Unwelcome Guest

I have a new guest. Uninvited, unwelcome, she just sort of slipped in before I could notice, and made herself at home. I didn't put up a sign, or place an ad. I didn't change my lifestyle, offer any enticement, so why has she just turned up like this. And I can't see that I'm doing anything to encourage her to stay, yet, here she is, getting all comfy and settled right in for life. There's no budging her by the looks of it.

This visitor doesn't bother me all the time, but in yoga for example, during shoulder-stand she pokes out over my waistband, annoyingly, in a taunting kind of way, as if she knows in this posture I'm forced to stare right at her and she really wants to be noticed. She doesn't get on at all well with a lot of my wardrobe.

I just don't like her, and I can't get used to this new living arrangement.

But apparently I'm going to have to.....

I looked online and read about an inescapable phenomenon of midlife: "redistribution of body fat". "Fat migrates away from the buttocks and thighs and begins to accumulate around the belly -- all without gaining a pound, eating more or exercising less."

The horror.

I guess, human beings being so adaptable by nature, that as times goes on it's inevitable that I'll get used to the changes around here. And one day I'll probably even forget what it was like before she came.