While I am certainly fat (morbidly obese actually) I do get around pretty well. I coached soccer, I went skiing in Colorado, etc. But I can tell that the wear and tear on my knees, the lack of strength training for my muscles and the lack of cardio for my heart is a recipe for bad things. So I need to work on all of that.
But the point is that I have rarely felt that my size has prevented me from doing something I wanted to do. Of course it certainly effects doing things as well as I could, for example in Colorado I could not do a complete run down the mountain without stopping for a rest and the girls on my soccer team frequently had to ask why I was sweating so much!
A couple of years ago I was with my family at the Mall of America, enjoying the amusement park. My son wanted to go on one of the roller coasters and he wanted me to go with him. As we sat down in the car and I went to put the bar down across my lap I realized I could not get it down completely because of my stomach. It was locked but apparently not in the position they require (and since my son is so skinny he probably did need it down another notch) so they told me I couldn't go on the ride. I had to get out and take the "walk of shame" down to the end of the ride where my wife and daughter were waiting for us.
I don't know why that didn't cause me to make radical changes right then and there, but drudging up those memories again reminds me of why I am really doing this - to spend many years riding roller coasters with my kids and eventually my grand kids.
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