Hi everyone ! I am just sitting here drinking my Pinot Grigio and have some thoughts going through my mind and here it is. So as many of you know working out and eating well as a full time working mom is hard! We feel this pressure to be perfect moms while eating kale and working out everyday. Right? But the reality is, who the hell has time for that? Yes, I have a gym membership that I haven’t used since I got pregnant with my second child, my husband works late a lot and by the end of the day I am so completely exhausted the last thing I want to do is work out. Sometimes I feel the pressure, the pressure to be the old skinny me. But that old skinny me did not have 2 beautiful children. That body didn’t grow life and birth it like my current body has. That body had way more free time than my current body and a lot more energy. I am not that 25 year old skinny blonde anymore and honestly I do not care. I am more confident being the curvy mother that I am now. My priorities have changed. I put myself on the back burner for my children and that is 100% okay with me. I eat healthy and I am in my 30’s now my metabolism isn’t what it used to be.
As moms I feel like we all have this pressure to work full time, cook, clean, be amazing nurturers for our children while also going to the gym and eating a certain amount of calories to be what society thinks is attractive. Want to know my opinion of that... well it’s “fuck that.” My biggest pride in my life as an adult is my family and spending time with my kids and making memories and being as present as I can be. The size of my jeans is not a priority to me anymore, and if you are someone who judges someone on their size then you have issues within yourself you need to figure out. I also do not ever want to raise my daughters with a poor body image. Think about it, if you are a role model for your children and they constantly see you weighing food and counting calories and weighing yourself and not treating yourself to treats without making a comment about how bad it is that god forbid you enjoy a cupcake you are probably raising a child that will end up with low self esteem and body image issues. We need to raise our children to love themselves at any shape or size. As long as we are healthy that is all that should matter. I think teaching exercise to children is amazing, but when they are young it should be fun like playing outdoors, and us being outdoors with our children is also excellent exercise for us. I just want to set a positive example for my children to love themselves and take care of themselves and not worry about what everyone else is doing especially with how social media is today. Self love is a huge fundamental in development, and we as parents don’t realize how much our kids watch us and learn from how we treat ourselves. I see so many people being kinder to others than they are to themselves, let’s all start making good examples for our children by loving ourselves as well as being kind to others.
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