Large but not that incharge.

I never was a skinny kid. I was freakishly tall until about six grade when everyone caught up.The kids used to call me Big Chewy after Chewbacca from Star Wars. Whenever I walked by they would do the Wookie battle cry. I tried to tell myself it was because I was a huge Star Wars fan but really it was because I was just huge. I remember one day in second grade my teacher weighed all of the students. Although I have forgotten the context of the humiliation, I have not forgotten the humiliation itself. The teacher pulled out a scale and called each one of us up alphabetically to be weighed. After what seemed like forever she finally got to my name. Apprehensively I approached the scale. "ONE HUNDRED AND TEN POOOOUUUNDS," the idiot teacher screamed, "You're a BIG OLE girl!"

Eventually I grew into myself. Meaning my breast got larger and obscured my pot belly. I began to dress for my size and was moderately comfortable with how I looked. I considered myself curvy and fine. I'm a black girl from the south. I was one of the skinniest people I knew!

A little over a year ago I met Josh; the bearded teddy bear of my dreams. I wooed him with my southern cooking. He, like me, has more to love. But, over the last year we've been nesting in. Two already heaving people + nesting = Fat. We began to evaluate our options and after much consideration we decided that Nutrisystem was what we would try to change our lives. So, this is the beginning of The Awkwardly True Adventures of Two Fat People in love and their journey to lose weight.