In my pre-fat life I loved shopping. I enjoyed spending an afternoon looking in store windows, having a cookie and a diet coke, and shopping for clothes. It was pretty easy to find things I liked. After all, during my early marriage I was an average weight and size. Not everything I tried on was [...]
Who knew that seat belts really should be bigger. A seat belt is something I had never really given any consideration to before I gained 150 pounds. You sat in the car, put your seat belt on, and off you went.
That was when I was a standard size. Unfortunately, once I married, I wasn’t a [...]
The year was 1995 and I looked like the picture. I had been married for eight years and had gained around 110 pounds. Impressive to be sure. I worried about my size a lot. I was a size 10 when we married, and had a closet full of great clothes. My only worry with clothes at that nice smallish [...]
After many years of obesity you would think that I would have clued in to the fact that I needed to be careful around delicate pieces of furniture. But even I didn’t realize that I should be careful around my own dining room chairs. Read what happened during a family birthday party, when an encounter with a chair went very wrong. . .
Imagine how you would feel if you were sitting in a room full of people and when you tried to leave the room you couldn’t. Not because the door was blocked, but because you were stuck in a chair. That’s what happened to me one morning and it wasn’t pretty. . .
I’m not a big sports fan in general. I didn’t participate in organized sports in high school, although I did attend the football games because I was in the band. During my college years I became more of a football fan as our team, Florida State, was on the way up, and it was exciting to [...]
Some women are fiercely private about the contents of their purses. My mother-in-law was like that when my husband was a little boy, and he still remembers her saying, “Get out there! That’s my purse.” I’ve never been like that about my purses, but my closet is a different story.
Not for the reasons you might [...]
It wasn’t uncommon for me to eat 3000 calories a day or more. Not that I ever actually counted of course, because if I had, I may have gotten sad and run to the pantry. But when I really stop and think about the amount of food I would consume over the course of one [...]
I’ve shared a lot of bad embarrassing moments with you over the past several months, and believe me, I have plenty more stories where they came from. But, today, I thought I’d share an embarrassing moment that turned out to be a good one. Well, at least for me.
My morbidly obese years were spent in [...]
There was a time, way back in the dark ages, where cameras didn’t provide instant results, but rather you had to take your film to the store, go back home, drive back to the store to pick up your pictures, and then gasp in horror at what the camera revealed. I remember sitting in the [...]
