AnneLyze

The numbers are staggering as to how many obese people,including children, there are in this country. Just as staggering is the amount of health care dollars that are spent on obesity related illnesses. But what I find most alarming is the ignorance and cruelty directed at those of us carrying extra weight. Obesity is one of the last acceptable prejudices left in this country. I have heard doctors after examining a patient say "if I ever get that fat, I want my husband to shoot me!". I have heard health care workers laugh at a patient about how fat they were. Yet in the same breath, they wonder why the patient hasn't had a health care visit in years. A woman left our office the other day saying, "He doesn't care about my abnormal cells, but he had no problem lecturing me about my weight for twenty minutes. I waited two hours for that.". It is upsetting to hear these comments and I am ashamed to say that in my lighter days, that I have participated in them. T...

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I saw the movie and I read the book. Here's my version. eat In the book and movie, Liz goes to Italy to bask in the pleasure of good food and the beauty of the Italian language. She gains 23lbs over 4 months while in Italy, 15lbs of which she gained back after losing it secondary to despair and depression over her divorce. This is a weighty issue for me. I hate food. I hate that you need to eat to stay alive, I hate that the food industry has developed food so that we want more of it. I hate that I never learned to listen to my body and eat only what it needs to not just survive, but actually thrive. I have never lost weight because I was too depressed to eat. I have never been too busy to eat and I have never been so distracted I forgot to eat. I think about food constantly, when, where, what and how much. My solution to every problem is food and every celebration involves food. I eat when I'm bored, I eat when I tired, when I am sad, when I am happy, you name the emotion and ...