What was your point of disgust?
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This just happened to me.
I went to the doctor fearing I was developing a food allergy. The doctor didn't ask me any questions, didn't offer to do any test. Just told me I was over eating.
I told he what I ate that day that I had the reaction. He suggested I count my calories because I'm probably eating 1000 calories more then I thought. Then suggested working out, and going to a dietitian.
I told him I don't seem to have this reaction on days I don't eat this item. So if it's a case of me over eating wouldn't it happen no matter what I was eating.
He offered to do a test to see about a thyroid or if I was diabetic or something that would cause my weight.
But nothing for the food allergy. This doctor by the way was fatter then me.
I was hurt and up set, I almost want to start purging. Because I really don't eat that much. Yes I know I don't work out regularly. I know I could make more meals from home. But I'm 5"7 at 220 lbs wearing size xl and size 14 pants. I know I'm fat. But I'm not so fat that I would think a doctor would assume I binge eat.
So I'm gonna workout and keep track of my calories. I know I can loose the weight.4 -
When my husband stood on the scale and was 10lbs lighter and i gained it, dam skinny jeans cant even get them over my ankles. Time for a change.1
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When I was four? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've been fat my whole life, and disgusted with it for almost the same amount of time.1 -
When i looked at pictures of myself at my son's 1st bday and a baby shower the weekend after. Some on the pictures in the black dress on my profile picture.... I was getting married 3 months later and realized I'd want no pictures of myself which is practically impossible!
So i lost 26lbs since and plan to lose more!2 -
I hit my all time low in May 2017. Was around 172 pounds at 5ft4 and not toned in the slightest. I would cry every single day, eat packets of packets biscuits and cookies and whole tubs of ice cream without tasting it. Sometimes I would walk to the shop after midnight to get a binge feast. It was all emotional for me.
My boyfriend was extremely sorted and I ended up going to the doctors to seek professional help as I was so down and depressed.
My life has consequently turned around in just those three months. I'm down 35 pounds and running 8 minute miles again which is a big factor in my happiness. I started exercising a couple weeks into may.
I've always been active and probably is the reason I didn't weigh a lot more than 172 pounds considering I was piling on 5000 plus calories a day worth of junk.
My biggest lesson I'm learning this time round ( as I've lost weight before albeit at a lower starting weight) is that I really should NOT restrict. I will always binge - my body is starved of the necessary nutrients and I go crazy. I would go 5 days eating under 1000 calories and then have a non stop binge for a month!
Now I eat 1500 - 1700 calories and run around 20 miles a week currently. I worked up to this slowly and have only noticed my fitness improve dramatically the past 2 weeks, including my confidence.
Sorry for the essay, if anyone actually had read this ! You can add me as a friend or I'm on Onstagram as kittyrbrandon to follow my running
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Meant to say my boyfriend was supportive 0
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it's been a moving goal post of disgust. needing to get bigger jeans. realizing i was wearing my pants out from the rubbing in my thighs. getting winded going up a flight of stairs. having to ask my husband to carry the laundry because it was too exhausting. my dogs being overweight at the vets and hearing well, you can usually tell that they're not getting walked because the owner is overweight too. eating an entire pizzahut pizza by myself. acid reflux. not being able to tie my shoes without bending my knees in a weird way to the side. seeing my arms. seeing my backside in a photo.
all of these things just grossed me out in different ways. but. now i'm focused more on why i'm keeping going.7 -
For me hitting 13 stone (182lbs) was the tipping point - had been unhappy with clothes being too tight and looking pregnant even though my youngest is 8 but hitting that new high on the scales was the trigger to do something.0
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A guy I liked told me we could go out but it would be a secret. He had no issue with wanting to sleep with me, just not being seen with me. Oh hell no. 1. He's not getting anything. 2. My whole new goal (ok...not really, but it's motivating for right now) is spite. I'm going to get so far out of his league. Lol
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I went to a baseball game with my husband, kids, and his friend and I couldn't keep up. We had to jog to get to the game on time and I felt like I was going to pass out. I lied and told them the city air was killing me but really it was being fat. The next day we went around town and was equally bad. I felt like I had played a basketball game by the time I got home. I knew I needed to change. I was so embarrassed that I was trying to hide sweating and panting while everyone else was fine.
