They should if you consider it against WOW

why is it treated different in the church? I don't think the stigma is there as much as with other "problem" things.

input?

They can change "Evergreen" to "Evergrowing" and Pray the Heftay Away.

"If you would restrict yourself to pork chops, Brother, you'll never crave fried chicken again."

In my ward a truly obese brother is running the Addition Recovery Program. Perhaps he could use a dose of his own medicine.

If the church decided to do something about long term users of Anti-Depression pills, the entire state of Utah would come to a complete stop in every possible aspect of life.

IF TSCC cut down on sugar and allowed coffee, the need for the pills would decrease as would diabetes and obesity. The main doctrines should also be revised - and eventually will be - to eliminate the obvious flaw in getting to the CK by "doing all you can do". Since NO-ONE does all they can do, all most feel the depression of failure. The doctrine will soon morph into that of the rest of Christianity - that the atonement doesn't just make up the difference "after all you CAN do" but provides a pardon for our failures and isn't based on works. With those changes in doctrine, depression would plummet.

The church realizes food addiction is an alternative to drugs and maybe they are grateful.

As an "obese person", before I left the church as asked to go. I quit in a month, because:
(1) Everything was God God God… and I was already too far gone for that to work
(2) All the other programs (porn, drugs, booze, smoking, whatever) rely on giving the vice up. You can't give up eating food, but the eating-addiction program wasn't handled any different, except to occasionally point out that I "couldn't give up eating entirely."

Don't get me wrong—I learned a couple of good things about controlling eating and such, but on the whole it was a car wreck. The big problem is, like everything else in the church, the people running it aren't experts, they're just people who've been through the program.

I am obese (although 150 lbs lighter than when I peaked), my folks were both overweight, and I remember sooo many TBM's back in the 60's and 70's who were obese. And every friggin' one of them would have defended the WOW but if I read the WOW correctly, eating in such a manner as to become obese is a direct violation of the WOW...so they were just a bunch of lyin' hypocrite SOB's......I never followed the WOW so I guess I'm just an overeater....

Years ago my bishop sent his scarecrow looking wife to my house to tell me that "they" were concerned about how thin I was. She and I wore the same size clothing and had talked about it in the past!

It made me wonder, does this b---wipe send out fat sisters to talk to fat sisters in the ward? Bet he's afraid of them. You take away a mormon woman's only vice...food, and you'd better run and run fast.

My 5'4" daughter was unhappy at 135 lbs, and dieted down to a slim 115 lbs, well within a healthy weight for her height and age of 15..... suddenly she's anorexic....

It's like the truly dysfunctional family, she was assigned the roll of the cubby friend not serious competition for the guys, so get back into the role we assigned you.

You're not allowed to change. Well that about says it all. None of us were ever supposed to grow or change.

ROFL!!!!

thxs


well there is always anti-depressants!!

Nay, nay for verily, verily the saints shalt place the church before their companions and progeny and in their dispair and depressions shalt eat massive quantities of ice cream and maintain utards record for the highest per capita consumption of this devine dessert. For verily, verily the lard delights in his people becoming "Walmart People." Amen and Amen.

See walmartpeople.com for tons of fun. And that comes with me acknowedging my own obesity. Wait, garment standards does keep the fat out of the fire, so to speak.

Sorry, I just had a relapse into speaking with a prophetic voice. Please note for those similarly inclined, there can never be too much verilying going on.

It's clear obesity is contrary to the WOW. What to do? Nothing.

Obese people always have a stigma attached to them. Mormons are no different.

Go to a singles dance and you will see a sea of obese people that will never get married in the temple. They claim that these trials are because jeebus has something else planned for them, but they know that it is because they are obese.

Sometimes Mormons are just like everyone else.

Yes, but following on that line.... viewing of porno is considered to be an addiction requiring a recovery program by the church... but rarely in real life

I am just wondering why they don't do the same for weight challenged people

I know why, because it would rock too many socks

church can't take on too many problems
would be a mighty full program of recovery.... lol

i guess their view of addiction is weighted towards men? how's about that