Ham denies liking sweets, gorges on sweets. Hamantha, a distant relative not related to me by blood is well over 300lbs and of average height and is probably 30 something but looks like she is pushing 50+.  Actually, it’s incredibly difficult to look at her, and not even just because she is fat, but because her face and skin reflect her absolute trash diet.  She always shows up to all family gatherings right before the food is served, and is the kind of person who is asked to bring “salad” and shows up with a container full of mayo and a little bit of pasta. She spends the entire time sitting at the food table, coveting and gate keepering all the precious calories.  She has gout, because of course she does. I eat strict carnivore because treating MS/fibro with it, and was discussing nutrition with someone interested in making dietary changes and losing a little weight. She interjects “don’t eat meat it causes gout!” And I responded flatly “only if you also eat shit” and she responded “I don’t eat shit” and then stayed silent the rest of the conversation.  She is also one of those “teehee I don’t like sweets” sort of fats, but she doesn’t drink diet pepsi, because gout, so she drinks the full sugar soda. Every gift she brings is packaged in a bag she got from a bakery / chocolatier / pastry shop. I brought a sugar packed gift for a while elephant, and she traded to take it. Estimated calories probably about 3500+ and I am willing to bet it didn’t even make it home. She did try to give away the only part of the gift that didn’t have any sugar LOL.  Oh, and it’s customary to bring a contribution of sweets or baked goods... and then leave them, like many of us did. Cookies, brownies, cereal bars, truffles, fudge, peppermint bark, the usual holiday crap that sends me into an inflammation spiral... and wouldn’t you believe that she loaded up a massive bag of stuff that was being left with even more sugar to take home before leaving.  So apparently meat bad, but sugar good. Also mayo good. Bacon bits good, ranch good, cheese good, just fat people nutritional logic.