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I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.

Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.

Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

I am a big man, and I have a laugh to match my size.

I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.

Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.