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It's a beautiful fall day in Florida. It's cool and not to humid that you could actually take a nice walk outside. I just finished sitting in front of a lovely fountain watching a mother duck and her babies swim across the man made lake. I was very at peace and happy that is until I walked in the Publix store around the corner from my home. I am wearing a pair of black exercise pants and a teal colored shirt. I had just walked in was walking down a isle heading for the soy milk when a another afro american woman smiled at me and took a step backwards to tell me "You look terrible and that outfit is not working for you". I looked at her smiled and said, "Thank you that's why I didn't ask you before I wore it" and I walked away. This woman is a total stranger to me and felt the need to comment on my clothing. I am a size 12 181 pound afro american woman who never gives negative comments to anyone. I have been known to tell someone in line at a store that I love their hair or a purse, but never to tell someone about their clothing. I remember seeing Tara Banks put on a fat suit and a grey sweat suit and walk around New York City. They recorded how people treated her and comments that they made. I thought they were cruel and that I never would see people here in Florida say and do things like that to anyone. I now stand corrected.
I was raised that if you can't say something nice to someone, don't say anything at all. I want to know when it became common place for people to just dump negative comments on total strangers. Immediately following this woman while waiting to pay for my box of frozen spinach. A teenage afro american boy was buying 2 sub sandwiches and he was a dollar short, before I could give him a dollar out of my purse the Hispanic man in front of me gave him the dollar. The young man turned to him and said, "Thank you so much sir." I was so moved to tell this man "that was so nice of you to give a dollar to a total stranger, nice to see someone help another person out." He smiled at me and then said,"I only gave him the dollar because he was buying food, but if he was buying alcohol I would never have given him anything. I noticed that in this man's cart he had 6 bags of ice and 3 bottles of wine.
I find it amazing the words that come out of other human beings mouths. I have been raised and raised my kid that everyone is a human being and color or creed should not matter in this world. I pray that one day people will wake up and start treating others as they would like to be treated.
Today's Thought: "You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop, and what you reinforce."
-Tony Gaskins
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181.0 lb
Lost so far: 4.0 lb.
Still to go: 41.0 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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Diet Calendar Entry for 25 October 2014:
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699 kcal
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Fat: 27.31g | Prot: 20.41g | Carb: 93.21g.
Breakfast: A Taste of Thai Coconut Milk (Regular), Kroger Old Fashioned Oatmeal. Lunch: AriZona Beverage Diet Green Tea with Ginseng. Dinner: Specially Selected Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce, Spinach Filled Tortellini. Snacks/Other: Great Value Frozen Mixed Berries. more...
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steady weight
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