We have Weight Watchers at Work which makes it really inconvenient for plump and overweight people, like me, to have any more excuses not lose weight! But hey it is not all about losing weight, sometimes it is about gaining wisdom as well.
Before summer, around the month of February, the company started recruiting for the WW sessions and there were a few informational meetings for all who were thinking about joining. One particular person, who happens to be a very close neighbor of my office and who also wears a size 6 or 8 with the height of 6"2, started over eating after the informational session. I was confused by two things; One why does she need WW to begin with and secondly, why has she started overeating all of a sudden. Me being me, asked her the second question, and she said that being at the weight that she is right now, WW will not accept her application, so she is gaining weight so that she can be eligible to join WW. Kill me! And in my head I say ok, she gains weight so that she can lose it with WW while also paying for it???What is wrong with this picture?
Honestly, I find it very insulting when real slim people go to these meetings to lose weight with all the other overweight people. We are not talking about people who have 5 or 6 pounds to lose, we are talking about people who are really slim and yet go to these meetings and talk about how their trainer does this and that, and question how to find another restaurant that has fewer calories for FF or what products should they be eating to lose more weight. Hello, look around you!
The group leader believed and preached that the image that we have of ourselves in our head is the real image no matter what the scale said. Although I believed it whole heartily, I thought that she is a business woman who wants the money, why did she care if any one is slim or not as far as her sessions are full and she has enough people to conduct her discussion panel. Then it hit me like a brick on the head and the realization came and I started laughing so hard... and kind of sad too.
These people are insecure and have self confidence issues. If my problem is solved by eating less and moving more, their problem does not have the obvious and proven remedies, even if it is clamping the stomach. I am plump and I know it and I have accepted my condition. Any pound I lose, I celebrate joyously and when I gain it back, huh, what the heck. These people can not decide the limit to their weight, because weight is not an issue to begin with. When they lose a pound, they fret why only one and when they gain it back, they throw a fit. They don't even do it for health reasons, they just do it, because they believe that people will like them more if they are slimmer? They need it, because the need friends, or attention?
The way I see it, these slim people mingle with overweight ones in WW to feel good about themselves. They feel superior in the company of the plump and obese people, they enjoy the look of jealousy and coveting on their counterparts faces. They feel important that they eat salads all the time, while others have problem not craving fatty foods. Everyone looks for a way to look down on someone else, and these people do not profile racially but by other means. I wonder if they see the look of disgust and pity on many faces too.
Well I guess at the end of the day we are all winners. I lost a few pounds and hopefully she is feeling a lot better about herself, because she has not lost more than two pounds and WW is thriving with sales and membership. What can I say, a true success story.
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