Fat

Well everyone is saying it is time to start blogging. Which as an avid writer seems like the obvious thing to do.

The word fat has so many connotations and in our Western culture, not always good.
I had lived a life as a fat person and carried the stigma of it all my life. Until last year when I cracked the code of what was keeping me fat . And trust me it was not food at all. In fact I was hardly eating anything. It was tuna fish and salad,and fatter and fatter I got.

Now over 20 kilos lighter and having cured my diabetes and hypertension I feel that life it just beginning at 57 years of age,
I can dance till all hours of the morning, although in truth even fat I was still dancing. I started to dance after my divorce and that has kept me going. Athough I never lost weight dancing I loved it.

Both obesity and anorexia can kill. The differnce is that obesity is the slow killer. I recently wrote a book, Emotional Fat in which for the first time I got to see the devastation that anorexia causes,My cousin Amy bravely shares her journey of bulimia and anorexia and it is very scary.
24 million Americans suffer from some form of eating disorder.
It is so sad. Where has society gone wrong that food has become the personal enemy?
So many countries have starvation as their daily existence and the rest are body obsessed.
Advertising is certainly out there creating images that are not attainable by the average person, that we become shallow beings wanting to look like superstars and loose sight of who we are as a person.
The torment that the teenage years can cause amplified by a desire to look a certain way can actually cause death, Israel has now banned underweight models, Good on them!
Bring back healthy looking models and let the beauty of woman be seen for who she is and not a stupid size or weight.

I would be so curious as this is my first blog if anyone reads it,
My book is available through
Www.emotionalfat.com