The Buckets by Greg Cravens for November 29, 2016

I went to my GP doctor recently complaining of unexplained weight gain. My eating habits have not changed and I am actually exercising more now than I was when the gain began. But I still have gained about 20 lbs in my torso, (although not in my hips and thighs, where I typically gain weight, as evidenced by my pants still fitting the same). My doctor asks me what I ate for breakfast — wheat toast with strawberry preserves, 4 oz orange juice and a medium apple — then what I ate for dinner the night before — homemade beef stroganoff — and tells me that I “just eat too many carbs” and that I am within 10 lbs of when she saw me last. Of course, when she saw me last, I was two weeks short of delivering my youngest son, but she didn’t seem to realize that fact. I think I need a new general practitioner. I still don’t know the reason for the weight gain, nor do I have a solution.