Fast day today. Sods law being what it is, Chris fasts for a day and sheds kilos, I fast for a day and gain 200g.
I come from a family of short, round people. Figures that resemble an overfed robin.
Some wierd gene thingy has meant that I've been skinny most of my life (until recently when I hit BMIs in the high20s).
But dad. Oh, poor dad. He wanted to be a jockey. He did manage to ride in some races, dieting down to 64kg, but that was a starvation diet. On the morning of one race he was weighed in - triumph, underweight by 250gm! So he can stave of dehydration by drinking 200ml of orange juice.
Next weighing he was several hundred grams over . . . .
You know how some bikes attract the Pun*ture Fairy? I think some people attract the F*t Fairy. It's a miserable, sardonic git of a thing, whose sole pleasure is sneaking up on people and implanting fat by a sort of reverse liposuction.