A Little Reminder

It's not easy to lose weight, to stay focused, eat right, keep up with your workouts. There are days when my alarm goes off at 5:00 AM and the absolute last thing I want to do is get up and workout. I would love to just roll over and go back to sleep. There are days when I don't feel like taking the time to cook something healthy when it's so much easier to just order a cheesesteak and fries. But every once in a while I get a little reminder of why I need to stay on this path. That little reminder is an almost 4 year old named Parker. He's the reason I get out of bed and push play on the workouts. He's the reason I opt for grilled chicken and veggies over take out. I want him to see me doing things to improve my health. I want to be a good influence on him. And I think it's safe to say that the healthy changes my wife and I have made are rubbing off on him. On Sunday morning we went out to breakfast with some friends and their kids and Parker asked me if they had Shakeology on the menu.

And then there's this. He has become obsessed with doing Les Mills Combat with mommy:

I hope he never loses this enthusiasm for "doing his workouts"