French Women Don’t Get Fat was first published in late 2004.  I had heard about it at the time (which was personally timely, more on that later), but paid it little mind sixteen years ago.  Life plodded on and while 2004 me was a single, scraping it together grad student, 2020 me  is a hard-working, exhausted, mother of two who, yes, is tipping the scales at more than my doctor says I should.  Did I go out looking for a “self-help” book?  No.  What actually […]