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For Larger Customers, Eating Out Is Still a Daunting Experience
NY Times ^ | 3/12/2019 | Kim Severson

Posted on 03/15/2019 1:52:11 PM PDT by RightGeek

Rebecca Alexander’s worst experience dining while large happened just after she nailed a promotion at a nonprofit organization.

She took her staff, and her new boss, to lunch at a promising downtown restaurant in Portland, Ore., where she lives. As the hostess led the group to a booth, Ms. Alexander, a 31-year-old who wears a size 30, knew in an instant there was no way she was going to squeeze into it.

“I remember having this out-of-body experience,” she said. “I watched myself sit down and try to get in even though I knew the space was too small, because I so needed it to fit.” Defeated, she asked for a table. The hostess told her there would be a half-hour wait.

“The cherry on top was that I got to be the reason we had to stand around for 30 minutes,” she said.

For people who identify as large, plus-size or fat, dining out can be a social and physical minefield. Chairs with arms or impossibly small seats leave marks and bruises. Meals are spent in pain, or filled with worry that a flimsy chair might collapse.

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To: Impala64ssa

She’s so fat that when she said I just haven’t seen her good side; I told her I didn’t have time to make the trip!


101 posted on 03/15/2019 2:51:00 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: SamAdams76

Agreed. I dropped 125 pounds over the last 7 years using the “Eat-less, move-more” diet. Went lower carb and eliminated as much refined food from my daily diet as possible. I occassionally splurge but have kept it off. It IS a daily struggle but it is worth it. I am Type 2 diabetic and my crappy lifestyle choices earlier in my life CONTRIBUTED to my disease but was not the sole cause of it. I STRONGLY encourage anyone battling excess weight to start fighting it now. Do not wait until it catches up with you.

MY two cents worth.


102 posted on 03/15/2019 2:52:38 PM PDT by kschockeynut87 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my GOD, my family and my country.)
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To: The Antiyuppie

Truth is if you burn more calories than you consume you will lose weight. Some people may store more glycogen then others thus it will take longer for them to hit their fat reserves. Just like if you use 11 gallons of gas per week and only put in 10 per week eventually you will run out of gas.


103 posted on 03/15/2019 2:53:32 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: glorgau

Got that right...

What a society we’ve become!

Bloated, drug-addicted, food-addicted, stuff-addicted, self-absorbed, self-righteous know-it-alls.


104 posted on 03/15/2019 2:54:23 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: RightGeek
A few years ago we had a layover of a couple of hours in Newark and we found a burger joint that had great burgers but burgers that should only be eaten by those hoping to have a fatal heart attack.Right near the stand was one of those defibrillators you see in various places these days.

I had an appointment with my cardiologist coming up and knowing that he had a sense of humor (and preached loudly about bad diets) I took a photo of the defibrillator and the burger joint.

He liked it so much he said he wanted to put it on his desk...and he did!

105 posted on 03/15/2019 2:57:06 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: SamAdams76

everything you list you ate was high carb, high sugar, garbage foodstuffs. all that stuff as well produces cravings for more of it, and doesnt have a high fiber filling feeling, or protein satisfying long digest time, to keep you from shoveling more and more into your face.

its not rocket science why you were overweight.

you picked crap food thar was high calorie, high sugar, high carb that didnt stick around very long so you got hungry quicker.

it really is calories in, calories stored. because your body has to deal with all the damn sugar you inhaled quickly or else you will go into a diabetic coma and die. so it changes the sugads into fat.

I eat what I want but not in endless amounts. I watch how much, and how often. you can eat what you want but if you dont control portions and calories its no good. The problem you and most women have is they like sweets and high carb/sugar crap, which doesnt long term satisfy so they ignore their portions and eat way more calories, and get fat.


106 posted on 03/15/2019 2:57:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: RightGeek

Many of these restaurants have meals with unbelievable calories. I had a Red Robin fantasy today. (this weather makes me want to eat stuff I don’t anymore). A top-of-the-line chocolate milk shake, a full size hamburger with toppings and fries would’ve added up to almost 2500 calories. If they’re going to feed people that much food, they should provide very large seats!


