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In the future you will recall with wonder the bad old days when you used to push your weight around the place. But right now, what about some more mash potatoes? Or some beef sausages with gravy?

In your kingdom people refer to you as "Your Fatness" or "Your Roundness". Wherever you go you cannot be conspicuous. You could have a car especially modified for you. It could be a pickup truck with a 3 seater bench seat. The dashboard would be re-engineered so that the steering wheel would be in the middle. That way the car would not lean to one side because of the weight of the driver inside.

When you travel by train you can buy two tickets so that you can use up two seats.

When you visit a backyard swimming pool party you offer to be the last one to enter the pool. People marvel at your ability to displace water as you immerse yourself. The host delights at the overflow which waters the surrounding grass.

One day you became self-conscious at the little hippopotamus tattooed on your flabby arm. You made the decision it wasn't worth entering the Guinness Book of Records. Instead of carrying your supplies wherever you go, you chose to save on your food bill. You were confronted with the photos of starving children in Africa.

You felt convicted when you heard about greenhouse gas emissions. To be politically correct you painted your outside dunny green.

Suddenly the day of reckoning took place. One day you will have to give an account for your life. Being a slave to your appetite was a bondage worth breaking. Jesus Christ came into your life and re-arranged the furniture around. You snapped out of a destructive mindset. The enemy comes to kill, steal and destroy. Jesus comes that you may have life and have it more abundantly.

You discover that the smell of French fries and charcoal cooked meat puts you off as you now munch on a carrot and a celery stick. Worshipping God is the one thing that truly satisfies. Your life now has a purpose since you are no longer living for yourself but to serve Him who redeemed you from the clutches of addiction. As you spend time reading the Scriptures you gather recipes to make your life count in a hurting world. You have re-connected with your Maker. Creator and creation in one accord.

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