What was your first “I’m getting fat” realization?

Fitnessmom82 · January 2018

ginyspills wrote: »

For some reason these realizations give me more fuel to stick to eating healthy!

Mine was my mood. I realized I’ve been feeling constantly moody/insecure. Great marriage, work is fine, same amount of money stress. So what is the problem? Looking back at photos of me with the huge smile, I realized I have gained a crap ton of weight! How can I smile like that when my clothes hardly fit me? I refuse to buy new outfits in a bigger size! Determined to lose this weight

How about you?

The thighs of all of my jeans kept wearing out, even with my bigger sizes that I convinced myself were just mislabeled haha! Then I saw a picture of myself from last summer and I was absolutely horrified. I thought I was getting fat, picture confirmed that I was already there!

rachelr1116 · January 2018

Pictures from a night out with friends at a murder mystery. One of my friends is very petite and I realized that I looked like a big blob next to her. It did take me another 4 months to actually start doing anything about it though.

arobey11 · January 2018

grumpopuppo wrote: »

Bullying when I was very, very young. Wasn't even overweight, didn't know what 'fatty' realistically meant. Turned into something of a prophecy as I turned to food for comfort.
But these days it's my chin (and whether or not there's two of them) and heart burn levels.

Yes!! I have to carry Tums around like I have some sort of weird addiction when I'm not eating right, and gaining weight. When I'm not overeating and I'm either losing or maintaining weight, I don't have that problem. Whoda thunk it?

jhendersonfbmfp · January 2018

The moment I looked in the mirror and realised that actually, the mirror wasn't lying

jc1961AA · January 2018

Just seeing pictures of me on the beach, clothes getting tighter and feeling like i could not move as fast as i used to

Nikki10129 · January 2018

Same as most people, I could tell I was getting bigger because clothes were getting tight and pictures were not looking good, the moment I decided I needed to make changes was when I noticed my sweat pants getting tight. I could handle buying bigger jeans but there was no way I was upsizing my sweats

anyWendy · January 2018

Seeing myself in pictures with colleagues and realizing how much larger I was than (a) the other people in the picture, and (b) I thought I was.

Faced the harsh reality that my size was beginning to negatively impact my career.

Shellz31 · January 2018

In 5th grade, kids started bullying me. My pediatrician said I couldn't have French fries anymore. One day, I looked in my full length mirror, and realized I was really fat.

On the plus side, I realized that extra weight could be thrown around effectively, so the overt bullying didn't last.

grumpopuppo · January 2018

arobey11 wrote: »

grumpopuppo wrote: »

Bullying when I was very, very young. Wasn't even overweight, didn't know what 'fatty' realistically meant. Turned into something of a prophecy as I turned to food for comfort.
But these days it's my chin (and whether or not there's two of them) and heart burn levels.

Yes!! I have to carry Tums around like I have some sort of weird addiction when I'm not eating right, and gaining weight. When I'm not overeating and I'm either losing or maintaining weight, I don't have that problem. Whoda thunk it?

Yeah, yeah! Get to a certain point on the scale and BAM on comes the heartburn. I hear the best guess as to why that is, is that the extra weight puts more pressure on the stomach and that in turn forces the acid up the eusophagus.

bisky · January 2018

Photographs on Facebook friends had posted of me. Seeing my face bloated and clothes that I thought was hiding the fat ....looking bad.

MarvinsAMartian · January 2018

My mirror betrayed me one morning after a shower. Can you believe that?! I trusted it to lie to me for years but instead it just decides to randomly show me the truth... Ouch.

jenilla1 · January 2018

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

Tight pants

^ This.

geeta81 · January 2018

Looking at photos taken at a celebration taken a few days before.
I realised it wasn't a bad angle of the photo (as I had thought previously), but I was fat.

Acem24 · January 2018

I was like damn i can't see my abs.

GlorianasTears · January 2018

Since I was 11 my family reminded me daily for YEARS so I have never needed a photo or pants size to remind me I was a bit chubby

... tho 2 years ago my sister was preggo and her boobs got huge and I commented "wow your boobs are bigger than mines now" and everyone looked at me and laughed and told me nope your boobs are really still super huge and well that was an eye opener like I knew my boobs were big but sheesh I guess I was in denial

Ekoth1017 · January 2018

When I couldn't see my vaj under my gut. #realtalk

rawrrgenn · January 2018

My ankles would start aching when I went for longer walks, most of my clothes didn't fit, being considered for bariatric surgery, I avoided leaving the house as much as possible, my uncle telling me that I'm getting really fat and the scale.