And today I am hungry...

After gorging myself on several spoons of self pity, this feeding by the way lasting perhaps 10 or more years I have finally started to do something about it.
Yet first I would like to enquire..
I am in no way obese, at a work party last year stuffed into a broom sized cupboard we gathered to say good bye to a colleague, about 20 of us sat or stood around the center of a large table full to the brim with carbohydrates, the bad fats, processed meats, sugar coated cakes, biscuits and one single bowl of lettuce. I would estimate that around 80% of the people in that room could be medically considered as overweight, these are big people Size 22 people and although like I say I am not obese (yet not skinny at all) one of the louder women shove a pork pie in my face to which I reply that I am sorry but I just don't like them, this women then thrusts a single lettuce leaf at me and then loudly tells me and all around that people "like" me only eat lettuce don't we.
I personally don't like processed meat, I don't like Scotch Egg's, Pork Pies or even many sweets but I am a good (larger) size 12, I don't eat many take aways; nor do I cook an excess of fatty foods. I do however enjoy good food cooked well, I love vegetables so pile them up, goats cheese, caramelized red onion compote and all though this pains me to say... I am now on a diet.
Saying I love food is an understatement, it's the first thing on my mind when I wake up and the last thing on my mind when I try to sleep.
Yet this situation lead me to wonder about several different things,
1; whilst in a room containing several obese women, I was made to feel wrong for being a healthy weight, is this not a completely wrong attitude for this woman and the women who sniggered to have?
2; If this women did believe I in contrast to her live on a diet of lettuce do we need more of a "food education"
3; Although sitting in a room with heavily obese women I still felt huge...
Which brings me back to the diet in which I have eaten fish and lettuce for 14 days so far and I think I may perhaps slit my own wrists at the sight of cod again. I have lost 9 pounds in those 14 days but I am telling you it was so far from happiness in fact I have been a complete bitch.
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