Are there people in your life that think your passion for fitness is more like obsession? I struggle with this as a mom, because people try to make me feel like the time I put into fitness is time I'm neglecting my daughter. At a kids birthday party this weekend, I found myself feeling like I didn't fit in. Is it really that weird that my daughter doesn't want soda or a blue cupcake? Moms at parties or children's functions say things like, "I have better things to do with my day than workout, and that my passion for fitness is extreme." I end up feeling like they don't get me at all.

Sometimes I wonder if I am obsessed and if I'm being the best mom I can be, and then I remind myself of this quote- have you heard it, "Obsession is what lazy people call dedication!" Are there people in your life that don't get how you can wake up to workout at the crack of dawn, or how you can pack your food and bring it with you everywhere you go, and they try to make you feel bad about it? But when swimsuit season rolls around they want to know how to get in shape in a few weeks?

Isn't this backwards? How did it get to be the norm to not want to be healthy and why is paying attention to your health considered extreme?