Living ~400lbs

Category: BeingSuperFat

  • A year or two ago …

    Two years ago, I wrote 2 of the most-read posts of this blog: on stress incontinence and jock itch.   I worked hard on both of those posts. I was a bit embarrassed to admit they were problems I deal with, but I also felt that writing a bad post on either would be worse…

  • When You Get Used To People Not Having Your Size…

    …you don’t expect them to have your size.  It’s like, I don’t know, logic. As Red No 3 put it (emphasis added): See, what’s going on here [at Saks] is a bit of product testing. This is only being launched in one location. They see how it goes, and then decide how to expand. Its…

  • On not buying clothes

    I mentioned in my last post that I haven’t bought clothes in a while. My previous clothing purchase was a Sounders green item to wear to Sounders games, bought at my husband’s urging.  I bought bras in February.  In September 2009 I replaced 3 worn-out pairs of knit pants and some bras.  July 2009 I…

  • Seat Belt Extenders: Not just for airplanes

    You know how you get used to your life and forget things other people take for granted? Yeah. Listening to Lesley & Marianne’s Fatcast I started thinking about how life is different for superfat folks than it is for those size 24 and below.  I shop in different catalogs, I have a seat belt extender…

  • Jeans and big bellies

    Today I am wearing jeans.   This is abnormal. It didn’t used to be — like many American girls, I grew up wearing jeans.  After college, working at  a major software company, jeans were like a uniform.   I wasn’t one the guys, but wearing the same clothes helped me fit in: jeans,  a t-shirt…

  • March Round-Up

    This is partly for me, and partly to show folks a little of what’s going on “behind the curtain”.  I’ve considered calling it “Best of Living 400lbs” but I’m not sure it’s really the best articles…what do you think? March’s most popular posts: On Acceptance Why paying attention to weight can be good “Every Little…

  • Virtual Window Shopping: Hourglass, Apple, Pineapple, Pear…

    Shades of Right Fit Jeans!  Junonia has come out with a series of sport pants in 4 different cuts, in sizes 1X to 6X, and 3 different lengths.  Nice, eh? Well…sort of.  You see, they’re not giving any custom sizing for them — just talking about cut in the description.  Has it perhaps not occurred…

  • Flying While 400lbs

    I wasn’t going to write about Kevin Smith being bumped for fatness because I felt like I’d written enough already on airline stuff.  But I’ve been contributing to the Kevin Smith thread at Shapely Prose.  Then tonight I wrote up a huge long comment on my airline experiences at We Are The Real Deal and … it’s…

  • Disney World

    As hinted yesterday, my November vacation was Disney World! For a week! Yes, it was fantastic.  We stayed at Port Orleans French Quarter, visited in-laws, did Mission: Space, Soarin’, ate Moroccan food, laughed at Ellen & Bill Nye, geeked out at Spaceship Earth, loved Big Thunder Mountain and Test Track, enjoyed lunch with an Imagineer, and…

  • MiB Sale

    (This is the image from their email. No, the “click here to join” stuff doesn’t work. Clicking goes to the clearance section of their site.)

  • Virtual Window Shopping: Sanctuarie Va-Voom

    [Looking at supersize / extended size clothing which is to say, clothing I can wear. Preferably modeled by fat people.] Sanctuarie’s princess-seamed dress and wrap might work for Valentine’s Day.  Or clubbing. I’m not feeling quite enough love to buy a dress that would require a strapless bra, but it is nice to see a dressy…

  • Supersize Sales – Making it Big & Junonia

    Making it Big has an “Online Warehouse Sale” through midnight Monday night (Pacific time).  Most items are priced $19.95 – $29.95, but there are things at $9.95 too. Junonia is offering 40% off everything through midnight Sunday (Central time).   http://www.junonia.com/home.htm?offer=11279

  • Airflight Update

    As it happens, I could get the armrest down on a standard coach seat.  There was definitely hip compression going on, it wouldn’t be comfortable long-term…but it was down. However… The man of the house has broad shoulders.  I mean, I have broad shoulders, and his are broader, and the two of us sitting together…

  • Checking in from the airport…

    …to say what the F is with airline personnel looking at me like I’ve sprouted an extra head for having purchased a second seat?  If I’m not obviously fat enough for the seats maybe it’s not that I’m so fat but that the seats are so small!

  • Virtual Window Shopping: Nifty Prices

    [Looking at supersize / extended size clothing which is to say, clothing I can wear. Preferably modeled by fat people.] Mostly with the virtual window shopping I’ve been looking at women’s clothes that I could wear* and that I think are really really nifty.   This week it’s stuff I could wear, like enough to wear,…

  • Health At Every Size “whether you’re 100lbs or 500lbs”

    The LA Times ran a couple articles on Health At Every Size this weekend. Diets? Not for these folks Do extra pounds always equal extra risk? One bit that from the second article gave me a smile: “You can’t know just based on a person’s size whether that person has good or poor health habits,”…

  • Window Shopping: Sweaters

    [Looking at supersize / extended size clothing, which is to say, clothing I can wear. Preferably modeled by fat people] After weeks of highs in the 70s and 80s we’re suddenly experiencing … fall. I even wore a sweater to work today. I’ve been looking forward to sweater season this year.   Suddenly I don’t…