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 Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:57 pm
I am currently pretty overweight. I've always been kind of husky, but lately, I've gained a lot for how I've been eating (which is mostly healthy, made-by-me foods from the suggested servings in the food pyramid).
So, I go into the doctor the other day, and I am trying to get her to test me for a thyroid or metabolism problem, and I feel like I'm on trial!
She keeps asking me if I know that I shouldn't eat tons of candy and eat fast food.
I look at her like she's crazy. OF COURSE I DO NOT EAT THAT WAY!
She also keeps talking about how I shouldn't sit around the house all day and that I should stay active.
....despite the fact that I had just told her about my biking to and from work (a four mile ride each way) each day, and lifting heavy boxes of paper (paper is heavy when you have thousands and thousands of impressions!) as well as dealing with heavy machinery at work.
By all means, I shouldn't be fat at all. I should be in good shape.
But because I am not, people assume that I am:
1) LAZY!
2) Eating cheeseburgers and high-fat foods all the time
3) Gluttonous
4) Unloved by anyone and not attractive to anyone
In reality, I am:
1) Very active
2) Eating balanced foods and staying away from transfats/processed foods (it takes a lot of time, but making my own dishes/meals is healthier)
3) Pretty normal in my eating habits
4) Very much loved by my husband.
So what's up with this automatic belief that I would only look this way if I was a failure of a person who didn't deserve to be loved?
Why should I be interrogated for my body size and told that I'm going to "die" if I don't do something about it, even though, if I'm healthy enough to do heavy biking on a higher gear up and down hills to work, I'm probably healthy enough to walk around without dying of a heart attack.
What's with the hate? I get more and more of it, like people seem to think I don't know what I look like or that I'm somehow going to get thin if they just act assholish enough.
What's up with that!?
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Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:12 am
You need more cardio than a four mile bike ride twice a day will give you. Run it instead, it'll take longer but it will help alot more. Or set aside an extra hour a day for some high activity gym class or something. Play Ultimate frisbee.
I've always been a little fat, never terribly overweight but never mistaken for skinny, and I never had any problems with it until I joined the Marine Corps, but then I joined the Marine Corps to curb the apparent trend of my gaining weight. And it worked, I haven't been able to break 185 the whole time I've been in, and even if that's outside of Marine Corps standards, I'm glad, because I've weighed alot more.
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Tzeentch The Mutator Crew
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:20 pm
Such hate is just jealousy. What I see is that these people have no lives and can not get over what is you. You should not give a damn what others think about you. It's your business only.
People can only make you feel inferior if you let them.
They're was some quote lke that, but I forgot how it exactly went. Anyhow, just ignore those ignorant fools. It's none of their busness. And if you choose to listen to them, then thats your business.
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:19 pm
Lucky you. I'm underweight, by a lot, so everyone thinks I'm anorexic or something. I love exersizing, eating, and whatever else. I sould be of average weight, but I'm not. I don't care though, because I'm healthy.
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