107 posted on 03/15/2019 2:57:29 PM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: LukeL

“Truth is if you burn more calories than you consume you will lose weight. Some people may store more glycogen then others thus it will take longer for them to hit their fat reserves. Just like if you use 11 gallons of gas per week and only put in 10 per week eventually you will run out of gas”

You can’t beat the law.
Of thermodynamics.


108 posted on 03/15/2019 2:57:43 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.”)
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To: sparklite2

thats the truth! I got a part time job at an Italian restaurant that I loved.
I came home on my 1st day and said “we can’t eat there anymore!!!” Only thing i ever ate were the breadsticks as they were brought in from somewhere else.


109 posted on 03/15/2019 2:58:14 PM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is????)
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To: beef

You go out for a swim, and they update the tide tables....


110 posted on 03/15/2019 2:58:32 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: RightGeek
I don’t spot another “huge” problem author(s) fail to mention: sitting down at booths after extra large people have sat there, one literally sinks down to the frame as the springs, foam or other structure has broken down!

One national chain restaurant where I went in the last month, had this problem with each and every booth on their first level. Thankfully, there were a few tables with chairs available.

Being rather short myself, I feel as though I should ask for a booster chair, if I’m seated at a booth, just to reach table height!

111 posted on 03/15/2019 2:58:49 PM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: Mr Rogers; RightGeek; Chode

Actually the trick is to eat way way less carbs and more protein when eating out.

Read the book “Eat this not that” and it tells you the best places to eat! You’d be surprised what places are good and what are not.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=eat+this+not+that+book%27&hvadid=241917107992&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9009196&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=9811979873507919056&hvtargid=kwd-12691268897&tag=googhydr-20&ref=pd_sl_45wqg41q3s_e

Also avoid Chinese food! Yes you really are hungry one hour later and carbs are the reason why.


112 posted on 03/15/2019 3:00:10 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Mark was here

Rights do not require a moral claim on someone else.

Theft is when someone who has no moral claim to your money or stuff takes it from you.


113 posted on 03/15/2019 3:01:23 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: RightGeek

An unpleasant experience can perform a vital function. It can lead to action tendencies, action implications, and motivational power that can lead to better health in the long run.


114 posted on 03/15/2019 3:01:59 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: wardaddy

“Golden Corral needs to do that

Majority of their patrons are fat

At least where I live”

Is that way where is live too!

Majority of their food is carbs and sugars. When I do eat there I bypass all that! I ONLYgo for the roast beef and steak. I eat meat like a T Rex that way I’m not hungry later. In fact I’m not hungry till noon the next day.


115 posted on 03/15/2019 3:03:39 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
It took 9 posts before someone showed some compassion. Thank you,
HiTech RedNeck.

Evidence is now clear. Obesity is a chronic hunger disorder that is almost impossible for most obese people to control. It is likely tied to the microbiome in the gut and fructose metabolism.

I am normal weight and have been for more than 10 years...but....keeping it normal requires minute by minute ( almost superhuman) conscious control. It is exhausting.

I am hopeful that effective treatment will soon be forthcoming.

The following are two talks. Sadly, those Freepers who are the cruelest in their comments towards the obese are the least likely to watch and listen.

This from the UCLA medical school on fructose metabolism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

This is a TED talk about gut bacteria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awtmTJW9ic8

116 posted on 03/15/2019 3:03:54 PM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: Morgana

The only Chinese food that I actually like is Crab Rangoon aka cheese wonton.

A small bag is actually filling and doesn’t give me a migraine like most modern era food.


117 posted on 03/15/2019 3:04:35 PM PDT by wally_bert (You're bringing The Monk down, man!)
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To: grania

if they dont provide people with this amount of food they will say they arent getting their moneys worth.

and gave you ever heard of a ‘doggy bag?’ you dont have to eat everything in a single seating.


118 posted on 03/15/2019 3:05:28 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: forgotten man

Mean people are such a pleasure....you for example. You probably laugh at people for crying when their child dies. Good for yoy, report me.


119 posted on 03/15/2019 3:06:49 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: wintertime

Also some freepers don’t understand that being overweight can be cause by health problems not just over eating. There are a vast number of Rx medications that cause weight gain or even obesity. However it’s either take those meds or die. People just assume that person is pigging out when they may be starving themselves because they are upset over what the meds are doing and still that big.


120 posted on 03/15/2019 3:07:43 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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