Wed, Aug-03-05, 18:13
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Fully Caffeinated
Posts: 17,245
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Plan: Back to Atkins
Stats: 298/228/160
BF:?/35/?
Progress: 51%
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DebbyD-- I don't think you have ANY reason to apologize to anyone. You have as much right to voice your opinion as anyone else. Even though the poster's comments about their own body size aren't directed at anyone else, it STILL hurts to see people hating themselves for being "fat" when they haven't a clue what your struggles are.
I used to bemoan my fate at gaining 20 lbs back when I was a "whopping" 150 pounds. It wasn't until one of my favorite teachers, who happened to be morbidly obese, gave me a good lecture about how insensitive it was to bitch about MY "fat" when I had NO CLUE what is was like to actually BE fat. I really had no clue. I was a bit taken aback until I realized how feeble my complaints must sound to someone who had to struggle to get through the day, had bad knees, bad back, high blood pressure, borderline diabetes, and couldn't lose weight even when on a starvation-level, medically supervised diet.
I had NO intention of hurting her feelings, but I did. She felt like shaking me for not appreciating the freedom that my size afforded me. All I could see was my own warped perception.
Poetic justice, perhaps, that I ended up becoming obese myself. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and I can understand how my words, wich were meant to punish only MYSELF, inflicted pain on her.
Gosh, maybe I should have made HER apologize for being hurt instead of looking in the mirror and learning a few lessons, Jody?
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