This is about a colleague of mine, let's call her Sue. Like me, she is in her forties. We have had some conversations about stuff like holiday weight gain before, but I did not pay much attention, because she was slim, or slightly chubby at the most. This has changed, quite pleasantly, with her new boyfriend. She has not become fat, but certainly a bit overweight, with a sizeable ass. I am pretty sure she had to buy several new pants. We had an outing with some physical activity (a fairly long hike), from which Sue backed out at short notice. She wrote that it was because she was busy, and I frankly had not made the connection to her weight gain until a conversation a few days later. "It was quite a long and steep hike." Me: "But you did similar hikes in the past". "Yes, but with 10 kilos less." Then I realized what she meant and smiled to myself when she walked away, looking at her hips. That extra weight, although not a huge gain, would certainly have made the trip quite tough for her.