What was your first “I’m getting fat” realization?

ginyspills

For some reason these realizations give me more fuel to stick to eating healthy!

Mine was my mood. I realized I’ve been feeling constantly moody/insecure. Great marriage, work is fine, same amount of money stress. So what is the problem? Looking back at photos of me with the huge smile, I realized I have gained a crap ton of weight! How can I smile like that when my clothes hardly fit me? I refuse to buy new outfits in a bigger size! Determined to lose this weight

How about you?

Need2Exerc1se

Tight pants

LivingtheLeanDream

My UK size 14's were getting too tight and I didn't want to go up another size.

cmriverside

Someone called me a fat@ss.

That'll change how you view yourself

For some reason the size 16 skirts didn't do it for me the way that comment did.

ISweat4This

Yep, jeans too tight.

marieamethyst

I went to the doctor's and saw the scale had went up from 118 to 165 lbs. I knew I had put on weight, was buying X-Larges instead of the XS/Smalls... but it didn't truly sink in until I saw that number pop up. I went home and joined MFP, but it took another year for me to be ready to start my weight loss journey and actually commit to it.

emcclure013

I bought some new clothes that I thought looked great on me. I took a few pictures of myself because I was feeling so confident... and promptly deleted them. I looked like a whale.

LizPalen412

Pictures from a vacation and then going to the doctor not long after that and seeing a number that was about 30lbs higher than the last time I'd been there... huge wake-up call, and that number also happened to be the most I've ever weighed in my life. I knew my clothes weren't fitting great but I didn't realize I had gained THAT much weight. I was spending a lot of time in leggings and baggy T-shirts and just not realizing how big I had actually gotten. But I'm very aware now! And finally going in the other direction!

perkymommy

tight shirt/pants, getting out of breathe walking down to the basement to do laundry.

WhereIsPJSoles

Any time I mention going to the gym or doing something active and someone’s like “oh you do that?”

Yes. My potato body moves.

cwolfman13

Didn't really have one...I was pretty lean most of my life and in my teens and early 20s I was actually pretty much rail skinny and had difficulty holding onto weight. I put some quality weight on in my mid 20s...some muscle, some fat and was happy not to be a stick figure anymore.

I put my bad weight on from 30-38 after I graduated college and took a desk job working long hours with lots of out of town travel. I actually didn't really notice it much...or I should say that I didn't really pay it any attention.

I went to the doctor for my annual physical when I was 38 and came out with some really nasty blood work...pre-diabetic, triglycerides over 400, very high cholesterol and blood pressure around 170/110 and the doctor told me that I was officially obese per BMI at 5'10" and 220 Lbs and well on my way to being very sick, if not dead by 60.

My decision to lose weight and get back into fitness and eating better was more health related than anything...at the time I had a 2 year old and a new born and the thought of not being around for them scared the *kitten* out of me.

That was over 5 years ago...at that time I was a 2-3 PAD smoker who could barely walk the dog around the block without feeling like I was going to die...now I'm a fitness junkie who doesn't smoke cigarettes and enjoys doing 1/4 and 1/2 century bike rides just because it's the weekend and 15ish% bf with all bad blood work reversed. Still on blood pressure meds, but they are much reduced and my BP is well under control now. I've maintained my weight loss going on 5 years this spring.

ETA; at my highest weight, my wife started making comments as well...not really negative, just more worrisome...

Wingsont84

When my pants needed un-button

caroline_mason42

back in my 'FAT' wardrobe and the seats on the plane felt much snugger and I travel a lot with work !!

lkpducky

Tight pants and my face is getting plump. I'm looking dowdy again.

Fitnessgirl0913

When I would smile for a picture then look at the picture and my eyes disappeared into my large and round face

JeromeBarry1

My first "I'm getting fat" moment was when the shirt in that picture couldn't button closed. I ignored it and wore bigger shirts. Mentally, I just wasn't ready to be smaller than medium.

newheavensearth

Pre-diabetes. My doctor telling me to glue my lips shut or gain another 40 lbs and get surgery. The only clothes I could fit were my 6'3" 260 lb husband's clothes. My parents and friends thinking I was hiding a pregnancy. Everyone telling me what a *kitten* I became since I gained weight... and me realizing they were right.

genpopadopolous

When I realized that my first thought when I saw pictures of what should have been great memories with my kids was "Ugh, I look awful."

I want to be able to have memories that are unencumbered and I don't want to pass on my *kitten* eating habits and crappy self worth on to my kids.

quiksylver296

emcclure013 wrote: »

I bought some new clothes that I thought looked great on me. I took a few pictures of myself because I was feeling so confident... and promptly deleted them. I looked like a whale.

Yeah. Kinda this. I was out with family, celebrating a birthday, and rocking a cute outfit (I thought). Saw the pictures afterwards...

That was years ago, and I'm still trying to get my kittens sorted.

passenger79

Tight pants and puffed up face .

ETA : Oh and when my comfy ,loose jeans became too tight .

Falklang

Having trouble keeping the tray down on the airplane (my stomach kept pushing it back up)