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 [...]
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 [...]
