Corrie knows it’s not politically correct to think of overweight persons as fat, but when she looks at Ham Wilts, she can’t help thinking of her father nodding at such a one and murmuring, There goes a walking cheese wheel.
I was a gymnast from age 4 through graduating high school. I would’ve stayed in the sport in college, if I hadn’t had a very late growth spurt—I went from 4’8” to 5’2”in my first year of college. To continue in gymnastics. I would’ve had to relearn everything. No time for that and keeping my 4.0 grades. I loved the sport, but—although I didn’t know the words for it at the time—our coaches pushed us all into anorexia or bulimia—I had both—because if we went one ounce over our assigned weight, we were benched for a week. I had a wrong view of weight from that. Almost everyone looked fat to me. It took me a very long time to undo seeing most people as fat and being very judgmental about it.
