The first time you realised you were actually over weight.

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JakeBrownVB
JakeBrownVB Posts: 399 Member
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Does anyone remember the moment they actually realised they were overweight? did it happen in a sudden moment?

What made you finally come to realisation? how did it feel? how long until you kicked into action?



I remember about a year ago, it hit me like a ton of bricks. People kept making (including my girlfriend) off hand fat jokes (oh jake will eat that etc), noone ever told me directly "you are fat or overweight". This happened quite a bit and I was kinda getting a bit self concious but if I ever asked anyone they would say no they were joking.

Then one day I decided to give the running machine a shot as I only ever did lifting, my girlfriend put it to 8 and ran for 15 minutes. I put it on 6 and was gasping for air at the 3 minute mark... it was then I realised... oh man it still hurts now as I type. It was then I realised I was actually overweight, I stopped the machine and kinda just sank with despair.

It took a 3 minute run to actually change my life around and I turned it around from that exact moment. Is it strange that I got hit by a sudden moment of revelation or did this happen to you? want to here your stories :D?
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  • CMB1979
    CMB1979 Posts: 588 Member
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    I was about 12 years old and broke the zipper on my dad's pants trying to put them on.
  • BeardedMike
    BeardedMike Posts: 52 Member
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    I was always chubby as a youngster. The first time it really hit me was when I was 15 and we had to weight in at school for something, I was just over 100kg. I was so ashamed.

    Fast forward 15 years and what kicked me into action was looking at myself in the mirror one day and realising I was starting to get that 'fat neck' thing going on. Literally scared me into action.
  • thebigcb
    thebigcb Posts: 2,210 Member
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    Mine,

    Went to get a pair of jeans and had to get 38" waist

    Said keep your jeans, went home, went running then a friend told me about this

    Lost 2 stone, love to get another one off (waist now 32)
  • BathtubBadger
    BathtubBadger Posts: 217 Member
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    Looking at a picture in which I was a bridesmaid... Age 13. I felt really pretty and cute, and when I saw the pictures I just wanted to cry.
  • QueenMother14
    QueenMother14 Posts: 438 Member
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    The first time I realized I was fat, I was driving down the road and hit a bump and felt my stomach jiggle. UGH.
  • MiawMiawMiaw
    MiawMiawMiaw Posts: 24 Member
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    I've always been a little bit overweight maybe 10 pounds but it was never a big deal and a few of my friends were bigger than me.

    But over the last 2 years I've been gaining due to poor choices and medication. But I starting wearing floaty skirts and I was still getting a lot of exercise so I didn't worry.

    Then I got down to only a few outfits that would fit and I knew I was overweight. They were stretchy dresses and legging so I had no real idea what size I was.

    But it really hit home for me a week ago. I needed a shirt and trousers for an interview. I knew I wasn't a size 14 any more so I thought how about a 16? Nope. 18 was too small too. SIze 20 fit. They fit perfectly. Size 20 short. And then to shirts, size 18.

    So yeah, I'm now mortified that I've let myself get into this state. Frankly it's embarrassing. I'm officially short AND fat.
  • Crazeemaz
    Crazeemaz Posts: 15
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    I was looking at some holiday photos and I said "who's that fat woman in the corner of the photo?" Only to realise with a shock that it was me :(
  • seliinac
    seliinac Posts: 336 Member
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    Seeing myself in pictures and my face was fat. I had a double chin and a pudgy face, making my eyes and mouth look tiny. I could handle a fat body but not a fat face!
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,811 Member
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    Aged 31, serious knee injury led to 3 months off work and on crutches. By the time I was able to go back to work none of my trousers fitted.
    Still remember asking a shop assistant to show me where to find the "trousers for old, fat, *kitten*" which shows where my self-esteem was at that time.
  • JakeBrownVB
    JakeBrownVB Posts: 399 Member
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    oh wow! amazing the different scenarios in which people suddenly realised! keep em coming
  • HeatherKImbell1
    HeatherKImbell1 Posts: 2 Member
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    There had always been a total disconnect between what I see in the mirror and what I think I look like (I think I am waaaaay "hotter" than I am).
    But as for the first time I realized I was overweight...REALLY overweight... when I was at a friend's house (someone I considered really fat) and needed to borrow a pair of shorts after a painting accident and they didn't fit! They fit her but they didn't fit me! I could button the damn things over my fanny pack of stomach flab!
    Got the Lap Band 4 months later but what I really needed was a Lap band around my brain not my stomach!
    I've only lost 20lbs since surgery and this final push is entirely up to me and doing things the right way!
  • yinkyo
    yinkyo Posts: 78 Member
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    Always been overweight, but not very bad, since about middle school. Then I went to college and dropped a lot of weight being really active and not eating as much (poor college student and all) When I got back home I didn't realize how quickly I was putting the weight back on until I saw a picture somebody took of me at Jafax (an anime convention) but even then I just thought it was a camera thing, like it was a bit warped or something, because that image was nothing like the one I was seeing in the mirror. It wasn't until I was pregnant, and EVERYBODY was constantly taking pictures of me, that I really knew I was hugely overweight. I weighed more than my fiance, who was overweight himself too, and I couldn't keep up with my son. The last straw was a picture my mom took of me in this outfit I had bought for a concert that I thought I looked HOT in, and when I saw the pictures later, all I saw was a fatty chick in a nice outfit. It was then that I pulled out my dusty Zumba kit, and got a gym membership and started swimming.

