Ashley Jamesさんのインスタグラム動画 - (Ashley JamesInstagram)「I keep being served weight loss ads on Instagram and it's just so grim. I gave birth 10 weeks ago - it was major abdominal surgery - why can't we just be left alone? It's been YEARS since I dieted, and I'm patient with myself and my recovery - but I'm sick of Postnatal recovery being boiled down to weight loss. To bouncing back. Firstly, we won't ever have our old body back. Going back would mean having no baby. No Alf. No Ada. Why would I want to go back? But also, It's easy to look back on our bodies and wish we could look like that again - but the chances are we didn't like our bodies at the time. So that's proof it's about our mindset rather than the way our bodies look. We're always made to feel there's something wrong with our bodies no matter how they look. It's why you hear about supermodels being insecure despite being supermodels. Because beauty standards are unachievable and unrealistic. And companies need us to feel insecure so they can profit from us. Secondly, I'm bored of the narrative that Postnatal recovery is about weight loss. Name me any other type of major surgery someone would go through and the recovery be judged by whether you lose weight or not. Postnatal recovery is about resting - whilst keeping a tiny human alive. It's about your body slowly shrinking back having housed another human for 9 months. It's about regaining strength. It's about your bones slowly moving back. Even *if* I were to do the diets that these companies are advertising to me - I probably still wouldn't fit in my old clothes. It took a year for my bones to move back with Alf. But what would happen would be my milk supply would be effected, I'd be even more tired than I already am because my body doesn't have enough fuel but more importantly... I'd be wasting this precious first year constantly thinking about food because I'm hungry. My body did something amazing. I want to feel myself and to heal and recover, but that takes time. I want society's attitudes to Postnatal bodies to change. We should be carried around the streets to cheers and fed grapes from a silver plate. Not served crappy weight loss ads. My body is incredible. So is yours. ❤️」5月14日 17時16分