Annnnnnd Welcome Back!
PoBo has been on an extended VERY EXTENDED vacation.  I stopped posting when I realized I was the only one posting here.  I didn’t want it to be all about meeeeeeeeeee!
However, I need to refocus myself.  I need to have a place where I can document my weight loss attempts– wins and failures [...]

I am the official POBO Fail Whale.
It seems like this summer has just been one crisis after another, one stressor after another, one more reason for me to NOT do what I’m supposed to be doing for my health and my weight.  First, I was in too much pain to be able to focus on [...]

SLWB – that’s me.  Try as I might, gaining weight and then keeping it on is a long-term up, down, up, down, up, down… similar to the other bloggers here but possibly in reverse.
About 18 months ago, I weighed myself on scales at a friend’s place.  I was 54 kilograms.  I knew for me that [...]

yes, i’m fat. but i’m not a fat girl, not in my mind. throughout my life since approximately age 13, i’ve gained and lost at least a thousand pounds (well, i’m guessing, but probably). it doesn’t matter that i was probably closer to fat than thin most of these last 35 years, to me fat [...]

Hiya!  I’m Wendy. You know, the FAT girl.  I’ve been “the fat girl” for forever,so it seems, or at least since my parents split up, 25  years ago. The thing was, I didn’t FEEL fat- I have an amazing husband, two great kids, and I was/am always shocked when I look into a full length [...]

My life seems to have this huge… tangled… net… that surrounds my heart.  Depression is a part of my life.  It seems inexorably tied to my obesity.
The crucial question when trying to unravel this twisted knot is which came first, weight issues or depression issues?
I have had a weight problem for most of my [...]

I am a fat man.  Not a jolly fat man, but a cranky, caustic, sarcastic, mean and nasty fat man who hides it all under the guise of being jolly.
I will be the life of every party, and will make my friends laugh non-stop, and will be the person that everyone comes too talk about [...]

One wonders how you can get to the ripe old age of 47 and not really know yourself.   But, it is difficult if you spent the better portion of your life hiding who you really are because “people” might not like you.  Or worse yet, you won’t like you.
Well, time to get real has [...]

OK, stop yawning! I know it’s hard to read all these long, heartfelt posts about everyone’s backstory so I promise to make mine short. Not short and sweet, mind you. Just short.
I’m 56 years old. I’ve been overweight since I moved from Israel to the USA when I was 20. I went to college and [...]

i’m fat. i haven’t been fat my whole life, but i have always had struggles. i believe i lack one of those appetite-setpoint thingys, the thing that tells you you’re full and everything’s going to be ok just doesn’t kick in until i’ve absolutely filled myself to capacity. i remember this as a child, eating [...]