What are they eating? There are a number of women -- 20 or 30 years younger than I -- who do aquafit while I am swimming. The mystery to me is why are they so fat at such a young age? The other mystery is, how can they be at the pool during working hours, yet not working? The answer is most of them have high-salaried husbands in the oil business who travel all the time.
Guess what the husbands must be doing on the road? I mean, if you have a Big Bertha at home, how depressing a thought must it be to anticipate coming home to it.
These younger women must have been in shape when their husbands married them, but they have let themselves go abominably. And no matter how much aquafit they do, they don't get any slimmer. In fact, they get fatter and simply buy bigger bathing suits.
Many of them are well-educated, but they have used the excuse of their husband's big job to stay at home..."with the kids"....and eat up a storm. I think it's an appalling waste of an expensive education when women chuck it all to sit on their corpulent duffs. After all, they took up valuable and coveted space in a post-secondary institution, wasted many professors' time, wasted someone's money, graduated and.............then..........nothing.
I find this whole "I'm-so-lucky-I-can-be-a-stay-at-home-Mom" exhortation a complete fraud. Kids benefit from daycare. Kids benefit from other care-givers. Kids benefit from new experiences. Kids need to be stimulated. Sitting in front of a TV, while expanding Mumba-Jumba scarfs from the fridge doesn't really help them.
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