As New Year's resolutions fade

From a Guardian entry in my last commonplace book, written by a 52-year-old woman:

I would love to have stayed two sizes smaller and am always on a diet, but it is apparently not in my destiny to succeed in taking up less space.

Let's see if I can copy in the photos titled "Three Ages of Women" sent the other day by my Canadian friend in Nice. They say it all.

[Click to enlarge]