Posted on 03/15/2019 1:52:11 PM PDT by RightGeek
Rebecca Alexander’s worst experience dining while large happened just after she nailed a promotion at a nonprofit organization.
She took her staff, and her new boss, to lunch at a promising downtown restaurant in Portland, Ore., where she lives. As the hostess led the group to a booth, Ms. Alexander, a 31-year-old who wears a size 30, knew in an instant there was no way she was going to squeeze into it.
“I remember having this out-of-body experience,” she said. “I watched myself sit down and try to get in even though I knew the space was too small, because I so needed it to fit.” Defeated, she asked for a table. The hostess told her there would be a half-hour wait.
“The cherry on top was that I got to be the reason we had to stand around for 30 minutes,” she said.
For people who identify as large, plus-size or fat, dining out can be a social and physical minefield. Chairs with arms or impossibly small seats leave marks and bruises. Meals are spent in pain, or filled with worry that a flimsy chair might collapse.
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Presumably you can. I need to work harder this summer. I’ve stayed exactly the same blood sugar wise for about 9 years. So, at least I’m not getting worse.
It’s probably not most of these people’s fault!
Who is responsible for driving us away from good old sugar?!!
It seems that Sugar is a health food, when compared to artificial sweeteners!
We see, and often are, what we get when we try to fool nature.
The table is at chest height and my feet do not touch the floor even when I allow my toes to drop.
Being a reasonable person I realize that I am not "standard size" and that I am the one who has to adjust but there are places where I will not go back to just because I can not eat there comfortably.
I agree-that heifer is not just “large, plus-size or fat”-she is morbidly obese-if that makes me a mean person, esta bien-es no me hace-she is eating enough every day to feed a small family-I’m not at all sympathetic because she can’t fit into a booth designed for a person who weighs less than 400-500 lbs...
And yes, I’m thin, I’ve never been overweight because my family taught me to make healthy food choices-not going to apologize for that-those same healthy organic food choices are available to everyone. If a person is seriously addicted to carbs and sugar, bariatric surgery is available-as a comp case manager I’ve advised more than one client to look into it for work safety reasons-they are an injury just waiting to happen at that size...
I don’t care if someone chooses to be blue ribbon heifer sized-that is their choice-but don’t whine because you don’t fit into average sized furniture, vehicles or because people stare at you-it is your choice and problem to be that size-not everyone else’s...
Charles Piller, a contributing correspondent for Science, has published a news article in the journal questioning the medical soundness of referring to prediabetes as a condition that needs treatment. In his article, he points out that there is little to no scientific evidence linking prediabetes to diabetes. He also notes that prediabetes has not been found to cause health problems in people who have been so diagnosed.
Piller outlines the history of the coinage of the term, relating that it came about as representatives from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and other diabetes-related institutions met to discuss the possible implications of patients with above-normal levels of glucose in their blood. The fear was that prediabetes would lead to full-blown diabetes and thus there existed an opportunity to prevent the disease if prediabetes could be treated.
Piller argues that the problem was a lack of evidence to suggest that might be the case. But that did not stop the CDC and many other institutions from adopting the term and using it as a warning marker for people with elevated glucose levels. Piller also suggests another problem. The ADA is a nonprofit organization and relies on donations to survive. Much of those funds, he found, come from pharmaceutical companies that sell drugs such as metformin, which have been developed to reduce the damage that diabetes does to the body.
Piller reports that in recent years, the ADA has lowered the conditions required to be diagnosed as prediabetic, resulting in far more people being diagnosed as such, a move he suggests could have been due to pressure from its pharmaceutical partners hoping to cash in on treatment products. This is because some doctors have begun prescribing medications to patients diagnosed as prediabetic. Some have even begun to prescribe drugs such as metformin to patients who do not even have diabetes, all in the name of preventing them from getting it.
But not everyone is on the prediabetes bandwagon, Piller points out. The World Health Organization has rejected it as a diagnosis, as have many other institutions around the world. There is also trouble with the numbers—tens of millions of people have been diagnosed as prediabetic, far more than will ever develop the disease. He cites an example: approximately 16 million people in the U.K. have been diagnosed as prediabetic, but only 3.3 million people there actually have type 2 diabetes.
He concludes by suggesting that coinage of the term has led to classifying many healthy people as having an illness, which has led to negative consequences for them such as financial losses due to having to pay for care, and unnecessary anxiety.
Link: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-prediabetes-medical-condition-attention.html
9 years is great!
Pre means you don’t have it and you can keep it that way!
I wish you the best.
I need to start eating responsibly like you are.
Most people have no clue how much they’re eating, nothing more than a WAG usually. I was talking to someone very recently and they told me how “little” they eat,as they were munching on their fifth large handful of nuts, thinking to myself they are clueless to how calorically dense nuts are, for example.
Kudos to you for ditching the unhealthy carbs and sugar-I’ll bet you have more energy and look terrific, too-humans were really not designed to eat all that grain-and sugar based food, and it is addictive, like drugs-fresh animals and plants suit us better.
Sit in a chair at the end of the booth? Problem solved.
If I walked a mile in her shoes, I'd be a mile away with her shoes.
If she walked a mile in her own shoes, she probably wouldn't be a size 30.
I don’t even like to go shopping there with my guy-he lives there, so maybe he is immune to the sight of 350+ lb women wandering the grocery isles in leggings, but I’m not-out here-50 miles away in BFE-the only obese people in the store are tourists...
It IS sad. Apparently, there are thousands of FReepers, though, so the rude and crude among them, are having a ball, today. Shame on them! But then, it’s hard to shame those who have no shame.
Good luck with your weight loss efforts. The easiest and most pleasant way to lose weight, is low carb. I’m a bread and pasta lover, and I found a low carb flour that makes REAL, delicious bread. PM me if you want recipes or details.
Problem is, with the foods they serve, they aren’t real good for warming up the next day. I could see three or four people buying all of those things and splitting them.
I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a size “30”.
I used to make my own clothes & don’t ever remember seeing a pattern that had those kinds of numbers.
“You guessed it. The article went on to mention Golden Corral. Which remodeled to fit fat people easier.”
Yummmm the Golden Trough!
LoL
Man downtown San Antonio market area used to have the best ted mex in the world
Or you can drive to Llano for original Coopers bbq
My kids love that joint
We had a deer lease near Burnet in the 70s
Yup, that works too.
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