Stranger Than Most
Wed, 09/28/2016 - 17:29
Edgar
My Fight With Food
By SUSAN LAUTZ, LPC
I have the physique of my Eastern European ancestors. Short and stocky, big boned, heavily-muscled and able to pack on prodigious amounts of fat in order to survive punishing winters, we tend to be just about as wide as we are tall. Therefore, I have spent a lifetime fighting my weight. Thanks to my enlightened mother, who was into health food before it was a thing, I wasn’t overweight as a child. And thanks to walking two miles to school (in the snow, uphill both ways!) and summers spent biking and swimming, my weight problem didn’t really get into gear until I went away to college. I put on the Freshman Fifteen and then some.
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