When did you stop feeling 'fat'?

joelo_1119 · October 2016

When I was able to fit into Abercrombie and H&M jeans lol

Sara1791 · October 2016

I thought I was fat as a 5'6" 125 pound teenager. I thought I was smokin' as a 220 pound adult. Self-perception is a weird thing. It's really hard for me to have an accurate idea of myself. I'm getting better at it, but I need to use tools like body fat percentages and bmi so that I have objective measures to use. That said, I have about 15 to 20 ish pounds to go and I THINK I look pretty good if you like your women a little thick - I know I do.

Need2Exerc1se · October 2016

I had days where I felt fat when my BMI was 19, I had days where I felt thin when my BMI was 28. No matter what my weight I have days where I feel fat and days where I feel thin. The mind is a weird thing.

red99ryder · October 2016

I'm still fat , but it helped when I could wipe my butt ,,, oh the goals we have lol.

Sara1791 · October 2016

red99ryder wrote: »

I'm still fat , but it helped when I could wipe my butt ,,, oh the goals we have lol.

Being able to continue to wipe my own butt is one of the motivations listed in my profile. It's funny, but I mean it.

crzycatlady1 · October 2016

HaleCry wrote: »

When was it for you, that you looked in the mirror and didn't think of yourself as overweight? Was it once you entered the healthy BMI range? Was it when you were in a certain clothes size? Or did it just one day click?

I've lost 22lbs so far, 18lbs to go until I have a 'healthy BMI', but I can't notice much difference at all... I'm wondering whether I'll always consider myself the fat girl.

I'm several years into maintenance and have a bmi of around 21. I still have days where I feel 'fat' even though I know that's not the case. It's a mental hurdle that I don't know if I'll ever fully get over? This seems to be a pretty common issue among people who've lost weight.

sydneyrm0915 · October 2016

For me it was when I stopped drinking soda and loss all my bloatedness(real word?)

PaulaWallaDingDong · October 2016

The only time I feel "unfat" is when I change clothing sizes or wear clothes around the house from before I started losing (down 93 lbs). It's only temporary, though. My fat brain always catches up. It's here to stay, and I'm ok with that.

Timshel_ · October 2016

After dropping 30 pounds, clothes fit "normal" without all the buldging. Still not trim or athletic, but definitely not pudgy with a big belly.

leanjogreen18 · October 2016

I've been working on body image so I'm trying to feel that even though I'm not in a healthy bmi range I'm trying to just be thankful my body got me this far, and I will work on getting into a healthy bmi so we can go farther.

Okohme · October 2016

joelo_1119 wrote: »

When I was able to fit into Abercrombie and H&M jeans lol

Damn. I had to look. I'll never Buy Abercrombie jeans, but I looked it up and I'm a size 8 or 10 in their jeans, which is like the fat girl end, I suppose. But I went from Walmart fat to Abercrombie fat. How about that. lol

PaulaWallaDingDong · October 2016

Okohme wrote: »

joelo_1119 wrote: »

When I was able to fit into Abercrombie and H&M jeans lol

Damn. I had to look. I'll never Buy Abercrombie jeans, but I looked it up and I'm a size 8 or 10 in their jeans, which is like the fat girl end, I suppose. But I went from Walmart fat to Abercrombie fat. How about that. lol

I like it! It was cool to go into Old Navy and be able to try on jeans in the store. Oh, sure, they sell the plus sizes, but you have to buy online and hope for the best. When I was that heavy I'd NEVER buy anything online that I hadn't already tried on in the store, like replacements for my favorite khaki office pants from Kohl's once the inner thighs disintegrated. I know Old Navy isn't the same as Abercrombie, but the whole "I couldn't before but now I can" feeling is pretty great.

Kira_72 · October 2016

around age 39 or 40

weight goes up and down, but my attitude says I'm healthy, I'm trying and I love the body I was given!

AspenDan · October 2016

Every single day I think...dang, that's a good looking man.
Also every single day I think ...man, I got a lot more work to do.
Basically, I think my idea of what my body looks like varies depending on what completely irrelevant things/ feelings are happening at that moment..

ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken · October 2016

Funny. I have never not felt fat. Ever. Not when I was at 125 lbs years ago. I still felt fat, and never felt remotely skinny in the least. I am interested to see if I ever stop feeling fat now that you mention it.

Okohme · October 2016

PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »

Okohme wrote: »

joelo_1119 wrote: »

When I was able to fit into Abercrombie and H&M jeans lol

Damn. I had to look. I'll never Buy Abercrombie jeans, but I looked it up and I'm a size 8 or 10 in their jeans, which is like the fat girl end, I suppose. But I went from Walmart fat to Abercrombie fat. How about that. lol

I like it! It was cool to go into Old Navy and be able to try on jeans in the store. Oh, sure, they sell the plus sizes, but you have to buy online and hope for the best. When I was that heavy I'd NEVER buy anything online that I hadn't already tried on in the store, like replacements for my favorite khaki office pants from Kohl's once the inner thighs disintegrated. I know Old Navy isn't the same as Abercrombie, but the whole "I couldn't before but now I can" feeling is pretty great.

Nah, I'm with you. Any place that sells (regular sized?) pants like that its the same sort of deal. Some stores are better or worse about skinny people clothes, but, to me at least they're both "Mall stores."

B4Rachael · October 2016

For me it was actually just yesterday.

I am 5 lbs from my original goal & yesterday I finally felt good about myself - good enough that I am going to start maintenance today until after the holidays.

I have been aiming to lose 55lbs; but when I hit 40lbs lost I actually was thinking to myself that I should lose 10 lbs more than I originally wanted (up to 65lbs), BUT yesterday it hit me that I feel great - I am happy!

When 2017 arrives I will re-evaluate how I feel and if I want to reach for my original goal or if I am content where I am at (assuming the holidays don't add pounds)

fwitsend1277 · October 2016

I've dropped over 60lbs, and 4 dress sizes and my brain still doesn't see a difference. Guess it'll happen one day.....

amusedmonkey · October 2016

I've almost never "felt fat", in the negative sense of the word (except when I was worrying I wouldn't fit into chairs or would break them). I've always been okay with the way I looked, I even kinda liked it. I knew I'm not perfect and I didn't care to be. No delusions, I knew exactly how fat I was, it just didn't bother me. Once I decided to lose weight I went through a phase of being kind of unhappy with the way I looked. It's like the act of dieting comes packaged with this magnifying glass that keeps pinpointing issues here and there you may not have focused on before. I had to actively work on that to go back to my normal, and I'm now able to be fat without feeling fat again, sort of, nearly there.

Something that may make you a little less unhappy is that there are certain weight points that make you feel like you have changed overnight. Maybe you haven't reached one yet, but when you do you will know it! You will admire your slightly more tapered waist or can't stop touching your newly found collarbones! You don't even have to be a normal BMI to appreciate some of the new changes and experiences. At a certain weight point I once had my hands on my hips and I thought there was a cockroach (there wasn't) so I lifted foot and something weird happened. I felt the muscles move under my fingers! I spent a good few weeks obsessed with the discovery, walking all over the house with my hands on my waist experiencing how my core muscles are doing their job to balance me! That was new to me and very exciting and amusing. I felt like a child experiencing something for the first time. I was around 250-260 lbs at the time and down about 40 or more lbs from my starting weight.

You can still "feel thin", even for a moment, while you are still fat in the process of losing weight if you pay attention to these little details, so keep a keen eye and make the best out of it while the novelty lasts.

spiriteagle99 · October 2016

When I look at myself in the mirror, I usually feel fat, though I'm within normal weight range. I see all the places where I still have fat. I also have strong muscular legs that look much fatter from above. However when I see myself in a photograph, I'm surprised at how good I look.

When my weight was up before, it was the photos that finally got through to me. I was in denial at how much weight I had gained until I saw some pictures of myself and couldn't pretend any longer.

When did you stop feeling 'fat'?

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