When Momma's Don't Make Time for Themselves

I'm in the mood today to be brutally honest about something that, as a health and fitness coach, I hear a lot. I spend a lot of time inviting people to join me for various health and fitness challenges that I run through Facebook.  I do this because I genuinely want to help others feel good about themselves and to reach their goals, whatever they may be.  I do want to point out that I, in no way, believe that everyone should be the same size or weight.  My goal is to empower people, especially women, to feel good about themselves, whatever size or weight they are.  Also, it is important to me, as someone who lost her mother way too young, to keep you healthy and energized.  If you are not eating the right foods and you are not exercising, chances are, you are not as healthy as you could be.  I want all you of you mommas to be around to watch your children, and grandchildren grow up.  And I want you to be able to enjoy that time with them, to have the energy to play and chase them around.  If you are not taking care of yourself, you are probably not able to do this like you could.  I know you want this too!!  So now, I'm going to say it, and I know you don't want to hear it but hear it goes.....STOP MAKING EXCUSES!

Look, I know you are busy, whether you are a full time working outside of the home mom, a stay at home mom, a single mom or a part time working out of the home mom!  I get it, you are BUSY!!  Time is the number one excuse I get for why people can not complete a workout program or eat healthy.  And I understand because I've made the same excuses.  But the thing is you HAVE to make the time for this one thing so that you can continue to do all the other things that you do.  The stress will catch up with you if you do not have a way to channel it.  Believe me, I know!  I use to have so much stress in my life and I let it eat away at me until I had major stomach issues.  My stress was affecting my kids and my marriage.  I had to find a way to let it go so first I let God fully into my life and decided to let him take over the stress. Secondly, I found a way to channel my stress through exercise.
So here is some food for thought because I know someone is reading this and saying, "well she has no idea what my life is like, I really don't have the time!"  And you're right I don't know what your life is like and you don't know what mine is like.  I'm not here to judge you and I'm certainly not telling you that you are a bad person because you haven't made this a priority yet.  What I am here to tell you is this, as bad as you think you have it, I can guarantee that we can find someone who has had it worse, and who was able to overcome it.  As busy as you are, I can guarantee that we can find someone who is busier, but was able to make the important changes in their life.  This goes for all aspects of your life.  I think this is an important thing to be reminded of.  If there is something that you want in life, then make it a priority. 

The point of this blog entry is not to put you down for not making health and fitness a priority.  My goal today is to inspire you to want to be a better person, to start taking care of yourself, to have you look at things a little differently.  I know all about the momma guilt that is involved when we do something for ourselves.  I lived with it for years!  But by taking care of yourself, you are in turn taking care of your children.  You are helping to ensure that you will be here for them a little longer.  You are providing yourself the energy to take care of them.  You are setting a positive example for them to follow.  Children learn by what they see you do, not what you tell them to do. 

If you want my help to get you started, message me or find me on FB at https://www.facebook.com/Tammy-Fierce_and_Fit-1423818677926236/