What was your worst "fat" moment?

Vegan_Chick
Vegan_Chick Posts: 474 Member
edited October 2 in Chit-Chat
Ugh, when my daughter was 2 years old, some lady came up to me and said to her, are you gonna be a big sister soon? I was like wtf is she talking about?
Then she asked me how many weeks along I was. I was not pregnant and have not been for 2 years. The next day I went on a diet. I went from 212 pounds to 144 and it took me about 2 years. Now I am here to lose a few more pounds.

Anyone else have a crappy "fat" moment that changed your life?
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  • StephW1990
    StephW1990 Posts: 72
    the HUNDREDS of fat pictures of me .. what a turn off !!

    just looking through them all has really made me think, and now this is it for me ... WATCH THIS SPACE ! :bigsmile:

    good luck x
  • p0pr0cksnc0ke
    p0pr0cksnc0ke Posts: 1,283 Member
    Sitting down and feeling my belly rest on my legs.
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    Many.

    Some of the worst- holding up the rollercoaster because it took me way to long to squeeze the seatbelt on, being afraid to sit on the cloth-type fold up lawnchairs thinking it was going to rip, not being able to buy coordinating team shirts or clothes with my friends because they didn't have my size...
  • _Ben
    _Ben Posts: 1,608 Member
    Most recently, photos from the fourth of july. My sister took about 1,000,000 photos, and the ones of me look aweful. I wanted to get in better shape.

    Also even worse, was being at work, and having the button on my pants break off. Its embarassing to know you still have another two hours, and your pants wont stay on cause your fatass forced the button to pop off, then make up an excuse why you have to sew it back on.
  • chocolateandvodka
    chocolateandvodka Posts: 1,850 Member
    when i picked up a size 20 skirt off a rack at a store and the sales lady goes "i think you might want to try the 22" wtf?

    fyi i'm in an 8 now. so EFF YOU saleslady!!!!!
  • dosesr4winners20
    dosesr4winners20 Posts: 362
    my ex boyfriend that i was living w at the time, was fighting w me about something unrelated to health at all (like laundry or something) and he just blurted out "thats why your so fat".

    i kicked him out but then i actually looked in the mirror and got a scale, 220! now i'm 142. he was a douche but that was a wake up call for sure.
  • freshstart4me
    freshstart4me Posts: 96
    Ugh, when my daughter was 2 years old, some lady came up to me and said to her, are you gonna be a big sister soon? I was like wtf is she talking about?
    Then she asked me how many weeks along I was. I was not pregnant and have not been for 2 years. The next day I went on a diet. I went from 212 pounds to 144 and it took me about 2 years. Now I am here to lose a few more pounds.

    Anyone else have a crappy "fat" moment that changed your life?

    my fat moment is boring but i just wanted to say off topic that you have NO Idea how thankful i am that you posted this. ive lost 21 lbs and am stagnant right now. ive been here at MFP since february and in my mind's eye i should be down a lot more than i am now and ive been at the same 21 lbs lost since june...reading that it took you two years to get where you are really hit a nerve with me, and in a good way. so thank you for sharing your craptastic fat moment for you helped me semi-shake off this funk im in. xoxo
  • bstevens1021
    bstevens1021 Posts: 33
    I'm like Steph-although kind of the opposite. I don't have hundreds of fat pictures, I have almost none because everytime I see myself in one, it's a revolting shock at how bad I look. (I don't ever see that much fat when I look in the mirror, but when I see a picture I am stunned.) So I decided I want to take Christmas photos with my son, which means losing some weight over the next couple months!
  • Diary_Queen
    Diary_Queen Posts: 1,314 Member
    When I was pregnant, I had to buy a seatbelt extender at 4 months and then by 6 months even that didn't fit and I had to rig up some seat belting in my car and scoot my seat farther back so I could drive legally. I was MASSIVE
  • rafor
    rafor Posts: 78 Member
    I was watching my rehearsal and wedding videos from this April and I noticed my stomach stuck out so much, my shirt flowed out a good 4-5 inches past my pants. I was mortified watching it just a few months later. I'm 75 pounds down and I have 39 left. Can't wait to get to my goal and really know what it feels like to be skinny!
  • JohnFurie
    JohnFurie Posts: 45
    I was in denial about how overweight I was for several years, but my worst "fat" moment would be I would get winded just going up a flight of stairs...
  • mrskaylaforthewin
    mrskaylaforthewin Posts: 24
    just being fat LOL
  • Qarol
    Qarol Posts: 6,171 Member
    Yes. I was staying at a friend's house in another town because my husband's grandmother had passed, and we were there for the funeral. Her six year old was "helping" me get ready. I went to get my dress out of the closet, she looked at it, and said, "Are you really that fat?"
  • megan_mp
    megan_mp Posts: 77
    Last July (2010), I was scrolling through some Facebook pics that the neighbor was tagged in. We had had a big bash for the 4th on our street and people were snapping pics left and right. In this one picture of a kid, I completely dominated the right side of the photo with my side FULL BODY profile. I was so disgusted with what I saw that I knew it was time to change. I couldn't believe that was me. I ruminated about it for a full month before I got my *kitten* in gear and started changing myself!
  • frugalmomsrock
    frugalmomsrock Posts: 1,123
    Yes I do have one.

    I was HUGE with my last (of five) babies. I had a pair of XL maternity capris that were my favorites. They are the vanity maternity, so they have the stretch in the back and it isn't noticeably maternity wear unless you read the tag. I was still wearing them a lot because they weren't obviously maternity, KWIM?

