ice cream and communism
I’ve gained a stone this month. 14 pounds. 6.4 kilos. Whichever way you do it. This is just a rough estimate of course. I haven’t actually been on the scales. I value my state of mind too much. But I can feel it in my thighs and all over my face – because that’s where carbs go to die when you’re Buffy Holt.
I binge. Not on drink. On potatoes. When I was a kid my mother always bought those big plastic buckets filled with three shades of ice cream. The sister liked strawberry, the brother preferred chocolate and the little one slurped vanilla. Me, I liked steak fries with two cheeseburgers please. I started eating burgers in pairs with piles of chips when I was 2. My mother says it was because “You wanted them.”
And on that subject…last night I’m on the phone with very same mother. She starts whistling in the wind and then says “You know, I read somewhere that they’re going to start fining parents with obese children. Like it’s child abuse or something.”
Now, if you’re my sister you know this is my mother trying to get me to jump up and down about ‘How Outrageous!’ it all is so she can in turn throw out an “Aha! You see how I feel about smoking bans then!”
But, of course, I didn’t say ‘how outrageous’ I just said “Well, I wont go into what I think about THAT but if the government can take Celebrex off the market for causing heart problems it should be able to take carcinogen puff out of the restaurants for causing lung cancer.” She didn’t say anything but I heard her take a nice long draw.
I’m sooo gonna get a Chairman Mao button for my birthday.
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First, you look beautiful, weight gain or no. Second, I can relate to an unhealthy love of carbs (I’ll die with an order of fries in one hand, a loaded baked potato in the other). Third, I’m not sure how I feel about parents being fined for obese children. Of course, if parents start getting fined for overweight kids, they should also be fined for smoking around their children.
if you posted this pic to prove to us that you look awful..then you have failed…i absolutely love love this pic of you! you are soo pretty buffy!
You are sooo beautiful! Im with Steff…. if you are trying to make a negative point with this photo.. THEN…. You failed!
I love you and cant wait to see you back…
The nice folk among us would never state the obvious…that I have a double face (I don’t just stop at the chin) surfacing on my right side.
Mal’s just being nice because she knows every time I gain weight I start trying to drag her into the woods (hiking people, hiking) and Steph, well, I have naked pictures of her so she’s hardly gonna be unpleasant. Are you doll?
Love to all my chicadees!!!
You can always lose it…but if not, you’ve just added to your very womanly curves. I think women with meat on their bones look very beautiful. That’s just my preference though!
I concur with all the above comments; don’t be so hard on yourself, girl.
And G’day, mate from Australia – just linking through from another blog.
Take care.
You’re funny AND you’re hot.
That is the greatest picture of you I’ve ever seen.
Remember talking? Let’s talk. To each other.
Mmmm. Potatoes. Potato chips. Mmmm.
Did you say something else?
Oh, yes, you are lovely. Don’t worry about the potatoes.
Mmmm.
Oh yeah… I have heard the “You wanted them” before. Apparently baby Super Babe used to “want” to eat a whole steak when she was 2 yrs old as well!
Hey, I can binge on potatoes!
we all binge on something, and something is all ways a harm. The best thing we can do is realize it and deal with it as we need to. I understand the feeling, I work around wonderful cakes every night all calling me, calling my gut to slap them on me through my stomach. Moosey cake bastards…one day keeps the stomach moans away.
lol… Loved the Mom comment!
I just moved to Florida a year ago and I am up a stone from then too! lol I HATE it! Whether I look ok now or not doesnt make it any better! I do the sweet thing not the salty, but carbs are carbs when they “die ” on my body… they pooch me out all over! Let me know if you find a secret cure!(the old fashion diet and exercise doesnt seem to be working out for me!)=]
I am going to have a peek around the rest of your blog. I love your writing style. Very easy to read and interesting! =] I have also spent tons of time in the UK… and miss the traveling bit dearly… so maybe this will be a fix for me! lol
Cheers!
Kate
I am chuckling at “I binge. not on drink. On potatoes.” Mine would read “I binge. not on drink. On toast with honey.”