5 Things I Miss About Weighing More Than 300 Pounds

Have you seen this? Blog entry from Mind Body Green

I am surprised by some of the things she is struggling with/challenged by this far out. 

I'm not sure I'd agree that she's "struggling" with the things she mentions. I took it more as musings about how differently she relates to herself, others and the world now that she's thinner. To be honest, although I'm not at a normal BMI yet, I can certainly understand the things she talks about and even relate to some of them a bit. I also find it refreshing to see someone who is apparently without any self-condemnation for herself in her previous form. It's nice to see a slightly positive spin on "that overweight person" someone used to be, frankly. Too often I see people talking almost contemptuously about their former selves after they lose weight. It's sad, I think.

Also, I think her description about how having been overweight had made her more empathetic is important. Personally, I don't ever want to forget how it felt to be "judged, undervalued, demonized, mocked, feared, despised, and avoided", because I never want to treat another human being that way just because of their weight. Some of us forget that, I think.

I agree with Cunning_Pam about this.  And it is refreshing to read what most of us must feel from time to time.  For myself, I am not sure I would have become the person I am today had I never been fat/obese.  I might have been a truly mean, ugly person inside, one of those who look at people like us as if we are the scourge of the earth.

I have been made to feel many different things, being over 300 lbs, not many of them were positive.  And altho I learned how to wear a thick skin, even a dull knife will cut at some point. I cannot wait to lose it and begin a "normal" size life.

That was my take on it as well.  

I love the phrase "drinking like a blues guitarist."

it sounds like musings to me too and I can definitely identify with what she says. I remember one of the times when I was smaller i would sit at the 2 seater on the train knowing noone else would sit next to me until someone else did and she wasn't a skinny mini or a kid and in my head I was like hey don't you see my larger than life butt sitting in this seat, how can you not see me?, then it dawned on me hey I'm not that big and we both fit, comfortably at that. I'm bigger now but I do get where she's coming from.

I probably can related to all but number #4.  

Fat or skinny - people I call friends - specially long time friends - don't care if I was fat or thin. My attitude was always the same..  And I was going back and forth between fat and fit to thin looking and anything in between in the last 30 years of my life..

I loved this blog post.  I have to follow her now. 

I liked her honesty and the positive perspective she writes about before weight loss.  She had refreshing insights on weighing 300 pounds and now having lost weight.

Good for her!