Comments on: Good things about having been morbidly obese

By: Nau-Dee

Nau-Dee — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:32:08 +0000

I love your comment of: “Same size, different attitude”. That’s how I’ve been feeling lately but hadn’t put words to it.

I’ve been really enjoying reading your journey! I find it extremely helpful and inspirational to my own goals and thoughts.

By: jen

jen — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:59:39 +0000

i am very fat. i way close to 800 pounds when i am only 5 2. it sucks. i also can no longer fit into bathroom stalls. when i was 11 years old i was extremely obese and was almost 450 pds then and i tried to get into and elevator and there was this little kid. my stomach was huge and had nearly pinned him in a corner. he pulled up my shirt andgrabbed a big handful of my fat and said look mommy this person is giggly and wiggly! look how big her legs are! she must be very fat!

By: Mercedes

Mercedes — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:16:55 +0000

Wow.. That really touched and inspired me, personally being obese and knowing what it is like.

I wish you the best of luck my dear.

By: Glib Gurl

Glib Gurl — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:15:05 +0000

I agree with what everyone has said – great post and you look fabulous. One thing strikes me, however — the part about life being okay at your heaviest. That’s how I sort of feel now. I mean, yes, it would be wonderful to wear smaller clothes, have less physical discomfort, and turn the heads of the boys a little more often, but generally I think my life is pretty good . . . yet everybody and their mama (including Oprah) keeps swearing up and down how miserable my life must be because I’m fat. I find that rather insulting . . . but it also sort of scares me. What if I do lose weight and discover that, indeed, my current life is miserable? You give me hope that that won’t be the case. Thanks, PQ! (If you don’t mind, I think I might blog about this a bit myself.)

By: Bee

Bee — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:20:13 +0000

I just found your blog after a little Googling spree today. I’ve been working on losing weight since this past summer, but had never actually thought to search for blogs until right now. Imagine my surprise in discovering this wonderful site, and then discovering how similar our situations are. I just turned 27 years old, started out weighing almost 400 pounds at my heaviest, and am currently down to 328. I still have a long way to go, but I’m already proud of what I’ve accomplished so far – and believe it or not, I feel comparatively cute already at 328. Having once lost a ton of weight at the start of junior high only to gain it back with interest, and now going through the process again, this post really resonated with me. I hope I can continue to be as successful as you have been – now excuse me while I go read all of your archives.

By: Slurpeegirl

Slurpeegirl — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:15:14 +0000

I’m not sure how you always manage to do this, but you take the thoughts right out of my head and write them down. Your thoughts about surviving being fat, and how you had a pretty good life even while fat is exactly what I needed to read!! We’re all forever trying to attain some goal and it seems like we lose track of trying to live our lives WHILE we achieve that goal (something I’ve been doing for years). Thanks for the inspiration!!

By: Milana

Milana — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:22:04 +0000

It’s always amazing how everything I’m thinking, you are able to put into words. You are truly amazing…both with your weight loss and all of your inspiring posts…I hope that everytime you have someone tell you that (which seems to be alot these days :)) you take a moment and let it sink in, and that you don’t just wave it off…you ARE amazing! You’ve done so well, I’m so proud and can’t wait to see you get to goal!

By: Patty

Patty — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:06:45 +0000

Nice post, pasta queen. I guess I was kind of on the other side of the fence. When I was young prob. up to age 25 I was never overweight, maybe 10 or 20 and would lose it. I never really thought much about the wt or how I felt about it. As I got older and gained wt year by year and then at my highest after having a child, I clearly remember how it felt to be thin and active and healthy. It was almost like a thorn in my side or something. But, I finally was ready last year to get healthy and will continue until I get there. It makes me a little sad how long I have lived w/ this extra weight as I remember that it was better and how it felt to be active and more alive and not sitting on the sidelines. Thanks for the post, got me thinking about this specific area and how this will motivate me when I hit snags in the road.

By: jenn

jenn — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:24:56 +0000

A friend sent me the link for your blog today. I am so impressed with you and your success! Yea you! I hope that I can find similar luck in my journey toward weight loss. Again…yea for you! Amazing job!!!

By: Erin

Erin — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:21:39 +0000

I think you summed up the Ballad of the Fat Chick better than anything I’ve ever read. The paragraph about the built-in asshole detector was the part that resonated with me most. When I was little, I viewed my weight as sort of an invisible cloak, and routinely getting ignored or left out enabled me with the ability to perceive events and people more acutely as a result. That’s a mixed blessing now, because it’s also a crutch for me to stay the way I am and avoid life.

I am so beyond amazed by the internal metamorphoses that those who have already made great strides in their weight loss undergo. More so than any other form of detox, I think weight loss requires so much more honesty and grace, and the opportunity to see those experiences through the eyes of bloggers like you is incredibly invaluable to me.

Thanks for a wonderful post and have a great weekend.