Big is Beautiful, but so is Small!

Today, I was watching the Tyra Banks show (not my choice). A woman was on there that weighed 513lbs, she was upset because she thought she was closer to 600 and her goal was to weigh 1000lbs! Yes, a half a ton is her ultimate goal!

I don't understand why someone would choose to be that big, but then again, people ask me all the time on why I'm so small. In this media obsessed world, Hollywood harps on thinness even though we all know the average American woman is a size 12-14. I can't help that I'm small and everyone else in my family is big. Personal choices I presume. I don't exercise and I don't deny myself. I don't care what size someone is, because the inside really is what counts. I'm just concerned with watching shows where you see humongous people and there are family members or spouses who continue to feed them and cater to their unhealthy eating habits and morbid obesity.

With the health care debate at the forefront, the debate over "is obesity a disease" is heating up. I don't know how it feels to be 200lbs but I know that when I gain 5 or 10lbs I feel the difference so why can't others acknowledge that you have to work on your weight early not when you're 50 or 100lbs over? It's understandable if it's hereditary, but where do the other excuses stop? AND.....  why do enablers continue to feed and allow behavior that keeps individuals eating nonstop while confined to a bed?