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When I took a health class as a Junior in college, we were encouraged (read:
required) to formulate at least one fitness goal: Today I have reached mine,
I now weigh more than two-hundred pounds and have a reasonable fat
percentage, thanks to my recent (and fairly regular) abnormal amount of
exercise. That's right, people, I put on weight, at least five pounds, by
walking 2,000 to 4,000 stairs and 12 to 14 miles every four days or so. Now
I am officially obese, at least according to the BMI charts, and I, an obese
person, am more fit than I have been in all my years as a husky person (i.e. since high school).

I wonder, if our society were not so obsessed with calling people names
because of their weight, if we did not feel obligated to categorize people
all the time, would we have as many eating disorders? I think not. I think
that the very system which seeks to make people healthy by providing them
with parameters into which they must fit in order to be considered healthy,
causes people to fixate on weight, which can result in either anorexia or in
habitual binges. Watching TV the other day, I saw a story about a woman with
severe anorexia, and guess what kind of commercial came on . . . You guessed
it, a Gold's Gym commercial and then . . . Yep, a Jenny Craig commercial.

"Do you fixate on how much you weigh? NO! . . . You DON'T!? What's wrong
with you? You need to get out there and start structuring your life around
food and exercise. After all, abstaining from food is god, at least when
combined with exercise. Ignore your relationships and obligations, they
can't be as important as looking good (by which we mean having all your
bones poke out through your paper-thin skin). Don't forget, Anorexia is
better than bulimia; bulimics can't lose as much and damage their teeth with
stomach acid, so try to be an anorexic first, and, if that fails, you can
always fall back on bulimia."

"Of course, if you can't manage either, that just means that you are always
going to look like a beached whale, so you might as well drink bacon grease
and eat as much refined sugar as you can, because you may explode from your
corpulence any way, and you might as well make as big a splat as possible."

// posted by Unknown @ 8:37 PM