I am slim


I went to the doctors yesterday for a medical, which you are required to have when you first register as a patient. I am six foot 2 inches tall, and weigh 13st 4lb. According to the BMI—Body Mass Index—which is the government’s accepted standard for determining what is safe and unsafe, I am slim. Not thin, but slim. I am well within normal parameters for my height, and impressive for my age. All praise the vegetarian diet, reduced salt intake, and an ongoing determination to ignore anything Delia Smith has to say about food these days.

Just in case you didn’t get that, I am not fat. I am not obese. I am a comfortable and very healthy weight. My internal organs need not fear me stressing them out with excess fat. I have no excess fat. It’s all needed, every last bit of it. All you thin people, go find your own fat. You can’t have mine. I don’t want to be thin. I want to be slim—and hey! I am!

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Saturday, April 12th, 2008

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