5 Minute Freewrite Challenge Day 136 Belt
When I think of a belt, I think of a seatbelt. I was always obese, and so I never wore one as part of my clothes. I did not have a waist and I did not want to have anything tight on me.
But I had to wear seat belts in cars and on planes. Both were always uncomfortable. In my last years of obesity I traveled a lot for work and needed a seat belt extender on planes. This is the thing the stewards use when they do their pre-flight announcement about safety.
Due to the obesity epidemic, many people need these extenders now. I used to make my son @bxlphabet get it for me so I would not be embarrassed.
I took a photo of myself on my first plane trip without an extender for many years (see thumbnail above). This was a wonderful moment and I was in tears. It happened when I flew from San Diego to Thailand and made the trip a good one even though it took 35 hours.
My post is for the #freewrite daily challenge by @mariannewest. Here is Marianne’s freewrite prompt post for today. Maybe you can enter too.
You don't have to be overweight to hate belts...I hate those on the plane as the metal feels cold.
I know you don't need a reminder, but here I am doing my job...and... today's prompt is:
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-137-5-minute-freewrite-monday-prompt-witches
Yes I do need a reminder!!!!
Thank you so much for helping at #freewrite. I really appreciate what you do :)
Now I like the seatbelts. Everytime I click them and get to pull out some slack I feel happy.
You sure get your fair share of spam comments don't you...lol. Have noticed you have been a little more vocal towards them lately. Love it.
It's great that you can look back at where you were, embrace the changes you made, and share the emotion of it. Hopefully this inspires someone else to make changes in their eating habits.
Keep sharing and motivating people!
lol - When you upvote good comments, you also get the not-so-good. Some people are new and just don't know yet how to act, so I try to help if I can :)
Inspiring others is now my life's work.
So far I've been fairly lucky with limited spam comments. Think I will just leave a can of spam photo on the spammers comments or something if it starts getting to crazy. As much as I want to help others spammers really just aren't on my list to invest time on.
I have a policy to ignore the ones that keep doing it and try to help the new ones. It's not always easy to figure out what to do here. I did notice some getting downvoted to oblivion lately, so someone must be on it. They were more hardcore a few months ago and I hope this improves. At least I get good comments so I can vote them to the top :)
The worst is when they spam and get multiple upvotes from their other spam accounts and push their crap comment to the top.
That type of thing you can report to steemcleaners and they will come and knock it down. I don't have the link, but it is on their page somewhere and I have used it. It is offsite somewhere and works.
Wonder if they would be interested in this guys voting pattern:
https://steemit.com/@lovemetouchme2/recent-replies
He makes multiple comments of just a number on a really old post and then 100% upvotes himself. It's crazy. Someone pointed it out to me, but had no idea what to do about it. Plus it wasn't on my post so wasn't a high priority, but I bookmarked it to potentially show as an example of how not to act in a future post.
OMG!!!! Yes - I think that is reportable. Good grief - what next. This goes on and on in his current comments.
I am now a fan of yours! Im looking forward to your next post!! You are an inspiration of becoming healthy and fab...rubelynmacion of krypto
You just made my day! Thank you so much and I'm so glad to see you here from @krytonia. I think that place is a winner :)
It is true! I made some virtual friends like you.😃
Im glad i meet you. krypto is awesome...hope you can upvote my post too.
You know, I never thought about that until a person across the aisle needed to ask for one... so glad that you don't need one anymore.
I was not even thinking about it since I had just left my son. This was a wonderful moment as are all the times I get on a plane now :)
Woow great body improvement no worries about belts😄@jason21
Thank you! This is a big relief now :)
I love your posts at @fitinfun
Seat belts are good especially when driving and as everyone knows its a safety measure.
Kryptonia @bitcoinpaul
Thank you so much - I'm always happy to see you too. Now that I am in Thailand, I try hard to buckle up - but sometimes this is not possible :)
I see that ,you were so obese.and Don't wore of seatbelt is not good.!st time it is easy to feel uncomfortable by a worn seatbelt.After all i known your life style store.Thanks a lot
Thank you - I am very happy to have changed :)
That is a big change in there. Wow! Nice writing too.
Thank you so much. #freewrite in an awesome tag to post to and @mariannewest is one of my heroes here. Definitely worth a try :)
Great writing, thanks for your thoughts and health is important. My Kryptonia account is @ianstevenson
Thank you, @ianstevenson - I am so glad to see you here today :)
I appreciate your writing.
Thanks for sharing this post..