Everywhere I go I overhear women talking about weight loss. They obsess over how many times to chew their food, how many meals or mini-meals to eat a day, how many carbs/fat/proteins they've ingested, or how many steps they have to walk to lose four ounces.

The funny thing is that all the women I've overheard are ALREADY THIN!

As an extra-fat woman, I've experienced  this thin-obsessed-phenomenon many times. If I happen to bring up weight loss in public, undoubtedly a thin woman will jump in and began to tell of her struggle to lose five pounds. She always ends with "It doesn't matter how much weight you have to lose, the struggle is still the same."

NO IT IS NOT! That's like someone with a sprained ankle telling someone with no legs that they understand what its like to crawl around on stumps.

Why are thin women everywhere obsessed with weight loss? Vanity. Straight up vanity. Thirty-somethings are trying to look eighteen, mothers are trying to look like teenagers, and everyone is trying to look like a magazine centerfold. Get over it already. How many of us are ever going to look like Jennifer Anniston? Only one - Jennifer Anniston. We need to thank the Lord for the wonderful way He made us, and stop trying to look like something we are not.

At Mount Hermon I listened as a woman in her mid-forties was complimented for being so petite. She immediately started complaining about her size and how she was growing out of her size 12 pants.  She was visibly upset, and it broke my heart because she is believing a big lie. Satan has thin women everywhere believing that they have to be smaller, tighter, and more toned to be beautiful. Listen, if you can shop for clothes at a regular store, then you are not fat. Even if you can't shop at a regular store, I bet you are still beautiful!

I have come to the place in my life where I can totally and honestly praise the Lord for allowing me to experience "morbid obesity".   With all of my heart I want to have victory over this sin issue of gluttony. However, I no longer care if I become a size two or ten or twenty. I can live the rest of my life the way I am, and be happy.

I just wish that thin women everywhere could be happy with themselves too.