Flattening My Curve

I’m going to use this time when the world is flattening the curve of covid19 to flatten my curve. As in … the unsightly outward curve of my belly. I want to flatten my stomach. I know, so not PC. In more ways than one. PC would be sitting at home worrying about covid19 and whether or not I have enough toilet paper. Or finally validating the worth of teachers and the value of the baby boomers. PC is posting vidoes on Facebook immortalizing politically charged rants between the democrats and the republicans.

PC also means I’m supposed to “love my body just the way it is”. PC means that Dove’s “Real Beauty” campaign finally convinced me that being overweight is, in fact, healthy. It means that I’ve thrown out the baby with the bath water (baby = rational, scientific thought about what makes a body healthy; bath water = the unhealthy and unrealistic depiction of too-thin women wafting across the runways and increasing the value of Photoshop stock).

I’m not PC.

I do, however, stay inside day after day because I’ve looked at the data from around the world and I don’t want to be the selfish American who, knowing it’s unlikely I’d display symptoms of covid19 myself, is the one who ends up killing your grandma.

I’m not PC.

But I’m not going to waste this shelter in place. I want to be healthy. And I want to be thin. In conclusion: I’m flattening my curve.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that real beauty is only skin deep. Quite the contrary. God states clearly that man’s obsession with beauty is not shared by Him: “man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the hearts.” (1 Samuel 16:7)

But I am saying that it is our opportunity and our responsibility to take the very best care of what we’ve been given. We ought to manage well what He’s given us . Intellectually, financially, emotionally, spiritually … and YES: physically. And the facts are in. Thinner is better. Not just because of the outward appearance that man so enjoys. But because extra weight = extra health problems.

Let’s not fool ourselves by embracing the cultural pendulum swing that states that the only way to not fall into the societal obsession with appearance is to embrace the extra weight around our waist.

So I’m committed to flattening the unhealthy curve of my stomach while I WFH and shelter in place.

I want to be healthy and thinner is healthier …

… and I seek keep my desires in line with the Lord’s …

… and I do also want to be beautiful.