My Snotty ---ed Friend!
Hanging out with Robin has so spoiled me toward people with a positive perspective.
"Teenaged girls look like sausages!" "Cherese!" "It's true! They're all SQUEEZED into those clothes like little piggies. Eew! They are so bulky...look at the rolls on THAT ONE!"
Besides being rude, this is scary- afterall, they are all bigger than us. I have noticed that teenagers are overweight and out of shape, but I feel pity for them like most adults who know it is the convenience of their lifestyles, the lack of fitness of their parents and the horrible foods we feed them that have made them so shapeless. Cherese does not take any responsibility at all for any of this. In her mind, they are disgusting...and in the way.
"How old are you?" "Fourteen" "FOURTEEN?! And what do you weigh?!" "I don't know" "What size clothes do you wear?-" "CHERESE!" I came back from the smoothie shop to her quizzing a child that was oozing out of her clothing. "We have nothing to worry about as we get older..." "What do you mean?" "Men usually leave us for younger women as we age because they are firmer, prettier, more sexually attractive....these little dumb cows-" "Cherese, I'm sorry but this is just too much! You are being so cruel!" "Okay, tell me you have never looked at one of them and thought 'Ohmigawd! I was so little compared to them when I was a teen'!" "But I don't really count, Cherese..." "Why? Because you were an Ana? Well, I wasn't an Ana and I weighted 120 at 5'6." "We didn't-" "I know what you are going to say, but I was spoiled as hell! It's called putting down the grub bag when you are full."
Okay, I'll admit it. The Ana in me comes out especially when I look at these teenaged girls who appear to be very unfit. They look bulky and wear clothes that are sizes bigger than mine. They labor to walk and some even breath like asthmatics. Their bodies look...painful. I remember how tight and fit my friends and I tried to be. We didn't want anything to jiggle or have anything sticking off of us because that was something that happened to older women, naturally...was I so unhealthy mentally then? I know I was quite unhealthy when it came to eating and my attitudes then, but... (big but here)my friends who ate heartily STILL were slim.
I refuse to believe that these children are simply greedy! The food is killing them!
"If it's the food M.~, why am I not fat?" "You are more active-" "HOW when I don't belong to a gym; I eat fast food more than anyone else I know; I sit at a desk for eight and a half hours a day, then go home and plop on the sofa and watch TV until I am sleepy?" "Well running errands on weekends-" "M.~ I do most of my shopping on the internet and have my groceries delivered!" "Man, you're lazy!" "Exactly!" "It could be emotional..." one wanted to swallow these words as soon as they left my mouth. Cherese had the most absentee parents I have ever heard of. "There is no excuse and obviously we need to teach them shame because all of this 'you're okay just the way you are' is not thinning out the herd!"
I sat there, sipping my smoothie...counting calories mentally and hoping something changed before they all died of heart disease before we retired.
If you know an overweight teen start teaching them the obvious. If you hear alot of 'I know, I know's encourage them to ACT on what they know.
"Teenaged girls look like sausages!" "Cherese!" "It's true! They're all SQUEEZED into those clothes like little piggies. Eew! They are so bulky...look at the rolls on THAT ONE!"
Besides being rude, this is scary- afterall, they are all bigger than us. I have noticed that teenagers are overweight and out of shape, but I feel pity for them like most adults who know it is the convenience of their lifestyles, the lack of fitness of their parents and the horrible foods we feed them that have made them so shapeless. Cherese does not take any responsibility at all for any of this. In her mind, they are disgusting...and in the way.
"How old are you?" "Fourteen" "FOURTEEN?! And what do you weigh?!" "I don't know" "What size clothes do you wear?-" "CHERESE!" I came back from the smoothie shop to her quizzing a child that was oozing out of her clothing. "We have nothing to worry about as we get older..." "What do you mean?" "Men usually leave us for younger women as we age because they are firmer, prettier, more sexually attractive....these little dumb cows-" "Cherese, I'm sorry but this is just too much! You are being so cruel!" "Okay, tell me you have never looked at one of them and thought 'Ohmigawd! I was so little compared to them when I was a teen'!" "But I don't really count, Cherese..." "Why? Because you were an Ana? Well, I wasn't an Ana and I weighted 120 at 5'6." "We didn't-" "I know what you are going to say, but I was spoiled as hell! It's called putting down the grub bag when you are full."
Okay, I'll admit it. The Ana in me comes out especially when I look at these teenaged girls who appear to be very unfit. They look bulky and wear clothes that are sizes bigger than mine. They labor to walk and some even breath like asthmatics. Their bodies look...painful. I remember how tight and fit my friends and I tried to be. We didn't want anything to jiggle or have anything sticking off of us because that was something that happened to older women, naturally...was I so unhealthy mentally then? I know I was quite unhealthy when it came to eating and my attitudes then, but... (big but here)my friends who ate heartily STILL were slim.
I refuse to believe that these children are simply greedy! The food is killing them!
"If it's the food M.~, why am I not fat?" "You are more active-" "HOW when I don't belong to a gym; I eat fast food more than anyone else I know; I sit at a desk for eight and a half hours a day, then go home and plop on the sofa and watch TV until I am sleepy?" "Well running errands on weekends-" "M.~ I do most of my shopping on the internet and have my groceries delivered!" "Man, you're lazy!" "Exactly!" "It could be emotional..." one wanted to swallow these words as soon as they left my mouth. Cherese had the most absentee parents I have ever heard of. "There is no excuse and obviously we need to teach them shame because all of this 'you're okay just the way you are' is not thinning out the herd!"
I sat there, sipping my smoothie...counting calories mentally and hoping something changed before they all died of heart disease before we retired.
If you know an overweight teen start teaching them the obvious. If you hear alot of 'I know, I know's encourage them to ACT on what they know.
Labels: Mean People, Mixed Feelings, Overweight Teens
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