Despite our best efforts, life doesn’t often pan out as we imagined, and our bodies simply need more maintenance as we grow older.
In high school we had a teacher who appraised the teenagers before him, then sneered: “When you leave school, you girls will all get fat.” He was wrong, of course. What he should have said is that you will eventually stop growing and yet you will keep changing and morphing throughout your entire life; that things that are easy now will one day be difficult. Also, you’ll likely never need this trigonometry, but you will need these friends.
He was wrong, of course. What he should have said is that you will eventually stop growing and yet you will keep changing and morphing throughout your entire life; that things that are easy now will one day be difficult. Also, you’ll likely never need this trigonometry, but you will need these friends.
I know intellectually as we age our metabolisms slow down, but I also feel it on cellular level as I struggle to shed the ballast. I’ve lost 3kg; I’ve got 3kg to go before the big day.She’d lost 3kg too, but she was furious. She had expected to lose at least double that after starving herself; ten years ago she’d have lost double that.
When I was young, I’d see people’s bingo wings and paunches and assume they’d let themselves go. Now I know life cuts us all down to size, and sometimes that size is bigger than we’d like.
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