    Today I start Stage 1 of NRoLW... here's to never look back!
  • texanintokyo
    texanintokyo Posts: 278 Member
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    I knew I was gaining weight because my clothes wouldn't fit anymore. Then I'd lose some of it thorough diet and exercise only to quit the routine and gain it back again. I knew I wanted to be back at my old weight before I turned 40 in december 2013, but it seemed so far off that I had plenty of time. Then 2 things happened. One I took my mom on the trip of her dreams Christmas 2012, 3 weeks in India. I spent more than I had ever spent on anything let alone a vacation) and after the first day I didn't want to be in any of the photos. Of course it caused tension between the two of us because here she was all the way from Texas (I live in Japan) and we were in from to the tajmahal and I didn't want to take a photo. I decided right then I didn't want to feel that way on our next family vacation. Yet still I didn't rush to the gym (thinking I still had a year to go). On April 1st a close family friend died, he was the same age as me, 39. They think he had a heart attack in his sleep. He had always been over weight and never taken care of himself. I saw the photos of myself at his funeral and that was it. I knew it was more than about looking hot at my 40th birthday party, it was about saving my life. The day I returned to Japan from the funeral in Texas I joined the gym and got back on MFP.
  • JakeBrownVB
    JakeBrownVB Posts: 399 Member
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    great stories!

    My profile picture is also the key that made me realise I was overweight. If you look at the picture on the left of my avi, I am drinking in a club.
    The girls take loads of pictures all night, you wake up hungover, and you look at last nights clubbing pics..

    Well I woke up, looked at pics, and saw that picture of me on the left... a massive bloated beer belly.. I was disgusted and went miserable for the rest of the week.
  • latepaul
    latepaul Posts: 49 Member
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    I've always been overweight as an adult and I was a chubby child. For a brief moment in my teens I was skinny but that was probably a growth spurt ;)

    But my "wake up" moment was a few years ago when I was walking up the steps outside my then work building. No more than about 7-8 steps and I was gasping for breath at the top. It was then I decided I needed to do something. Initially I just wanted to get fit but I soon started wondering if the exercise I was now doing had had an effect on my weight.

    That was 4 years ago and I've lost a lot of weight since then. I've put a lot of it back on too. But this time around - been back on the wagon since Nov, doing 5:2 - I'm finding it more sustainable and I don't plan to quit.
  • sharonfoustmills
    sharonfoustmills Posts: 519 Member
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    when I went to the doctor and realized my current regular weight was higher than what I weighed the day I went to the hospital to deliver my second child

    edited to add this: seeing a pic of myself on the beach was a real shocker!
  • texanintokyo
    texanintokyo Posts: 278 Member
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    I started NROW4W last Friday!! Add me.
  • Hannah_Hopes
    Hannah_Hopes Posts: 273 Member
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    Shopping for jeans, simple as.
  • MyJourney1960
    MyJourney1960 Posts: 1,133 Member
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    i was "chubby" as a kid.

    I remember when i was about 8? (not sure exactly the age, but i had to have been either 8 or 9 because I remember WHERE it happened). summer camp, we were sitting on the grass and everyone was talking about one of the girls who was extremely thin (we were sitting cross legged or on our knees and her legs/kness/calves were the same size all the way through - just skin and bones). and at that moment i realized that MY thighs were bigger than some of the other girls.

    then when i was 10, i was my cousin's house and we were supposed to go swimming. i didn't have a suit so i was supposed to borrow one of hers. but she was upset because it was smaller on me than on her so we couldn't go swimming. (yeah, she was a brat and mean to me. ok, she was a total b-word). wow - i didn't even remember this story. now i remember the bathing suit - it had a design near the neck - like three leaves cut out of the fabric and so the "holes" were bigger when i wore the suit. it wasn't like i was a size 20 and she was a zero, i was maybe a LITTLE fuller than her.

    so when i was around 13 i went to WW and lost 22 pounds and then throughout HS went on every.crash.diet known to mankind and lost a few more
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,136 Member
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    When my mom had to buy me 6x girls pants.

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