Wow - awesome post. I think it's different for all of us, beg over weight has never stopped me from going out/travelling.. I'm
Rarely not away for the weekend/visiting friends/going on holiday and I genuinely feel good in a lot of things that I wear.
However, the rest of the time, I live like a un happily married forty year old.
I'm on/off seeing someone I don't even like all that much - because I am fat.