LetHerselfGrow

"Sorry, it's a bit of a tight squeeze to get past me."

"Are you going to finish that? I'm still pretty hungry."

"I don't think that these seats are wide enough for me."

Sounds like fun!

I'd definitely recommend keeping snacks and drinks within easy reach. You'll be more prone to mindlessly eating if it's near by, especially while watching TV. Snacking while gaming can be good too, as long as you don't get too distracted. If you have to work, definitely recommend keeping sugary drinks (or even shakes!) on your desk so you can ""stealthily"" get those calories in.

Speaking of calories, don't underestimate liquids - juice, soda, sweet tea, etc.. Keeping some sprite or ginger ale at room temp will also help with discomfort if you eat too much, too.

Don't waste your time and money on buying calorie dense foods you don't like just for the sake of calories. Buy things you actually like and will eat. The volume of eating what you like will make up for any calorie difference.

Add butter where you can, even a tablespoon or two will add up! Same with dipping sauces, like ranch, mayo, or aoli. Peanut butters are another good one, too.

Keep tums handy, as well as the ginger ale, for any upset stomachs. Warm ginger tea or peppermint tea can work as well if you prefer.

You can also try using an apéritif (or aperitivo) and a difestif to aid in increasing hunger and digesting your meal, respectively. These are normally aromatic alcoholic drinks served before and after meals.

300lbs is undeniably fat - you're not chubby or thick or husky. You're fat. You either like it, or are ambivalent enough it doesn't scare you the way it would other people. You can still participate in society, mostly, but the world doesn't have to stop to accommodate you.

+400lbs is definitely eyebrow raising for society. It's being unable to clothes shop at even Walmart. Its forcing you to slow down, forcing you out of normal society because you simply do not fit. It's modifying your habits, changing to more sedentary hobbies. It's having to take up 2 seats on a packed flight, impacting a strangers life when they find that plane full. But instead of letting all that mortification spark change, no, something pleasurable coils in your belly and whispers "its not that bad yet"

500lbs?

Thats a level of obesity you're not ready for. Trust me, and I barely dipped my toe in that class of obesity.

Simple things that you've taken for granted, things that have remained as your athleticism dwindled, now suddenly seem like Olympian feats. Waddling through a store? Might as well call the ambulance to wait for your inevitable collapse. An incline? No, silly, might as well call it Everest. Standing at the stove to cook? Bold to not have a chair nearby. Clothes for fat people? Ha, you've sized out of specialty stores. Now you need custom clothes. Getting off the couch? Now you gotta plan how many times you can get up and so you make those one or two attempts count by stacking snacks around you.

Once you hit 500lbs, and you ignore that tiny quiet voice saying, "woah, hey, lets slow down" and instead listen to that roaring hunger in your belly...