posted April 09, 2008 07:21 PM         

also tauruses are very physical and can become elegantly athletic once it becomes part of their routine - and are able to build endurance. i do yoga and i used to run, both help.

finally, the last piece of advice id have is separate food from rewarding yourself, because then youll want to eat it all the time. i eat as much as i need to, finding a balance, and not pushing to either extreme.

posted April 09, 2008 10:33 PM         

I am starting to see what you mean about the physical activity....I was hating it at first, but I'm loving it now, trying different things, I've done yoga as well, clears my mind, and I want to build long lean muscle tone.

posted April 09, 2008 11:39 PM         

Main Line? A Lower Merion girl?

I generally drift around the Manayunk/ Roxborough/ Germantown area. Currently hanging out in Richmond, Virginia, for a change. Should make it back to Philadelphia by October.

posted April 10, 2008 01:55 AM         

She looooooves food a lot, so if she doesn't do some serious workout, she will balloon up.

posted April 10, 2008 04:29 AM         

My mother is Taurus rising, she does lots of what she calls "comfort eating" ~ this translates as eating when she isn't really hungry, and having sugary snacks between large meals.

With Venus in Taurus I can appreciate the sugar tooth problem. But if she keeps eating when she isn't hungry, even if she does walk half an hour every day (and she does) she isn't going to lose any weight.

My brother is also Taurus rising, he is naturally a solid build. He does lots of sport and is generally very active - Mars in Sag. For a crash diet he will stop drinking beer for a fortnight. It always works.

My husband is Taurus Moon. He has put on weight in middle-age, he now resembles his father, Taurus Sun. So I think it is a genetic thing here, their diets are very different. One (FIL) has eaten 40 years marriage worth of rich cooking, the other (husband) is an immigrant to England has taken to our beer drinking habits, like, well, a fish to water. It's a great way to pile on that weight that seems to like to hit a man when he reaches 35. And he's way past that.

posted April 10, 2008 10:15 PM         

Blue Moon - Im LOL at your husband taking to drinking beer, like a fish in water...

I didn't know Janet Jackson was a Taurus, interesting...

posted April 10, 2008 10:47 PM         

Taurus sun here. I have had 3 kids and have been exactly 98 llbs since l was 18 yrs old. I am nearly 40.

I am 5'7 1/2"

It is IMpossible for me to gain even a pound. I could eat everyone under the table and still be 98 llbs. It's weird.. i'm a FREAK!

M brother and mother are the same. Neither of them are Taureans.

posted April 11, 2008 10:53 AM         

Do you have a lot of air in your chart or perhaps you're Gemini rising? I've noticed a number of people blessed with your metabolism that have very air-oriented charts regardless of their sun sign.