yesterday i was going to have a cheeseburger and french fries from five guys. if you've never been, i pitty your tastebuds for not knowing what love is. the burgers and fries there are delicious in a way that makes me question the legality of the ingredients. showing here:
but once i drove up something kept me from going in and ordering this tasty meal. all of the customers bustling about the premises were obese. i don't mean heavy. i mean full-on two-ton-tessies. seeing this was all the motivation i needed to make the decision to eat something better for me. i mean wouldn't this deter you?
later, i changed my facebook status to read " i was gonna get a burger from five guys. then i saw how fat all the customers were. i decided to have a salad."
let the complaints begin. i got status comments and messages from people telling me that they were offended by my new status. i should make the disclaimer that all of these complaints came from people of an advanced size. here is where my problem begins: i never said "i hate fatties" or something that offensive. i noted that the people eating at five guys were all fat and that i decided to make a health-conscious dietary decision based on this observation. i face this kind of attitude from fat people all the time because i am thin. well i want to say something to the fat people who have this attitude with me. i am not this thin just because i'm thin. i have to work at maintaining a healthy weight. there are plenty of times when i don't eat something i really want to taste because i know it is not healthy. also, i exercise. i burn off the unnecessary calories that i ingest. my age may be 30, but my waist is still 29 because i work to keep it that way. and for the record, i have been overweight before. when i was 19 i was wearing a size 38 waist pant. but you know what? i decided to make a change and i lost nearly 75 pounds. so don't tell me how hard it is to lose weight. i've done it. and you know what? it is harder to keep it off. i know it isn't easy, but if you really want to do it, it can be done.
so the moral of the story is if you get offended or feel personally attacked because i note in my facebook status that seeing fat people eating unhealthy food made me decide to eat a salad, then you need to stop blaming me and take responsibility for why you are offended by the word fat. if you don't want to feel bad about yourself when the word fat is used, make a change in your life for the better so you don't fall into the category of being a fat person and stop blaming thin people for your pain. it is a lot harder for us to stay thin than it was for you to get fat.
i also want to note that quite a few people clicked the 'like' button on my status and all of these were people who are pro-active about health and diet and exercise.