I had been on bedrest while pregnant and gained and then was too scared to diet because I didn't want to lose milk because I was breastfeeding. My son still does morning and night but I don't mind now if we had to stop because he can just drink cow milk. I also noticed things like having a stomach that I never had and my arms are usually pretty muscular with living on a farm but they are chunky now.1 -
My blood work came back showing insulin resistance. I couldn't believe I ate my way into this! I've lost 15% of my body weight since May.8
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Seeing old pictures!1
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brentleyann1 wrote: »I went to a baseball game with my husband, kids, and his friend and I couldn't keep up. We had to jog to get to the game on time and I felt like I was going to pass out. I lied and told them the city air was killing me but really it was being fat. The next day we went around town and was equally bad. I felt like I had played a basketball game by the time I got home. I knew I needed to change. I was so embarrassed that I was trying to hide sweating and panting while everyone else was fine.
I had been on bedrest while pregnant and gained and then was too scared to diet because I didn't want to lose milk because I was breastfeeding. My son still does morning and night but I don't mind now if we had to stop because he can just drink cow milk. I also noticed things like having a stomach that I never had and my arms are usually pretty muscular with living on a farm but they are chunky now.
I understand the nursing concern as i am tandem nursing my 2 yr old and 3 month old. So i set the the app to loose 1lb a week and im including my nursing in the app so i get more calories. So far my milk is just fine (its only been a week and a half since i started). And ive lost 4lbs (i know water weight but its a start)!0 -
I started to weigh more and more and when my clothes didn't fit me, had to purchase larger sizes. Although I was disgusted, it still wasn't enough to motivate me. When I had to buy even larger sizes because I outgrew the previously larger sizes, I became really disgusted. When my coat didn't even fit - that was it! I went from a size 4-6 to size 14 in 10 months. (118 to 158)0
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When I was struggling in my pole fitness class. My belly fat hung over my shorts and I was unable to lift my weight to climb.1
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Was in a Dennys and ordered a veggie skillet. Overheard the server tell the cook that the "pig at table nine is asking for extra veggies, like it's doing her any good". Normally I wouldn't get upset, but something just snapped. Just tired of being reminded about my weight.2
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I too saw a photo (Christmas 2016) and was traumatized. I never realized how large I had gotten. A few days later, my largest pair of pants felt tight. That was it...18 months and 75# down with 10 to go. I don't care if it takes me another full year to get there -- As long as things are headed in the right direction.6
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This photo.
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Seeing my 5XL shirts are even starting to become tight on me. Sering photos of myself compared to 3 years ago when I was doing really well. Not being able to fit in the seats at a sporting events or the movie theaters.3
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When I couldn't sit in a bathtub. I could not fit in a regular bathtub. I cried for about an hour. That was my breaking point, I was just so sick and tired of being sick and tired.3
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AlphaWolfMama wrote: »Was in a Dennys and ordered a veggie skillet. Overheard the server tell the cook that the "pig at table nine is asking for extra veggies, like it's doing her any good". Normally I wouldn't get upset, but something just snapped. Just tired of being reminded about my weight.
Wow. This is just so wrong. Being overweight doesn't give a server the right to be judgemental and rude. You should write Denny's. They need to remember to train the staff that the customers pay their salaries.
Good for you for deciding to lose weight, not eat your pain.
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Mine was just not having any clothes to go out in or wearing the ones i have confidently. I saw stretch marks forming on my lower stomach and that was it, no more sugar! Been a week and I'm sleeping and lasting through the day longer. I feel great with no sugar and only drinking water!3
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I went to my doctor for a referral to a dietician for my IBS and he told me I needed to be weighed for the sake of the referral. I was like, okay fine. I didn't weigh myself in general because I have a history of ED but I knew I was overweight, I wasn't blind, but seeing the number on the scale (220ish) was like being slapped in the face. But my doctor didn't say anything to me. Part of me thought: is it because I'm a lost cause? It wasn't, he just didn't want to put pressure on me but I did it for myself. I stopped pretending that my breathlessness was asthma or that all of my aches were down to my hypermobility. I just stopped pretending that because I felt fine with things that they were fine.
I started off with a dance exercise DVD in my kitchen, then 90 minutes of yoga and two kickboxing classes a week and now I train 5-7 hours a week kickboxing for belts/to compete. I'm also 80lbs down from that initial weigh in (over the course of two years). The part that made it all worth it was when I got appendicitis 6 weeks ago and I went into hospital, had it removed laprascopically and had zero complications (thus far). I had minimal decrease in my cardiac output when I went back to my first training session since my surgery (despite doing nothing but walking for 6 weeks
). I have the health I was striving for when I started. 11 -
I received word that my blood sugar was now in the Diabetes Type 2 range. A co-worker, who is very overweight and has horrible eating habits told me "I heard you're one of us now--welcome to the Diabetes Club." That was a turning point for me. I knew I'd have to shape up eventually but that was really the breaking point.4
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Not really disgust, more frustration.
