It's really easy to gain weight living with a man. They want to eat so much. They want dinner every night. My partner and I alternate cooking. I try to tell him some nights I don't want any dinner, but he does, and it seems so unsociable to not sit at the table with him and eat at least a little bit.
It's really easy to gain weight if you get a sedentary job, too. Sitting there all day long not moving at all, you wouldn't even need the office snacks or lunches out to put on some weight. For some people, like me, even switching to bicycle commuting did not counter the sedentary job.
Also, once you reach a certain age, and it's different for each woman, weight creeps on and just won't go away. Who wants to spend their entire life listening to their stomach growl just to maintain an adolescent figure? Heck, even walking 25 miles every day for 3 months I only managed to get down to a "plump"-ish normal size. Some of us are just made a little more stocky than others. (I'm not fat, and I'm a strenuous exerciser. I have endurance like you would not believe. I will never be thin but damn I'm strong.)
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