Well, I have been thinking and it's always a real chore for me. 
I was wondering about this myth perpetuated in the Media and apparently in the minds of most people, including FAs. That fat people eat enormous amounts of food. I will be the first to say I eat a lot, some of it good and some of it bad. I am simply tired of people assuming that I eat mass quantities of food.
When I was 18, I had a nervous breakdown which my weight might have contributed to my depression, but wasn't the cause of my snapping. In group therapy all the counselor wanted to talk about was my weight, rather than the issue of me hearing voices and the fact that I hadn't ate or slept from Halloween til after Thanksgiving. She made a comment "Let's say for lunch you eat two sandwhiches and a half a gallon of ice cream". She said it as if it was perfectly sane that I would eat that for lunch. I don't even remember what her point was, I just sat there with my mouth open. I was even more livid when I realized she didn't mean half a half gallon, but the whole half gallon.
I don't think that people are thinking these things out of malice. I think they truly believe it. I think people with high metabolisms eat so much food that they naturally assume that in order for someone to weigh 300 lbs they have to be eating 3 or 5 times as much. I've watched a basketball player eat an entire Big Foot Pizza from Pizza Hut by himself, then he ate some of the second pizza. Skinny as a rail. I wanted to choke him. I can eat 4 pieces of pizza hut pizza and I feel like I am going to die.
I may be crazy and maybe I am eating mass quantities and it's my perception of what that entails that is skewed.
Does anyone else feel like this? I wonder if the world is crazy or is it just me. :doh:
I was wondering about this myth perpetuated in the Media and apparently in the minds of most people, including FAs. That fat people eat enormous amounts of food. I will be the first to say I eat a lot, some of it good and some of it bad. I am simply tired of people assuming that I eat mass quantities of food.
When I was 18, I had a nervous breakdown which my weight might have contributed to my depression, but wasn't the cause of my snapping. In group therapy all the counselor wanted to talk about was my weight, rather than the issue of me hearing voices and the fact that I hadn't ate or slept from Halloween til after Thanksgiving. She made a comment "Let's say for lunch you eat two sandwhiches and a half a gallon of ice cream". She said it as if it was perfectly sane that I would eat that for lunch. I don't even remember what her point was, I just sat there with my mouth open. I was even more livid when I realized she didn't mean half a half gallon, but the whole half gallon.
I don't think that people are thinking these things out of malice. I think they truly believe it. I think people with high metabolisms eat so much food that they naturally assume that in order for someone to weigh 300 lbs they have to be eating 3 or 5 times as much. I've watched a basketball player eat an entire Big Foot Pizza from Pizza Hut by himself, then he ate some of the second pizza. Skinny as a rail. I wanted to choke him. I can eat 4 pieces of pizza hut pizza and I feel like I am going to die.
I may be crazy and maybe I am eating mass quantities and it's my perception of what that entails that is skewed.
Does anyone else feel like this? I wonder if the world is crazy or is it just me. :doh:
