Reverse the Vortex

I gave up on weight loss a long time ago. For pretty much all of my thirties and my early forties, I was a good fifteen to twenty pounds over what my doctor considered a healthy weight for me. But as I moved into my mid-forties, I quite suddenly dropped all the extra weight, pleased my doctor, and was described by one of my aunties as “svelte.”

Why am I telling you this?

I was intrigued by a recent opinion piece in the Washington Post by Kate Cohen (who I got to interview on the Point of I...