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Date Posted: 08:04:53 08/30/02 Fri
Author: Kel
Subject: I can relate
In reply to: carmen 's message, "fall is great!!" on 21:26:05 08/29/02 Thu

Carmen I read your post and it hit home. I don't have any little ones, but I did lead a heartbreaking, lonely existance as an overweight and unaccepted child/teen. My parents were also sedentary like yours & thus I spent over 30 years of my life as a big ole blob too.

When all the other kids were being forced to take dance lessons, learn track, go to active summer camps -- my parents figured if I wanted to do things like that I would ask. Well they shouldn't have waited for me to ask because by the time I wanted to be social and do group activities, I was grossly overweight and no one wanted to be with me. It hurt like hell and it still does when I think about it. My escape from all this rejection and lonliness was the tv after school and FOOD.

PLEASE don't let that happen to your little one! It's a horrible life to lead, and self-esteem goes right out the window. I've been living with these bad sedentary habits all my life and only within the last 5 years have I begun to add exercise (and even then not enough, as you can see by my latest injury when I tried my first Ju Jutsu class). It's SO important to teach your little ones to be active and socially accepted. The scars on me have STILL not healed completely, even though I now function as a "normal" adult in a public service job. I'm good at what I do when I'm in uniform -- I'm great with the public. I don't know what happens to me in social situations when I'm off duty though. I am still the shy and the perpetual wall flower.

Okay enough whining lol, just wanted to let you know that I could relate on some level. Your experience might not have been as extreme as mine and I sure hope it wasn't. But just the knowledge of how extreme it can be, might inspire you to not let it happen to your child. For that reason, I wanted to share because it ALL started with my parents being lazy blobs.

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