I've heard a lot of dumb, dumb, DUMB!! stuff, because most people think "thin = in shape, large = couch potato." Sometimes, after a week that included 3 days of weightlifting, 2 or 3 days of spinning, riding on the road and a tough yoga class, a male friend has suggested I try "Curves." Or a neighbor asks if I ever considered walking a couple times a weel as a way to begin to lose weight. I hear less of it now (maybe because the muscle layer is beginning to win out?), but when it happens it burns me up or devastates me for a few breaths. Then I contemplate how far I've come, and what I know to be true. Way too many people assume that if you're large, you're sedentary, and if you're doing the right things, you will become thin. Some of us will never be thin no matter how hard we work out and how careful we are about our eating habits. As I understand it, we are called "Athena's!"