Saturday, March 7, 2020

Kindness can be demoralizing

I've only recently started doing my weight loss again and I had to do one of the worst things someones that's overweight can do...I had to take a flight. Now I'm big, i'm 6'3" with broad shoulders and my scale hasn't arrived in the mail yet but i estimate around 310lbs. However I can carry it pretty well and people are always shocked when the realize how heavy I actually am. Now while i'm big, I don't leak out of my seat on a plane. My fat isn't under or on the arm rest, i feel as if there are invisible walls protecting my own and other peoples personal space so my fat stays within it.

But then people have to be jerks and become good people. the couple beside me switched so the smaller girl was next to me to give me more room, she offered to put the arm rest up and after the seat belt sign went on, the flight attendant found a spot with two empty seats for me to occupy to have more space.

I knew my flight wasn't going to be easy, i've been the big person on a plane before, even bigger than I am now. I just really didn't expect that niceness would be the thing that i felt most unsatisfying. I was happy that I fit, I was cramped but it was a personal victory to be able to sit there, no matter how uncomfortable I was and know that I can stay still for 2 hours and just bother no one.

Obviously I'm not actually upset with anyone, i would 100% do the exact same thing if the roles were reversed. It just that situation happening at this specific time that actually demoralized me for my flight home.

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