Living400lbs: Monthly Roundup

Most-viewed posts from this month:

Who reads a 400lb lady’s blog, anyway?
Health At Every Size “whether you’re 100
Kim Weighs In: Getting Active
Some Things Worth Reading
On the Hamster Wheel

Note this is not counting the perennial favorite Why This Blog is Anonymous, or On Not Coming Out (possibly because October includes National Coming Out Day) and the tabs [...]

Supersize Halloween Sales

I already posted about Halloween costumes I have known.  As it happens I’m probably not dressing up this year.  But, FYI, Making it Big (2x-8x) has put more stuff on sale this weekend, and  Junonia (XL-6X) is doing a theme: 31% off black apparel (the offer code is embedded in this link).

Thankful Thursday

[Another weekly exercise in gratitude.]
1) My knee may not be getting much better but it’s not worse.
2) Being able to structure my day around resting, icing, and exercising my knee.
3) Ibuprofen, Doan’s, heating pads, and other such modern wonders.
4) The man of the house, for being patient with my whining.
5) This summary of why increasing health costs [...]

Wardrobe Adjustments

Part of why I started the virtual window shopping posts is that I’m not buying a lot of clothing right now.   But I have been changing my wardrobe: I’ve been adjusting it.  Or perhaps I should say altering it.
See, I had a pair of pants that had sprouted “wear holes” at the top of [...]

Some Things Worth Reading

Suethsayings summarized the research on long-term weight loss surgery results.
Bree at Life on FATS asks if anyone’s been refused entrance to a nightclub for being fat.  (I replied over there but thought I’d try “boosting the signal” ;)
Anyone thinking of doing NaNoWriMo?  I’ve done it in the past, but not this year.
Naafa quoted USA Today [...]

On the Hamster Wheel

One of the frequent refrains in the discussion of Angry Gray Rainbow’s “I Hate Exercise” post was the dislike of exercise bikes, treadmills, and other “hamster-wheel exercise-for-the-sake-of-exercising”.   I grinned when I saw it, because yes, I’d rather walk to someplace than walk in place or around the block.
But, then, there’s today.  Today my leg [...]

So how was your weekend?

Continuing from last week, my left thigh and knee are very sore today.
Saturday I went to the soccer game and found that walking a 1/2 mile or so, generally, wasn’t a problem — as long as I kept a regular stride and speed, and stayed on mostly level sidewalks.  (Which is much easier on a [...]

Fun: Two Lumps: Fat & Furry

The left leg (which has traditionally been the “good” leg) has decided to give me pain and occasionally not want to work.  I’m not thrilled with this.  I am exercising carefully and taking ibuprofen and trying to not freak out.
In the interest of not freaking out, I’m reading They Still Suspect Nothing: Two Lumps Year [...]

Thankful Thursday

[Another weekly exercise in gratitude.]
It’s Thursday and I’m thankful for:
1) Over 300 responses to yesterday’s poll and some great discussion in the comments.  Wow!
2) Ibuprofen, because I slacked off on walking for a week and strength training for mumble and both knees hurt.
3) But, despite slacking off I can and did walk a mile on the treadmill [...]

Who reads a 400lb lady’s blog, anyway?

I’ve talked about how most fat people aren’t my size, but I know from comments and emails that many of you are my size.   So, in the interest of fun, comes this:
I’ve also seen some speculation about how many folks

Read fat acceptance blogs, and
Are trying to lose weight.

So why not see what people say [...]

Symptoms of Fat People

“symptoms of fat people” showed up today in the table of items people searched on* that led them to my site.
So: what are “symptoms of fat people”?  I always thought it was weight vs height. Or visible padding.   What else?   Breathing hard?   Physical weakness?  Diabetes?   An obsession with what other people think of them and [...]

Virtual Window Shopping: Nifty Prices

[Looking at supersize / extended size clothing which is to say, clothing I can wear. Preferably modeled by fat people.]
Mostly with the virtual window shopping I’ve been looking at women’s clothes that I could wear* and that I think are really really nifty.   This week it’s stuff I could wear, like enough to wear, and [...]