They called her Buddha, the kids at school, the mean ones. She had a Buddha figurine, the image potbellied, rotund. Maybe she pretended the nomenclature spoke of wisdom, discipline…but she knew, understood they meant corpulent. She tried to fit, to […]
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For Bobbye
It will not work, your scheme. Set all the reasonable weight-loss schemes, promise yourself rewards you want. You’ll never hit the target…not even two weekly ones no matter how you try. Carb blockers won’t work if you take them and still […]
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What’s the Matter Here?
We feel a man is unthinking when he says that sobriety is enough. He is like the farmer who came up out of his cyclone cellar to find his home ruined. To his wife, he remarked, “Don’t see anything the […]
Continue reading »Born a Compulsive Overeater?
I BELIEVE I WAS born a compulsive overeater. When I was eighteen months old, my parents found me on the floor, sharing a bone with our labrador retriever. At age three, I discovered “trick or treating”: the next time Mom […]
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