I'm not done talking about my middle age midsection! We all complained about how hard it was to lose the "baby weight" but I think we are missing out on another phenomenom. How 'bout toddler weight, school age weight, and now pre-teen/teen weight? When my kids were toddlers, my new year's resolution one year was to stop eating food off the floor. These were the years of goldfish, french fries, animal crackers, etc. . . . . all innocently dropped from those cute chubby fingers and expertly snatched up by my pudgy little fingers and voila - no more dirty floor. Add at least 5 pounds.
Then comes school age and the start of school lunches, after school snacks, soccer snacks, snack packs, snack bars, and so much birthday cake!!! Basically lunch started at breakfast and ended at bedtime. Crusts of sandwiches, leftover chips, 1/2 eaten cookies, ice cream cones with dribbles of ice cream in them, a few spoonfuls of mac and cheese here, a few forkfuls of mashed potatoes there and WOW, looky here, another 5 pounds, at least.
And here we are in the tween/teen years and BOY, can these kids eat!! All the time!! So much food!! All the time!! So many hormones!! While their metabolisms rev up, mine has slowed down and I think recently sputtered out altogether. This, combined with worry about cyber space, dances, homework, getting into high school, bullying, puberty, aging parents, wrinkles, college funds, etc. . . . makes me very hungry and thirsty!! Add 5 pounds of food weight, 5 pounds of wine weight, with a extra big helping of a slowing metabolism and guess what . . . . losing that baby weight seems like children's play.
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