Most embarrassing 'fat' moment you can now laugh at?

One month after I had my second child, my neighbor walked to me when I was on my way to pick up my son. We ran into each other everyday around the same time. He said to me " My wife just told me you had your baby, congrats!" I looked at him and thought " It was a month ago! Do I still look like I am 9 month pregnant???? "

I haven't had too many traumatic experiences.

I took a class trip to Spain last summer. We were in Granad, where the Alhambra is, and I lagged behind everyone getting up it. IT wasn't so much that I was embarrassed about my body - just my level of fitness.

We walked a ton on that trip. My classroom was a mile each way to my homestay, so, bare minimum, I was walking two mile a day. And most days was much, much more then that, with several days where we walked up cathedral towers.

I ate whatever I wanted - including dessert, pastries and ice creams. When I came back home, I had lost 6 pounds. That clued me into the power of exercise - and I wondered to myself, what would happen if I actually paid attention to what I was eating?

I have a couple embarrassing 'fat' moments unfortunately.

I went to a local amusement park and I got on a ride called the grizzly. The oldest ride in the park and the best by far. Anyway, the seats are small. I set in my own seat, then my husband set in his own seat. When I went to close the lap bar it clicked once in place and I thought everything was fine. Then the guy comes around to check everyones seat, he pushes on my bar and says it is supposed to click twice so I need to push it down again. Now the other employee told him no it just needs to click in place and it it clicked once she is fine. Well this one employee wasn't letting it go, he just kept pushing the damn bar down and obviously it wouldn't go anywhere. So I asked to get off because he was embarrassing me. Well when I got off I completely left the park. We left the park so close to the time that we came that the pictures they take when you enter the park weren't even done yet. And my husband didn't understand why I was upset. uh-duh!!!

Second embarrasing moment:
I was in a exercise program. I was with another friend. Both of us happen to be well endowed in the boobage area..lol.. anyway the instructor wanted us to do jumping jacks. Now if any of you have the same issue we have you know that jumping jacks can cause them things to knock you out if you aren't careful. So our solution is to taking one arm and rest it across our chest while using the other arm in regular jumping jack motion. Are 50 jumping jacks the instructor comes over and says I don't mean to be rude but is their something else you can do with those things so you can use both arms and get a good jumping jack going. We looked at each other and said "yeah, it's called a breast reduction, it cost money and we are broke, are you offering to pay"

Most unprofessional embarrassing moment.

I went to a new doctor because I had a horrible cold and cough that would not go away. When the doctor comes in she starts asking their regular routine questions. Then she says "do you have any other diseases". Now I'm kind of confused at this point and start thinking she is looking at the wrong chart cause I don't have any diseases. So I ask her what does she mean. She say, " do you have any other diseases besides obesity" OMG, if I didn't want to beat her with her stethescope.


Best moment:

I was complaining one day to my 12 year daughter about me not being able to find anything in my closet to wear. I then made a uncharacteristic comment about me being fat (i don't like to talk like that around my kids). Well my daughter wasn't having any of it. She looked at me (like only a 12 year old girl can do, you know, like I'm crazy and she doesn't know where I came from) and she tells me you are perfect just the way you are and don't let me ever hear you say that again or i'm telling daddy and Nana on you. Then she said and I love you and she had tears in her eyes. Best moment ever and the moment you realize, Damn I guess I am raising them right!!

Oh God. I was once the guy who walked away and stood up a girl on a first date because I was disappointed at finding out she was fat. It was a blind date and I actually walked right past her and pretended I didn't recognise her. stormbornkrak story makes me feel really guilty. And now I think how ironic it is that how in time I became the fat one.

Kudos for being man enough to admit that! And if the truth be known, I am a big girl who isnt all that attracted to big guys...I know I am such a freaking hypocrite, but it is what it is. My hubby is a bigger guy, and I actually weigh more than him, for now....hahahaha yes I feel so shallow for saying all that but I was just keeping it real!

