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[quote=Anonymous]OP is being bitchy but I do think that often what happens is that women diet/exercise to a weight that is not really sustainable for them, especially around the time they are getting married. Then they have kids, plus they get a few years older, and never return to their pre-baby weight. The issue is not that they are carrying "baby weight" from a child who was born many years ago, nor is it that they are particularly overweight (maybe 10 pounds or so but I don't consider that overweight personally). It's that they are now at what is a normal and sustainable weight for them, eating a normal amount (not dieting aggressively because they can't sustain that and also do everything they need to do) and not exercising obsessively because they don't have the time. I think often women also don't have the same drive to get down to that previous weight because they are no longer dating or trying to look good in wedding photos.

Basically, I think a lot of women in their 20s and 30s engage in disordered eating and over-exercising, and then have to return to something more normal after kids because Who. Has. The. Time. (or energy).

We should stop expecting women at any age to all be size 2s. It is not realistic and thinness is not the definition of beauty.

Sending love to all my gorgeous, normal sized, mamas out there.[/quote]

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