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Today’s Blog Post
Today at the Mall demonstrating Tatting and talking about Lace Making was another eye opener. Actually it is not something I haven’t seen before.. its just that today I can talk about it.
I will start this way.
A 58 year old lady, that has lost her job last November, has struck up a friendship with me. We have talked about four times now. Today – after speaking for about a half hour… she suddenly said, “Wow! Have noticed how many Fat People are in this Mall?”
She rocked me back a little with that statement. What do you say to that factual truth?
Each Wednesday I sit and watch people – hundreds of them walking by me. And yes it is quite notable – there are many Fat People at the Mall. They are not just a little over weight they are Obese in most cases. Most work in the general area of the Mall and come there for their lunch breaks and coffee breaks. Many are my potential customers… and I have spoken to almost all of them – one to one.
They are nice people – happy people – but Fat People.
Now as I watch them I have come to not look directly at them as they would notice me doing that. Tatting away, I look up just a bit and then notice their feet… and the way that they walk. Oh my goodness… that is the part of the Fat People that I actually see first… their poor feet.
This time of year they are usually wearing sandals (both men and women). Their feet are red… swollen and looking very painful. Ankles are screaming as they keep the foot’s connection.
The feet are small in comparison to what is above. Very small, to say the least in comparison to the tremendous weight they are supporting. The feet that were made and designed to support a woman of 5 foot, 5 inches and about 135 pounds. Instead they were holding up around 350 pounds of shifting weight that was now coming down her calf and filling her poor ankles with excess. The two feet are caring three people!
Her feet were terrible and her gate was very difficult.
She was carring a Large Coke from McDonalds and a chocolate bar that was half eaten. It was about 10:15 AM.
Now I know there are people with weight problems that feel that I have attacked them personally. Sorry. I am just telling you what I see. And I see a lot of it in the Mall.
I have thought about starting a weight loss counselling service… and as I sit and Tat… and big person comes by… I can ask them if they would like to lose weight… Hmmm? Do you think it would work?
I noticed that as I stepped on the scale today… the numbers increased slightly in the last year… ever so slightly… but with some more work I can surely knock it down.
I never bought the chocolate bar that was sitting at the edge of the coffee shop counter… I drank water instead… but did it ever look good!
Tonight my feet are sore… Oh boy!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
http://www.murraylincoln.com/
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity
5 comments:
Fat is the new smoking. Remember when everyone was smoking? (except of course church people, that made them "special" and righteous.) But over time smoking became unacceptable. And now smokers are banished to the sidewalks and beyond.
Now who can we pick on? Of course, medical costs are rising as people are getting fatter. They're ruining society with their gluttonous ways.
The best part about these targets is that they can't hide. Wow, what they do in "secret" is given away by a mountain of gelatinous flesh. It's perfectly fine to make fun of them, after all they deserve it and they can't speak out against the insults because everyone knows how evil they really are.
I'm glad we didn't come to visit you at the Mall !!!!
And if you write about it.. or even use the word FAT or OBESE - the super sensitive folk will react in a FLASH and you will not be spoken to for a long time. You cannot point out FAT - even if you are FAT - because there will be a FATTER person than you are... that will just know you are making fun of them.
That is where it is NOT LIKE smoking - at all.
I love the story of Eli in the Bible - the guy that was kind of a Surrogate Father to Samuel... so FAT that he roled off his bench and broke his neck... Funny no one ever dares to preach about that one... or the diet that they might have been eating up to that point.
Never do we preach enough on being the "Temple" of the Lord when dealing with Diet... but we rail on Smoking - drugs and the other bad stuff....
Being FAT is sad... and staying FAT is dangerous... not dealing with it is STUPID. That is all of my personal struggle... and I am old enough to know better.
Brenda... your reaction is good... I feel terrible now having even dared to write about FAT PEOPLE. OH Boy! Did you notice that I was referring more to me than the other folk that I saw... and to their feet(and mine) rather than their body?
I am ordering a new set of glasses that will make all objects that I view have 50% less width and 25% more height... kind of squeezes people and then stretches them out... that way I will never see FAT again... I will just visit them in the Hospital as they are about to die of FAT related sicknesses... like the last three that I prayed over in ICU - directly related to FAT problems.
It's kind of ironic that we have a million and one commercials that are designed to encourage people to get fat. And then we have a million and one commercials designed to lose weight. Is there a conspiracy out there to make money off of people's indulgences and then guilt?
Let's face it there's no money to be made through moderation. Pharmaceutical companies need people to get sick. Food manufacturers want people spending more on processed foods and who doesn't want our kids to become sweeter. A bowl of Froot Loops is
47% sugar.
http://www.karlloren.com/diet/p35.htm
Doctor's without borders has actually said that a lot of the compassion ministries out there for starving children have really just been sending crap to kids. Basically we've been starving them with cereal, 450,000 tons of it per year.
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/issue.cfm?id=2396
Hey, if we're willing to fund s**t for starving kids maybe we deserve the crap we eat regularly.
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