September 1, 2010
What Is It Like To Be Obese
It is very difficult to live in a world where people who are very fat are not able to do most things that others can do. Because I am obese, I can let you know what it feels like to live in my world.
|We can begin with the most obvious, appearance.|The first thing people see is how I look, so that is where I’ll start.|People are usually judged by the way they look, and that is first on my list.} We have to stare at our bodies every day and hope that they can look good. The problem is the more we stare at ourselves, the harder it is to find any good. There are beautiful parts to our bodies but all of the weight hides them from us. Our best efforts at making ourselves beautiful go for naught as people only look at the layers of fat and not the accessories that we put on. All of the extra pounds that hang from our arms or that stretch the fabric of what we wear are visible to the whole world and resist every effort that we make to make them less visible to those who pass us by. You realize this is as good as it is going to get and vow to avoid mirrors for the remainder of the day.
You leave for work. Even though your job does not require too much physical activity, even the slightest activity turns your face a bright red from the effort. You eat your lunch, but regardless of what you decide to have, you know that people are silently judging you and sometimes you think that maybe you should avoid all food and try to lose weight fasting. , but you know that it will never work for you.
You go shopping. Unfortunately, there are not many choices that you have to shop at and stay on the outside. These store were not designed with you in mind and you find your self bumping into or knocking things over because it is so cramped. You realize that the largest size they carry is a 12, and since you are a 28, there is no way that is happening. Having to see how something that you manage to discover in your size looks on is something else that gets your heart racing. Putting the things brings back some old familiar feelings for you. You look fat, and the clothes only make it that much worse.
You live carefully and are forced to ponder and worry about things your thin counterparts give absolutely no thought to. When you take a ride in a friends car you worry that you will not be able to fit in the backseat.
Then there’s your health that you deal with because your knees creak under your added weight, and your feet swell and throb due to the extra pressure placed on your feet, and your back hurts all the time because of the extra girth you place on your poor vertebrae, and you cannot even do a simple six pack ab exercise program that you used to do when you were younger.
Your friends and family are supportive and you know they love you but they will not let you forget, not even for a moment, how much weight you’ve gained or how much better you would look if you lost some weight and even though you turn to message boards like biggest loser weight loss forum where there are people who are just like you, you seldom find the support you really need. Those are the things that overweight people have to deal with. I live through this all of the time. {Maybe not everyday, but just enough days to make you really seriously consider becoming a hermit.|Sometimes it can be forgotten and a good time can be had, but then reality comes back and wants to make you hide in a closet somewhere.|For the most part, we do not like to live our lives this way, although happiness does find our way intermittingly.
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