You can move your body because it carried you through a hard year — not because you want smaller thighs. You can eat vegetables because they make you feel alive — not to earn dessert. You can rest because rest is performance fuel — not laziness in disguise.

The wellness industry profits from your "before." Body positivity asks: What if you’re not a before? What if you’re just a person — worthy of care, exactly as you are?

So here’s the radical middle ground: That’s not giving up. That’s growing up.