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Three Minute Grandparent: Eating
Once considered a form of fellowship, eating for the Grandparent has become a form of torture. Grandparent is hungry, Grandparents prepares food, Grandparent eats...too much. The Grandparent body, once able to eat huge quantities of food, good and junk food, is no longer able to process any food without adding pounds to the body. The body that was once able to digest and move on from a Whopper meal, now finds itself bloated and gaining weight at an alarming rate. Grandparent searches for alternative foods, health foods. Salads and cottage cheese begin to fill up the refrigerator, low fat dressings appear, and fried foods disappear from the menu as does salt and sugar. Life becomes a tasteless circle of eating the "right" foods and searching for the perfect weight loss program. The weight seems to be super-glued on the body. No longer able to eat our tasty food, we search the bins of the healthy food store for mixed greens, which look like lawnmower clippings, we search for low fat dressings, which translate into low taste dressings, and we starve ourselves trying to achieve the all American body of a 19 year old. This so impossible as to be laughable! We continue on, however, trying to keep the temple in the best shape possible while actually enjoying a meal. By the way, please pass the pork chops.
Once considered a form of fellowship, eating for the Grandparent has become a form of torture. Grandparent is hungry, Grandparents prepares food, Grandparent eats...too much. The Grandparent body, once able to eat huge quantities of food, good and junk food, is no longer able to process any food without adding pounds to the body. The body that was once able to digest and move on from a Whopper meal, now finds itself bloated and gaining weight at an alarming rate. Grandparent searches for alternative foods, health foods. Salads and cottage cheese begin to fill up the refrigerator, low fat dressings appear, and fried foods disappear from the menu as does salt and sugar. Life becomes a tasteless circle of eating the "right" foods and searching for the perfect weight loss program. The weight seems to be super-glued on the body. No longer able to eat our tasty food, we search the bins of the healthy food store for mixed greens, which look like lawnmower clippings, we search for low fat dressings, which translate into low taste dressings, and we starve ourselves trying to achieve the all American body of a 19 year old. This so impossible as to be laughable! We continue on, however, trying to keep the temple in the best shape possible while actually enjoying a meal. By the way, please pass the pork chops.
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