The room is quiet, but her mind isn’t.
She’s standing in front of the mirror, not with the usual harsh, scanning stare—but with a kind of tired curiosity. She leans closer, noticing the parts of her body that have stayed the same, no matter what she’s tried. The softness around her stomach. The weight in her hips. The heaviness in her chest that isn’t just physical.
She thinks back over the last few years: the diets, the plans, the promises to herself. The times she lost some weight, only to watch it creep back on the moment life got intense again. The times she did “everything right” on paper and still didn’t see the changes she hoped for.
“It’s like my body just won’t let go,” she thinks. “Like it doesn’t feel safe to change.”
There’s a part of her that feels angry at that. But another part—the deeper, quieter part—feels something else:
A strange kind of sad understanding, like her body has been trying to tell her something this whole time.
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