    Well.... I outgrew them when my baby was about eight months old. O_o I knew that was it. I absolutely had to lose weight. I had already seen the 190's come and go, and I was inching toward 210. I'm only 5'3".
  • slbeutler
    slbeutler Posts: 205
    I teach group fitness and one of my worst moments was when a participant asked me when I was due.
  • auticus
    auticus Posts: 1,051 Member
    Having my then-wife tell me she didn't sign up to be married to a fat loser. She then left me for one of my friends on christmas day 2003.

    Having a gf tell me she deserved better than being with someone who was fat (incidently she was about 20 lbs overweight, and I was 30 lbs overweight). The timing? My 30th birthday, 2007.

    Seeing pictures of me playing soccer at 245 lbs and wondering if I didn't really look like a pregnant woman.

    Being told repeatedly that I'm a nice guy, but too big to be worth anything date-wise.

    The ultimate... a few months after my divorce not being able to stand up because my blood sugar count was 512.
  • smc1277
    smc1277 Posts: 239 Member
    Realizing I successfully avoided the camera for so long, I have only a handful of pictures with my children....Sadly that and memories will be all they have of me one day.
  • deniseg31
    deniseg31 Posts: 667 Member
    The worst one for me was rubbing against peoples legs on the train (public transportation - I commute to work). I just hated and it grossed me out to think that those people probably hated having my fat leg rub agains their leg.

    My legs don't rub on other people now...I fit perfectly into my seat. :bigsmile:

    Now when peoples legs rub on me I just feel sad for them hopeing they don't feel as bad about themselves as I did about myself when I was 49 lbs heavier.
  • StephW1990
    StephW1990 Posts: 72
    when i picked up a size 20 skirt off a rack at a store and the sales lady goes "i think you might want to try the 22" wtf?

    fyi i'm in an 8 now. so EFF YOU saleslady!!!!!

    LOVE this !!!! well done :happy:
  • juleseybaby
    juleseybaby Posts: 712 Member
    Worst - as listed in my profile - being unable to donate a kidney to someone in need because I was morbidly obese. :frown:
  • Stacera
    Stacera Posts: 347 Member
    when my boyfriend of many years told me he didn't find me attractive anymore because I had let myself go... at the time I weighed less than I currently do.. at that point I thought well if this guy who has supposedly loved me for years thinks I'm disgusting who is going to want me.. and I hid away for a while.. gained 20 more lbs.. than I came to my senses and was like.. oh wait.. he's an idiot and I'm awesome..and here I am..losing weight. For me.
  • MColette
    MColette Posts: 62
    When I was trying to film a video for my bro of some choreo he wanted, and I saw myself in the video! It was depressing.
    I looked fat, frumpy, I had horrible unflattering clothes and my hair was a mess, that was my day 1
    I sure didn't like what I saw, and it was time to do something about it, I'm almost there now!
  • benodie
    benodie Posts: 231 Member
    I had quite a few horrible moments! I think the worst was probably having to tell my (male) bank manager my weight for a personal insurance quote! That was embarrassing enough but then he told me due to my weight the price of the premium had doubled!! :embarassed:
  • Unwrapping_Candy
    Unwrapping_Candy Posts: 487 Member
    My worst fat moment was realising that I could no longer find scrub pants that fit me. I was trying on 6X scrub pants and no matter the brand or style I just couldn't get them on. I broke down and cried in the store. :( I can still find scrub tops that fit, but I cant get a 6X scrub pant over my hips to save my life. So, I've had to alter all of my scrub pants. My goal is to be in 3X scrub pant by the beginning of Summer 2012. :) That would make me like a 1 or 2X top. We'll see. I can't wait to be able to wear cute scrubs. :D
  • Maria_Goose
    Maria_Goose Posts: 247
    when i picked up a size 20 skirt off a rack at a store and the sales lady goes "i think you might want to try the 22" wtf?

    fyi i'm in an 8 now. so EFF YOU saleslady!!!!!

    THE NERVE OF SOME PEOPLE! >=O Can't believe she SAID that!
  • 2Heavy2Long
    2Heavy2Long Posts: 315 Member
    When my belly got in the way of viewing my penis. :embarassed:

    We can see eye to eye now. :bigsmile:
  • YeahMe
    YeahMe Posts: 35 Member
    Mine was at least ... "in the family" Last Christmas my brother got a wii. Everyone was playing. So he wanted me to play a game with him too...our whole family was around drinking, eating, and being merry (it was Christmas). My whole family, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and you get the picture. Well, anyway, he asked me to step on the platform...and out of NO WHERE this robot voice states: "YOU ARE OBESE". As you can imagine...the entire room was silent...no one knew what to say. And like the "funny" fat chick, I said something sarcastic...and moved on. Here I am 59.6lbs lighter and still moving to my goal! :laugh:
  • angela828
    angela828 Posts: 498 Member
    all senior year of college... my roommates and I would go out to the bars and I would just look fat and terrible next to them..lots of facebook pictures to prove it!

    but the worst night was this - I didn't have anything I thought I looked good in.. went to try on this button dress from my friend's sister (she lost weight and got rid of a lot of clothes and gave some to us) and it was too tight so when I went to take it off.. I couldn't... I had to get my roommate to literally cut me out of it. I was so embarressed and humiliated and I cried. My wonderful roommates comforted me and told me it was okay and not a big deal but I still felt awful.
  • StacyFrisbie
    StacyFrisbie Posts: 159 Member
    I also had a person ask when I was due. My reply was "2 years ago". They were mortified and walked off. The worst for me personally though, was when the season changed, and absolutely nothing fit me. I have 5 sizes of clothes in my closet, and not even my "fat pants" fit. I had to buy new clothes, so I went to my regular stores, and had outgrown their sizes. I vowed then that I would not EVER buy clothes because I don't have anything big enough, and that I don't want to have to go to a plus size store to get them either. So, now I'm getting rid of my fat pants as I grow out of them (when they get too big). I deserve a new smaller pair after all my hard work!
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