Grae
Full Member
Steve Jobs was an asshole. Michael Jackson lived in a fantasy world. Nikola Tesla was crazy. No one is perfect sadly, I don't see a problem with being obsessed about trying to lose weight as long as you can realize that there's a time to stop and just maintain.
Here are the things I've had to deal with being fat, these are the reasons I'm finally obsessed with losing weight.
In some newer cars I can't get the seat belt in the back seat around me.
I dread having to get on a coach because I need to shuffle to and from my seat sideways because I'm so wide.
Can't travel on a plane, seats are too small.
Need to pay for Premier seats at the Odeon, I tell people it's for comfort but it's because I can't fit in the normal seats. Had an embarrassing time once when I tried normal seats while on a date with a girl, I was too big and had to get up and get us changed to bigger seats, the place was packed too.
Can't go clothes shopping in person, can never find clothes big enough to fit me unless it's underwear or shoes, and even then my feet are very wide.
Can't sit in a booth in a restaurant because I always get wedged in between the seat and the table edge
Can't enjoy myself out in public because I feel like people are watching me
Can't do cartwheels anymore!
If it takes being obsessed to get rid of these stigmas in my life then colour me obsessed, I'm sure there are many on here just like myself who have their own reasons.
I can see why people would get in to a state where they would continue to try to lose even at a healthy weight, fashion magazines don't help, constantly airbrushing and reshaping women then throwing them up on posters and on magazine covers on a daily basis, it's no wonder so many people have a poor body image even when some (read: a lot) are perfectly healthy do not need to change their weight at all. I'm not saying that's necessarily what your experience was but a poor body image is what causes actions like these in the majority of cases. It can be difficult to get over and everyone has to sort of cross that bridge when they come to it, just like when we all decided we wanted to lose weight, it was our own decision and we had to want to do it.
Here are the things I've had to deal with being fat, these are the reasons I'm finally obsessed with losing weight.
In some newer cars I can't get the seat belt in the back seat around me.
I dread having to get on a coach because I need to shuffle to and from my seat sideways because I'm so wide.
Can't travel on a plane, seats are too small.
Need to pay for Premier seats at the Odeon, I tell people it's for comfort but it's because I can't fit in the normal seats. Had an embarrassing time once when I tried normal seats while on a date with a girl, I was too big and had to get up and get us changed to bigger seats, the place was packed too.
Can't go clothes shopping in person, can never find clothes big enough to fit me unless it's underwear or shoes, and even then my feet are very wide.
Can't sit in a booth in a restaurant because I always get wedged in between the seat and the table edge
Can't enjoy myself out in public because I feel like people are watching me
Can't do cartwheels anymore!
If it takes being obsessed to get rid of these stigmas in my life then colour me obsessed, I'm sure there are many on here just like myself who have their own reasons.
I can see why people would get in to a state where they would continue to try to lose even at a healthy weight, fashion magazines don't help, constantly airbrushing and reshaping women then throwing them up on posters and on magazine covers on a daily basis, it's no wonder so many people have a poor body image even when some (read: a lot) are perfectly healthy do not need to change their weight at all. I'm not saying that's necessarily what your experience was but a poor body image is what causes actions like these in the majority of cases. It can be difficult to get over and everyone has to sort of cross that bridge when they come to it, just like when we all decided we wanted to lose weight, it was our own decision and we had to want to do it.