It was definitely a man who said that...A man who never had the pressure to fit into his pre baby jeans, wear a swimsuit to mom and tots swim class two short months after birth or struggle to drop that last 10 baby pounds that seems to have permanently camped out in the hip area. 
In theory you workout and eat well post baby so that you can live a healthier longer life in which you can enjoy your kids, but in reality a large number of Mommy's are getting into the gym and on the diet train because they don't want people to inquire about their due date long after its past. No matter how you slice it, we are a society where thin is in and us mommas are under just as much pressure as anybody to drop the poundage in record time. Images are all around us of tight and toned twenty somethings, fit at thirty working women and even sexy and svelte sixty year old grandmas. And now we are seeing how 'trendy' it is to lose the baby weight in one quarter of the time it took to put it on. Heidi is on the Victoria Secret catwalk weeks after baby number four, Posh spice doesn't even look like gave birth to four children herself and you would never know that Kate gained over 70 lbs with her first baby.  |
| My kind of yummy mummy! |
How come we think to be a yummy mummy you have to be slimmer and sexier than you ever were even before the rug rats came into the picture? Why the added pressure to be the mom with the great bum? Will the men in our lives love us less? I recently read an article where researchers found that North American men actually thought a women who carried a little extra weight was more attractive than a women who was on the "skinny" side. The same study found that North American women were actually the ones who thought skinner was a more attractive body type. Interesting right? Makes you really think...who do you workout for? Are you in the gym to get tighter, look better and avoid being mommy judged by the other mommy's at music class . I mean it would be nice to eventually get out of the maternity section of your wardrobe before the baby hits kindergarten but who and why do we really diet and go to the gym for?
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