If you haven’t commented on Monday’s post, then I don’t know what you are waiting for. I put myself out there (and so did Sean) so you probably should as well. It will take 3 seconds, go for it!
if you want to know one of the best ways to lost weight fast, than it is definitely getting yourself sick. I’ve been sick for the last week, and initially, my weight dropped dramatically. Now we are stabilizing at a consistent weight, so I think the fluxing is over for awhile. Speaking of, as of today, I am now at 191. That is ridiculous considering I started January at 210. That’s 19 pounds people, 19 pounds!
The part that drives me nuts is that I feel larger than I did before. I also feel like more people are calling me fat than before as well. It’s almost like my weight loss actually isn’t working and I’m just fooling myself. But numbers don’t lie to you… right?
But that does bring me to what I want to talk about today. Whenever somebody calls me fat everybody always has an interesting reaction. People always look at each other, knowing that it’s not the polite thing to say. I have to admit, when somebody does call me fat, it makes me taken aback a bit. But what I don’t understand is why? Why do people get so offended when somebody calls somebody who is fat, fat. It’s not an insult, it’s just calling somebody what they are.
It makes me think that it has to be some type of cultural thing. For example, back in the days of the Old Testament, you were higher on the hierarchy if you were fat because you had the resources to make yourself large. In today’s culture, we push this mentality that if you are fat, you are ugly. I think this is most of the reason why people recoil when they hear somebody call someone fat. In our minds fat is the same as ugly. But in reality is it? I know plenty of people who are overweight that aren’t ugly. Perhaps it’s just like hair color, different strokes for different folks.
The moral of the story is, perhaps I shouldn’t recoil so much in my mind when someone calls me fat. It is what it is. I don’t get made when people call me Asian. But it’s got me thinking into what other words we have infused with negative energy from our culture that don’t necessarily have a negative meaning on their own. Thoughts?
