Transformation

Go Ahead and Wear Your Fat Pants: How to Love Your Body the Way it is

Don’t pretend you don’t exactly which pair I’m talking about.

I have them.

You have them.

They sit folded in the bottom dresser drawer, and we only break them out when our winter waistlines increase, in week seventeen of our pregnancies, when going to visit our grandmothers, or when we just want to be comfortable for once!

Yes, they are our precious fat pants, and if you’re like me, you have a love-hate relationship with these pants.

I’m learning to embrace the skinny jean trend. My favorite thing about skinny jeans is that the bottom of my pant legs don’t drag on the wet cement of parking lots, and they stay dry when the driveway is covered with four inches of slush.

On the downside, I’m not a huge fan of the way they hug my thighs. Whatever happened to 1995 and baggy stonewashed jeans, pegged at the bottom? I’m still waiting for that trend to come back around.

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I’m passionate about equipping others to encounter God in powerful and life-changing ways. When I’m not writing, you’ll find me hiking, jogging, exploring wild places with my three young children and husband, leading small groups, and mentoring younger women. A certified special education teacher, I am on leave from the classroom for a season of chasing frogs and playing in creeks with my little ones. Most of all, the compassionate love of Jesus has forever ravished my heart, and I'm emphatic about making his love known to the world.