Post by Admin-MaryK on Dec 29, 2017 13:19:40 GMT -5
Hi all,
While I am the admin here, I also struggle with these issues personally on a day to day basis. Despite having had weight loss surgery about ten years ago, I am still overweight and diabetic (see more in the obesity surgery thread if you're interested). I wanted to address a kind of embarrassing part of being obese that has haunted me since my college years. When I reached over 300 lbs, I began to have to worry about the capacity of furniture to hold me. It went beyond airline seats or riding on roller coasters, but to even considering, can that thing (usually a plastic lawn chair of some sort) hold me. I had one of the adirondack types crack and break under me once at home. It was embarrassing even though it was just my husband and me at the time (he was thin)...
Have you had any chair/furniture related trauma or story to tell? I have been more normal sized these past few years, but it still is a concern, as I'm 6 ft tall and still about 80lbs overweight. Yesterday I had an interview, and we went into a room. There were some smallish club chairs, an office chair, and other chairs around the room. The lady interviewing me said, "I wouldn't sit in those...they can be small"...which I know was her being kind to me, but it stung nonetheless.
Nothing to make you want to go home and down a bunch of cookies like getting fat feedback in a job interview :-( The interview went well, but why is it this has to be my takeaway?
Just thought I'd share.
Hugs,
Mary K.
While I am the admin here, I also struggle with these issues personally on a day to day basis. Despite having had weight loss surgery about ten years ago, I am still overweight and diabetic (see more in the obesity surgery thread if you're interested). I wanted to address a kind of embarrassing part of being obese that has haunted me since my college years. When I reached over 300 lbs, I began to have to worry about the capacity of furniture to hold me. It went beyond airline seats or riding on roller coasters, but to even considering, can that thing (usually a plastic lawn chair of some sort) hold me. I had one of the adirondack types crack and break under me once at home. It was embarrassing even though it was just my husband and me at the time (he was thin)...
Have you had any chair/furniture related trauma or story to tell? I have been more normal sized these past few years, but it still is a concern, as I'm 6 ft tall and still about 80lbs overweight. Yesterday I had an interview, and we went into a room. There were some smallish club chairs, an office chair, and other chairs around the room. The lady interviewing me said, "I wouldn't sit in those...they can be small"...which I know was her being kind to me, but it stung nonetheless.
Nothing to make you want to go home and down a bunch of cookies like getting fat feedback in a job interview :-( The interview went well, but why is it this has to be my takeaway?
Just thought I'd share.
Hugs,
Mary K.