Hi, Gez. Thanks so much for your note.
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Originally Posted by suleika
Is your user-name goddess-like or is that just what it reminds me of in French?
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Sort of, actually. My initials are DS which as you must know is pronounced in French like déesse but I wasn't sure if the accent would display correctly (sometimes the bits get chopped depending on the character set used) But deesse looks funny and rhymes with geese in English, so I threw in an 'i' for the pronunciation. Sorry you asked?
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Originally Posted by suleika
Talking of French, I loved what you said about living the French Paradox.
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It's so completely true. Around 1987, after I got back to the US from France--where I'm sure I ate more than I ever had in my life--I weighed 140 lbs and wore bikinis to the beach. But it was the height of the low-fat craze at home. Surrounded by words of wisdom like "You can eat all the popcorn you want as long as you don't put butter on it," what's a girl to do?
In spite of that, I did okay until I moved to New York where I knew no one and was too busy surviving to think about what I ate.
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I lived there a couple of years but I was lonely and lodging with an English couple and eat lots and lots of chocolate and bread/croissant breakfasts with orange juice and put on 14 pounds or so.
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I hear you. Lonliness was my undoing. I don't ever want to go there again.
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(I found love; it helped!  )
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Funny, I found love and then gained a little more weight because we eat--er,
ate--so much pasta, all the while thinking that was supposed to be good for me. Then I just sort of stabilized at around 210-215. Ugh.
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Have you thought of starting a journal? I shall look out for it in case you do.
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I've been thinking about it. Now, maybe I just will.
Thanks so much for the encouragement and good wishes.
Dorothy