Losing 50 kilos

I went to the shop today just before closing time to get some cottage cheese and canned fruits for my evening snack. While standing in the line with my groceries, I noticed a morbidly obese woman standing in front of the potato chips shelves. I couldn’t help peeking into her shopping cart – diet soda, full-fat cheese, chocolate pudding, doughnuts. Standing there myself weighting 114 kilos, I didn’t have much of a say about her groceries, but it still made me think. Finally she picked one of those “35% less fat!” bags and came to the line behind me.

Do all fat people want to lose weight? Do all fat people know how to lose weight? I’m not the type that would go educational strangers in a grocery store, but her groceries made me think – would someone buy diet soda and less fat chips just for the taste of them? If you aren’t planning to lose weight, why don’t you buy the ‘full’ versions then? If you are planning to lose weight, why do you then buy all the other unhealthy stuff?

This is a sensitive matter that doesn’t really have an answer, since everyone has their “treat” day – maybe I just happened to notice this woman when she was having hers. But generally, I do feel bad when seeing morbidly obese people despite being one myself – I’d like to help them, but I don’t know if my help would be appreciated.

After all, losing weight isn’t about luck or quantum physics – it can be done if you really want to do it.