Good Health & Fitness

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.} You stare wistfully at your reflection in the mirror. No matter which angle you turn, you just don’t quite look right. It is almost impossible to look past the obvious and find the beauty that we know is hidden somewhere. You can apply makeup, and help make yourself look better to a certain degree, but you know that no one is going to compliment your shade of lipstick today. 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.

Your place of employment is your next stop. 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.

Maybe you can turn to a clothing store for comfort. It becomes discouraging that there is not a place that had the types of things that will fit you, and you stay away. 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. it seems like everything that is sold there is designed for thin model types and there is nothing that is made with you in mind. You may find a few items that could potentially look okay on you and you say a prayer as you take them to the fitting room. As is usually the case, looking at the clothing in the mirror brings disappointment. The fact that you are obese is not improved when you are trying on something new.

You live carefully and are forced to ponder and worry about things your thin counterparts give absolutely no thought to. Getting on a plane makes you nauseous because the airline may decide you need two seats, or the seatbelt may not reach.

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. That is what it is like to be really fat. 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.