About Weight

I’ve been meaning to write a post about body weight, mine in particular, for a looong time, particularly about my goal to ‘not gain weight’ as opposed to ‘lose weight’.

But I’ve shied away from it because, ugh, aren’t we all supposed to be striving to weigh less?

Yesterday I stumbled upon this TED talk in my Facebook feed, and by golly, the speaker says everything I wanted to say about weight-issues (as observed by me), just better.

An excellent companion to this video is my favorite ever news article, even though it’s terribly bleak with regards to sustained weight loss: The Fat Trap, by Tara Parker-Pope (link goes to NYTimes.com).

And that is all I wanted to say.