Welcome to my blog

I am new to the world of blogging so bare with me as I get use to this.  I felt it was time to speak out and so this blog was born.  In case you have not guessed yet I am an overweight person, one in fact who is tired of society treating us as if we are less than human or second class citizens.  I have heard and read comments far too often lately that are just hurtful to those of us who are on the chunky side, so I decided to step out and be a voice for those are on the heavy side.

First let me say that I am by no way promoting obesity and that I do think eating healthy and exercise are important and that it is important to be as healthy as you can.  What I am saying is that we all have different reasons for why we are overweight and I would venture to say most wish that they could lose weight and be healthier but it is not always that easy.  Whatever the reason for our overweightness we should not be made fun of, talked down to, treated meanly and so on.  We are just like the alcoholics, drug addicts, smokers and many others who have habits that are hard to break.  When you have 100+ pounds to lose it is not as easy as cutting out sweets for a few weeks or changing your diet for a week or two or maybe stepping up your exercise routine for a month.  When you have that much weight to lose it is a battle and it can be a life time to do it.  I can not speak for all overweight people by any means but I hope to speak up for them in general and to get people to start thinking about how they speak to them and about them.  I have been appalled at some comments I have read lately by Christians that were just down right rude to overweight people.  I was always taught we were to hate the sin but love the people, hard to love someone you are making fun of.  I think our country needs to get better at not taking pot shots at or making fun of and putting down people in general.  My hope is that this blog is a place for overweight people to unite and be encouraged and for others to see us as real people with feelings and see that maybe they could and should be kinder.    Life is all about choices and my hope is that when we start to understand others we can make better choices.