I’m so
tired of the news cycle; it goes round and round and gets repeated ad nauseum.
Sure Chris Christie’s too fat, so the press found out that he had
lapband surgery. Will it make him a better governor? Shouldn’t the electorate
decide that? Is he too fat to be healthy? Isn’t that between him and his
doctor?
Why do we look across the room and judge
people before we know anything about them? Look at the watch, look at the
shoes, how about the clothes? Are they too fat, sure they are, isn’t everyone
too fat in this era. If you’re bigger than a Barbie Doll, you too are too fat.
Then I thought about the article I read in
Elle Magazine in August of 2011. The author had to choose between
gaining 80 pounds from psychiatric medication and a living hell. As she gained
the weight, the former stick thin young woman couldn’t wear a scarlet letter,
nor could she hide; 80 pounds is the weight of a very large dog.
My daughter, who battled eating disorders
while she battled the normal issues as she grew up, found herself in the same
position. No one understood. I didn’t even understand until I read the article
in Elle. I had even called the drug companies to try to find out if
there was anything she could do. Their answers were to be expected: eat less and
exercise more. In other words, there was nothing she could do.
I don't Tweet very much so I didn’t understand the
power of Twitter, but I tweeted the link to the Elle article. That was
this morning. I keep getting notices from all the people who have re- tweeted
the link. Elle even re-tweeted it to their millions of followers. I guess that’s
what’s called “going viral.”
http://www.elle.com/beauty/health-fitness/gaining-weight-to-cure-depression?src=soc_twtr
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