Blog entry 4

After a recent conversation about how much a person should weigh and how obese our country is becoming, I decided to look some things up and do a little digging.

As it turns out, what I thought someone should weigh is so far off from what doctors says is healthy.

I am medium built and at the point in my life when I looked in the mirror and thought “man, looking good girl” I was about 130lbs.

I was toned and tanned and hadn’t yet become a Mommy.

Knowing this about myself, I thought the ideal weight for the “average” built would be 120-150.

NOPE! It’s not, in fact, according to some sites that would be the ideal man.

What? I don’t know that I personally would want to date a man that weighed 120lbs.

Of course dating a man that weighed less than I do is enough to make me cringe as it is, now that I am a Mommy and haven’t worked hard enough to lose that extra post baby weight and my daughter is almost two.

I know there are people who are dedicated and are healthy and fit perfectly into the range that make a lot of doctors smile. I am in no way promoting obesity but, and yep there it is, the but we have conditioned our minds in a way that we are now excepting of the “over weight” problem that we face as Americans that seeing someone who is “ideal” weight is less the norm and makes one think “huh, they must be a model” when in fact we are the one’s facing health issues that they are avoiding by eating cleaner and working out.

I for one will be getting off my fanny and hitting the gym right after I down this salad and sweet tea.