Category: My health

  • Mom weighed over 300lbs too

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    If she ever got up to 400lbs she never told me, but then, she probably wouldn’t. I remember she had a chart during one of her diets.  At the top was ”  03″, and before the 0 was a shiny bit of Wite-Out.  It was clear that mom didn’t want anyone to know the first number.  At the time I assumed it was a 3, but now I…

  • Life at ~400lbs

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    I weigh about 400lbs. Sometimes 409, sometimes 397, usually in between.  Over the years I have encountered folks who talk about how “If you weigh over 300, you aren’t living, you’re just existing.”  Or  “being a bit overweight is okay, but if you weigh some huge amount, like 350 or 400 or 500lbs, well then there’s all these things you can’t do, like hold down a job…