27/08/2026
Two years postpartum, and no,
I haven't "bounced back."
I'm not sure that's ever really been the goal.
Before kids, I could train whenever I wanted, sleep when I needed to, cook for myself properly.
My goal was how I looked and fitness for football.
I always had to work hard to.maintain that fitness
& body composition.
Then ttc, stress, surgery, IVF, two pregnancies, two very different recoveries, a wedding, a business, a career change, and two small humans later, my body looks and functions completely differently.
Both times, my goal after birth was never to shrink back down. It was to get strong enough to function, to chase my kids, to prepare for the next pregnancy, to protect my pelvic floor and my core.
I did the "right" things. Pelvic floor physio. Strength training. Nutrition, mostly. And I still haven't gotten back to my pre-pregnancy body.
If that's you too, doing everything right (or trying your best in this differebt body and different life)
and still not seeing the transformation-post version of progress, that's me too.
Strength, function, and how you feel in your body count for more than the scale ever will.
But it's ok to also want to fit better in your clothes again, see some muscle definition again.
It takes patience and more time because life is unpredictable right now. There are more barriers.
But showing up imperfectly is still showing up.
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