Believe me you’re not, it’s just a habit, like biting your nails or cracking you knuckles.

Who cares about weight? Some of the finest athletes in the world are classed as obese on the BMI because they weight a lot.

What really matters is how much fat you have on your body. In fact, if you are walking your dog quite a lot, and eating a lot as well, you are probably gaining muscle not fat, which is making yourself weigh more on the scales.

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I understand how it could be considered ”contagious”, in a totally non-scientific way, but it is just not.

You could easily say from this being slim is contagious. You could say smoking, drinking, running, burping is all contagious.

But you shouldn’t because it is totally misleading and quite simply wrong.

Whether your Buddhist, Catholic, Muslim or whatever Lent/Fasting is great.

But remember giving up something isn’t a challenge or a test, it’s just suffering. That is the whole point, or this is just the way I have always seen it. Isn’t the whole idea to suffer and share empathy with the world?

Unfortunately children, whatever faith may be, are often not taught why they fast or give up something they just follow blindly and gain absolutely nothing during the period.

I quit sugar about two weeks ago having been someone who BINGED on candy and chocolate all the time. I had about five days of misery. Then I felt a lot better for a few days. Then I had some refined carbs in the form of pasta, muffins, and bread (I didn’t “binge,” but I definitely had a good amount) and snacked on some little chocolates at work. Now I feel down again. I am quitting again, but do you think that amount of carbs/sugar I just had again made me have to restart the whole withdrawal process?

I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions - I don’t usually stick with them. I do intend to start going to the Y, though. I have to do something! Thanks for commenting.