There it goes again....

Why is it that people become so defensive when the truth is revealed? Is it guilt, fear, self consciousness? It's no secret that people who are battling weight problems have many reasons for the battle. Its a war of sorts, battling our circumstances, our environment, our culture (or subculture) of excess, poverty, something. There's always a reason. And yet, the greatest reason of all, ourself never gets considered. There has to be a selfish motive for striving for success. in whatever endeavor we're tackling. With weight issues it has to be that we desire health for ourselves more than that next donut or french fry. We have to find the place in ourselves that says I won't do it, I won't leave my family because of a lifestyle I chose to live over their needs and wants.

We're bombarded with messages on every front, have this chocolate, you deserve it, but wear a size 0 to be acceptable. Plus sized models are doing eveything they can to convince this world that skinny is not all that, yet, skinny is required for acceptance no matter how many times they make a splash on the magazines or TV. They're like the poster children for some sort of disability. It's no different than when people would say, "she's got such a pretty face, if she could just lose some weight." The one thing they have done for us is provide a large choice of clothing, that's good, right. Or would it be better if we didn't have that choice, that if we were going to stay overweight, we would be forced to wear black or brown pants and some style of shirt in various colors. Since we're in a nation of largely overweight people at an all time high per capita, could it be because we're allowed to choose to stay this way. I know that the plus models and activists are preaching that they are just as healthy and some more than the skinny anorexic models, but wait til they're 45 or 50 and it all catches up with them.

People have to know that no overweight person chooses to be over-weight. It limits your opportunities whether social or physical or in a career. No matter how much we say it, its not all about "what's inside a person." Or maybe it is, what's inside an overweight person is generally not healthy either physically or emotionally or both. Living in the south its more evident that most places. I've not had bad health, I've always had great blood pressure, blood sugar, chloresterol, and so on, until 50, its like a switch turned off that was keeping me there and now my body said enough is enough. We're going to fall apart now. Thanks for taking such good care of me, now you'll suffer for making me carry all that weight around all those years.

Well, now I'm beginning to ramble. Though I don't have the wisdom I wish I had, I do have vast experience in this subject matter and pride always comes before a fall, for those who are near their goal and wish to stand in judgement of the rest of us who are struggling.