For all of those who are not vastly overweight, the struggles that an overweight person goes through are completely foreign. I am prepared to share the complete, brutal, admittedly terrible truth with everyone.

|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. The problem is the more we stare at ourselves, the harder it is to find any good. There are beautiful parts to our bodies but all of the weight hides them from us. 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. 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.

You go shopping. Unfortunately, there are not many choices that you have to shop at and stay on the outside. Just by passing by the shop and looking at the displays in the window, you realize that it is a waste of your time. You realize that the largest size they carry is a 12, and since you are a 28, there is no way that is happening. 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. Putting the things brings back some old familiar feelings for you. You look fat, and the clothes only make it that much worse.

The fit and trim people in the world do not have to be concerned with how they will do every day task like an obese person does. 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 must be confronted by those of us with a weight problem. {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.

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