Pregnancy, Office politics, Weight gain and Junk food.
Yesterday whilst litening to the radio in the car, a woman rang in to make a complaint about KFC. Now she opened by stating that she is 8 1/2 months pregnant, so she is eating whatever she wants.
Now this says to me she is fully aware of how bad KFC is for you and the social stigma associated with eating such crap, so she justified herself by stating that she is growing a foetus inside of her and that she has the right to feed that foetus whatever garbage she decides, simply because she is fat anyway.
Now this is not uncommon. I remember when my wife was pregnant and because she continued to eat healthily as she always did, the women in the office would gather around her and say – “You know you can eat whatever you want now, you’re going to get fat anyway”.
These are the same women who will complain about their weight day in and day out, will go on and off diets for the rest of their lives and will bitch about someone who has a better body than them to make themselves feel better.
One of the girls in my wife’s mothers group has an overweight friend who said – ” I can’t wait to get pregnant again so I can justify being fat”. No joke, she actually said that. Her friend thought as she was hearing it – “Why don’t you just lose weight”. But, she couldn’t say that, she could only think it, because you’re not allowed to tell people they are fat, you can only tell people they are too skinny or they should eat more junk food.
Just the same as you can’t make someone feel bad for stuffing a large piece of chocolate cake in their mouth, but you can make them feel bad for not stuffing that same piece of chocolate cake in their mouth and choosing an apple instead.
What you will find is that people will be constantly encouraging you to eat crap, so that they can feel beter about eating it themselves.
Be strong willed, don’t let them get to you, be healthy and if you are pregnant or trying to get pregnant, please feed your foetus healthy nutritious food!
As a little related side note, last night I was watching “The Office”. One of the averweight guys has a heart attack as a result of one of his fellow employees playing a practical joke. The boss says – “You gave Stanley a heart attack”. His response was – “Yes, I shoved butter and sugar in his mouth and forced him not to exercise for the last 50 years”.
Only in a TV show could we get away with that honesty.