I’m 18 dates deep in my 50 Fat Dates quest.
As a plus size woman in Australia I found it difficult to meet Aussie men and ended up moving to Hollywood to dip my toe in the deep end of the dating pool.
It worked! I ended up in a three-year relationship which was great, until it wasn’t and we broke up and I was single again.
New Year’s Eve rolled around I was contemplating the coming year. My fate was inevitable. I had to haul myself back on the dating horse and put a chubby leg over. The only way this was going to happen was if I set myself a goal, a target or had a plan.
I started thinking it through, “What if I just did one date a week?” Sounds doable. “If I did that for a year I’d date 50 people.” That’s huge! I persuaded myself through cliches, “It’s a numbers game. You’ve got to kiss some frogs. Every lid has a teapot.”
And with that 50 Fat Dates was born.