In order to BECOME a CDC you have to have a BMI of 28 or below, however it's not possible or legal to require Self employed counsellors to remain at that weight.... it would also be unethical... how would you like it if your employer took you into the office and sacked you because you'd gained weight????
"If you judge people, you leave no room to love them"
(Mother Theresa)
I'm not judging anyone, and I didn't say that I was. I merely pointed out that I think there's a BMI restriction to become one, but don't think that there's anything that says they have to stay within that.
If it's so unethical... why have that there in the first place? It's there for a reason.
I didn't say that people should have to stay within that. But I do think that as an ambassador of CD, if you get to a BMI of under 28, become a CDC but then your BMI goes up to say 35 or 40, then you have to wonder how well you're promoting it as a diet.
If my job was related to weight, then I would understand it. If I was a personal trainer/fitness instructor but became overweight and unfit, then I would expect that to be raised by my employer. Because it has a direct influence to do with what I'd be doing.
It's like, if I'm going to a hairdressers, because I'm so funny about them and terrified they're going to destroy my hair, I will look at them. If they have nice hair, even if I don't like style, cut, colour whatever, then I feel more at ease with them.
Would you trust a hairdresser who has terrible unkept hair to do your hair? Or a fashion expert who wears horrible, baggy clothes that doesn't suit them at all? I don't think you'd want to be styled by either of them. And in a way this is the same. You look to your CDC to see that this diet works. I don't expect my CDC to be super human. I don't expect her to never have blips. But if she as a CDC puts on that much weight, then it makes me doubt this diet. And the maintenance aspect of it.
Would you trust an ICT teacher who completely lost touch with their curriculum and didn't know how to use any recent programs that need to be taught as a part of that?
Or a driving instructor who has really bad driving habits? Because as an instructor, they're teaching someone to do something which they'll be doing for the rest of their lives. So they're meant to teach them the right way. If the instructor constantly pushes the limits and boundaries, then they're probably not the best person to teach someone else, because you learn that too. Or it's easy to.
Or a church minister/vicar who goes out every night, gets drunk, sleeps around, swears etc? None of these are illegal, but none of them fit into what they are meant to be promoting. And that's what it's like with being CDC. You're promoting a lifestyle, if you yourself cannot live within that to that extent, there is a question to be raised, in my opinion.
I just have to wonder, can you really teach what you don't know? And if you really know it, would your weight go back up that much? If it does, I think maybe they need some support too. But my CDC herself said that if she can't support herself, how can she be expected to support others.
I'm not judging anyone. And I'm sorry if it came across that way. I understand as well as anyone what it's like to struggle with weight. But I personally at this time wouldn't become a CDC, because I'm not there yet. And if I did get to goal and become a CDC but struggled so much that I went back to what I am now, then I would have to wonder whether I needed a break to sort my own journey out first.