Obesity isn't a health problem.

I hate it when people think obesity causes health problems.  That is an absolute lie and it doesn't make any sense.

When I was born I was a small baby.  I was also extremely sick.  My parents were told I would die.  I didn't obviously.

My illness had nothing to do with my own weight.  I was just an infant, and I was small for an infant. My illness had nothing to do with my mother's weight.  She was 5 feet exactly and 99 lbs before she got pregnant with me.

I remained skinny throughout my live.  I was active in sports such as swimming, skiing, cycling, horse back riding, and walking.  I also remained sick.  After my surgery as a toddler, I didn't get as sick as that again, but I had frequent infections, and health problems related to the problems I was born with.

In my early 30's I got much sicker, and needed more surgeries.  It was after one of these surgeries, that I was no longer able to take the stairs two at a time (I had to use the elevator) or park a 20 minute walk away from my destination (I had to park closer).  I stopped all forms of exercise, except for walking, because I was too sick to do so.

I also started taking medication that causes weight gain.

I became too sick to cook, nutritious foods made from scratch.  My mother was progressively loosing energy due to her own health problems, and couldn't do that either.  Cooking from scratch takes a lot of time and energy, and Mom and I just didn't have it.  Some days we didn't eat supper, because we didn't have the energy to make it.  We grabbed potato chips instead.  To solve that problem we bought boxed foods, and made them regularly.

Sticking a couple of chicken fingers in the oven is easier than cooking from scratch, and better than eating nothing but potato chips.

And we started gaining weight.

But....

I am not unhealthy because I gained weight.  I was sick for decades before gaining weight.  I am overweight because I am sick.  I don't have the energy to exercise like I once did nor do I have the energy to spend and hour making each meal as I once did.

Obesity is not a health problem.  Health problems can cause obesity, but obesity in itself is not a health problem.

Till Weight Do Us Part - a Referral to another blog, because I'm too sick to think coherently enough to write my own post.

As I said before I'm sick.  Despite that, I had a very busy day today, and now as the day is winding down, I'm not awake enough or healthy enough to write any sort of coherent blog post.

That being said - I still have something for you to read.

The Militant Baker, is a very good blog, that I check out about once a month.  I suggest that you put it on your list of blogs to check out too.  You can even subscribe if you want to.

Last week I wrote a blog post about a boy I knew in college who wanted to only date beautiful people.  It was called A relationship can't be based on beauty because beauty doesn't last.  Today the Militant Baker posted an article that's related to that.  Her post is: Till Weight Do Us Part, and if you liked my post last week, you'll like her's this week.



P.S.

It's Friday evening, the day I usually write the political posts for Saturday and Sunday.  Tomorrow I'll hopefully feel more rested, because I have an entire day off.  If I'm feeling better I'll valiantly try to write the political posts for the weekend.  If I'm not, this post I'm referring you to now, will be ready for your to read on Saturday Morning.  Each morning you will get to read a new post, even if I'm only referring you to somebody else's blog.

When I'm better, I will resume to my regular posting, that I write myself.

Until then....  Please wish me well.