Quote: I would find him to be totally unfair if you were overweight when he met and married you. But I don't think that is the case.
I wasn't overweight when I married him but I've always been a big girl, my ethnic heritage gave me a body that is made for digging potatoes out of the frozen earth while breastfeeding twins. He was pathetically underweight when we married (6'1" 135). We had both gained about the same amount of weight since we had been married (I am a good cook). I don't see how it's my fault that he went from scrawny to slender and I went from healthy to hefty(especially since I'm the one who gave birth twice!). At my highest weight, I had absolutely no health problems and actually ran a 5k race in the Clydesdale division . I didn't get "hit on" as much as I do now when I was heavier but I was sexy enough to get some attention. Also, the woman he was dating before he married me had a far worse figure (heavy and out of proportion) than I have ever had.
I'm no longer overweight and now that I've been lifting weights, I actually have a better figure than I did when we were married even though I weigh a bit more. I'm still a big woman 40/30/40 5'9" and I actually think I look better at my current weight than I would if I lost more weight because I am more interesting looking than most skinny women my age because you don't see many 39 year old women who are a totally toned size 14 (Actually I wear either a 13 or a 15 because I shop the junior department for my funky hip-hop jeans and little skin tight t-shirts with the cookie monster or curious george on them. Since I generally wear my hair in a high pony tail, I kind of look like a giant sexy 30-something year old toddler with large breasts most of the time according to my sister.)
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