Every year during the holidays my wife and I have to visit our respective families. Due to divorces, remarriages, etc., we end up visiting and sleeping at 3-4 different houses during the weeks I have off work. During this time my sleep situation could be better. I’ve slept on the floor, on a heavy-duty futon, …
When I was younger, office chairs for obese people weren’t really a thing. Or maybe I just didn’t notice because I wasn’t as fat as I am now. Whatever the reason, I hadn’t given the issue a single thought until my work chair started making some pretty concerning sounds. I know I’m not alone in …
One of my old pub quiz teammates recently moved to Colorado and has been trying to get the rest of the team to take a trip and come visit him. Part of the trip would involve going skiing or snowboarding in Aspen since it’s only about an hour’s drive from his house. He called me …
There’s nothing I love more than tromping around in wet weather (a good thing since I grew up in western Washington). At least, there’s nothing I love more than tromping in puddles and wet weather if I’m prepared for it: meaning a sweater and waterproof boots. Being able to nestle my toes inside a pair …
“Oh sure you can spend the night, we’ll just pull out our heavy-duty air mattress….” When my wife and I first got married I would dread visiting her parents. Oh, you do too? Well, I didn’t dread it for all the normal reasons, I’m afraid. They’re nice enough people. I just knew that whenever I …
A friend of mine recently moved to Hawaii and has been trying to convince me to round up the rest of our friends and go visit her down in Honolulu. I find Hawaii to be a little too hot and humid for a fat guy like me who sweats buckets while walking down the street, …
If you’ve been around the blog before, you may have noticed that I frequently refer to myself as being obese and I often discuss obesity in general. It’s a common term, which means people often understand the gist of what it means without knowing the exact definition. But what exactly does it mean to be …
What’s the first image or the first person that comes to your mind when you hear someone being described as a vegan? A sad skinny person with a salad? This is probably because I’m a football fan, but for me, it’s seven-time Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady, the quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The …
I was watching television the other day with some of my friends and I saw a scene in some movie while we were flipping through channels where the characters go parasailing. One of my pals, who is about 5’3″ and 225 pounds, looked down at his stomach and said, “I’ve always wanted to go parasailing, …
As a fat guy, buying clothes is often difficult for me. It’s hard to find stuff that fits and makes me look good (or at least makes me feel good). I always have to go look in the “big and tall” section and hope I can find something that fits me reasonably well. Sometimes, though, …