You Pay for Your Obesity with Your Happy Years Being fat has impacted my life. I’ve lost weight, but it’s also had an impact on my future – I hope only in the sense that I’ll be flabby for the rest of my life in my stretched skin. It bothers me, of course, but I try to think of it as a positive, hard-earned award. When I was fat, I was always the last one up the hill – if I didn’t turn back halfway up.