| Katherine Wolfe 2004-08-19, 4:11 am |
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"Vashti" <vashti_nl@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:20040816202103.3a6b86fe@linux.local...
> I'm overweight enough to be called fat now too, no one was more
> surprised than myself about that: my eating habits hadn't changed nor
> much about my lifestyle either. Let me tell you that since becoming fat
> I feel a *lot* more respect for fat people... losing weight is not as
> easy as it sounds. I've known people who have been overweight for as
> long as I can remember who didn't seem to be doing anything much to
> cause them to be that way, I guess some people are naturally more
> inclined to gain weight than others.
Yeah, my Mom had a weight problem - I actually watched her *gain weight* on
three green salads with lemon, a couple of hamburger patties, and about a
dozen cups of black coffee a day. And this was while running a restaurant,
which was 14 hours a day waiting tables, hefting bus boxes, carting buckets
of ice, and similar kinds of physical labor.
Thank God I inherited some of my skinny-as-a-rail Father's metabolism - even
so, I got enough of my Mom's put-it-on-and-keep-it-on tendencies that I need
to really go heavy on the exercise, and light on the food, to keep my weight
down.
Katherine (whose Mom was a "people" too!)
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