...You Say You Want a Resolution....
Seven New Steps to Getting What You Want
Kevin Hogan
Page 4
All You Need is Love
But, "love me as I am."
How about "smack you in the head where you are?"
Love is not about letting someone jump off a building while
you smile and wish them a good trip down.
Love is not about letting your friend or someone you really care
about go unchecked on their long-term weight gain trek.
Every fat person knows that there is a skinny person inside.
Almost no one needs to be fat. It isn't a disease. It's the result
of addiction. And addiction isn't a disease, either. It's simply
a result of reinforced and rewarded behavior.
Should there be discrimination against fat people?
Of course.
...or, should I say...only if you really care about the fat person...
When I see a guy that weighs 400 in the exit row, I'm damn
glad I'm in First Class or Business because everyone on the
plane, including the fat guy, knows he can't squeeze through
the Emergency Door.
Fat guy has to get off last.
His life is not less important than yours, it simply infringes
on your right to live - in the case of an airplane crash. You weigh
200, and you can make it through the door, not infringing on
someone else's right to live.
Now I need to grab a mirror and a scale.
OK, I clocked in about 191. eh... In the last 20 years, I've been
as high as 226 and as low as 180. Fat for my height can
be generally agreed upon at 210 or more, it's arguable at 200
and I'd be fine for pride at my typical stop point of about 183.
So I've been fat....and it's ridiculous. It's stupid. It's gross.
If I were to get comfortable at 220 and say, "oh love me..."
the correct response is NOT to let me nosedive off the building, but
to shake me senseless until I have a chance to staple my lips
shut.
Love does not encourage diabetes.
My step dad was up for Christmas.
He's about 300 pounds, and was hospitalized for a few weeks
in October/November for a Diabetes related set of problems.
"Would you pass me the cookies?"
"No can do."
"I can have some sugar."
"Not in my house."
It's that simple.
If you care about someone, care about them. If you don't,
give them the damn cookies. The kidneys will be shutting down
in no time flat...it's fun. You fall, you have severe hypotension.
You go to the hospital. Sometimes you die. Sometimes you
don't.
It's like shooting dice.
See, you can be hospitalized for something and not get it, six
weeks later.
It is normal human behavior.
And never think that the threat of diabetes, cancer and death,
are motivating. They are not. Threats of bad things happening do
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to move someone to grab their daily
dose of Self-Regulation.
"Someday you will get diabetes...."
Big deal.
"Someday those cigarettes will kill you."
Big deal.
"If you don't put a simple business on the table in addition to
your job, you are likely to get side swiped by "the Obamanomony."
Big deal.
It feels good now.
And in the End... 
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Kevin Hogan
Network 3000 Publishing
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Eagan, MN 55123
(612) 616-0732
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