Whoops, I’m in the wrong place. I thought this was the Renee Ellmers - Barbara Sandrock article…
Many women would be considered “obese” if they couldn’t fit into the size 4 clothes that all models wear for advertising. Obesity can be a state of mind and if everything you read, see and are told through your whole life says that you are already “fat” you think of yourself as “fat” and know you will never have a chance of being “normal” as seen everywhere. Just like Fox News brainwashing in politics, what we used to call Madison Avenue advertising has brain washed women, little girls and men looking at women that in order to be anyone you have to be model thin.
After while you just get tire and give up, even though the choices in clothes for “fat” women make us look like clowns. It is more than just eating too much and exercising too little. There is a book called “Thin is a state of mind” well “fat” has become that subliminal chant the many of us hear every time we open our mouths.
Some days I just want to give up the fight, there never seems to be an end in sight where I will be considered 'exceptable" in the weight category and I have lost 50 pounds in the last year.