I wouldn't mind looking like I did BC (before children). I read one time that some women put on, not just fat, but new fat cells, when they are pregnant. It's more common among American Indians, and I am part Cherokee and Chippewa. I've noticed it's not uncommon among Latino women, Central Americans, to have thick waists for the rest of their lives after giving birth, and I fit in that category. But, I never had a slim waist to begin with, my bone structure and musculature don't allow for it.
When I was the slimmest I ever was, I was 5'7 and weighed 135 (I got to be 5'8", but never 135 again, 145 was the best I could do.) And my sister's boyfriend suggested that I ask a mutual friend, Lori, how she lost weight, because she used to be "huge" too. I was 17 at the time, and I had an epiphany ~ men thought that muscular women were fat, and unattractive. And I said, heck with it. I am not going to do the functional equivalent of binding my feet just to please a moron. |
