So...if you read the last post you know my office is having a Blubber Bowl this month (we're competing a la "Biggest Loser" to see who can lose the most weight). We got our office scale yesterday and everyone felt the need to play with it...of course. The sad thing is that the only person in our office that isn't overweight is the one person we all think needs to eat more (he only eats half a grilled cheese for lunch and no dinner for example). If you can imagine these weigh-ins, most people were not in denial of their weight, but in denial about their body fat composition, which our scale shows. "Oh, this must be wrong, I can't be Obese!" "No way this is accurate, it must be broken." Everyone who weighed in so far, save 3 people, is Obese...including yours truly.
Now I could make every excuse in the book, but I won't. The reality is that I could be healthier so I am making a choice to change my eating and exercise habits. It just really struck me that we, as Americans, have such a distorted view of what is healthy and what isn't. According to our pre-weigh-in the kid who "needs to eat more" is the only healthy one here (not accounting for nutrition). The rest of us who have come to accept our sizes are really the ones who need to trim down. Here it is kids...plain and simple...we eat too much and don't exercise enough. Being five feet three inches and weighing in at one hundred eighty one pounds is NOT ok, whether its muscle or fat.
Its crazy how many excuses are made and rationalizations embraced. I'm trying to shed that. No more excuses, I'm not just muscular, I am a bit unhealthy. And I'm going to fix that. 2009...and the rest of my life...here I come!
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