Episodes of gout, trouble breathing from large stomach pulling on diaphragm and a weak back.
What finally got me determined was throwing my back out with a sneeze (yes a sneeze), laying in bed and having a gout episode come on during the same time. Most miserable I have ever been and it lasted 4 days.5 -
No moment of disgust here. Just a moment of inspiration. Have been slowly gaining weight ever since my wife had kids. Stress eating, over-worked, depressed, numerous fad diets (including nutrisystem which I now know failed because it had me eating 1,200 calories a day when 2 pounds a week on MFP has me at 1,940... holy crap nutrisystem!?)
Anyway, I stumbled across a Youtuber named Vitruvian Physique and he talked about all of these fad diets just secretly tricking you into a calorie deficit. He recommended MFP to track and the rest is history. Down 26 pounds and I'm never hungry. I eat whatever I want and just watch the portions so cravings are never a problem. If I want to eat more I go hit the bike. Will work (out) for food!9 -
It has been a lot of things. First I gained 20 pounds in a year, had to buy new pants and tops. But recently I was wearing yoga pants and a tank top at a baseball game and I walked past a window and stopped at a dead stop and almost cried seeing the way I looked in yoga pants. Also Ive never had a muffin top. Now anyway I sit, its there and it wont go away. I refuse to be the lady that shouldn't be wearing a tank top and yoga pants. So now I'm changing. It should have started when the 20 pounds came on and the clothes shopping.1
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I had revamped my entire life. I had quit drinking and smoking for over two years, bought a house, started my own company, was taking fish oil and vitamin d supplements, changed my diet(no more fast food or chain restaurants) and cut off my long hair. Most of this was to attract a woman(any woman, no one specific) but also to better myself. A little insight, I was 5'8 195lbs, I have no picture up but people have compared me to universally accepted good looking guys like Brad Pitt, Shawn Michaels, and even recently to Chris Hemsworth. I think it was more when they and the long flowing hair like mine more than the face but the comparisons were made so I'm happy to accept it. I had a decent social life with friends but was always alone at night. Anyway, I was in a deep depression after making all these changes and still showing no results in the love department. So as I lay alone on my king size bed, only bought in the hopes of one day having a lady in it, I looked at my body and thought "this has to go". I never thought of myself as overweight - I "carried it well" or it was just a couple lbs so I'll be fine was the belief. So I started on MFP and Insanity in in less than 6 months I was down to 155lbs and I wasn't even giving it a full effort. Meaning I was still eating too many snacks and extra calories. I was also working out at least 2 hours a day. I could have easily added an hour and cut out 500 calories a day. After living like that for another 8 months and several turn downs and dating site failures(not even one date in 4 years!) I decided it wasn't worth it anymore. I kept telling myself I would start working out again if I ever hit 170. I "ballooned" back up to 176 after a couple of months. On my 40th birthday, two months ago, I had decided that my life was over and there was no reason to keep living. All the things I had done in the last couple years had made no changes to my life other than aesthetically and no matter how much I tried to fit in with the world around me I would never be accepted. The depression ran deep again with some serious considerations of just ending it all. I really thought about what had changed during the last couple months and came to the conclusion that it is possible that my current diet of bad foods had affected my thinking. I read or heard once that sugars could affect the mindset dramatically. I lay on my bed once again looking down at my body and I decided to start my programs again. Either having my mind occupied with thoughts of working out and goals or the change in diet or a combination of both got me back on track and I got back to 155. I am thinking of making a run at 145 or less. I guess to actually answer the question of "point of disgust" it would have been each time I laid on my bed and looked down. I offer no advice other than if one can look at that themselves and be genuinely accepting and happy with the appearance then do nothing but if you see the slightest bit of darkness try to reconstruct it to your own standards.6
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I was fifteen eating cookies out of a bag. My mother, God bless her, gently removed the bag from my hands and put it back in our pantry. I gave her what she calls a Look of Death, but I didn't grab the cookies again. The next morning, I weighed in at 188.8, and vowed I would never be 190. I never was.
I never really looked that bad, but my mom saw the weight creeping on...most of my family is quite large, and we're the exceptions. I'm grateful for her, even though my dad was *kitten*.3
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