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. It is my pleasure to bring you into my life by informing you of the trouble that I face every day.

|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 image that we see in the mirror is never going to appear in a positive way. There are beautiful parts to our bodies but all of the weight hides them from us. We spend a lot of time trying to make sure that we have the best possible appearance to present to others, but are well aware that no one will notice. The rest of your body is a mishmash of lumps and bumps, protrusions and strange angles that you know you simply cannot hide, regardless of what you wear. Eventually you concede the fact that it is what it is, and approach the day trying to ignore the stares of everyone around you.

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.

Maybe you can turn to a clothing store for comfort. You dare not even attempt to walk into most of the stores in the mall. 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. If, by some miracle, you see a piece of clothing that could fit you, you start getting more and more hopeful as you go to try it on. As is usually the case, looking at the clothing in the mirror brings disappointment. The fact that you are overweight is not changed because of what you are wearing.

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. This is the reality of being obese. This is what it is like. {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.