by Maria's Last Diet
Therein lies a tale.
Brianna has been overweight most of her life. She is now 34, married, the mother of two young children, and holds the record among her friends of having dieted off and on the longest of anyone.
Grace has kept her baby weight on and then some since her second child was born four years ago. She is at least 50 or 60 pounds overweight. She used to be such a skinny thing before her second child. She was an athlete all through high school and even as a young adult. For the past four years she hasn’t even been trying to lose weight.
Taylor always felt she was the fattest girl in her class and in her ballet group. Looking back, she could see she wasn’t fat when she was a kid or even when she was a teenager. She sees herself as fat now and she picks herself apart for various body features she considers too this or too that. Taylor torments herself with thinking she is fat, even though looking back some years from now she may see once again that she isn’t fat. She does have some weight to lose, but she finds it nearly impossible to lose it.
What each of these women have in common is they have a tale to tell. The tale to be told has to do with why they are overweight. It is not a simple tale like they ate too much. Eating too much or eating fattening food is merely the device through which they are saying without using words that they have something important to say about themselves and what has affected their lives to the point where they are unhappily overweight.
See if what we are saying applies to you as well. If you are unhappily overweight and you aren’t able to lose this weight, does your weight stay on you because you too have a tale to tell?