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To my friend who has an infant and wants to lose weight:

I just want to say for the record that you do not have to lose weight.

Your body is literally perfect exactly how it is.

I love you at this moment with a belly and loose skin and no waist.

You are perfect.
Your pre-baby weight & pre-baby body belong to a different time.

I don't know about you, but I don't want to be pre-baby again. I won't trade in my dimpled thighs or my squishy-textured belly. I don't want nt tiny arms or bony ankles back.

I want THIS body. THIS life.
I want THESE babies. The big ones and the little ones. I want to be over 40. I want to weigh more than I did. I want to have wrinkles and big boobs and back fat.

I want to wear bigger jeans than I used to.

I don't want to diet again - ever. And I won't.
I just want to offer this counter-narrative to every mommy-group, billboard, magazine ad, "alternative" health blog, & Weight Watchers.

You are good enough as a post-baby, never-again-pre-baby, not-as-skinny or much-more-fat person.

Be healthy, yeah. But screw the rest of it.
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