Most embarrassing "fat" moment....

We all have to reach our point at some time but please please please don't let some small minded jack *kitten* make you feel anything less than the great person you are!!! The world is getting ruder and ruder and we don't need to pay those @#$es any mind!

Ripping the *kitten* of my pants because they were too tight on me and not realizing it until after I left the store!

My most embaressing "fat" moment. I had been up to 200 lbs. I was about 26, dating my now husband (yes I looked past it) He saw some pictures of me at nearly 200lbs. and I told him, yes i have a weight problem. He said "umm yea I dont think I could have sex with you at that weight", Now married to him 20+ yrs, we both are over 200 lbs. He has no issues with sex. ha.!

Im sorry, most of my fat moments were when i was younger, (except husbands coment mentioned earlier) The comments from earlier in my life led to my ed. Like having my grand mothers live in bf. measure the width of my *kitten* with an axe handle, while I was semi nappping on the sofa,,,,, yup 6 axe handles wide, just what I thought..... I think I weighed 95lbs then? At that point, I was deep into my ed.

Omg!! I can't stop reading these. I have a ton myself but I am only on page 4. I think the cart one hurts the most because I used to use then automatic carts all the time and was always sooo self conscious,

I've had several, but I think the worst, and the one that prompted me to join MFP, was the horseback riding incident. My daughter LOVES horses, but has only been able to ride them a couple of times. I always loved to ride horses, but hadn't been on one in years. I was so excited to take her horseback riding, along with my sister, and nephews and niece. Well, everyone else is on the horse and waiting, and its my turn to get on my horse. They have a step stool for me, but its still way short, and I just could NOT pull myself up onto the horse. Everyone is sitting there watching. The ranch hands ask if I want them to push me up. YEAH, that's just what I want, is you to get behind me and push my fat *kitten* into the saddle while everyone is watching! I had tears in my eyes, and said no thanks, and watched while everyone else rode without me. I joined MFP right after that!

The only reason I haven't had the roller coaster incident is because I wouldn't even try. I knew I wouldn't fit, and didn't want that embarrassment, so I just skipped out on the theme parks and let my sister take her. Not this year! I was thrilled when my Mom bought us season passes for Six Flags. I've gone 3 times now and rode whatever I wanted to!

As a child, and even now really my most embarrassing "fat" moment was on the 4th of July. I was probably in the 5th grade. This woman in our neighborhood HATED us....I still don't know why she was so hateful. Anyway...my parents and I were out in front of our house doing our fireworks, and this "parent" loads her daughter and her daughters friends in the back of her husbands truck and drives by our house screaming "OINK OINK OINK"....the MOTHER was leading these kids. It was humiliating.

Eventually the father came and apologized for his wife and what she did. I think he was horrified that she would do something like that. She was and still is just pure evil.

Ohhh, I forgot one.

Right out of college I interviewed for a sales position at a new Lifetime Fitness that was opening in our area. I interviewed 7 times...yes, 7 times!!! I was a bit heavier than I am now, but I worked out a lot, and the person I interviewed with said that they wanted everyone to feel secure in that gym. They didn't want people to feel ashamed there, so they were looking to hire all body types. I thought that was so cool, that a gym was open to everyone, not just the "pretty people."

The last interview was with the top manager, and it went pretty well. He told me to call him the next day to set up a training time. I called and his exact words were "well, I am sorry but we have decided that Lifetime Fitness is not really for people like you."

So..Lifetime Fitness is not for heavy people. That is ok..I gladly gave my money to another gym that was open for the right reasons...to help people!

In physics class my junior year we were doing an class project about energy. First we had to weigh ourselves and then be timed as we ran up and down a flight of stairs. The results were recorded on the board so everyone got to see that not only was I the heaviest girl, but also the slowest runner out of everyone.

My best friend's little brother would call me "fatso" and "Fat Jodie" Every time I would come over to their house. EVERY time.

I have so many like the time at Burger King when I ordered a cheese whopper with extra mayo and I heard the cook in the back say "heart attack ready to happen" and then our eyes met!!! Yikes. or when the little kid in the store says "hey fat man" and I could go on but I am doing great now and used them all as inspiration.

My most embarrassing moment. Well there have been a few because I have been fighting this battle for a long time...

the first time I had to ask the flight attendant for a seat extender
when my scale would not register my weight anymore because it didn't go that high
when I started having trouble trying to cut my toenails
when the orthopedic surgeon told me he would not do my knee replacement because I was too heavy
when I fell down in the shower and thought I would never get myself up

I could go on and on but I am hoping that the memory of these embarrassing moments will spur me on to complete my weight loss journey.......thanks,

Misty

being in another country, going to the 'plus' size store and not being able to find anything in your size

I've gotten the pregnant question while going to the doctors for an annual checkup. The lady first asked when I was due and I politely told her "no I'm not pregnant." She looked surprised then asked, "Oh! How many kids do you have?" I told her I didn't have any kids and sat there a little surprised that someone would go a little further instead of apologizing. She never apologized.

One of the most embarrassing moments though has to be when me and my now fiance went to California together for his birthday in 2008. The whole trip was a bit disappointing due to poor planning, but at the last minute we decided to take a walk down Hollywood boulevard. It was a Saturday night and the streets were pretty busy. While me and my fiance were about to take a photo, a limo drove by and one of the guys occupying the vehicle was hanging out of the sunroof and yelled "YOU'RE TOO FAT TO BE OUTSIDE!" I know I quickly looked around searching (hoping) for another heavy person to be around so that I wouldn't have to accept the fact that the comment was directed towards me. Completely in denial, I ignored the comment and I believe my fiance, sister and brother in law did the same. (The limo had still been in motion and I'm sure most everyone who heard the douche bag cringed in some way) I was about 250lbs (at 5'4 1/2) at the time.

I have to say that although I have seveeeeeral embarrassing moments none of them sparked this "NOW IS THE TIME" feeling in me. Instead all those moments did, was add the feeling that something was wrong with me. I was down on myself because I believed what those people said about me. But no one deserves to be treated that way! No one deserves to be bullied. In the end, it wasn't those moments or those things that were said to me that finally made me make healthier choices (otherwise I would have lost weight when other kids called me fat in 5th grade) - it was me finally believing that I can achieve anything I put my mind to.

I always looked for that special defining moment that I had heard about in infomercials, but it never came. I always thought "Oh! Is this the moment?" And then I'd relapse. This time around it's not about dieting or restricting types of food. It's about moving more, watching my portions and how satisfied I feel after meals, and living life now instead of later.

I'm glad all of us are able to let out these embarrassing moments. It helps us realize at those times we felt like we didn't have control. And now we do.

This was less embarrassing and more hilarious. My friend and I (both quite large at the time) were in the smoking area of a bar. We asked some boy if we could buy a cigarette off of him. And he turned round and said "cigarette or pigarette?" - it was really funny. We still laugh about it to this day.