In the 25 years since Jennifer Weiner’s first book Good in Bed debuted, much has changed.

Considered the first chick lit novel centering women with imperfect bodies — basically all of us — Good In Bed is a fictional story about Connie Shapiro, a plus-sized Philadelphia journalist, coming to terms with her body image.

Good In Bed spent almost a year on The New York Times Best Seller list and was part of the early aughts’ pop-culture body positivity arsenal that gave curvy girls the courage to demand to be seen on the red carpet and in shopping haunts.

Then came Ozempic and the rash of GLP-1 drugs.

“It’s kind of inevitable there would be a pendulum swing back,” Weiner said. “It’s always one step forward, two steps back. But I’m glad I wrote that first book and have written many books since that give women a chance to see themselves.”

Weiner, who was single when she wrote Good In Bed, has gone through her fair share of life changes. She married, had two daughters, — Lucy and Phoebe — divorced, married again; this time to her “second and final husband.”

Lucy graduated from college. Phoebe is on her way to college.

Weiner, who grew up in Connecticut and moved to Philadelphia in 1994 for a job at The Inquirer, has written 20 adult novels, a collection of essays, and three novels for middle grade students.

Her second novel In Her Shoes was turned into a 2005 movie starring Cameron Diaz. Earlier this year, Universal Pictures optioned the rights to develop her 2025 book Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits. Amy Sherman-Palladino will write and direct.

The Queen Village resident has gone from telling stories about 20-something Gen X women seeking relationships and falling in love with their authentic selves, to telling stories about 50-something Gen X women seeking relationships and falling in love with their authentic selves.

“I feel really, really lucky that I’ve gotten to do this for this long,” Weiner said on a recent video call. She was sitting at her desk, sipping iced coffee from a mason jar that her Instagram feed influenced her to buy.

“My readers stayed with me, I’ve picked up new readers. I feel really fortunate the characters I created along the way, and the questions I have asked them, have resonated.”

Here is Weiner’s idea of a perfect Philly day.

The conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity.

I wake up. My husband and I do [The New York Times’] Wordle, Connections, and the Spelling Bee together. We usually win, but when we don’t, we know it’s going to be a bad day.

We take our dog Levon, third in our series of terriers, out for a walk at Mario Lanza Park in our Queen Village neighborhood.

Now, I would go to Fiore Fine Foods in Queen Village. Because it’s my perfect Philly Day, they have not moved [to Kensington] from our neighborhood. I’d order an iced coffee and the Saltie, a breakfast sandwich with scrambled eggs and ricotta cheese. It’s just the perfect breakfast sandwich.

Next, I’m going to get some exercise. You know I’m a middle-aged woman. I try to sweat everyday because it’s helpful when you are sitting at a desk all of the time. I lift weights at G-Strength. It’s funny, the same women who were doing step aerobics in the 1990s and aughts, and transitioned to yoga and Pilates, are now lifting weights. It’s like we all read the same health articles.

And because I have so much energy, I’d then ride with the Bicycle Club of Philadelphia. Since it’s a perfect day, the weather is great, there aren’t any cars parked in the bike lane, and people go around me without honking. I’d make my way up 26th Street, along the Schuylkill Banks, and meet at the Philadelphia Museum of Art or Cosmic Cafe and ride through Manayunk up to Narberth. We’d stop at GET Café and Little Blue Owl Baking Company. The joke at the bike club is we are riding for coffee and a croissant.

When I get home, my daughter Phoebe would be there and we’d go to Forîn Cafe on South Street for a matcha. That’s my daughter’s thing, she loves matcha.

We love thrifting, so we might wander over to ACE Coffee Outpost, a vintage clothing shop and cafe, and B-Bop, a shop that sells plus-size clothes. There is a chance I’ll go to Merrygold Shop and Wall Flower Paper & Party where they have cute baby things, presents, and beautiful cards.

Then I’ll take a shower and a nap. And I’ll write till about six.

Because it’s the perfect Philly day, I have the opportunity to bend the rules of time and space. So, now it’s 10 a.m. again and my husband and I are walking to places that would still be open at this time of day like the Mighty Bread Company or Machine Shop Boulangerie in the Bok. Then we’d walk to Superétte on Passyunk.

Now since I’m on Passyunk, I’d fast forward to evening and have dinner at Juana Tamale. My favorite is the birria quesadilla.

I’d end my perfect Philly day with a reading at a local bookstore, like Head House Books to support Philadelphia authors like Emma Copley Eisenberg, who might be reading from her new book, Fat Swim. I went to see the billboard the first day it was up. I work with her at Blue Stoop.

It’s important I end my Philly day trying to help the next generation of writers.

Weiner is celebrating the 25th anniversary of her debut novel “Good in Bed” all year. She is currently working on her next novel.