re: #289 Vicious Babushka

The meltdown takes place here.

Ok, well that was just plain strange.

I’ve learned I have little control over my own weight. For some reason my body does what it wants.

When I am overweight, I can’t lose. When I am underweight, I can’t gain.

It seems to be some mixture of anxiety and hormones.

I quit trying to change things and I’m much happier as a result.

I know a family whose girls are athletic and have PERFECT bodies until they hit 25. Married with children or not, they all start gaining and gaining and gaining-. By the time they hit 40 they are the traditional Polish ‘sturdy” women archetype. Still active, eating perfectly wonderfully healthy diets, no alcohol.

(although I do think the empty calories in alcohol accompanied by the lethargy that seems to come from habitual drinking, accounts for a lot of obesity—it doesn’t account for most of it)

No good comes from applying moral standards to body weight.