My Big Fat Fabulous Life! Spoiler Alert! Take 2

I was fortunate to take part in 2014's the Expose Project.  It is part of the Body Love movement, one of its 'biggest' promoters (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/01/jes-baker-tedx-talk -body-love-acceptance_n_5641421.html?utm_hp_ref=women&ir=Wom en) being here in Tucson.  It was almost 100 women of all shapes and sizes, ages, abled and disabled.  All in black panties, and that's all.  It was very empowering.  I would have never done that at my 144lbs., but I did it at over 200lbs.

I hate being overweight.  I've been tortured since I was a child.  I was cheerleader of the year, and made fun of by the players on the team I cheered.  Society is horrible about teaching us how to hate our bodies.  I love the body-love/body acceptance movement.  That doesn't mean that we should love and accept that which will kill us.  It just makes it ok to be 'temporary' housing!

That's NOT true ! You know me and I became MO due to a severe birth defect- a huge hiatal hernia. That meant I was always burning inside my esophagus unless I ate constantly. 

When that was fixed only emotional eating and head hunger became my problems ( and POSSIBLY transfer addiction) 

I've never heard of a hiatal hernia causing morbid obesity. In fact, about 99% of children with hernias who have them as congenital defects have them immediately repaired when symptoms you describe manifest.  It should have been fixed long before you were morbidly obese. 

More likely it was the emotional eating and head hunger causing the obesity; the hernia was just a correlational factor.