I need space. I do, really. Lots. And not just because I am big. Sometimes the advise and the criticism is a pain. I wish I could start an empathy programme for people who give advise to Us.
What would that program entail?
I would strap on weighing bags onto these people around their hips, thighs, arms, waists that would simulate the manner in weight is carried on the body. In this 'weighed on' manner they would have to live their everyday lives for a week. In that time, they will have to go shopping, and find clothes that fit them, and also shop for food just like one of Us. And I would factor in an energetic child, whom they will have to attend to as well as the housework. After all this, they will have to work in the two hours of exercise needed for someone of our size to lose wieght in any meaningful sense.
Go on. Do it for a week. Live life on our side of the fence and see how things are. You will find that standing at the fence and giving advice will be a little more difficult for you, morally. Because unlike you, our 'programme' is a little longer term than a week. It is more like months, years, and decades. And unlike you , our programme has other variables like humiliation and judgement factored in too. Along with assumptions of stupidity.
So be gentle next time, ok? Don't stand at the fence, apply that stellar mind of yours and build a few gates, hmm?
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