rather than a plate full which is just a heaping mountain of starchy carbs.<\/li>\n<li>Introduce some of &#8220;your&#8221; food to the rest of the family by having them sample it. 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