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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, a lot of it has to do with how women looked before pregnancy. I'm a skinny mom but I was skinny before and just went back to that. [/quote]

The focus on losing weight after baby is driven entirely by the media and the weight-loss industry, with some of the more misogynist and fat-phobic corners of the medical community thrown in.

I think what happens to a lot of women is that they were doing a lot of dieting and weight-loss focused exercise before pregnancy, and then not only do they gain weight in pregnancy (along with a host of hormonal and other physical changes that are going to impact your ability to exercise as you used to, at least for a while) but they have a baby. It's really hard to very diligently focus on weight loss with a newborn unless you are wealthy and can outsource everything. Certainly your average mom with maybe a month or two of maternity leave, imperfect childcare, a full time job, and limited help at home, is going to have a lot of trouble sticking to a weight loss plan. That's why weight loss after pregnancy is always super tinged with classism to me. Most women just can't afford to make it a priority.

But I think it's worth it to assess if the thing you are looking to attain is even worthwhile. Say, through diligence and the gift of never having been pregnant, you were a size 4 or 6 before having kids. And now you're an 8 or a 10. So? I don't really get what the big deal is. I care about getting exercise and eating well because these are things that are good for my body and mind, and because I want to set a good example for my kids. But if just being fairly healthy and exercising regularly doesn't get you down to your pre-pregnancy size, who cares? It's possible that size was never really the right place for you anyway, if it can't be maintained through pregnancy, which is very common thing that a body will go through.

Maybe the skinny moms were size 0s pre pregnancy and now they are size 2s. Their bodies have changed too, you just don't really see it because their body is not your body. Maybe every body is okay.[/quote]

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