Over the
last few months, I’ve been writing about my battle to lose weight, I’ve
hopefully given you an honest account of what led to me putting the weight on
(yes eating lots of food) but the reasons for that, which were a bit more
complex than just a love of a bar of fruit and nut!
I
think it’s really easy to dismiss a fat person as lazy, greedy and I’d add to
that stupid. I’ve had numerous occasions where people have felt the need to
speak slowly or patronise me. My sister Lucy is also doing weight
watchers and is about 10 pounds from her goal weight now. By the time she
reaches it, she’ll have lost just over 3 stones. Lucy looks amazing (I
personally have always thought she has) but she was unhappy with the weight she
put on after our Mum died and after another horrible situation she was forced
to go through and so she wanted to do something about it. Lucy’s weight loss is now
really noticeable and people are commenting on how fantastic she looks. The
other day we were both sat chatting to a lady Lucy knew, she was asking Lucy
about the diet and how great she’d been doing and how much she had lost etc. I
saw her glance at me and I had a Derren Brown moment, where I knew she was
thinking one of two things:
1) Why don’t you go to weight
watchers with her? or
2) Are you on the diet too and if I
ask you and you’re not that will be embarrassing.
Eventually
this lady bit the bullet and asked me if I went with Lucy, I replied that I did
and so far I’d lost over 2 stones. She looked a little bit relieved.
Obviously I have a long way to go with my
mission to be slinky and it’s been nice that the people who read this blog have
been very supportive as opposed to the many years where I’d been referred to as
“fat Katie”(some people probably do still call me that, but it’s not to my face
any longer or written down at work, so that’s a bonus!)
I think some people don’t think Lucy’s slinky
mission has been as valid, as I mentioned before Lucy has always looked
fantastic and I’d have been delighted to be her starting weight. Lucy’s now at
a stage where people are saying stuff like “don’t you lose anymore weight,
you’ll fade away” some of her friends are turning up with cakes when they visit
or making comments that she’s now too skinny.
Another friend of mine, Sam has a very
different weight issue, he’s started a blog about his battle to put weight on!
He’s taken advice on how he can do this. It’s weird isn’t it because I know
some of you will have read that and thought “oh I wish I had that problem”, but
why is his battle any less valid than someone who wants to lose weight? A
weight issue is surely an issue, particularly if it’s affecting your
life. I’ve included a link to Sam’s blog
so you can read what he’s up too http://bit.ly/15hQ1Hv
Losing or indeed gaining weight, I believe
starts with getting your head straight, food is just another way of avoiding a
problem and as lovely as a tub of Ben and Jerry’s Phish Food is it wont solve
world peace (well maybe not, I’m not sure it’s ever been tried)
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