You can always lose weight, but if you’re pear shaped and have large hips, there isn’t much you can do about it. The superskinnyme.com website explains it quite well.

Part of why I ask what Adam and Eve looked like is because I don’t think we can know, even though it seems to me like an important question to people like you and I (and Marissa) in our artistic ways. It’s entirely plausible that they were muscular, although I’m guessing (keyword “guessing”) that they weren’t the zero body fat types either. I’m guess, regardless, that Adam and Eve probably weren’t “bodybuilders” in the sense that we think of today. Even if they were muscular, it was probably because they were the epitome of health and lived a much more active lifestyle than those of us who sit at our computers all day long do.

How did things like diet play into their appearance? From what we can tell, no one ate meat until after the Flood. All of their protein had to come from plants.

And even if we settle on a body type that still leaves things like hair and eye color up for grabs. Was Eve’s hair short or long, straight or curly, soft or wiry, black or blond — or all of these things combined???

IMHO, obesity is a MUCH larger problem for Americans than the problem of trying to be too thin. But in actuality, these bodytypes (fat and skinny) are both sub-optimal. To be lean, athletic, with strong muscular shapes is the optimum in both form and function for the human body. I cannot conceive of unfallen mankind looking any other way.

To borrow from Chesterton: Bodybuilding has not been tried and found wanting … bodybuilding has been found difficult, and therefore not tried!

Of course, I realize that most people violently disagree with me!

If they fit the bum they are too big at the waist. Always.

Meanwhile my husband can just buy based on size and take it home without trying anything on. It isn’t fair! And of course women’s sizes vary completely from not only brand to brand but item. I can be a size six in a skirt and a size ten in pants.