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Old August 17th, 2005, 07:29 PM
Chris Braun
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On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:19:53 GMT, Ignoramus4384
wrote:

Well, this sort of sounds like being fat is like being in prison. And
I suppose in some sense there's a similarity, but actually being fat
never made me unhappy at all. I was perfectly happy being fat -- had
a good job, a loving husband, good friends, fun things to do. I
seldom thought about being fat. Until I got to be thin I didn't know
how much I'd like it :-).


Interesting. Myself, I did not like being fat, but I did not realize
just how much I was missing, until I lost weight.


Let's say that, miraculously, one day you woke up at 262 lbs again.

Would that make you upset, now that you know what it is like to be
slim? I suspect that you would become quite upset.


Well, sure, now that I know I prefer being slim. However, I'd
probably be most upset because it happened without me knowing why. I
don't like things I don't understand :-). And that would make me
concerned that I couldn't lose it again. But I would start the same
day eating and exercising as I do now with hope that I would
eventually achieve the same result. (Sounds kind of like Ground Hog
Day, though; I'm imagining waking up every morning fat all over
again!)

Chris
262/130s/130s
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004