The Lie I Told Myself

...the eco-dry cleaner shrank my pants! :laugh:

...wait how did the eco-dry cleaner shrink ALL of my pants - LOL! :embarassed:

...it's just water... :noway:

...it's just another 3 drinks.... :blushing:

the biggest lie was equating 'being busy' with 'exercise'. not the same thing!! :huh:

I always told myself "I eat healthy I just need to watch my portions." LIE. Now that I look back I ate horribly. There are some things I ate back then that I would not eat now even if you paid me to.

Another thing I told myself was "I carry my weight well." LIE. In all my fat pics I am more round than I am tall. 215 lbs on a 5'2 frame is not pretty!!

Also "I have a lot of muscle that's why I'm so big." ha ha ha! LIE. I was almost 50% body fat when I started.

I am so glad I don't have to be that person ever again. :happy:

I told myself that I'm just not built to be skinny since I've been on the heavier side most my life (and most of my extended family, women and men, are moderately to seriously overweight and my parents have both struggled a bit with weight). I also told myself that I wasn't *that* bad. Then I hit 230 (I'm about 5' 3.5") and realized that I WAS *that* bad. I saw a picture of me at that weight and my face looked bloated and very round, and I looked huge (it's the picture of me in the striped blue sweater in my profile pics).

"I have a simple, ox-like psyche. I am not deep enough to get depressed".

"If I ever did get depressed, I have enough self control to not binge-eat because of it".

"If I binge-ate because of depression, I'd certainly never continue to do so after I began to feel better".

Lies lies lies,,, tired of them I am. The next lie was "Now that I've been off MFP for 5 months, going back to that will be hell on earth"... Nope, not so bad, just getting used to it again. Not worrying or guilting about it is more satisfying than the full belly was.

Mine was simply 'I'm happy the way I am' So wrong!!!

The biggest lie I had going was being perpetuated by my loved ones: "You aren't fat!"

Of course, I'm not obese. I'm not even 30 lbs overweight, and I have about 16% bodyfat, which is waaaayyy too high. Now, I don't expect to get to 5% bodyfat, but closer to 10% is the goal. Under if possible.

But my loved ones would just tell me, and still do, that I'm not fat. No, i tell them, I'm not FAT. But I'm overweight. And I'm high stress. And I don't look good in a speedo. And I'm in the minority of men and probably women too, who thinks a speedo can look good on a fit man. IN fact, it looks better than those stupid, rediculous swimsuits 99.9% of men wear. They are just shorts with a liner in them. America is too modest, and lies to itself all the time. We don't want to see a man in a speedo, but pornography is a multi-billion dollar industry in this country, and the two have NOTHING To do with each other except everyone says "gross" when they think of them.

So, back to the point. Ask a doctor if you are overweight. If he/she is worth their salt, they will tell you the truth. Then, determine the weight you should be, and work to get there.

The biggest lie I had going was being perpetuated by my loved ones: "You aren't fat!"

Of course, I'm not obese. I'm not even 30 lbs overweight, and I have about 16% bodyfat, which is waaaayyy too high. Now, I don't expect to get to 5% bodyfat, but closer to 10% is the goal. Under if possible.

But my loved ones would just tell me, and still do, that I'm not fat. No, i tell them, I'm not FAT. But I'm overweight. And I'm high stress. And I don't look good in a speedo. And I'm in the minority of men and probably women too, who thinks a speedo can look good on a fit man. IN fact, it looks better than those stupid, rediculous swimsuits 99.9% of men wear. They are just shorts with a liner in them. America is too modest, and lies to itself all the time. We don't want to see a man in a speedo, but pornography is a multi-billion dollar industry in this country, and the two have NOTHING To do with each other except everyone says "gross" when they think of them.

So, back to the point. Ask a doctor if you are overweight. If he/she is worth their salt, they will tell you the truth. Then, determine the weight you should be, and work to get there.

That's what I am going through now. People telling me that I need to stop losing weight. I know I need to lose about another 13lbs to be at a nice healthy weight. I am content where I am now...but not satisfied. I don't want to be good....I want to be great!

i was 210 and i believed id look alot skinnier at 200 now 10 pounds is alot if you hold it but it took losing almost 25 for me to even see results haha but now im excited to lose more

You are doing great Lance. It took me losing about 25-30lbs before other people saw a difference. And then that was all the motivation I needed to keep going.

Don't beat yourself up, there's a couple of us back on who also had our weight down and somehow for various reasons let it come back on, I am one of them. I worked hard over a year ago and lost 10 lbs, was down to 140, but that wasnt good enough. I wanted 135, so i tried some crazy diets, got away from MFP and counting calories, stopped getting on the scale and started buying a bigger size jeans. Had a shock a couple of weeks ago when I weighed myself and had gained back every pound! So I'm back too, counting calories and trying to get out and exercise when the weather isnt too miserable. So, good luck with your new goals! We'll all be lighter by summer!

I'd look around at everyone else and think, "I'm not that fat." Problem is, I was. People would say, "Oh, you're tall, you can carry the weight." But I couldn't, my knees are way older than most of me. I told myself, "I'm strong and I can do lots of things other people my age can't do, so I must be pretty fit." But I had no stamina at all.
Now I go to my Y class and try my darndest to keep up with those slim 20-somethings, and I don't even care how silly I look, because every week I get closer to keeping up, and I look better all the time.

I just told myself I was bloated. Like 30 pounds bloated! :laugh: Now I'm only about 15 lbs bloated.

America is too modest, and lies to itself all the time. We don't want to see a man in a speedo, but pornography is a multi-billion dollar industry in this country, and the two have NOTHING To do with each other except everyone says "gross" when they think of them.

I love the tangent you went off on here, lol!

I thought I was large framed......not

I always told myself "I eat healthy I just need to watch my portions." LIE. Now that I look back I ate horribly. There are some things I ate back then that I would not eat now even if you paid me to.

Another thing I told myself was "I carry my weight well." LIE. In all my fat pics I am more round than I am tall. 215 lbs on a 5'2 frame is not pretty!!

Also "I have a lot of muscle that's why I'm so big." ha ha ha! LIE. I was almost 50% body fat when I started.

I am so glad I don't have to be that person ever again. :happy:

This was totally me! All of it! Oh I eat salads when I go out to dinner sometimes. Yeah like that much matters anymore when they pile all the bad stuff on top of it now!

I've always been bigger so I always thought it was "normal" for me. Such lies..