Obesity

After reading some wonderful reviews on this subject, starting with Hisheyness's wonderful 'Confessions of a Recovering Fat Man', and after promising totalserenity after reading her wonderful 'WORDS 'ARE' WEAPONS', I have finally plucked up enough courage to write my own review on my fight with the dreaded weight. Apologies it's a long one!! I am obese! Now you can cover that with as many euphemisms as you want - 'chubby', 'curvy', 'big boned, 'pleasantly plump', 'plus size' - I am just very much over weight. And I hate it! WHAT IS IT LIKE BEING FAT? It is feeling that you are held back in your job because ...  Read the complete review

Following on from reading Totalserenity's review on the weight issue I wanted to write my own. My opinion may mean nothing to some people, especially as I myself am not overweight. However, what many people fail to forget is the loved ones that have to listen to nasty comments regarding their parents/siblings/partner/friends weight issues. Like I said, I weigh what is an average weight for my height. I am 5'4 and weigh just over 8 stone. My Mum is the same height and is considered very overweight. In saying that I dont look at my mum and think she is any less beautiful. It is heartbreaking to watch somebody you love battle with weight. My mum has been on every ...  Read the complete review

After having read Hishyeness' truly excellent, open and honest piece about the trials and tribulations of being overweight, I felt inspired to put pen to paper (or should I say finger-pads to keyboard) and create my own piece on the same subject. A very special thanks to Hishyeness for raising this topic in the first place, and to have produced such a stunning piece of writing which I, and I'm sure many others also did, found very moving. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DISCLAIMER: I intend none of what follows to be a criticism of my mother in the slightest. She had her own unresolved problems, and if she were alive today and able to ...  Read the complete review

After reading a simply superb review on Dooyoo re 'Obesity' I felt compelled to write my own instead of writing a usual product review - some things are more important than the nominal 50p payment - and this is one of them. My own weight problems started in my twenties way back in the 1980's. I married at the age of 22 and was a svelte size ten, weighed 8 stone 2lb wet through, and was what my best friend termed 'A skinny wretch!' A few years into our marriage my husband and I were diagnosed with Infertility problems and the 'fault' lay with my useless, defunct body...or that's how I saw it at the time. Now I was always, up to ...  Read the complete review

I have spent most of my adult life as a euphemism. Whether it was "Chief", or "Big Fella", "Big Guy" or other altogether less polite forms of address, I was called a variety of things that skirted around the undeniable fact that I was a very fat man. At my heaviest, I tipped the scales at a horrifying 350lbs (25 stone or close to 160 kilos) and was eating myself to death. According to the stereotype, I am nothing but a lazy, selfish, thoughtless, greedy, gross, smelly, inconsiderate, and weak-willed loser with nothing of note to contribute to society other than to keep McDonald's, KFC and big and tall men's shops in business. I ...  Read the complete review