I was in a new section of our hospital recently. While I was waiting, I noticed that the chair across from me was a strange size. It wasn’t like the regular sized chair I was sitting on and it wasn’t a traditional bench size that would easily fit two average sized adults. No, it looked like this. I took [...]
I don’t know who said that fat people should be jolly but I’d like to have a little chat with them.
I wasn’t a jolly fat person. Not by any stretch of the imagination. I wasn’t happy go-lucky laughing my way through the embarrassing situations that often accompany morbid obesity. No, getting stuck in restaurant booths [...]
People are generally kind. and John is one of the kindest I know. There was one time when his kindness turned into an embarrassing moment. He used to love buying me clothes. I wore a size 10 pretty consistently, so clothes shopping easy. However, problems began during the 2nd year of our marriage. Because we went out to eat [...]
I’ve flown on and off my whole life. I always enjoyed flying until I became an adult, and then all of a sudden it made me really, really nervous. I fly when I need to, but don’t love it like my husband does. Every time I fly I grip the armrests willing the plane up [...]
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 [...]
