Re: Simple and yet so complex...

January 12, 2008

> >

> > I was in Target the other day with my kids looking at video games

> > and a woman came up to the video game counter to ask a question.

> > She was by herself, probably about 65 or so, well dressed, a

> healthy

> > weight and as she spoke to the man at the counter.....she was

> eating

> > an ice cream cone.

> > I don't know about any of the rest of you but, being as

disordered

> > as I am, I found this amazing. I was so envious of her- I

> thought,

> > I hope that some day I am comfortable enough to feel like I could

> > just go out and buy myself an icecream- even without the kids-

and

> > not feel any judgement from anyone or anxiety over it.

I would have no problem with eating an ice cream cone in public like

that. I sometimes do (yes, by myself as well). Maybe in the past,

when I was a lot heavier, I would have been a little self-conscious

about being the fat girl who shouldn't be eating fattening foods, but

now ... bugger it. I'm entitled.

Maybe it's an Australian thing. LOTS of us eat ice creams a LOT of

the time, in summer. It's no big deal.

S

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