I know it’s been a couple of weeks since my last post. It’s a little hard to find time to post regularly lately. Lily is doing short 30-45min naps during the day which usually gives me just enough time to do something sensible like have a shower or return a phone call. And then when she finally goes to bed for the night it’s laundry time, or get some work done time, or try and learn some new choreography time, or time to spend with James… and that’s only on the nights I’m not working! Unfortunately, all that comes before this blog.
Oh well, you guys don’t want to hear about my boring life (which, to me, isn’t really boring at all, but I suppose to others could seem that way).
So I’m here to talk about how so many people lately have been telling me that I look great “considering I have an 8 month old”. I guess it does make me curious to know who I’m being compared against, what it would take for me to not look great and why there’s an assumption that Mums of 8 month old babies look terrible (lol).
Anyone care to shed some light on this matter?
Admittedly, I typically assume people are talking about my weight – I don’t know why – but who knows, maybe they’re talking about the bright spark in my eye or the whiteness of my teeth when I smile? hehe.
It really does make me wonder how we each define “health” in today’s world. Is it by our weight? Our level of happiness? Our blood pressure? Our body fat percentage? I won’t pretend to have all the answers. Too often I have caught myself defining a person’s health by their weight/appearance, particularly body fat percentage. But whilst that plays a part it is not in and of itself the defining factor.
Maybe it’s time for us to all rethink what it means to be healthy. And any time you say to yourself or to others, “I really need to get more healthy!” ask yourself, what specifically do you mean by that? Maybe some of us already are healthy but we’re either being too hard on ourselves, comparing ourselves too much to that guy or girl who can run faster and lift heavier than us, or just flat out have the wrong definition in our heads.
Just saying 🙂
A Healthy Mumma 
Posted by Cassie on 8 May, 2011 at 2:43 pm
Ive had the “you look great” compliment a bit lately, but its usually followed by “your stomach looks so flat” or “you must be working out really hard”, so I take it theyre talking about my weight.
And I have said “you look great” to a few friends, meaning not that they look like theyve lost weight, more that they look well and healthy and happy.
I guess the only way to know whats meant is to ask 😉