And I have heard so many people say, "there's no way a normal person gets that fit eight months after having a baby."
Yeah, I know, they don't. Because she didn't do this in eight months. Fitness for her is clearly a lifelong priority and I doubt she spent her pregnancy watching movies and eating Cheetos. I am sure she was in great shape during her pregnancy, too, so getting to this point was not an impossible stretch.
The other argument is that spending so much time at the gym makes you a bad mom. Well, if Facebook surfing and Netflix binge watching burned calories, a lot of us would look like her. There are lots of things in life that take us away from our kids; some just have more enviable results.
You go, Maria Kang.
(This post was typed as I ate chocolate chips directly from the bag.)
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i love this!
Mind you, she isn't posting her educational transcripts is she?
I was fortunate to drop my baby weight super fast but I would hate to think of any world where I would make the kind of comments this lady did and expect that it would be taken in anything other than a snide, simplistic, self-serving pettiness.
Perhaps we should post our own praises? I can post all those A's and B's from university while holding my two boys raised single-handledly over my head, dressed in my 1st Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo while painting my hyper-realistic portraits on the reverse side of my full-value stock and bond receipts?
We all have good things we've done and some that we've done not as well but I'm ok that most of us would never rub another mother's challenge in that mother's face.
Just a mean pretty girl blessed with 3 cute kids.
Anonymous, I see your point, but her Facebook presence is based largely on her fitness-focused business and fitness in general. I think that because of this, people who follow her are interested in getting fit, and these kinds of photos and phrases are everywhere on the "fit-spiration" blogs - not just on her FB page. (I hope you never read a "fit-spiration" blog because I think you would get really offended. Just FYI.) I believe her comments are directed to those moms specifically who want to be super fit, but blame having babies on their failure to become fit. Fitness-minded people are her audience. Any words meant for a certain audience, gone viral, has the potential to cause offense in the non-prime audience for those words.
Anyway, my point was more that achievement comes from hard work. Just like your awesome stock portfolio and straight A's...or were you just proving a point there? It sounds to me like you got good grades in college and are really proud of that; good job.
I didn't get good grades because I didn't work hard enough and it probably wasn't my top priority. I don't look like Maria Kang because I don't work hard enough and it isn't my top priority. (Not even close.) Truth.
I hope we can still be friends, so let me know who you are and we can chat offline.
I felt, as I often do, people will get offended at anything. I wasn't offended, nor was I inspired. It was just one more thing on the Internet, but I must admit I have enjoyed reading outrage on both sides of the issue *whilst double fisting oreos... just kidding, or am I?
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