I don't know but most recently my hubby brought up the fact that I always used to take so long to get ready when we went anywhere and asked him anything I wore made me look fat. I would always try little tricks to "hide' my rolls but honestly they didn't really work. He was like oh man I can say this to you now but you know I lied to you a lot back then. lol. well never again. Now I can wear anything and feel confident I look good and never have to ask him cuz the fact that he cant keep his eyes off of me says it all. :drinker:

My moment was not long after I had my first child I was in the neighborhood of 330 (I am now at 355 but thats after losing 57 pounds) and I was meeting my inlaws for the first time. THey were going to take us out to dinner and we planned to ride with them in their Honda accord.....So my husbands Stepdad says to my mother in law as we are all about to get into the car, "DOnt you think we should take two cars?" She said "Why?" And its still not very funny like I was hoping for it to be "Because the wieght limit on this thing is only 2000 pounds." OMG I died so much inside right then. Now keep in mind my hubby was about 250 or so also ( And I though he was going to punch him, but fortunatley his mom stepped in) MIke was normal sized and Sharon was short and fairly petite. I never felt so humiliated in my life and Sharon was mortified. SHe shot Mike the most awful look and said guys get in the car. I have no idea what she said to him later but all I know is the next day she took me shopping with his credit card and said :Honey I am so sorry that Mike is a *kitten*!" You are beautiful inside and out and I hope you can forgive his stupidity." It made me feel better but yeah that was pretty much one of the worst FAT memories ever.

I have had several instances of little kids especially toddlers say "Your Fat" and I am like yeah well your little get over it..lol no I am just kidding I never said anything back to them but yeah....

SO now every pound I lose is a victory and I have no intentions of stopping until I hit my goal!

this is going back 10 years - but my son who was 6 at the time walked up and wrapped his arms around me while I was talking to some friends - he said "mommy I love your bum because its so big and squishy" - little brat

Lol! My daughter did basically the same thing! She called me "fluffy"

I live on a traffic busy street in Queens, New York. My family and I were going somewhere so we had to cross the street to get to my car. I was crossing with my seven year old son, my teenage twins and my stepson. There was traffic so we waited a bit then crossed. The woman in the SUV that stopped for us to cross passed us by after we crossed. "Get Out Of The Way You Fat Cow!" as she passed us. I could hear it clearly from behind me. I know my kids heard it. They did not say anything. I did not say anything either. I waited until we went home that night, locked myself in the bathroom and cried.

I cant say that I can laugh about this one but it is a testament to how cruel people can be.

On holidays two years ago in Spain

Down the beach after a late night and fell asleep, when I woke up the local media where there in a circle around me, while a JCB was diggin a tench from me down too the water line

And the good people of the RSPCA where hosing me down with sea water

Ha!

It was Chritmas time...gift exchange...I received a can of Slim Fast...

Ugh, that was just down right MEAN! How could you forgive them?

Because small minded people who treat others that way will never fully know some of life's greatest pleasures/gifts.

Did not fit at the seats of the theater while I went to an orchestra concert.

I was on a date. :frown:

When I was in 5th grade I was friends with a girl who would go on to be one of the popular girls in high school. She was skinny, I was fat. We were talking and she said something about me being fat and I said "well, maybe some day or in another life I will be skinny and you will be fat and you can feel how I feel".

Guess who is way bigger than me now. *insert evil laugh here*

Well, hmmmm. I've had the classic. Congrats you're pregnant...no I am not.....oh, come on you can tell me...no I am not pregnant....sure you are ......nope just gained weight now go away.....

I've been asked "Are you having a baby?" and "When are you due?" 3 times in the last two years. It hurts every single time. :sad:

This is not a true embarrassing fat moment, but it made me really angry. I have had 11 kids - 6 of those as a gestational carrier, and in less than 5 years, so although I was losing weight between pregnancies, because I knew I was doing it again, I didn't lose all the weight.

Anyway, after the birth of baby #11 I started running. At the time I weighed 175lbs (5'3"). I was running along a busy road and a teenage boy slowed his car down and said, 'Run fatso.' And then he sped up. I yelled after him, even though I knew he couldn't hear me but it made me feel better, "I've had 11 kids! What's your excuse?" Of course I couldn't see whether he was skinny/fat but it didn't matter. I was just upset that he felt he had the right to make such a personal comment, when it was obvious that I was getting my 'fatso' self out and exercising.

It was Chritmas time...gift exchange...I received a can of Slim Fast...

For those of you that may not be familiar with Slim Fast..it is a weigh loss shake/ fad diet system.

I have never forgotten this, or the feeling that came with it, the people involved, or the damage my self esteem took that day. I am still not at my goal, but whenever I struggle this is the story that I use to motivate and remind myself how good the choices I am making are. I struggle, I stumble, I am human, but this is what picks me up off the floor and gets me back out the door.

Edit: spelling mistakes, because it's Friday and I just can't even.

Oh God!! How horrible!!! People can be such D/bags!!