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Well this morning I clicked my links on MSN today as I do every morning as they usually have some of the more buried articles highlighted and there was a story in the Daily Mail about a 53 year old, 22 stone woman that was beaten up on her way home late at night who was beaten badly by a fellow passenger for being overweight.
Obviously this type of physical attack is a rare occurrence in the adult world, but rather then the link taking me to the article immediately I was taken via Digg and what I saw there saddened me immensely. Below are just a sample of the reactions to the above article:
“Could it be because no one likes to see, much less be subjected to sitting next to, some disgusting pile of ***** that can’t control their eating habits? It’s not a disease or mental disorder. It’s simply a lack of self control. If you want to convince yourself, go to Walmart and watch some fat cow riding on the little scooter to the soda and snack aisle. It’s absolutely revolting.”
“Skinny people are thin for a reason; exercise and diet – Fatties sit on their asses, i think you may have the two confused (understandable from your rage, you may only have experience being the latter)….. Pro Tip: Don’t be a human turd, do some exercise.”
“There’s a poll there that asks “Should discrimination against overweight people be made a hate crime”. 53% of the people said yes. First off, the whole definition of a “hate crime” is stupid. Second, “discrimination against overweight people”!? God damn it, lose some ***** weight! It’s not some disease you can’t help.”
“fat people are in a group that people can join or quit. Assigning the term “hate crime” to discrimination against fat people is akin to calling discrimination against to trekkies, libertarians or pot smokers a “hate crime.”"
“Do smokers get beaten up for being a smoker? I agree that it’s the same type of issue….self-destructive behavior that’s the result of addictions sometimes. But in my eyes, ‘addiction’ to food is more questionable most definitely. Nicotine is addictive. Sundaes and chips and deep fried foods are not. People just cannot control themselves anymore. Our parents and their parents had rough lives…they were tough and they had balls. This generation is such a bunch of pussys. ”I’m addicted to food!” No you’re not. You have absolutely no self-control. Quit giving the word ‘addiction’ a bad name. Control yourself, realize that cravings are not addictions and then exercise on a regular basis. Choose natural foods, vegetables, whole grains, fruits instead of candy…this is much more an issue of self-control and self-respect than it is an issue of addiction.”
“I think that a lot of the people expressing anti-fat rage are going to be singing a different tune in 15 years or so. People go through a time in their mid 20s to mid 30s when their metabolism crashes, and then again in middle age. I’ve known a lot of people who’d just come to think of themselves as ‘thin people’ who suddenly found themselves fat.”
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So I’ll start with the bad 2.5 lbs on 
The good news is that I didn’t stay to group last week so I was surprised to be given September’s Slimmer of the Month Award \o/
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I had some full fat coke by accident last night and god it was horrible, I used to love it and drink it by the bucket load but having been a diet coke girl for some years now full fat not only tasted wrong but felt like my teeth were being coated in sugar… bleugh!
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I may have been neglecting my blogging a little recently but just to update that I am definitely not forgetting SW:
3lbs OFF!
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Well I ahven’t really written much in the past week but my mind and body have been in other places.
Where to start? Well I joined an evening course in Film Studies which will give me an AS level at the end, this was another big step for me which I would have never have achieved had I not walked into that Slimming World class in May, I am pleased that the class is small and strangely fully female. It made me feel more comfortable, and I had absolutely no problem speaking in front of everybody. Slowly and surely I am starting to see glimpse of the pre-nervous breakdown me. We watched Fargo, which none of the other students had heard of, this was more due to probably only just being born when it came out rather then a complete lack of film knowledge. I think that because it is a subject I am passionate about and I am the oldest at 31, lol sooo old 
, that I have managed to create a comfort zone.
But the big news of the moment, that I have been daydreaming, smiling and googling about is that in just over a year I am going to feel the fear in a big way and move to Germany to be with the man I love. This has given my life a direction , a goal and a purpose all things that I have been lacking for a very long time. With new purpose is a new desire to change things for the better, I do not want to be on anti-depressants for the rest of my existence, and I am not a depressive person by nature it is just that a lot of very bad things happened along the journey up until now. A fresh start in a new country, with a man I KNOW is “the one” is a chance for me to bundle up all the crap that happened in the past attach lead weights to it and drop it in the middle of the ocean. Now all I have to do is learn a different language… Dass ist gut ja?
Filed under: Weekly Weigh In Result
Woohoo, the One and a half Stone Award has been taunting me from afar since June and I have been close and then away and close and the away for some time, but this week with a loss of 1.5 lbs I blasted through that 1.5 Stone barrier and got me a new sticker on my book. Next week I should also be breaking through the next stone barrier. I am focussed and have my goals in mind. I would like to have my Club 10 award in the bag by the end of next month, which is a realistic achievement.
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I bought some scan bran at class, I really have no idea what to do with it though, my mission is to make it into something over the weekend!
Filed under: Weekly Weigh In Result
3.5lbs off, and I am feeling fine, which takes me below what I had lost before I had my wobble, I feel my mind is in the ZONE! Gonna wander round with a nice cheezy grin 
Going for the 1.5 stone award next week!
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Pre weigh in nerves were playing on my mind last night as I went to bed. I have been good this week but for some reason I hold the notion that I have done badly on the scales when I really want to have done well. This is the only downside to not stepping on my own scales 16 times a day which is a habit behind the scuppering of many previous weightloss attempts. At 3:30 am this morning I was woken by “something” outside, which was most likely one of two things, a) my imagination during a half dreamlike state or b) a cat/fox/hedgehog. Unfortunately I spooked myself and then couldn’t sleep properly for the rest of the night. So here I am zombiefied and waiting in anticipation for the next hour and a half before meeting.
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Saw an interview with Meryl Streep last week where she said the director of Julie & Julia describes the gratuitous shots of food in the film as Food Porn, at that point I knew I had to see the film. So this afternoon, my Mum and Stepdad accompianied me to see it and we weren’t disappointed, neither was the Grey Army (my affectionate term for pensioners) who also turned up in droves on half price Tuesday. It was based on Julie Powel’s blog in which she cooked all the recipe’s from her food hero, Julia Child’s cookery book within a year, intertwined with Julia’s own journey creating the recipes and getting the book published in the first place.
It was heartwarming and funny, I especially identified with her breaking down in tears when she dropped her chicken on the floor, a la me with my burgers on Saturday. So if you want to be cheered up or have a fetish for butter which featured so much I felt it should have had a mention in the credits I recommend seeing it, just maybe not on an empty stomach
The sad news however was that of the death of my own food hero Keith Floyd yesterday. He had more flamboyance and personality then any of the chef’s you see on the telly now. The BBC’s tribute shows why we loved him http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8254195.stm
