I am not a parent. I would love to be — eventually — but am pretty damn terrified of guiding a smaller human through life as we know it when I’m not even so sure I can handle the basics for myself. Thankfully, there are a lot of great parents in my life including my own, several friends and much of my family. I get to see awesome people raising pretty amazing children constantly — and I get to be the bomb Auntie that swoops in for the best of times. I also get to see the challenges.
Like food. I’ve seen many of them struggle with what kids will and won’t eat, going for the convenient or less-argument likely thing available. It makes perfect sense, absolutely no judgements here. But lately, I’ve struggled with my own decisions around healthy eating and fitness and it stirs a lot of questions that I’m sure they share. My ‘motivators’ — friends, coworkers and ‘accountabilibuddies’ — have fizzled. Generally, with much to be thankful for, there have also been a lot of speed bumps in the past few months and those bumps have undeniably knocked me off course. So when I met Tandy Gutierrez of Mat & Kitchen and the Kansas City M&K subscribers for dinner last week, the promise of her upcoming Supermom School seemed like exactly what I needed — parent or not.
Mat & Kitchen Provides Healthy Living Help for Busy Moms
Today recently popped up on Better Kansas City to talk about Supermom School, Mat & Kitchen strategies and even offer a free 30 days of access to pilates workouts, healthy eating guidance and more. See the clip on KCTV5.Lesson 1 arrives in inboxes this week. With my early sign up, I got it this morning. Reading through the lesson, I was surprised to find myself getting pretty emotional. We’re just talking food here — what’s there to be upset about? The content is very much guided from “mom’s” perspective — naturally, because that’s the role that Tandy fills in her own family. But for me, the single non-mom, it explains word-for-word what I want to one day provide to my own family or even represent for my nieces, nephews and extended family now: guidance, opportunity and support.
In the intro alone, Tandy elaborates on some amazing tips that will undoubtedly set the tone for Supermom School:
- Talk about food among your family and respect its impact on your physical and mental health
- Be grateful for the real food available to you and what it provides to your body
- Create boundaries to foster a culture of nourishing
- Ditch the ‘all or nothing’ mentality — form healthier habits by appreciating that ‘better is better’ regardless of whether your next step is large or small
So that’s exactly what I’m doing — taking a next step, saying ‘better is better’ and getting myself out of this crazy funk by joining Supermom School despite my lack of momness. Along the way, maybe I’ll set myself in habits that will not only benefit me now, but my family later. And that would be pretty super.
If you’re interested in joining too — mom status or not — head over to M&K Challenges to sign up and claim a free month of membership with code SUPERMOM.
This post originally appeared on Prettyography. Main image by Allie McDowell.
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