What do/did you hate most about being fat?

Honestly I think the worst to me was people making assumptions -- that I hated myself, looked at thinner women with envy 24/7, ate a lot of fast food/junk and was very unhealthy with specific conditions like diabetes and such.

Yeah, this. Also, because I had been fit in the past, feeling like I couldn't join in a conversation about running or something where I had something to contribute or an anecdote or something, because it would seem so absurd, someone as fat as me talking about that. So I'd feel compelled to make a stupid disclaimer first.

Also:

Photos--I knew seeing myself in them would make me sad, so the usual "let's take pictures to celebrate this occasion" would be fraught, even though I'd act happy and go along with it since it was my issue, and not a reason to spoil anyone else's fun.

Seats--I never didn't fit in one, but they could be uncomfortably tight, and I hated thinking the person next to me was bummer to be stuck by me.

Feeling my stomach on my legs when sitting.

General lack of fitness--feeling winded from normal walking or running up the steps to my place (I live in a 4th floor walkup), having feet be incredibly sore and tired from standing for a not especially long time, finding it almost impossible to comfortably wear my dressier work shoes (heels). (I seriously never realized this last was weight-related at all until I lost weight, and started to be able to enjoy wearing the same shoes all day, vs. hardly being able to make it back to my office from a meeting in them.)

Spending the summer in skirts and tights, since I had no jeans or other pants that fit and couldn't go without the tights due to chafing.

Finding it miserable and depressing to shop for clothes and being unable to fit in my existing clothes such that my unhappiness with how I looked was exponentially increased by the fact I knew I wasn't presenting myself well at all. That part of it I do think was in part a kind of self-punishment.

It's funny looking at all this, because on the whole I would have said I mostly didn't mind being fat.

not being to perform basic hygiene like wiping back there in the bathroom.
inner thighs rubbing holes through my size 66 pants in addition to ripping the back seams while in public.

1. Getting dressed in the morning is a bummer. Nothing looks or feels right.
2. Sluggish feeling that comes not so much from being fat as from what I eat that makes me fat.

2) eating in front of people
3) my boyfriend watching me get dressed in the morning ...I'm all please look away look away...especially on days I feel a little larger and put on my "holder inner" as he so delicately calls it.
4) pretending to "love my body" and encouraging other people to do so because I really don't.

Hi all!

I'm not a new member but I barely used MyFitnessPal so please consider me a newbie irrespective. My "hates" are very similar to @krystalrhilla


1) "Pretending" (rather believing for a moment) that I look alright. I look to my family to tell me I look "fine" because I honestly don't look or feel fine to myself.

2) Becoming addicted to "holder inners" or what I call "waist belts" which are essentially shapewear, corsets and girdles.
It's embarrassing for me to admit being a male who feels reliant on garments designed for the female market to smooth out my "B belly". It's sad that I don't feel nearly as attractive without one of these.

3) Being unhealthy in comparison to others in my age group, friends or family.

4) Not being able to look the way I want to in the clothes I like.

Seeing myself in Pictures

Me too!! ugh

I was only 165 lbs at my heaviest (I was 5'4" at the time; 16 years old), but as an adult I've been as high as 155 (last year). I'm now 126 lbs. What I hated about being bigger:

- Looking in the mirror and disliking what I saw.
- Avoiding mirrors.
- Looking at pictures of myself.
- Feeling uncomfortable in a swimsuit.
- Feeling uncomfortable during sex.
- Shopping and trying on clothes.
- Feeling fat and ugly standing next to slim people.
- Having no strength or endurance.

What I didn't hate:

- Eating a **** load of food.

The fact that tying my shoes makes me get winded due to my gut preventing me from being able to properly bend over.

Constantly tugging at my shirt to keep it from clinging to me.
Being uncomfortable all the time even just sitting or laying down
I didn't want to leave the house...all I did was go to work
Sweating and being so hot all the time.
Having to shop for clothes
Being scared a chair would break with me in it or when I sit down
just being so unhappy all the time.

These exactly ..lol

Most of my old (and favorite) clothes being too small, and pictures.

Lack of dates.