Pudge

Even though this hype should be about as convincing as thinking that your Christmas gifts were delivered by a sleigh instead of UPS, we post-holiday individuals really want to believe that swallowing some "magic crystals" or pills, or drinking a unique tea will turn our pudge into muscle and dissolve our fat. ❋ PhD Judith J. Wurtman (2011)

From an evolutionary perspective, even the pudge has a purpose. ❋ Jena Pincott (2011)

Scientists had long thought that brown fat existed in humans only during childhood, giving babies and toddlers that adorable pudge that helps to keep them warm. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And hey, you know the rightards are grasping at straws when they start dreaming of Mr. Satan himself, the pudge in black, Muqtadr Sadr coming to rescue them! ❋ Unknown (2009)

She has that awful early adolescent pudge, and white, freckly pinkish skin. ❋ Lauren Belski (2011)

Discovering Bikram yoga gave me a sure-fire way to blast away any creeping pudge, plus kept me calm and focused. ❋ Jennifer LaRue Huget (2010)

These days I worry incessantly about a return to that grad school pudge. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'm feeling the postpartum pudge and feeling more alarmed and frustrated by it than I remember feeling last time, perhaps because Baby Bun allows me just enough time to worry about these things, where his sister didn't. ❋ Kittenpie (2008)

She sits down, tugging her jacket closed to cover the pudge of tummy spilling over the waistband of her skirt. ❋ Margo Candela (2010)

Her couple extra pounds of pudge would have been barely noticeable on the average woman, but on her—not just a nutritionist anymore, but a nutritionist married to someone famous—it was downright unacceptable. ❋ Lauren Weisberger (2010)

 She described to the PBS host how when she was a girl, her mother used to dress her and her sisters in kimonos while they made and devoured Chinese egg rolls, warm grease trickling between their slowly pudge-ifying fingers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Oh and you need do no pudge checks till at least 1 year post partum, and * certainly* not at this time of year. ❋ Kittenpie (2008)

I don't mind being 36, but I hear ya on noticing the postpartum pudge more this time around. ❋ Kittenpie (2008)