My Sister

by Iteach

My younger sister and I have very interesting relationship with food.

I'm the overweight one and she is the skinny one. Her clothes size range from 0-4 and mine goes from 18-20. I eat for pleasure and she eats for survival. We each gave birth three times. She gained 15 pounds with each child while pregnant and I gained 50 pounds with each pregnancy. She lost all her pregnancy weight and I didn't.

She doesn't choose to be skinny. She has never been on a diet and never ever exercises. She just doesn't see the need to eat and most of the time she just forgets. Food is on my mind 24/7 even when I was the "right" weight. I'm always thinking about my next meal and what it will be.

It is amazing all the people who give her a hard time for being skinny. I watch her cry in private, because she didn't choose to be that way. It was a fluke in the genes. All the Italian woman in my family have big boobs and behinds.

Even though are eating habits are totally different we still suffer the same in many ways. That is why she never ever says anything to me about being overweight. She knows how it feels to have people hound you about your weight. I try not to do the same, but jealousy has reared its ugly head ever so often and I have slipped in couple jabs about her being too skinny.

There are cons for being too skinny and too overweight. However, I have my sister and she has me and somehow we will find the healthy path.