except food: 182/365

except food: 182/365

When I turned 55, I said 43 years is enough. Done. No more diets. I no longer talked about them or thought about them. I threw out all the books. I ate whatever I wanted. Interestingly, for these last 3 1/2 years, whenever I stepped on the scale, my weight was always...
the summer of 69: 181/365

the summer of 69: 181/365

My mother used to say things like, “I bet you’re never going to have to wear a girdle.” That is, she used to say them up until the summer of 1969. That summer I was staying with my grandparents in Mobile, Alabama. I was twelve. It was the summer of...