Years ago I participated in a commercial weight loss program. I approached my weight loss vigorously, using scientific method, and had great success. Miraculous even!
I lost one kilogram each week for 14 weeks in a row. I was less adept at making graphs back then, but if I had of made one it would have looked beautiful. You can picture it, a straight line going downwards on a due south east trail.
That weight loss happened at the height of the print media driven, slender hour-glass figure era, and there I was, looking like a slender hour-glass! For about a week.
You can imagine what happened after that.
Suffice it to say, I am sure glad I didn’t buy those elegant size ten, designed and made in Italy trousers I tried on.
Here is another beautiful mathematics I present for your contemplation.
“Larger bones = larger size”.
After coming to terms with this equation any weight loss becomes less difficult. Losing some weight that doesn’t even belong there anyway is an appealing idea, but it is easier said than done. The one good thing is it is easier to do if done more gradually.
In the interim I think I have found some good sizes. I have come to terms with my somewhat pear shape. At least it is a smaller pear shape now, size eighteen instead of the size twenty of a few years ago.
Better yet, I now know that the portions to eat don’t have to be approached with such exactitude. The right amounts are the amounts that look and feel about right.