Post-exercise assessment: knees: worse, back: better, shoulders: worse.
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I was talking to a mother yesterday who described how her body shape changed permanently since she was pregnant. She started storing fat in her thighs, and her straight-legged girlish body became, well, not that. Her tone of voice was one of wistfulness.
In order to make these sorts of changes palatable, I tell myself that I will finally be able to fit into women's pants, which have always had too much thigh (and not enough waist, which I'm sure won't get any better). Why do I fear body changes when they happen every day anyway?
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There's a Far Side cartooon I love where cook is holding a frog over a pot. The frog pleads, "Skinny legs! I got skinny legs!"