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WifeMoteherMe - 2009-06-30 02:33:52
<<<< >>> Since you asked: For me, it was after my daughter died. Couple with a back injury that really limited my movement a year later and there you have it. How someone becomes a big ol fatty. (ok not 300 lbs but very close) I wouldn't recommend it. The dead daughter or the bad back thing ; ) Now as to rather it can happen to you or not, I have no idea. I never in a million years dreamed it would happen to me.
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Melanie - 2009-06-30 04:26:19
First, I'm glad you and your husband had such a good time. It sounds like you had a lot of fun and learned a lot, too. I cringed when I read your description of the obese women. And then I paused and closed the window and thought about it and cringed some more. While I'm not going to state how much I weigh here, the multiple chins? Check. Bulbous breasts? Check. Wide ass? Check. Swollen ankles? Check. Luckily, I don't need a motorized cart to carry me around every day. If I had a good answer for why I'm fat, I'd try to fix myself. But I've fixed myself before...multiple times, actually, but I keep getting broken again. I don't want you to think I took offense to what you wrote, because I didn't. More than anything, it just makes me more aware of how others see me, and then I cringe some more. I never thought I would weigh this much, either. I would give anything in the world to go back to the weight I was in high school and college, when I felt huge, but now know I wasn't. Sorry this is so long...sometimes I wear my emotions all over my sleeve.
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beanie - 2009-06-30 04:55:34
I am overweight too... or maybe I'm just undertall. Heh. But I don't need a motorized chair! Yes, some of the women might have a medical condition that makes them that obese, but some just overeat and don't care. I have noticed a lot more of the motorized carts, and think its a shame to get to the point of needing one. I am far from that! And I only have one chin, I think! Hee!
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dawn - 2009-07-01 22:15:20
I was at a flea market yesterday in Shipshewana, Indiana, and the Amiga Buddies were every where. In fact, I asked my shopping buddy if they were having a meeting of the Amigas there were so many. Far from skinny myself, and I certainly realize that there's more to people than what you can see on the outside, but am I alone in thinking that many obese have health problems as a direct result of their overeating habits? Case in point, my place of work has had a major construction project that's just on the finishing touches after nearly a year-and-a-half. As a result of the construction project,employees were no longer allowed to park in front of the building, but in a parking lot roughly about 1/4 mile from the building. Suddenly, people I'd worked with for years who had never had a handicap other than their weight were showing up to work with handicap parking cards. Let's just say I found it laughable.
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