Seventh Day - Returning the Costco Card & "Chubby Heroines"

No change in weight.

Costco Card:  Today I returned the Costco gift card for the "Weekends Off" Nutrisystem package. The credit-card sized card had come in a large bubblewrap envelope, and after I found out it was no longer honored by Nutrisystem I got an email that I would have to return it via UPS, which involved printing out a label, pasting it on an envelope with the card inside, locating the closest UPS station, and then taking it there. At least I got a few blocks extra walking, but it seems like a lot of work to return a very small card which should not have been sent to me in the first place.

Unwanted product bought from Nutrisystem directly has to be returned via FedEx:

 "All requests for refunds and returns must be made within 30 days of delivery of your package. Please call Customer Service at 1-800-585-5483 to obtain a Return Authorization Number (RMA#). Customer service representatives will explain how to return non frozen foods via FedEx. Your package must be postmarked within 48-72 hours after the RMA # has been issued to you. Any refused packages that are returned to our warehouse without an RMA# will have a return shipping of $19.99 deducted from any credit issued."

Please note: There is no refund for frozen food.

Chubby Heroines:  I've finished reading Good in Bed: Jennifer Weiner: 9780743418171: Amazon.com: Books which is about a "chubby heroine". I didn't like the ending, because it seemed a bit contrived, but the author's portrayal of an overweight woman is very sympathetic. It struck me, though, that most of the "overweight" heroines in literature are younger women who also have pretty faces and work out a lot. Where are the sympathetic overweight women who don't work out a lot or who are older? It seems as if a lot of "larger overweight women" in literature are usually there for comic relief, like Lula in the Stephanie Plum novels.

Here is Goodreads list of books with "plump, overweight, curvy" heroines. A search for "plump older women" led me to a raft of porn sites and this site which shows the belly fat in older women can be correlated to a higher risk of cognitive decline. Help!

Fat older women can make great villains, or serve as 'motherly figures'. I guess I will have to work on my 'motherly' image.

I should add that it is not only fiction that is not kind to old fat women, I don't think we get much respect anywhere; i.e., when I emailed my doctor asking for an appointment and gave one of the main reasons that I was concerned about gaining weight she seemed to shrug her shoulders about the subject when we met in person. Perhaps I should have been more stubborn about asking for help, but perhaps she felt there was no help she could give me.