The Best Way to Stay Accountable

I figured something out last night: if I tell my 4 year-old that we are going to exercise, she won't let me NOT do it. Once you tell her someting, it is pretty much set in stone (this is why we never tell her when we are going to see her cousins until we are packing up to leave...heaven forbid we tell her the day before and we wake up to one of us being sick!). She was hopping around last night saying she wanted to exercise. I then said that we could exercise together and even dance a bit. She got very excited and talked about it the whole time until I put the Zumba DVD on (we did "Rush" which is only ~25 minutes). She got in my  way a bit, but she was so cute trying to do the moves. It was a lot of fun and I still broke a major sweat. She kept yelling out, "Mommy, we're doing it!". So cute! We got to do something together and I got my workout in before she went to bed which meant I actually got to relax after she and her sister were down for the night. I sat down to watch "The Biggest Loser" feeling satisfied that I had done what they preach (even some exercise is better than none).