Beyond Before & After

I look pregnant. This body has made six humans. This belly has been inflated and collapsed and inflated and collapsed, and so on. What should it look like?

What if we just all decided that we’d let ourselves get old without trying to snail-trail-Dragon’s-Blood-Complex-10 Step-Korean-Skincare our way out of it?

Want to see me panic? Ask me what I’m going to be doing in 10 years.

I don’t remember being particularly confident about my body, I do remember thinking that I should look confident, even if I hated my thighs.

There are a lot of things you will do for/to your body in your lifetime, the most important one will be drinking water.

There are few things that factor into your well-being as much as sleep (except water).

There is a version of me that would have shoved another taco down the hatch and spent the rest of the night feeling like my heart was on fire and trying to run away from my stuffed stomach by way of my mouth.

...I’m going to help you! By “help” I mean “tell you all the things that didn’t work.”