Jonathan Vu

w♠arning:  there’s no conclusion to this post.

previously i’ve written about fat mentality. basically when people can see they have a problem, know the solution, but just don’t take the steps toward the solution. like fat people who need to eat right and exercise. it’s right in front of their faces. in that same entry i also noted that fat mentality can be much more difficult to deal with considering it’s not visible.

i’ve been living life and just thinking about situations since then and have discovered a kind of diversion, but not solution, to fat mentality.  sometimes when people are physically fat they go on binge diets, or become anorexic, or partake in some other drastic effort to lose weight. people also go on mental binge diets in hopes of a quick fix (i’ll call it that for the sake of maintaining a theme).

this is the scenario where the mentally fat person finally says, “ok. this is bullshit. i’m fat and i need to get unfat and i need to stop eating so much”. but some times they take it too far and just stop eating (partaking in that activity) all together. and no matter how much they don’t eat, they still think it’s not enough. the whole thing stemmed out of good intention but just went overboard until they can’t take it anymore due to lack of understanding safe paths to rehabilitation.

people just do all these other things to supplement eating. smoke. consume things that have no nutritional value, eat just celery and drink water to fill up, sleep, do drugs, just do random shit to occupy their minds until they’re not hungry.

when someone is coming out of a space where they were in an unhealthy state of mind and they want to change, they often go about trying to fix themselves without really knowing how.  most often they just detach themselves from the problem.  they don’t really get over it, they get as far away from it as possible. this leads to relapse.

For example – a girl is in an abusive relationship. her fat mentality had kept her bound to it for several years. one day she realizes she needs to end the relationship, so she does. (i know it’s over simplified). the important thing to note is that she left the relationship, but didn’t get over the habit. She could go several years thinking she’s better off, thinking she’s healthy, but being human and a creature of habit, there’s a good chance she’ll find herself in the same situation again. she could meet another abusive guy and be right back in the same situation.

the real task for a person suffering from fat mentality is not to just run from or get over their problem, but to identify it, understand it, confront it, and break it. In a sense go through it.  that way there’s no turning back to it.

at this point of my entry i don’t really have a solution. it’s just something i’ve observed and experienced personally. i just needed to write it out.

hopefully i’ll be able to think of something more tangeble on the subject rather than just ramble on and on.