Venus sextile Neptune, 1st house Sag Moon

I gain weight just thinking about food.

I’m usually aware when i gain weight but since i seldom get on a scale, it can be a shock when i do. Jupiter transiting my ASC & thru the 1st House here the past couple of years has added the pounds. Like Lupa said in another comment, dieting is a sure way to gain weight for me too! Just thinking about dieting has me heading for food.

I love food and food loves me. I’m about 30 lbs overweight. (Sun, moon, venus in Cancer. ) But I’m cute and know how to dress for my body so I can get away with it for a bit (Taurus rising ). But not for much longer. I’m starting an unofficial WW meeting at work. I’ve persuaded half the staff to join (Mercury conjunct Jupiter in Leo). The diet starts soon, very very soon (Saturn in Virgo).

Hey Drea, good luck with rounding the troops!

People are always telling me I’ve lost weight when in fact I stay exactly the same, give or take a pound. Literally, a pound. It’s a completely false perception…
Although once a friend said “Oh I remember when I met you, back when you were fat!’ Huh?? Never been fat, but it made me laugh. Some say your fat, others say your skinny…who can keep up with a 12th House Neptune?

(I think I’m totally average with an ass as an engine)

yeah a little bit every winter. i’m always surprised when my summer jeans are a bit snug (guess that’s what winter jeans are for!). no but my senior year of college was the worst. i ended a long term relationship and went out drinking w my friends wed-sun. so yeah, i gained about 15 lbs but i don’t think i realized it until the end of the year. moon conj neptune in the 11th, sag.

No, but how I FEEL about it changes.

Moon/Neptune in 7th house Sadge opposite 1st house Sun/Saturn/Asc in Gemini.

one day I’m 20 with a full head of hair, and, in the same year, I went bald as a cue ball on a pool table. LOL!

This is my old, old writing from 2001, with no editing.

It’s part of this story… my now husband has just left to go home for a month. I was supposed to go with him but stuck him with the $600 airline ticket – he made $212 a month at the time so he was gone on the trip, broken-hearted and getting drunk and passing out in a bath tub at what was supposed to be our engagement party.

His family had offered to put me through school – we were supposed to get married, see? I was from the desert and no one knew anything about me other than there I was.

My husband thought I was 19, because I lied. I was a bartender (besides a waitress, I had 2 jobs and sometimes 3) so no one questioned this, plus I looked 19. It was no stretch.

Anyway, he was out of town and I was dropping weight like crazy. I used to hitchhike when I met him. I’d hitchhiked to town from the time I as about 10 or 11 so thought nothing of it. He vetoed that shit, immediately.

Here’s more of this same story:

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“I take two buses home, nights I have off, but when I get there I am lonely. I miss my boyfriend, and I have a lot on my mind. I have just found out that I am obese, but besides that, I can go to college. Someone has actually offered to put me through school, pay all expenses. They are serious. I don’t know what to do, I don’t know who to ask, so I opt for distraction.

The bus is a bother. It is much easier to hitchhike, but a promise is a promise, so I shrug and walk down the road to the closest bar. It is a landmark in the area, but I have never been there.

I order a bottle of Tab for fifty cents and sit at the bar and tell jokes. The bartender becomes enamored and I never spend a dime in there again. I try to tip him, but he returns my money. Instead he extracts a promise that I will come back again and soon.

I’ll do that.

End of the bar sits Darth Vader.

To be continued.

Hello Elsa,

I so enjoy your stories and your style. I have been there done that. However, i still could benefit from droping about 20lbs. and have been to the gym twice this week, also watching my weight. I danced from three years old to 18 and was quite good. i am almsot 5’8″ and was about 116 lbs. now, add multiples of 20 to that. Although i gain weight evenly, i was quite shocked to see the pound packing party over the past 5-6 years. So, i have once again, began to really address the core issues of my slow weight gain, emotional, lack of sleep, diet etc. Thank you, i always find your presentation humerous and very to the point.

Susanna

Welcome, Rhiannon112.

It’s a blast from the past for sure. I was writing about my husband 2 years before we got in contact. I thought he was dead when I was writing this – absolutely, thought he was dead – no question about this in my mind at all.

He’s never read it. I call him, ‘Top Secret” in the story because he had that clearance. It represents my recollection of him before we got in contact and slowly (over 6 years before we married), found out about each other and how things turned out in our lives.

I don’t know what to make of it. Don’t have the time or the stomach to read through it right now although I do notice my own candor and it startles me some.

My weight as an adult has fluctated between 7sty 10lbs and almost 13 stone – I’m about 5ft 3ins tall. It’s gone up a lot in the last 10/15 years, after the ‘change of life’ and now I’m a bit heavier than I was in my teens.

My biggest and fastest weight change was in my amazing year of 1965 when I went off to the middle east and hitchhiked back across europe, with almost no money. When I left I looked almost middle aged – overweight, with ‘rollered’ hair (think The Queen, or Margaret Thatcher) and I dressed like my mother.

For most of the trip I could only afford one meal a day, unless I was treated, and it would be bean soup, usually! I lost about 35 lbs and also grew my hair long, and when I got off the train to visit my parents in Devon on my return, wearing a minidress and with long hair (think Joan Baez) and a deep tan, they stood there saying ‘Typical! She’s missed the train!” – they didn’t recognise me. I had to go up to them and tell them who I was…

I’ve had a few ups and down since then, though most of my adult life I was 8st 3/4lbs. Mostly the changes have been more gradual though. I tend to put on a lot of weight when I’m not in a sexual relationship – it’s comfort eating! 0and lack of exercise… ;^)

I gained some weight in high school, around age 17, got up to about 110 lbs. — for reference, I’m 4’11″ so people were calling me “plump” at the time. A couple of years later my weight slowly went down to 92 lbs. where it stayed until I quit smoking at age 37. Due to really starting to enjoy food (especially President’s Choice Chocolate Fudge Crackle ice cream… yummy!) my weight climbed and by 40 I’d gained close to fifty pounds. It bothered me a lot. Lost it all upon starting a new relationship, but then I hit early menopause and now weigh 122. What bugs me the most is the weight distribution; it’s all in my stomach, and this Leo Rising used to love clothes shopping but now hates it. A lot has happened in the past few years, much to deal with, so the weight issue hasn’t been the biggest priority.