JohnT:
My girlfriend is over 550lbs and we keep going on holidays though not as often as in the past when she was smaller. We plan well ahead, asking for a bariatric wheelchair which i push because we don’t want to overburden the airport staff. We buy three seats between us and we ask for a seatbelt extender. We also carry her oxygen mask with us just in case because her breathing tends to be more elaborated in higher altitudes and we make sure she wears full compression for her lymphedema otherwise her legs will be extremely swollen and painful. When booking a hotel make sure the bed is reinforced enough to stand your weight and that you can fit in the toilet/ shower. There’s nothing worse as paying for an expensive holiday only to realize that you can’t use the bathroom. Being this big is a bit challenging for my feedee but she still has quality life and a great time, and we will always strive for that no matter how massive she gets
Op User:
How can you make sure the bed is reinforced enough to hold the weight of the couple?
That's the one box I feel like I can't completely check off. I did call, to ask about general accessibility. I have an accessible room with a roll-in shower. It does have a shower chair, but I'm not sure I would trust that. We thought about ordering a bariatric shower chair from Amazon and having it delivered directly, but I think I'll be able to make do standing. I was candid about my size, and I was told that shouldn't be a problem with a king bed and that most guests of size find it adequate. I'm not sure if they were fully considering the weight of a nearly 600 lb person in it, but I think we're just going to have to trust that that works.
10 months
Alex7:
Oh funny I love it. Did the brothers-in-law survive lol
Yes! No injuries reported. Not really able to do many stairs at this size, so the pool steps were a challenge. I definitely wouldn't advise standing behind a 570 lb person though. After all, if we fall, we'll just knock you over like a bowling pin.
10 months
Now that my custom-made bathing suits are here, I swam front of others for the first time this year and also for the first time at this weight. Yes, I'm late in the season, but I also had literally nothing to wear, and I can no longer order retail.
It felt nice to move freely and have a lot of mobility. I walked around and stretched in the water for hours at a time. Getting out of the pool was challenging though, because you feel like you suddenly have gravity pulling you down.
My brother in law, bless his heart, got behind me and said, "How can I help?" I laughed and warned him that being behind a 570 pound woman on steps may not be advisable for his personal welfare. 🤣
10 months
Morbidly A Beast:
That was me kinda when I crossed the threshold of 300lbs after failing diet after diet I couldn’t exercise like I used to
Like I was fat and I didn’t realistically have an objection to it so I just learned to accept and love my body as it was
Now I’m fat fat, fat people can be like damn your fat
Same!! At 570, a person half my weight is 285, which means they're already quite obese (unless they're a completely ripped extreme body builder maybe). I think around 400, I crossed over into being "fat to most fat people".
10 months
I had my first stuffing in nearly three months Friday night for my birthday. I can't do an all-dayer like I used to (not is this the beginning of a new gain), and I have to watch my salt because I'm a heart patient. I did get pretty full though, and I felt pretty heavy and stretched out.
The birthday dinner was:
- Large chicken, strawberry and walnut salad
- Two XL baked sweet potatoes
- 6 crab cakes
- 1 pound of grilled shrimp
- 6 biscuits
- Family size asparagus
- Large serving of brown mushroom rice
- 1 pint of sugar free caramel ice cream
- 1 sugar free cupcake
- 1 gallon of sugar free tea (to fill any space left!)
It was amazing to feel that tight-as-a-drum feeling in my stomach again, and to get a birthday belly rub while super bloated.
Before dinner weight: 566.8
After dinner weight: 575.4
Weight today: 570.1
10 months
I think at some point, I got so fat people knew darn well I wasn't going to take diet advice, and they gave up. 🤣
10 months
Ferro1987:
I LOVE a good fast food crawl. Even better is doubling back to one you hit early in the crawl and they can tell you’ve been eating.
I’ve also done it at mall food courts or food truck gatherings. The exhibitionism can be off putting to some but for me it adds some heat to it.
Returning noticeably bigger... on the same day. Love it!
10 months
Obviously, you don't get to be 570 lb without getting fat all over, but a wildly disproportionate amount of my weight is in my belly, which has retained a round shape even at this size. I have giant fat rolls on my mid back too, which means my midsection girth is enormous.
10 months
Romy:
It depends on the body. But when I weighed 650 pounds, I rode on a plane for an hour.
We bought 3 seats, of which 2 were for me.
It didn't fit in two seats.
My seat was in the middle of the plane and to get there I had to strain my butt to avoid getting trapped between the seatbacks.
When I tried to sit down my knees hit the front seat and part of my butt ended up on my husband's seat.
People were looking at me, I was tired and uncomfortable and when we arrived my legs were numb and I couldn't get up.
Everything was horrible from the moment we bought the tickets where they weighed me.
I remember the mocking smiles of the flight attendant who reminded me to lose weight and even said let's try to take off.
I'm so sorry you had that experience. You were a responsible passenger, doing what you knew to do to ensure you didn't inconvenience anyone else. The flight attendant's job was to assist you as a paying ticket holder, not judge or shame. I hope they're not longer in a customer-facing job
10 months
Thank you! It really was fun. I'll probably never be able to repeat it to that extent, but it catapulted my gain over the whole holiday season to the extreme. And rereading my own post does kind of make me hungry, haha!
10 months
