Day 5 Potluck

I told a dear friend recently that I was tired of being fat.  She responded by telling me I wasn't fat.  That is love, but love makes us do crazy things like lie to people we love!  I know the negative connotations associated with being fat and I have never felt all of the fallout because I have been blessed to be surrounded with people who love me and would never say or do anything to hurt my feelings intentionally.

Honesty is the best policy.  Let's take the negatives away and look at the facts.  Obesity is a huge problem in our country and it is costing us billions of dollars not to mention lives.  If admitting that I am fat to myself and it is time to do something about it will save my life or give me more time to spend with the friends that love me then then yes, it is time to make a change. 

Those changes are coming slowly.  Maybe today is a bad example of big changes because there was a potluck at work.  Good Lord it was like Hometown Buffet.  I certainly restrained myself but not to the point where I feel like a total success. 

I did work out after work today and had some serious muscle cramping in the gyrotonic workout.  Apparently, sugar will cause that because it collects in your joints.  Mental note: no more sugar before the gyrotonic workout because it is all about lengthening and strengthening and that will work your joints.

Sunday is Aids Walk and I am really looking forward to it because it is so motivating to be with a group of people who care enough to take the time to do something for someone else.  That is kinda like how it is with me right now I want to take care of myself so I will be around a long time to enjoy the friends who tell me I'm not fat even though I am!

It really isn't a dirty word...

Fat: n.

1. 1. The ester of glycerol and one, two, or three fatty acids.
   2. Any of various soft, solid, or semisolid organic compounds constituting the esters of glycerol and fatty acids and their associated organic groups.
   3. A mixture of such compounds occurring widely in organic tissue, especially in the adipose tissue of animals and in the seeds, nuts, and fruits of plants.
   4. Animal tissue containing such substances.
   5. A solidified animal or vegetable oil.
2. Obesity; corpulence.
3. The best or richest part: living off the fat of the land.
4. Unnecessary excess: "would drain the appropriation's fat without cutting into education's muscle" (New York Times).

SYNONYMS   fat, obese, corpulent, fleshy, portly, stout, pudgy, rotund, plump, chubby. These adjectives mean having an abundance and often an excess of flesh. Fat implies excessive weight and generally has negative connotations: was getting fat and decided to exercise. Obese and corpulent imply gross overweight: "a woman of robust frame . . . though stout, not obese" (Charlotte Brontë). The dancer was corpulent but surprisingly graceful. Fleshy implies a not necessarily excessive abundance of flesh: firm, fleshy arms. Portly refers to bulk combined with a stately or imposing bearing: "a portly, rubicund man of middle age" (Winston Churchill). Stout denotes a thickset, bulky figure: a painting of stout peasants. Pudgy means short and fat: pudgy fingers. Rotund suggests roundness of figure, often in a squat person: "this pink-faced rotund specimen of prosperity" (George Eliot). Plump and chubby apply to a pleasing fullness of figure: a plump little toddler; chubby cheeks