How long did it take you to accept your postpartum body?

6 months pp here and struggling. Lost a significant amount of weight and back to pre pregnancy weight but still a size up as my middle is just thicker and my boobs are still bigger. Kind of want to give up the goal of fitting into my old clothes should I just bite the bullet and buy anew clothes a size up? Or keep trying to lose weight? Its so hard.

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It’s completely up to how you feel!
Congratulations on getting back to your pre pregnancy weight, that’s a huge achievement! Are you exercising? If not then you could try that to help change the shape of your body rather than necessarily losing more weight.

Please remember though that there is nothing wrong in buying a size bigger than you were before. After all, our clothes are meant to fit us, we are not meant to fit our clothes.

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You can keep your old clothes but don't put pressure on yourself to fit into the clothes you used to wear. Maybe you'll end up fitting them maybe you won't. Both are ok. Before deciding to start trying I bourght clothes 2 sizes smaller to motivate me to loss the wieght, they're still in my closet 2 years later with the tags still on. I plan to eventually fit into them buy if it doesn't happen thats fine. I would deffently buy some clothes that fit you now though, it's always nice to wear fitting clothes and hopefully it should make you feel better wearing clothes that fit.

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