what embarrassing moment made you want to lose weight?

comments here and there from work colleagues and family

I think for me it was when I went to go put on my pants and they slipped on easier than they usually do and there was no struggling to button the things like normal. However, I realized the issue when the bottom of the pants were about a foot shorter than normal. These were not MY pants, but my sisters, who is, or at least used to be, two sizes bigger than me. And they were comfy! I knew I had gained a little bit of weight, but I didn't realize, or didn't want to realize, it had been two full sizes. I had to change the way I was eating and living right away. I did NOT want to get any bigger!!!

I went to a party and ate so much I was sick for the next 24 hours (had to call in sick to work). The next day I couldn't really eat much. Once I felt better, I just kept eating less. After a week or 2 I started logging on MFP.

2011rocket3touring wrote: »

Morgaen73 wrote: »

...-Not being able to wipe my own behind because my arms were too short

That was actually a big (pardon the pun) fear of mine as I was getting heavier.

I was there twice. It isn't fun. Especially when you have to look your wife in the eyes knowing she does the laundry.

So many embarrassing little moments and feeling so unhappy and uncomfortable. But the kicker for me was a bone spur and achilles damage to my foot and being too scared to have the surgery for fear that I'll die. Also not being able to put weight on it for 4-5 weeks which means I'll have to be on a blood thinner because I'm "somewhat overweight" (nice of the dr to put it mildly). How on earth will I be able to shift my weight around while I'm recovering?
And realizing i have no life outside of work, can't go hiking with my son or shopping with my friends. I can't continue on like this, I'm almost 50!

Some might say I "yo-yo", but each time I rebound I only gain about half of my losses back before something inspires me to re-start.

The first time I started I was approaching 300 pounds, and I REALLY didn't want my weight to start with "3".

Another time I re-started was during a spike in my business travel, and I REALLY didn't want to inconvenience people in my row on the airplane.

Most recently, after throwing out pairs of "fat pants" during my previous campaign, I REALLY didn't want to go buy those bigger-size pants back. "Lotta work!"

Going from a size 24 in Jan 2011 to a size 8 in June 2012 (thanks MFP!) and then not being disciplined enough to maintain that new size - having to buy size 18's again. Shopping for clothes that apparently I was too fat for most stores and not fat enough for the plus size shops!

The scale didn't go high enough.

azfunfrog41 wrote: »

Mine was when i split my pants at work when bending down to get something. I decided to start exercising and watching what i ate. What was yours? Also add me as your friend if you like.

I don't really have one, but I've done that twice at a healthy weight. I cycle and lift and my quads and rear make pants fitting more difficult. Men's clothing doesn't seem to be cut or designed to accommodate a booty.

It wasn't an embarrassing moment, just kind of a psychological defeat/shock for me when my "fat" clothes started not fitting. Sometimes it is hard for me to grasp I was a muscular, fit 180 pounds with single digit body fat when I met my wife. I always had self esteem issues and always thought I was ugly (now, looking back, I still have self esteem issues but I would actually get hit on back on those days so I might have been somewhat attractive though I don't and never did see it). As I gained weight, it didn't help my esteem issues. My weight climbed and climbed until I broke the 250 pound mark and had a size 40 pants became tight. I had to pick and choose my XXL T-Shirts as some didn't cover my belly up.

There was nothing magical about those numbers, but it really made me think, "Holy *kitten*!" What have I done to myself? To see myself in pictures was (and still is as I am just restarting MFP when I gained the 30 pounds I lost back after I was injured). I look at my pictures and see a fat person, someone I should have never became.

When my jeans became tight, shirts didn't fit, and I saw how I looked in pictures, I noticed I was setting a piss poor example for my kids. If I sat on the couch, so do they. If I exercise, so do they. My kids became my driving force as well as a bit of vanity (so my wife can have a better looking husband rather than what I became). I would like to put on a shirt and debate about if the style and color looks good on me, not does the shirt make me look less fat.

I volunteered at a Spartan Race back in 2014 as I was on the fence about running one. I met a couple of incredible people who told me their stories of being 300+ pound people. Both were thin, in good shape, and they were Spartans (AROO!). I realized, if they could make the journey, so could I!! So here I am!!

When my fat clothes started to get too tight. And these were the fattest clothes I've ever had. I got on the scale and realized I weighed more than when I was pregnant years ago.