brat_who_me?
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Happy Belated Birthday T
was off the last few days
glad it was hoot
but happy birthday just the same
Charlotte
was off the last few days
glad it was hoot
but happy birthday just the same
Charlotte
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BizeB
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Hi ya Hon 
Hope today went well! Do me a favor??? Enjoy your walk tonight/ today I'll try to get in touch with ya soon
Hope today went well! Do me a favor??? Enjoy your walk tonight/ today I'll try to get in touch with ya soon
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jennifuffa
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Oh yes a crayfish! I hear they are quite a treat for some not me I don't think. Crayfish kinda look like scorpions. I think I have an aversion to food items that look weird when alive. My own privated bizzaroness I guess.
I'm antifish and creatures from water with the exception of tuna and maybe the odd fresh walleye fried up in a nice beer batter with some kind of dipping sauce to hide the fishy taste.
Now steak is my weakness serve me up a nice juicy steak (sans A1) and I'll gobble it down. I don't get the A1 sauce obsession though my husband refuses to eat a steak without it. I just don't like it.
I'm antifish and creatures from water with the exception of tuna and maybe the odd fresh walleye fried up in a nice beer batter with some kind of dipping sauce to hide the fishy taste.
Now steak is my weakness serve me up a nice juicy steak (sans A1) and I'll gobble it down. I don't get the A1 sauce obsession though my husband refuses to eat a steak without it. I just don't like it.
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BizeB
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HI ya, Swee-T, hope all is well in your neck of the woods! Haven't been able to catch up with ya so I hope all is well
Haven't been able to catch up with ya so I hope all is well 
T2 Trucker
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Last night I went to an Altoona Curve game and as always the smell of all that food is enough to wreck the best laid plans of any dieter just from the Pavlovian standpoint alone.
I set up my day on the lean side as per usual, I'm really not much a breakfast or lunch eater especially during summer so I figured 'I can do something here off the menu' without doing much damage.
My dad and I took our seats first before we decided to indulge in the stadium culinary experience. I sat in my seat. I fit in it !! no arm rest digging into the sides, no back of my butt getting kicked from behind, people could pass me without me having to stand up, no need to use my (once) huge gut as an arm rest in the bearhug style folding position to draw in as much of my body as not to violate anyone on either side of me.
Then I saw me - check that, the OLD me and oh my gawd he's coming down my aisle. I lived this life for so many years it only took one quick glance to feel what this man felt.
The Classics:
The most noticeable, the morbidly obese frame.
The standing at the end of the aisle to calculate your trip to your seat.
The making of eye contact with everyone in the aisle to see if they are going to start standing up for you to save all the 'things that can go wrong' once you enter the point of no return.
The soaked shirt and head from sweat and it was only in the low 70's with no humidity to speak. You all will never know how many events I never attended for this reason alone. I became a self-made meteorologist calculating my public sweat factors with deadly results. I always knew May to Septmember carried about a 20% chance of attending a public event.
Well it was my turn not to be that guy. I earned it. Yes, I did feel bad for that guy but I didn't feel sorry for him. It was my night to enjoy the tallest, biggest, coldest glass of beer and a simply tray of nachos with chili sauce only. Later dad and I shared a medium popcorn (no butter). I missed the hamburgers and the hotdogs and all the ballpark things but I didn't miss being 120 lbs heavier.
Without a doubt this was the best baseball game I've been to in many years. I just love this losing weight stuff
I set up my day on the lean side as per usual, I'm really not much a breakfast or lunch eater especially during summer so I figured 'I can do something here off the menu' without doing much damage.
My dad and I took our seats first before we decided to indulge in the stadium culinary experience. I sat in my seat. I fit in it !! no arm rest digging into the sides, no back of my butt getting kicked from behind, people could pass me without me having to stand up, no need to use my (once) huge gut as an arm rest in the bearhug style folding position to draw in as much of my body as not to violate anyone on either side of me.
Then I saw me - check that, the OLD me and oh my gawd he's coming down my aisle. I lived this life for so many years it only took one quick glance to feel what this man felt.
The Classics:
The most noticeable, the morbidly obese frame.
The standing at the end of the aisle to calculate your trip to your seat.
The making of eye contact with everyone in the aisle to see if they are going to start standing up for you to save all the 'things that can go wrong' once you enter the point of no return.
The soaked shirt and head from sweat and it was only in the low 70's with no humidity to speak. You all will never know how many events I never attended for this reason alone. I became a self-made meteorologist calculating my public sweat factors with deadly results. I always knew May to Septmember carried about a 20% chance of attending a public event.
