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When every moment in your life is precious…
By Christina | April 17, 2009
If you are at all like me and I believe we all are - or at least in our minds we all are - you feel like there are not enough hours in the day to all the things you want to get done. One trick I recently incorporated into my day should save me 15 minutes and help me to make good food choices.
I don’t know about you but when I am in a hurry to get to my next task, I will sacrifice nutrition for convenience. This is a typical morning for me, I won’t even go past 11 am. I wake up at 430am, let the dogs out, make my coffee and power up the laptop. One average, there will be 12 emails since 9pm the night before for me to address. Once those are done, I have three daily blogs to write and/ or post (I write 2 and post another that someone else writes). After that, I start will search for new music for my fitness classes and create the workouts for my clients or the classes I will teach that day. If there is still time, I start work on my “day job”.
By 630am the kids are up and it’s time to power down the computer and start making the children’s breakfast, prep the lunch boxes, go down the list of things that need to be done before we can leave - clothes picked out for baby sister, dogs have food and water, teeth brushed, faces cleaned, homework in bag, and if there is guitar or piano, do you have your stuff for that?
730 everyone at the door and out. Drop offs are typically seamless and than it’s off to the gym. Drop baby at childcare in gym and dash to 830 class. I typically teach an hour and train someone for an hour and back out by 1030 to be back in front of my laptop at 11 to get to my day job. There was something missing, you might have caught it.. I did not eat anything and I am now two hours of exercise in and I have been up for over 6 hours. My new time saver plan is while I make the kid’s lunches, I make myself one too. That way I am taking advantage of a few things:
- I eat as I drive home so I am not stopping at a drive through in a ravenous state
- I eat peacefully as opposed to standing over the kitchen sink stuffing food in as quickly as possible
- I am eating within an hour of exercise, a critical time for ideal utilization of energy replacement
What are some of your time saver tips?
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