re: The Uneasy Truth About Traveling While Fat

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Screw them. I’m 6’5 and airplanes are extremely uncomfortable unless you upgrade the seats…which I do. Nobody seems to care about that and there aren’t any lifestyle changes I can make to change it either.

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Im 6’6” and 325lbs. I can stand to loose some pounds but it’s mostly beer gut. I’m just a big dude. It’s why I drive to locations, rather than fly. My 10 hour drive to Nashville for work was more enjoyable than flying.

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and I will continue to hold space

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She's doing a great job of this.

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I really don't get this fat acceptance push.

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People tend to run from anything tagged with "phobia". No one is scared of morbidly obese people, they are grossed out by the sight and, often, the smell of them. But that's mean and "bullying" so people allow themselves to be made the problem by allowing the label of "fatphobic" to be used instead of having the balls to say "no, you're being morbidly obese isn't mine to fix, it's yours."

The heaviest I've ever flown at I was 6ft and 355lbs. First leg was economy United.

It was uncomfortable, but I simply asked for the window seat and turned my shoulders so the tiny asian girl wouldn't have my arm in her seat for an hour. Second leg was sing air business class.

But here's the thing, that's my issue. Not someone else's.

The real question? At 355lbs I didn't need a seatbelt extension. Nor did my fat spill over the armrest.

Who the frick needs a seatbelt extension?

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Normal height people that hit the 350 pound mark must be regularly pounding McDonald’s with daily family skittles

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I got fat not eating candy or fast food.

I got fat by eating a caloric surplus for years while lifting extremely heavy weights and running a few times a week...and then stopping the exercise portion.

Even now I can eat 2-3k calories of clean food in a single sitting. I simply don't.

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Infinifat” describes anyone over a size 32. It's used for those of us that are the most underserved in fat communities because they are the largest. They have the most significant barriers to healthcare, lack of access to clothing, lack of access to public spaces, discrimination in the workplace, and more.

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What you need to be accessing is the gym, a comfortable pair of running shoes, and a Terry Tate, Office Linebacker kind of coach to keep your fat arse from eating 10 donuts every morning.

This society is just like Wall-E which was apparently a documentary like Idiocracy.

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She’s doesn’t have a point. She’s completely round.

at 6'5 i cant travel comfortably anywhere....Tallphobia is real!

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Fatphobia

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The definition would be to have "an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something." I do not have a fear of fat people and I hate when they use this term. My fear is being stuck on another 4.5 hour flight in the seat next to one so large that she spilled into my seat with no regard to me and my comfort.