There comes a time in every chunky girl's life where she googles something embarrassing. It meets these two qualifications:
1. She hopes someone has asked the same question. (So she can find answers, of course.)
2. She hopes she can delete her browsing history before anyone knows she searched for
that.
My recent search terms have been things like "control top leggings", "how to get permanent marker off my skin", and "Can fat people go skiing?"
The latter is the one I hurried to delete from my browsing history. It was followed up with searches for plus-size ski boots, leg measurements for ski boots, weight limit for skis, width of a chair lift, and (perhaps most important of my searches) how to get up after falling when wearing skis. My search was disheartening as I realized I would probably have to enter into an intimidating ski shop full of people who wear clothes from places like Zumez and EMS, get custom boots made for my legs, buy skis (so I could avoid writing my weight on the rental application at the resort), score a winter coat (which I have successfully avoided for years), and then still try to figure out how to get up after I fell without breaking into a full sweat. After all of my expensive ski purchases...what if I hated skiing?
I decided that asking Google if I was too fat to ski was a breaking point for me. Although I am a confident girl, my chubbiness has never inhibited me from trying something new...until now. I want to be able to get up if I fall. I want to know that if I tear my ACL on the slopes I will be able to support myself on crutches. So I am aiming for next year. It might take me that long to find custom boots anyway!
In the mean time, if you are willing to give it a go and need some ski gear and don't want to worry about deleting your search history - here is the best stuff I found:)
Plus-size snow pants and jackets
and
Boots for large calves.
Alright, ladies. I am off to the gym. My next post will be about my fat crying.
