To think there should be plus size outdoor furniture?

[ThemysteriousH]

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Or is there some and I’m missing it? I’ve been searching online for ages but not found anything.

Trigger In an effort not to discriminate - my weight gain is because of medical issues. Endocrine tumour, steroids, PCOS just to name a few. I lost lots of weight through starving myself to fit the norm & it piled on so any comments regarding weight please be mindful*

I broke a chair (the mesh type one) and basically feel mortified. My bum & ego are bruised 😂
I can’t go in direct sun/daylight, so the evenings myself & DC like to have supper and time outside whilst it’s cooler. I don’t want to have to stop that just because, well basically I’m fat.

Op...do remember that a great number of women are incredibly proud of being slim. It's their greatest achievement.... sometimes they don't feel like society gives them enough recognition for this so they feel the need to berate others.

It’s amazing how many videos of people falling over on Facebook are of fat people. Really awful.

@ThemysteriousH are you wanting a chair that is lightweight and moved from location to location in your garden (following the sun or following the shade) or is it likely to be kept in the one place (by a table, say) and so it doesn't have to be easy to move? If it's going to be pretty static, I'd consider going for a wooden chair. They are far sturdier and often far wider in the seat that the aluminium folding/lightweight chairs sold everywhere.

Garden centres often have several styles in stock, at our food festival a local man often turns up selling teak garden furniture for pretty reasonable prices too. Dunelm, Ikea, Robert Dyas, Habitat - all these sorts of places do garden chairs/sets. A bit more expensive, maybe £60+ against the £20 we paid for folding chairs we take to places, but worth it.

Ones I like the look of are:

https://www.dunelm.com/product/phoenix-acacia-chair-1000183731

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/naemmaroe-lounge-chair-outdoor-light-brown-stained-40510306/

This. The idea of fat people being equal to them invalidates the whole system.

God, you're horrendous. The OP even tried to preempt you by sharing she had medical conditions to cause weight gain. Yet you still had to jump in basically saying it's all people's own fault.

11% of women have lipoedema
13% of women have PCOS
25% of women have serious sexual trauma
8% of women have subclinical hypothyroidism
That still leaves all the other medical causes of getting fat, like lymphoedema.

@VolvoFan You're just plain wrong.

Op, bless you. I'm a size 6 and I broke two mesh chairs. They're shit quality hence them being so cheap in basically all supermarkets entry ways! Don't assume everything is your weight and dig yourself out about it. Weight wise, get a walking pad. I do about 20k steps a day and most of them on my walking pad. I work long hours but I figured I'm better being uncomfortable for an hour and a half a day than the rest of my life. Don't touch your diet for 30 days. Let your walking pad and walking show you what it can do. I have an overweight friend who will never take this advice and instead stops and starts really unhealthy restrictive diets constantly rather than just invest the time. I used to think there was no way I could walk that much everyday but overtime it becomes a habit, you have to just make it more important than anything else. Re the plus sized furniture, it's a pain but I'd actually reccomend focusing on getting healthy and fitting regular sized furniture than spending money to accommodate something that isn't making you feel good. Make do with what you have for this year and vow to yourself to get healthy in a consistent and realistic way for next summer. Good luck!

Wooden furniture would be better for you. More expensive but will last longer and not break your body or your ego ❤️

Well put

And here come the fat shamers. Didn't take long for the judgements to start.
Being overweight is complex. Overeating amd being sedentary are of course huge factors. But there are others, too. Like genetics, metabolism, mental health, age. Some people lose weight once and that's it, for life. Others yo-yo for years, and then there are those who just can't get started on weight loss at all.
This is supposed to he a supportive network. Please can we just support?

The IKEA Namarro sofa sets seem pretty robust. They can certainly survive outside neglected for years! If you've got more money to spend, Fermob chairs survive the general public in Parisian parks so should survive you. They have wider models and ones without arms.

@ByNavyOtter i think you mean well but the OP didn’t ask for weight loss advice. And, It’s completely wrong to assume that what works for you as a size 6, will work for her. Losing weight when you are overweight or obese is vastly different to maintaining your weight when you’re not overweight.

