One Year of Body Baggage

It's been a year since the first meeting of Body Baggage.  Members - you know who you are - you have trudged along and triumphed.  You have kept food diaries when necessary and enjoyed guilt-free pasta and cocktails when stigma and bad conscience threatened to overtake you.  You have asked questions of each other that would never have occurred to me.  You have brought in recipes and inspirations far beyond what I could have dreamed up on my own.  You have made appointments to meet up and exercise at the ass crack of dawn to my amazement and wonderment.  You are stronger and healthier than you were a year ago, and so am I.

Thank you for your dedication and attention to each other and to your own lives.  You have given life to a project I started on shaky ground, unsure if it would matter, and you've taught me again and again how incredibly important the support of other women can be.  You have taken me through the first year of my son's life, kept me in shape, and made me stay present when I felt like disappearing into routine and exhaustion.  You ladies have my heart.  THANK YOU for showing up, for your honesty and for giving a damn.  If any of you ever need a safe place to land or someone to pick you up on the side of the road in the middle of the night, I'm it.

Keep it up.  You're on a roll - and if you ever lose faith, the rest of us will be here to remind you of how far you've come and how much further you can go.

Mad love, Sarah