Stop Chewing the Fat on Fat
"I wish my fat would just go away."
Sound like something that's come out of your mouth recently? Well you're not alone sister, we're all looking for the appearance of fat to go away, by just wishing it were completely gone. In a time when we're all looking to point a finger at any reason for our fat being so apparent (even if it's the fat itself), we may want to stop blaming the fat because fat, my friends, is just doing its job.
This whole concept made its way to me via the NewYorkTimes .com with one simple, but powerful paragraph:
It’s easy to fear and despise our body fat and to see it as an unnatural, inert, pointless counterpoint to all things phat and fabulous. Yet fat tissue is not the problem here, and to castigate fat for getting too big and to blame it for high blood pressure or a wheezing heart is like a heavy drinker blaming the liver for turning cirrhotic. Just as the lush’s liver was merely doing its hepatic best to detoxify the large quantities of liquor in which it was doused, and just as the alcoholic would have been far worse off had the liver not been playing Hepa-filter in the first place, so our fat tissue, by efficiently absorbing the excess packets of energy we put in our mouths, has our best interests at heart.
Moral of the story: We may blame a lot of things for becoming overweight, but our fat, should not be one of them.
