My husband would concur: I round up salt and pepper shakers on the table when we eat out-I’d probably even do it at Le Bernardin, helpfully stack used plates for our servers and, usually, finish one sort of foodstuff at a time. A little obsessive, you say? A little? Anyone who knows me in what I call The Analog World knows that I am more than a little obsessive.Īnalyze my DNA, and you’ll probably find I share about half of it with the Border Collie. TEANECK New Jersey-( Weekly Hubris)-For years-Nay, for decades-I have kept a record of my daily weight. “You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.” “ Mámá was fond of saying that nothing tastes as good as skinny feels-an aphorism I was pretty sure she’d cribbed from the thinspiration sites she subscribed to online-but I believed that anyone who said such things had never tasted chili-cheese fries with melted cheddar, fresh ground beef, and Tapatio sauce.”―Nenia Campbell, Locked and Loaded I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.”-Erma Bombeck “In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. ”- Elizabeth Boleman-Herringīy Elizabeth Boleman-Herring The Masai women, my leaping kin. It has zip to do with politics or aesthetics, though: it has to do with how I feel. I don’t like it when my thighs rub together. Obviously-if you’ve been paying attention here-I take fat a bit more lightly than many of my sisters.

“My long-running if shallow rumination on women and weight, women and fat, women and body image really began in the college dorms of the University of Georgia at Athens, and continues to this day, though my desire to keep moving, and fast, most of my life, has spared me much of others’ deep, tortuous meditation upon obesity.

Locked and Loaded by Nenia Campbell