Mom Bod: Are you struggling?
๐ฅ - ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ธ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐! - ๐ฅ
Strip off.....
Go look in the mirror......
What do you see?
How does that make you feel?
If you are pretty happy with what you see looking back, move on, well done! ๐๐๐
If not, if all you see are the love handles, the wine belly or the muffin top then maybe itโs time to do something about it.
Iโm so tired of people being told to suck it up and be happy. To accept themselves the way they are and love themselves unconditionally.
Letโs take the mom bod as an example. Weโre told that the mom bod is more โattractiveโ than the buff guy, that your partner would rather snuggle up to a cuddly teddy bear.
Maybe thatโs true, maybe it isnโt (Iโm fairly certain itโs just people's own insecurities being projected onto others to make themselves feel better). But thatโs not the point.
The point is that the typical mom bod isnโt healthy. It isnโt maintained. It isnโt fueled properly. It lacks the strength and muscle needed to ward off illness and disease as well as do any sort of lifting without injury. Iโm not here to tell you that you need to look a certain way, thatโs definitely not what I am about. But I do want you to take your health seriously.
What we consider to be the typical mom bod, is anywhere from about 20-25% body fat and above. Interestingly, itโs above this number for men and 35-40% for women where we start to see significant health implications:
๐ - High Blood Pressure
๐ - Stroke
๐ - Heart Attack
๐ - Cancer
๐ - Diabetes
We can reduce the chances of all of the above significantly by lowering our body fat to healthy levels (10-20% for men and 20-35% for women).
So Iโm not here to tell you that you should be looking like a Greek God, but for your sake, and the sake of the people that care about you and want to snuggle up to you for years to come.
Stop letting yourself off the HOOK.