Super-sized mentality

It was a super-sized moment. I just bought a new 3 piece luggage set with the new spinner wheels on the bottom that let the luggage roll besides you not dragged behind you.

As I was hauling my ten year my old suitcase out of the closet to give to Goodwill, I noticed the super-sized difference. The old suitcase, which used to be the largest piece of luggage I owned for years, was only slightly bigger than the smallest piece of luggage in the new set I bought.

Ten years ago, this battered and torn suitcase was the only luggage I took on a 3 week trip to Italy filled with clothes, first aide kit, sewing kit, laundry stuff, even a fanny pack. During the trip, I remember thinking that I wished I packed less.

What happened in ten years for luggage makers to super-size their goods? Luggage makers are just meeting the needs of a super-sized society.

We're a super-sized society. At McDonald's we super-size our 'meals', we buy super-sized, super-soft toilet paper in super-sized amounts at super-sized big box stores.

If it was only that, but as we all know the super-sized mentality shows up on our bathroom scale. And many of us don't realize it. In a recent poll, 27% of overweight women didn't admit to being overweight.

Well I was overweight. I admitted it. For sometime I did nothing about it. That part of my life is over.