James Finn
Oct 27, 2020

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Back in my 40s when I was running marathons and lifting weights to maintain my muscle definition, I had a body fat percentage in the mid single digits.

Yet I would look in the mirror and worry that my stomach wasn’t flat enough.

It was absurd!

I look at old photographs of myself from that period, and I was skeletal. But I never felt thin.

Body image is so weird!

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James Finn

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.