Eat your words!

I have fat friends there, I said it. But don't think for a second I'm mocking them for it, this is by their own admission. The word fat is of course only one word to describe these people. Other words I could choose are loving, smart, funny and inspiring. My friends don't say it about themselves because they hate the way they look or want to change anything about themselves. They say it because it's the truth, as truthful as stating that I have brown hair or that the man down the road is tall. They aren't shouting it out before someone else shouts it at them, which inevitably happens because people are Jerks. It's just that they know what they are and they are absolutely fine with that, so why aren't other people?
Obviously there are a number of reasons why people become fat and equally there are a lot of health and political issues involved but I'm not here to talk about that aspect of it. I am here to try to understand the genuine horror some people have at seeing someone big. Sometimes friends of mine have taken the decision to lose the weight, they might join a gym or join an exercise group and then they get ridiculed by utter Morons. Would you try to lose weight while people stood and mocked you because I wouldn't.
The rest of my "bigger" friends are perfectly happy with their appearance, they don't want to lose weight and they don't want to adjust their diet unless of course they have to. That doesn't mean they sit on their arses eating cheeseburgers or chocolates all day, a lot of them lead very busy lifestyles and shock horror they eat fish,veg and salads too! They aren't trying to say they're healthy, they don't believe they are for a second. They aren't trying to impact your life either, they are just trying to live their life the way they want to.

Imagine how you'd feel if you were called names everyday of your life, it wouldn't spur you on to conform to "the norm" would it?

So let them eat what they want, let them walk down the street peacefully and let them be happy without wondering how somebody "like that" could even get up in the morning.

Life would be boring if we were all the same wouldn't it?