Wax on, Wax off!
This article, or something very much like it, appeared in Sunday's Times.
How the heck can a parent let their child get into such a state? Any parent wants what's best for their offspring, but feeding them Crap, just because they can't be bothered to eat veg does NOT class as doing them any favours. Sure, they get the 10 seconds enjoyment as they swallow it, but how about the humiliation of being 3 times your recommended weight? Especially considering they have to go to school and face other kids 5 times a week *at least*.
It's not as if no help was given- they repeatedly skipped obesity clinics appointments!
Bah! I hope the child DOES go into care- despite the supposed trauma it causes, I think it's preferable to the trauma of not being able to walk to the toilet to take a crap.
I always saw myself as a fat kid. I stumbled across a couple of photos from my childhood last week. I wasn't actually fat. Yet I was always told so. Who by? The other kids. And I believed it.
And believing it, I got upset. And being upset, I ate tons of crap. And eating tons of crap made me fat.
Behold the self-fulfilling prophecy!
I hold those people accountable for the last 10 yrs of being overweight, and however many years it will take me to get it off again. Sure, I forgive you- but you're part of the cause and that won't change.
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An American TV show had an obese child where the mom and grandmother made a similiar comments about problems with veggies and fruit. Dad got involved, used the child's obesity to show mom was unfit, he got custody and child move in with him and new wife and lost weight as he grew taller getting to normal weight in a year.
aw honey... you were never fat when you were little. you were cute. power to you, get down the gym, lardy butt! just messing, love ya!
Welcome to the Knights of the Round Bottoms.
I always thought I was a fat kid, which came from relentless teasing from my older brother and younger sister (the middle child is always ganged up on). Like you, I was shocked to discover when I saw some photos that I was not fat in the slightest. The only difference is that my brother and sister have very slight, elfin builds, making them ultra-skinny. By comparrison I looked heavier, even though I was perfectly normal.
So as I got heavier, the comments about being fat didn't shock me as I already assumed I was. 25 years later and I was over 100lbs heavier than either of them
The kid has been allowed to stay with his mother... Dunno what will happen now.
I've never given a flying funk as to what people perceive me as being, I just couln't care less. I've always been skinny but within the decent weight band, I've always weighed a certain weight usually between 9st5 and 10st5, but recently its moved up to 10st5 and 10st10 (granted I'm older, and have gained a comedy pot, which makes me look like a gremlin, but who cares). I've always been quiet in public/school, I've always been a bit psychotic, I've always been the beauty and beast (at the same time)... but I don't care.
Theres always going to be prejudice, theres always going to be discrimination, theres always going to be religion :P (you can have that one)... Everyone should let it be, life is grim (thats the nature of the beast, to live is to die, kill or be killed, evolve and so forth), and pretty much always will until you remove money, and create a comedy democratic communist world.
Nearly a month since your last post. Have we lost you on the quest?
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