WHY IS IT SO EASY TO BECOME FAT?

Luky
When I look at mothers of seven or eight children who are as slim as their own teenage daughters - and I seem to know a lot of these - I have trouble in fighting down a rising pang of envy.
I know it's far more important to be good and kind than it is to be slim, but does one necessarily have to wear a  very large dress to be good and kind?

I've tried everything
I've tried every way in and out of the book to shed an excess 25 pounds in weight but it is or they are sticking to me like glue. In the end I bought a mixture to put in a glass of milk to be taken as a meal. I didn't want to lose a lot of weight, only twenty five pounds, but do you think I could?
Twenty minutes after taking the supplement, I opened the fridge and behaved like a locust.
It is a terrible thought that many go hungry and that I am tempted to eat too much.
You may frown upon my lack of self-control - I do myself - but that still does not cure me of being tempted to over-eat.

I contemplated joining a group which could help me monitor my eating, but I felt I ought to be able to teach myself free of charge so I was denied this solace.
So it seemed that I'm stuck with my weight.
Actually I can live with it - it's the next twenty five pounds I'm afraid of.

Overdone
Like most good things, weight watching can be overdone.
Years ago a friend of mine who had become a little underweight and was feeling run down went to see her doctor about it.
She flushed as she told me he had asked her whether she was eating properly. She was mortified.

Well, there's no danger of any doctor asking me such a question, that's one consolation.
In a final bid to lose weight I went to the local bookshop to find a book on the subject and bumped into a man I knew.
We got talking about weight watching and he confessed that he had stuck a large sticker inside his fridge door:  "I must NOT eat at night".
When that didn't work he gave his wife the key to the kitchen door and I believe it was pathetic, with him pleading half the night for the key and moaning half the day because she gave it to him.

Why is it so easy to become fat?