Rant time: Friends of Fat
September 6th 2007 10:59
Modern science has once again stunned me by proving the obvious. Acute readers will have read recently that research now reveals that getting fat has a distinct social aspect: fat people tend to help others get fat. The fact that this is well known by anyone who has been invited to eat cakes, pies, etc by someone who is not the least concerned about the detrimental effects of eating trash will have on weight or blood chemistry seems lost on the scientific world. Hanging around with the unconcerned, either fat or otherwise, is not the way to maintain the battle against overweight.
In fact anyone who does not want to be any fatter than they are has got to be on guard against supposed friends practically 24/7. How many experience something like this with some frequency: to increase bon ami on the job and promote some phony sense that employees are a family management arranges a big feed where sugar and carbs are flowing? To say no to this poison fest is to be considered a cro-magnon. Sometimes the coworkers and/or boss decide that a meal out is in order and that means eating crap or appearing to be too prissy to accept the largesse of the company. Even relations with the opposite sex tend to resolve themselves into food addiction, do they not?
What to do? If you are serious and the people around you don't recognize this or are trying to sabotage it, I suggest you openly declare yourself a sugar addict or a food addict and let it be known that you consider it on a par with other hideous addictions and that, if they don't like it, they can get over it or consider themselves the equivalent of those who would give a drunk a drink. Never attend anything with food that you can get out of. Play ill if you have too. Make sure everyone knows that you are recovering. Lay it on thick, just like they want to lay the icing on the cake they want you to eat.
Remember- when you are fat your supposed friends are not going to be there as the celery sticks come out. It is your life, self-esteem, and health. Your servant, as always.
In fact anyone who does not want to be any fatter than they are has got to be on guard against supposed friends practically 24/7. How many experience something like this with some frequency: to increase bon ami on the job and promote some phony sense that employees are a family management arranges a big feed where sugar and carbs are flowing? To say no to this poison fest is to be considered a cro-magnon. Sometimes the coworkers and/or boss decide that a meal out is in order and that means eating crap or appearing to be too prissy to accept the largesse of the company. Even relations with the opposite sex tend to resolve themselves into food addiction, do they not?
What to do? If you are serious and the people around you don't recognize this or are trying to sabotage it, I suggest you openly declare yourself a sugar addict or a food addict and let it be known that you consider it on a par with other hideous addictions and that, if they don't like it, they can get over it or consider themselves the equivalent of those who would give a drunk a drink. Never attend anything with food that you can get out of. Play ill if you have too. Make sure everyone knows that you are recovering. Lay it on thick, just like they want to lay the icing on the cake they want you to eat.
Remember- when you are fat your supposed friends are not going to be there as the celery sticks come out. It is your life, self-esteem, and health. Your servant, as always.
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