This was so helpful! I am a professor and I parent a child with special needs and I have been having difficulties with my health and weight. My efforts to prioritize my health have just turned into more frustration and imbalance, as I am simply adding labor such as grocery shopping, meal planning, cooking, packing my lunches, and making more time to work out to an already overflowing plate. Sometimes I'm up the half night prepping for the next day to try to be healthier, when I already don't get enough sleep because of my son's overnight needs. So I can't maintain it and fall back into my old habits of skipping workouts and eating out. It makes no sense. Saying that the first step needs to be to reduce your load makes so much more sense! People are always talking about baby weight but for me it is actually parenting weight. The stress, the lack of sleep, the making quick, easy, emotionally comforting choices instead of the healthier choices for food because you're just trying to survive and keep it all together. I am tired of the way people stigmatize mothers and our bodies while saying nothing and not really caring about how much we do. You're just supposed to somehow do more.

I would wanna psychoanalyse why does she have a thing about touching others? Touch is important. This episode is right on time! heavy as a black woman is kinda different than if you're not black though. I wonder if they're gonna mention this. 12:00 I love this!

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