Healthy Eating for One

Why is it so easy to eat well when pregnant, and baby's health is at stake and not so easy for "just" our own health?

I have been asking myself this question a lot since our third daughter was born.

You see I had gestational diabetes with all 3 of my pregnancies, and I was the star patient! My sugars were always in check, the nurses who monitored me were so impressed, and I gained very little weight with my pregnancies.

So why can't I continue this healthy eating? Why is it I do not value my health as much as I valued that of my babies?

I think a lot of us moms think this way, that we are too busy to get to the gym, we are too busy looking after our families and don't see ourselves as an integral part of 'looking after our families'. We have time to take our kids to all of their activities, why don't we slot in the time for ourselves? I managed to find a way to schedule four soccer games and two hockey games of my daughter's this weekend, why is it so hard to schedule 30 minutes for me to run?

If you have an answer, please share!

This is why I want to re-start our momstown healthy happenings group with Jo Dumont. I need all the motivation I can get, and I want to be made accountable. I want other moms who are just like me to commiserate, challenge and share how we can ensure that we start 'eating for one'. Ourselves.

This is a new goal of mine. To make sure I am as healthy as I can be, both for me and my family, as they need me to be healthy for them and me.