The scale reads the same as it did the day I got sick. I have lost nothing. I have long blamed my Northern European ancestors for passing down to me a body that hoards every scrap of a calorie. It rarely snows in North Carolina. We do have central heat and Polartec.
Winter is short.
It s hell to have the metabolism of a slug. Julia Sneden is a writer, friend, teacher, wife, mother, Grandmother, care-giver and Senior Women Web's Resident Observer. She lives in North Carolina and can be reached by email.