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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There is a diner in the Philly suburbs where they welded a piece of rebar between the seat and the base of each chair, as extra support for the massive asses of their customers.
“My, that’s a big one!”
it’s fat shaming and should be illegal. Sue the restaurant and make them remove all booths and only have tables and chairs. It’s her right to shovel as much food as she wants and we must accommodate her {sarc}
That whales that size are not ashamed to be seen stuffing themselves in public is a sign of a rotting culture.
Have you had your thyroid function checked? I’m not a physician, dietician, or a politician mortician, and I haven’t slept at Holiday Inn recently but those numbers don’t seem to add up.
The cardiologist is very over weight( no offense meant ) Crusher?
The poster is 6 foot at 290 your responding to, unless Crusher is elite level body builder, I’m guessing he’s a bit overweight.
I find it easier this time around as so many people are on the "Keto" diet and most restaurants have a Keto style menu which pretty much fits with what I am doing.
Lot of salads too which bring in the needed fiber. Earlier tonight, I ordered a steak with a salad on the side (no dressing, just olive oil).
On this diet, I take in more calories which is why the "calories in calories out" concept is dis-proven. There was a period in my life where I did a "weight watchers" type diet in which I eliminated most fat and tried to stay under 1200 calories a day. It was hell. I was constantly hungry and I was removing skin from chicken, eating egg whites and cutting fat out from steak and discarding it. Horrible!
With this diet, I leave the skin on, eat all the fat I want and have plenty of eggs. This actually lowers my cholesterol and improves my blood work. I average about 2600 calories a day and the weight is coming off 2-3 pounds a week on average. The most important part - I'm not hungry! So this can be sustained long term.
Shop the perimeter of the supermarket. Eggs, cheese, whole-fat yogurt, nuts, fish, poultry, beef, pork, high fiber produce like berries, broccoli, asparagus, kale, brussels sprouts...all you can eat of these!
Oh, ffs, I’m 6’7”, and my shoulders are so wide I don’t fit comfortably into any car, plane, movie theater, or stadium seat. Please pity me.
Sounds like you have a good handle on the low carb lifestyle. Congratulations for your success.
As an added plus, your system would mean she would have to stay out of restaurants, so seating problem solved.
I almost never eat out since I returned from Germany in 1970. My experience overseas was that you never knew what was going on back there - mold, rats, bugs non-working freezers if they had one.
Her in the states only a couple - one was as bad as anything I saw in Europe and Turkey, the other was a Chinese restaurant where they stopped me bor a few minutes before allowing me in - I assume they were slicing a local pet for meat.
Then there was the Mickey D’s where I could see into the food area where the people were handling the cooked and uncooked food with bare hands.
So I no longer eat out - and then (when invited out) only select foods - which can be identified (like shrimp) and not processed.
Yes, usually there is something wrong even in the best of restaurants - TV food shows often feature the food handling and storage problems.
Absolutely, she should realize the world doesn’t owe anything to those of us non-standard sizes. It’s absurd and immature to think otherwise.
Years ago, I was dining with my family at a table in a Bangor, Maine restaurant. Off to one side of us at another table was an older woman we knew. At one point I looked down at the floor next to me, and was surprised to see the woman on her back looking up at me.
Her chair had collapsed out from under her due to the extra weight she carried. She was unhurt, but very embarrassed. I helped her up and we all laughed it off.
“rickety chair”
That’s excellent!
She could still go to a restaurant and order a steak or burger no bun no sides. Cooked veggies or salad with no rancid oil.
True, but she would do better to stay out of restaurants and avoid the temptation of all the other menu items.
Think of here having a seat next to you on a plane!
Basic thyroid numbers are okay, there is a more in depth test that can be done, but only by an endocrinologist. The only endocrinologist in town that my insurance will pay for says he "doesn't do weight loss".
BTW, blood pressure is 115 over 75, resting heart rate is 60, blood sugar is fine, cholesterol is fine. I am a really healthy fat guy.
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