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

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  • penguina703
    penguina703 Posts: 2 Member
    Definitely the number on the scale. I feel terrible that I let myself gain as much as I did.
  • iheartmakeup01
    iheartmakeup01 Posts: 35 Member
    When I would sit and feel the muffin top hanging over lol
  • crazykatlady820
    crazykatlady820 Posts: 301 Member
    edited January 2018
    I remember using a bathroom stall somewhere and thinking dang why are they making bathroom stalls so much smaller these days?! That's when it dawned on me that the bathroom stalls weren't getting smaller, I was getting bigger.
  • jb050794
    jb050794 Posts: 43 Member
    I wasn't fitting in my clothes anymore :( ...and my nephews even noticed I had gained weight haha. This year will be different! Down 4lbs already!
  • chanr427
    chanr427 Posts: 10 Member
    The first time (when I was 160ish lbs), it was when I saw pictures of myself and thought "Holy cow! Is that what I look like?!" Also, I found it was getting harder to tie my shoes if I was sitting on the couch (my jeans were cutting into my stomach).

    I managed to get down to 130 lbs at one point, stopped logging, and now I'm up to 143 lbs. The second realization was that my jeans were getting too tight. Now I'm back to logging my meals because I refuse to buy new jeans. I've been pretty much living in stretchy pants the past few weeks!
  • LynzLovesCheese
    LynzLovesCheese Posts: 18 Member
    PICTURES of myself! Ugh, just my round bloated head smiling like a freak in every single picture. Clothes not fitting, actually seeing the scale moving up, never down... just an overall uncomfortable feeling?
  • azkabanned
    azkabanned Posts: 79 Member
    purpleannex wrote: »
    At about 3 or 4 years old and everyone saying that you're Fat, either directly or indirectly to my mother. This was the 70's when people told the truth. Basically as soon as I was able to comprehend "fat".

    Wow, people can be so terrible.
  • missperfectpitch
    missperfectpitch Posts: 611 Member
    My clothes were getting pretty snug, but I just chalked it up to all the working out I'd been doing and kept thinking that it was muscle gain. It wasn't until I went to the doctor and weighed in at almost 20 pounds more than my previous weight the year before (which was also at least 10 pounds more than the previous year), and some reflection over the next few weeks, before I realized that it wasn't muscle gain and I needed to look carefully at my food intake, not just working out.
  • ftmtyler
    ftmtyler Posts: 8 Member
    First was when I couldn't fit into jeans borrowed from my stepmom (size 14), but most powerful was realizing it's uncomfortable to sit in the lecture seats at my school (which i have to sit in often)
  • sandy_taylor13
    sandy_taylor13 Posts: 194 Member
    I was at six flags and my thighs were super tight when getting on some of the rides. I thought they were just making the seats smaller until I looked over and saw a large lady having the same problems. Yes, that was when I officially realized my fat a** had to shrink. Plus I was just wearing those hanes stretchy pants everywhere and any type of jeans felt uncomfortable.
  • etherealanwar
    etherealanwar Posts: 465 Member
    -beginning to see a double chin form
    -unflattering pictures
    -unable to fit into clothes
  • Ghostofachance
    Ghostofachance Posts: 305 Member
    I've always been overweight, but when 4x was threatening to become 5x, I knew I had to do something in order to save my own life. I was a heart attack waiting to happen.
  • Tinkachu
    Tinkachu Posts: 25 Member
    I lifted my jacket one night and looked at my huge bloated belly spilling over my jeans.

    I do that a lot actually and it's very distressing when I can't stick to counting calories and I keep over-eating. =3=
  • meloyellow27
    meloyellow27 Posts: 29 Member
    Having to roll to my side first to then push myself up to out of bed... Yup! That did it for me!!
  • tiffanyx7
    tiffanyx7 Posts: 175 Member
    I knew I was putting on weight but I continued bingeing and eating whatever I wanted. I needed a new coat so ordered one in my usual 'big but normal' size, and it was too tight. I was gutted.
  • davepollack
    davepollack Posts: 19 Member
    Really noticed it when I had pictures taken without me knowing. Saw how I looked from different angles.
  • kingleahnidas
    kingleahnidas Posts: 280 Member
    I came out of the womb at 10 lbs 8 oz :D
  • jjalbertt
    jjalbertt Posts: 98 Member
    Seeing a photo of myself, realizing that I've been blocking out the image of what I really look like when I look in the mirror. My image of my self is really messed up
  • blujp
    blujp Posts: 30 Member
    I’ve been overweight my entire life but my most recent wake up moment was when I went to a con with some friends, got a pic with one of my fav actors and could barely stand to look at the picture because I looked so awful.

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