I'm conflicted about posting this. My coaching series has the "adjusting" part at the end of it.I don't want to give people another excuse not to lose weight. They already worry about "loose skin" which most of us have.
As you will recall, 80% of American is now overweight or obese. This makes the thin people freaks. I grew up fat in the 60's and stayed that way until 2011. I was a circus freak of fatness and and then everyone caught up to me in the 2000's. Then I got thin and was a freak again. But now guys were looking at my boobs too.
I would stand in a crowd of fat people and feel so out of place. It still happens, but I'm used to it and far fewer people are fat here.
We do all want to be thin, but when it happens your psyche goes into shock.
Like I said, it's only because of the person who warned me that I was able to hang on. The first time she lost weight she got all the lose skin cut off too. Then the second time of gaining and losing she hated her body too much. She was obese for the third time and suicidal when I read her story. I used to have her on my mind constantly for a good year.
Howdy again fitinfun! ok, I see why you would be conflicted about posting that, I wouldn't either. Wow this is much more complicated as far as psychology goes than I ever dreamed about! But I see those pictures of you when you were obese and I don't think you looked that big. You were big but not nearly as alot of overweight people I see. I know it's still the same trauma though once you get a certain size.
One of my Number One comments now is how I was not that fat to begin with. This tells you how bad the obesity problem is. I could barely wedge myself behind the steering wheel in my car and reach the pedals. The fatter we all get, the less impact one fat person has. I topped out at 275 pounds. I regularly here from people over 300, 400 and 500 who are not ready to lose weight yet since "it is not as bad as other people."
The trauma is really bad when you cannot stand up from a chair or sit in most of them. You cannot wedge into a bench seat in a restaurant. This is one reason why I loved Texas when I was fat. You have big sturdy chairs there and the bench seats are way back.
howdy today fitinfun! yay for Texas ! lol. wow this is all fascinating stuff. To think that someone weighing 400 or 500 pounds are saying that they'd aren't as bad of shape as other people? That sounds mentally dillusional! I guess you were pretty big if your steering wheel was jammed up against you so hard that you couldn't turn it and I'm sure the seat was all the way back.
So Texas is set up to handle overweight people...I guess I do see an awful lot of them and they like to make things bigger here anyway. thanks for the continuing education!