Posted on 11/20/2019 7:15:01 AM PST by simpson96
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.
Deciding where to eat is a challenge. Diners often comb through endless photographs of restaurant food online, hoping someone has posted an image of the chairs or the space between tables.(snip)
“It puts the onus on the fat person,” said Ms. Baker, 32, who fluctuates between size 22 and 24. “We are the paying customers. We are paying you. We want to be comfortable and treated like humans.”
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"Rebecca Alexander at Besaw’s Restaurant in Portland, Ore., which gets mostly high marks from AllGo, the crowdsourced mobile app she founded to help larger people find comfortable options. But here, she shows how balancing on the bar chairs is hard because they are narrow, not deep enough, and have backs"
Good rule of thumb: if the first digit of your age and your size are the same, you're way too big.
Lose weight. There’s a simple solution.
The out-and-proud fatties...never show their faces.
Just imagine how hard it would be if they smoked too.
Eating out comfortably at restaurants should be the least of your worries. You are morbidly obese. You are killing yourself. You need to focus on your health.
I’m not exactly svelte either but I just don’t let them put me in a booth. If I can’t put the menu between my stomach and the table I won’t sit there.
Alternatively, you can develop your detective skills, earn a fortune, and have a custom-built chair built for your brownstone in Manhattan, and hire a top of the line chef to prepare your meals, snacks and beer.
She could lose 7 dress sizes & still have trouble fitting into some restaurant booths.
“For people who identify as large, plus-size or fat,...”
Identify as? Please, can this just stop? If you are too large to fit in a restaurant booth, perhaps some reflections on lifestyle choices are overdue.
Why does society keep enabling peoples poor choice of lifestyle?
It shouldn’t be hard for a round person to get a square meal.
Well yeah, but she could be a skeleton and still have problems fitting into some restaurant booths. If they don’t want people to eat there a lot of modern places should just become delivery only.
Intermittent fasting. Keto. It is amazing how suddenly the chairs start GROWING...
Cooking and eating at home should be her first step. There is no more unhealthy food, than restaurant food, as a rule.
Loaded with butter, oil fat, and carbs, is how they make it taste good.
She should had made reservations ahead of time at a restaurant that would have assured her a table.
How hard was that?
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