Well it was my turn not to be that guy. I earned it. Yes, I did feel bad for that guy but I didn't feel sorry for him. It was my night to enjoy the tallest, biggest, coldest glass of beer and a simply tray of nachos with chili sauce only. Later dad and I shared a medium popcorn (no butter). I missed the hamburgers and the hotdogs and all the ballpark things but I didn't miss being 120 lbs heavier.
Without a doubt this was the best baseball game I've been to in many years. I just love this losing weight stuff
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T2 Trucker
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"Second Hand News":
As some of you have read deep within the bowels of my diary, I have been open about some of the goals I wish to accomplish with my weight loss. One goal was to get off disability and I have already enrolled in the Return to Work Program through SSDI.
I had mentioned that funding has been put in place for heath-related corrections and schooling for a new career. In the meantime I have toyed with the idea of looking for a part-time job. Yesterday I set out to get started on that on that phase of my goals.
The first place I stopped at, I asked for an application. Brief chit-chat lead to an interview on the spot. After a lengthy discussion of all the health issues I have (or had) and what I wished to obtain in terms of availability, the manager saw this as an opportunity for both of us and was offered a part-time job. I now only have to clear all the governmental bs with my caseworker and really get to the 'meat and potatoes' of the risk of taking that leap of faith that the Gov't won't separate me from monies entitled to me.
I should be starting sometime next week good lord willing I'm happy I've come this far but after 2 years of not working, you can understand the apprehension.
As some of you have read deep within the bowels of my diary, I have been open about some of the goals I wish to accomplish with my weight loss. One goal was to get off disability and I have already enrolled in the Return to Work Program through SSDI.
I had mentioned that funding has been put in place for heath-related corrections and schooling for a new career. In the meantime I have toyed with the idea of looking for a part-time job. Yesterday I set out to get started on that on that phase of my goals.
The first place I stopped at, I asked for an application. Brief chit-chat lead to an interview on the spot. After a lengthy discussion of all the health issues I have (or had) and what I wished to obtain in terms of availability, the manager saw this as an opportunity for both of us and was offered a part-time job. I now only have to clear all the governmental bs with my caseworker and really get to the 'meat and potatoes' of the risk of taking that leap of faith that the Gov't won't separate me from monies entitled to me.
I should be starting sometime next week good lord willing
I'm happy I've come this far but after 2 years of not working, you can understand the apprehension.
heidilw
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Just read your post about the baseball game. I have never been that heavy, but you know what, reading that, by the way you described it, I was able to feel how that guy felt. I have a friend that is over 400 pounds, the skin on her ankles is splitting because it cannot stretch anymore. She had to go to the ER, and the ER doctor told her she was morbidly obese and there was nothing he could do about her skin. She was offended and left. I wonder if she feels that way. She claims that she likes being that heavy. I wonder if that is to save face. She is really resistant to any help at all.
and Way to go T2 on the job. I used to be a caseworker and now work in child welfare. I believe that you can work up to so much $ per month to still receive SS and benefits.
I hope that you achieve all of your dreams and ambitions!
and Way to go T2 on the job. I used to be a caseworker and now work in child welfare. I believe that you can work up to so much $ per month to still receive SS and benefits.
I hope that you achieve all of your dreams and ambitions!
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jennifuffa
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T2 you are so very articulate and descriptive. You certainly have a way with words that creates an understanding of how you felt then and how you are feeling now. You must be so proud of your accomplishments. I'm glad you really enjoyed that beer and nachos!
Nightporter
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Hi T2! Sorry I haven't been on in a while... School was murder.
I'm so glad you enjoyed your baseball game! I don't think I've been to one since the fourth grade. When you described that poor guy I thought about my father. Not because he is that big, but because he thinks he's so fat he doesn't ever want to go into public. He's really only 250 and he's losing a lot of weight.
Anyway, I am so happy for you about the job thing!! That sounds so cool. I have mixed feelings about getting a job right now, so I think I'll just cross that bridge when I come to it... I wish you a fortune!
-K-
I'm so glad you enjoyed your baseball game! I don't think I've been to one since the fourth grade. When you described that poor guy I thought about my father. Not because he is that big, but because he thinks he's so fat he doesn't ever want to go into public. He's really only 250 and he's losing a lot of weight.
Anyway, I am so happy for you about the job thing!! That sounds so cool. I have mixed feelings about getting a job right now, so I think I'll just cross that bridge when I come to it... I wish you a fortune!
