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Thread: As a mother with a young child, working several professional assignments, household work, outside errands, at least 3-4 hours daily of focussed engagement with child's studies and bedtime routines, I find the process of weight loss and diet impossible
I've struggled with body weight all my life and have hit the gym, enrolled to yoga, followed numerous diets and have found that exercising and food management for weightloss is a matter of extreme privilege. Most diets don't factor in women's regular labour.
Any extra or a particular type of food, two hours at the gym, any arrangement of such food requires time that has to come out of an already packed day with multiple responsibilities. This is for women who don't have a full-time worker to help them run the household. Now the money
Diets, nutritionists (I am talking of prescriptive weightloss) gym membership, trainers cost money that either comes out of our own savings or household expenditure or make women dependent on a family member. The irony is, we'll never get the look right.
We're either so thin that now we "have dark circles and a flat chest" or "fat like a whale" or "completely let ourselves go" or "sloppy and lazy" or "yeah, some men dig that but not my type." How do women find the time, effort and money for professional-assisted weight loss?
Adding this: So you know selfies and how women get constant sarcastic comments for clicking and posting too many? That's our way of controlling how we want to step out in front of the world.
