I used to be really fit. I played badminton at county level, was involved with athletics, thought nothing of walking a couple of miles across the mountains and spent hours running around on a field brandishing a sword every weekend usually after driving for hours to get to the site.
Two children, a broken back, six collapsed discs and a crumbling hip later I am most decidedly overweight and only just getting back on my feet... literally. I have managed to lose 2 1/2 stone in the last 18 months but still a way to go. I am walking now, getting the fitness back again. I am up to half a mile and determined to do more. There is still a lot of pain and sometimes I can't walk at all... hell I can't move at all... but I am not in a wheelchair which is what the doctors were predicting.
I don't moan about being overweight. I'm used to myself and comfortable with it. I don't want to be anything other than what I am but I a little fed up of people telling me that i should be something different. I am losing weight because I want to be able to walk better, not because I hate the way I look or because someone else is telling me I ought to.
Everyone is different. I don't expect someone to tell me not to dye my hair green. I don't want someone telling me what religion I should follow. I don't want someone telling me what clothes to wear or how to live my life. And I don't want someone telling me what body shape I ought to have.
People seem to want a society where everyone looks the same, thinks the same, wants the same things and beleives the same things...well sorry that's not a place I want to be or live.
I'm me... an overweight, pagan, goth freak.... get used to it