Why shouldn’t OP have a comfortable chair to sit in this summer?

OP did not ask for weight loss advice.

OP isn't asking 'the world' to adapt. She's asking to also be accommodated, same as everyone else.

I'm sorry for your health issues OP, but I'm even more sorry that you knew in advance you'd get 'lose weight, problem solved' comments if you didn't add the disclaimer. Ironically, you're still getting them, just not aimed at you specifically!

I'm not overweight so have no skin in this game, but it's quite sad reading an underlying attitude from some posters of 'if you're fat, you don't deserve to sit down outside'.

God point: and feel free to keep it to poke uit into someone who meets the criteria: op has made it perfectly clear what her's is due to.

I find the comments on this type of thread really depressing.

OP - yes to all the recommendations of 2 seaters and sofas. Be comfy outside. Your body is just as worthy of comfortable seating as anyone else.

All the fat shaming! If you've never found it hard to maintain a healthy weight you literally have no idea. If you've never had issues around food (and over eating until obesity is often an eating disorder) then you have no idea. People don't do it for fun. Obesity caused by UPF and inactivity is a societal problem not a lack of personal responsibility.

And expect any twattish comments about somebody else's weight to be robustly batted back. What is it with the arrogance of some posters who a) think OP or anybody else needs unasked for weight loss advice from them and b) think that their ill-considered and cruel comments should be accepted without comment?

This thread really wasn't about weight at all, it's about having furniture that is sturdy so that larger people are not having to constantly 'risk assess' whether they can sit down or not.

It absolutely does exist. Just Google bariatric garden furniture. Lots of companies sell such items.

I think it's just knowing the right search terms, Greaterorlesser, I wouldn't have thought to use 'bariatric', but you're right.

Oh do pipe down!!!

Hormone issues causing weight gain are more common than you think! The amount of hormones doctors pump into those of us who are unlucky enough to have PCOS, endometriosis or endometrial cancer is shocking.
I was underweight before I started being pumped full of hormones because of issues with my periods in my teens.
I have had it confirmed by my doctors that the use of these hormones directly affected my getting cancer and that the hormones they then started pumping into me would make me bigger still.
It will no doubt become another NHS scandal about how many women have been failed.

Charles taylor garden furniture is very sturdy and actually has a larger chair with a high weight limit. You can buy direct or The Range and ebay sell some of the products. They look really nice too and last years. I have their arch and two seater benches.
Just ignore those giving unwanted opinions here.
Edited to add, just googled and Grand Chair has a 150kg weight limit.

If you want a lightweight one, I bought one from Costco & they still had them in last week though not online.

its Director Chair style, very light but sturdy & feels 'safe' & comfortable. Wasn't expensive, about £35 I think.

My dad is six foot four (not particularly over weight but a big guy) and has broken a few pieces of furniture. I've noticed that when he sits down he doesn't use his leg muscles to slowly lower himself he just kind of drops from a height and hits the chair below him which I think is much harder on the furniture. If I was you I would look for sturdy wood furniture, I think it will last much better.

I'm sorry, that made me smile Just picturing it, I reckon if I was 6ft4 I'd be thinking it's a long way down and would take ages to lower myself carefully using leg muscles, I'd let gravity do its thing too!

Totally genuine question. Do the hormones, steroids etc. make you put on weight directly (e.g. by signalling your body to store more food as fat), or do they hugely increases one's appetite to a point that almost no one would be able to avoid eating more?

@PCController2 in my case I can literally eat exactly the same food and I lose weight when I'm not taking hormones.
I was off them for just over two weeks and lost 14lbs in that time.
I meal prep and it was the same batches of food. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I also have ASD so I have a slightly odd relationship with food and eat the same things on repeat.
My blood sugars when on the hormones go really odd too. So I will repeatedly have low blood sugars. This stops within a couple of days of coming off the meds.
So it seems like my body is actively storing calories when I'm on the hormones. My consultant said when I started seeing him that the only realistic goal whilst on the hormones is maintaining weight and not losing ☹️

I'm on them for 4 more years yet ☹️