-K-
Kaitie
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Heidi....My husband is close to 500 pounds and both he and I go through the exact process that T2 described for many occassions. We ask for tables at restaurants because he can't get into a booth. We don't go to Olive Garden or Red Lobster because the chairs have arms and he just looks like a freakin' fat guy stuffed into an uber small chair. We haven't been on a plane for a vacation in years...and the last time I was the freakin' lucky one to got stuck in the middle seat with another fat guy on the other side of me. (that flight sucked). He takes up two chairs at the movie theatres (unless of course we're unlucky and get an old theatre where the arms don't raise--then I get squished). The absolute worst was on our vacation this summer, we decided to do a bus tour of Mount Rushmore, the Black Hills etc. Oh my gosh, I'm telling you that he should have taken up two seats on his own but there was no room so he had to sit with me....I was so squished for a continuous 8 hours that my back hurt the next day.
That being said, I really don't think that your friend 'likes' being that way....it's just easier to say 'I am who I am' than it is to actually admit that you've got a serious problem.
That being said, I really don't think that your friend 'likes' being that way....it's just easier to say 'I am who I am' than it is to actually admit that you've got a serious problem.
T2 Trucker
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sup·port: (se-pôrt)
To keep from weakening or failing; to strengthen.
To aid the cause, policy, or interests of.
To act in a secondary or subordinate role.
To keep from weakening or failing; to strengthen.
To aid the cause, policy, or interests of.
To act in a secondary or subordinate role.
T2 Trucker
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Thanks for the nod M2M, I had to make sure I knew my role here.
No shame in making a note from me to me. It seems I fall outside this reminder when I leave the T2 diary. Now I have a point of reference to fall back on
BTW, I love what you do for this forum. You have what it takes in all areas.
No shame in making a note from me to me. It seems I fall outside this reminder when I leave the T2 diary. Now I have a point of reference to fall back on
BTW, I love what you do for this forum. You have what it takes in all areas.
T2 Trucker
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Mana Thanks for the 'Yay for me'. I swear I'm gonna start eating off your menu one day behind. If anyone on here is struggling with a good diverse meal plan, they should read your diary daily. I wish I had the resources to emulate your menu - honestly.
Jenn Thanks for complimenting my writing. Now if I could be as funny as you are.... Hey maybe we could team up and write a sitcom or something. I think the banana hammock is one whole show in itself. *still lol'n here* People like you make me prouder than I am of myself. I'm proud to connect with a few people keeping their spirits up along the way of a not-so-fun task. What a great side inspiration to have - humor.
-K- Hey girl, you have been issued an autopass on apologizes during school time. I completely understand. When I was a senior in high school merely being home on the evenings and weekends was damn-near impossible let alone hanging out in a forum on a pc - oh hell, they weren't even invented yet !! I think the most computerized fun back then was taking a Texas Instruments calculator and typing in 7734 and turning it upside-down so it would read "hell". Pretty lame huh. Tell Dad I'm stuck in the 250's too, I guess I'm just a lil happier about the 250's than he is.
hf Anytime ma'am, I enjoy your diary for its energy level. Good things are happening in that diary. Keep being a leader.
Kaitie Thanks for the backup. You are an amazing woman standing behind your man. If only every heavy man had the support of a woman as strong as you....
Heidi I too hope your friend finds the "switch" to get her weight problem corrected. I've never heard of skin splitting before and if that's not an incentive to help yourself, I don't know what is. That's really sad news. I cringed when I read that.
Jenn Thanks for complimenting my writing. Now if I could be as funny as you are.... Hey maybe we could team up and write a sitcom or something. I think the banana hammock is one whole show in itself. *still lol'n here* People like you make me prouder than I am of myself. I'm proud to connect with a few people keeping their spirits up along the way of a not-so-fun task. What a great side inspiration to have - humor.
-K- Hey girl, you have been issued an autopass on apologizes during school time. I completely understand. When I was a senior in high school merely being home on the evenings and weekends was damn-near impossible let alone hanging out in a forum on a pc - oh hell, they weren't even invented yet !! I think the most computerized fun back then was taking a Texas Instruments calculator and typing in 7734 and turning it upside-down so it would read "hell". Pretty lame huh. Tell Dad I'm stuck in the 250's too, I guess I'm just a lil happier about the 250's than he is.
hf Anytime ma'am, I enjoy your diary for its energy level. Good things are happening in that diary. Keep being a leader.
Kaitie Thanks for the backup. You are an amazing woman standing behind your man. If only every heavy man had the support of a woman as strong as you....
Heidi I too hope your friend finds the "switch" to get her weight problem corrected. I've never heard of skin splitting before and if that's not an incentive to help yourself, I don't know what is. That's really sad news. I cringed when I read that.
T2 Trucker
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This post goes out to the woman I love.
Make a username and stop being a guest. It would be fun to have you explain how you put up with me for the last 3 and a half years.
Don't be shy easee.
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Make a username and stop being a guest. It would be fun to have you explain how you put up with me for the last 3 and a half years.
Don't be shy easee.
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