One of my recent posts generated some discussion around friends of mine. Ideally, that is what these posts are supposed to do. I write a lot from personal experience and quite frankly, my personal exp...

In the past, I have talked a lot about depression and self-image issues. I think one of the worst side effects of a poor self-image is when it comes to dating. I am no exception. In the Size Acc...

I hate to travel. I am a fat guy that needs a lot of room and usually, it’s just not possible. We all hear of the horror stories about fat people needing to buy 2 seats or even the other day when a ...

For those of you who know who Jack Benny is, he was 39 for the last 41 years of his life. Today is my first 39th birthday. I’m really not sure how I feel about it. It was very uneventful as far ...

I was born in 1971 in a fair sized town in Massachusetts. I am the son of a licensed practical nurse and a multi-sport athlete. And I am fat. I have been fat all my life. I think that my parents may h...

I heard a comment the other day. I internalized it and I shouldn’t have, but I did. I overheard a person at a check out line at the grocery store comment on a plus sized woman and her children who w...

I went to my doctors yesterday and had my annual physical. They reviewed the blood work, urinalysis, and the EKG I had the week before. And once again I stunned them. It shouldn’t have been a surpri...

So, if I decide to fly in the US, I have to buy two seats. It’s been that way on a lot of airlines for a while. I remember a story of my parents, who were also of sturdy stature, telling me on one f...

During most of the 1990’s I worked in fast food. Long hours, low pay, and unhealthy lifestyle pretty much was the definition of how I lived during those 8 years. I worked my way through the ranks to...

In 1979, after a year of watching my next door neighbors get to participate, I finally got to join the Cub Scouts. I eventually earned my badges and did my time and became a Boy Scout when I finished ...