Dear super fit mom/mom-to-be

I love how motivated you are. You work super hard! I admire that! I'm proud of you, because what you do isn't easy!

I want to be healthy. I aim to make healthy choices every day. And I thank you for trying to motivate me to eat even healthier and get to the gym more often. I know you have my best interest in mind.

But your lifestyle isn't for me. I love going to Red Robin now and then and eating a cheeseburger and sweet potato fries and not worrying about how much harder I'm going to have to work at the gym the next day. I love sleeping in. That doesn't mean I don't get up and get moving at the park or the gym, but I don't want to do it 5 days a week. Sometimes I don't want to do it even twice a week.

I love carbs. And I love salads. I love drinking water, but don't mind the occasional soft drink. Yes, I know all of the bad things they do to my body. But I don't hate my body, and I don't feel like I'm unhealthy. Yes, absolutely, I could do more - but it's just not me!

I love how passionate you are about your lifestyle - it's why you succeed at it! But it's okay that I don't feel the same fire that you do. I am fueled by other fires in my life. And I still love you! I'm asking that you please love me, too, just where I'm at. And then still be there the day I decide that, yes, I want to be on your level!

For now...just be my friend, and stop trying to be my coach when I'm not receiving it.

With much admiration,

A healthy, if not super -fit, mom