What was your first “I’m getting fat” realization?
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A few moments led me to want to make a change. One was on vacation we went to Universal and my brother in law couldn’t get on the ride because it didn’t close- then I got on it but locking the seatbelt for the rollercoaster wasn’t easy- I was afraid it would snap during the ride. Another was really just looking at pictures. It’s a way to see yourself from the outside and that’s hard to ignore.4
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There were two big moments when I said I have to do something I am really unhealthy and fat. I was putting old photos together in albums and sorting them by date and I was able to visually see my 140lb skinny healthy active 19 year old self slowly grow to 220 pounds. I worked out and went from a size 18 to a 10 at 185 pounds. The most recent moment is when my fiancé said I was getting a little to heavy for him to be physically attracted to me. He said he still loved me but wasn’t really physically attracted to me. I looked at myself naked in a mirror and pulled out those skinny pictures again and I wasn’t mad at what he said any more cause he was right17
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I would try to go clothes shopping and everything I wanted to wear didn't fit. I almost cried when I put on a bathing suit. I saw a picture someone took of me and I was so big, I couldn't believe it. At that point I decided that it is finally time to get myself together. I'm going on another cruise in October and I will be slim thick! Lol3
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@marykaylady2010: Yikes. Please proceed with caution with this guy. His comment is very much a red flag. Please don't normalize it.11
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Cleosweetie wrote: »@marykaylady2010: Yikes. Please proceed with caution with this guy. His comment is very much a red flag. Please don't normalize it.
Lets turn this on its head. Can you honestly say that you are physically sexually attracted to a 300lb man?(not saying she was, just picking this as an example)12 -
My bra starting getting uncomfortable. I knew it was time to get back on the wagon.0
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I was born 10 lbs 11 ozs, but wasn't fat as a kid - tall and big, but not fat. I had a 32" waist at 12 and wire a size 16. I knew I was getting fat when my (abusive) mom told me she was getting me 18s because I'd be in them by winter.
I was.
I got fatter as the years went by, reaching a size 30/307 pounds at age 37. I stumbled on a vlog by a girl fatter than I was who had to sit on a couch wearing a sheet because she couldn't find clothes that fit. I saw my future if I didn't change, and reopened my MFP account the next day.
I've lost 50 pounds in a year, and have gone do own to a 24 (getting very close to a 22, if not already there).
I'm in therapy to deal with the trauma of my childhood and why I overate in the first place. I have no doubt that I can win this battle.28 -
When my dimples start to fade2
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My clothes feeling tighter, and turning 30 and realizing that I looked bigger than I did 1-2 years ago.0
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Need2Exerc1se wrote: »Tight pants
Couldn't have said it better myself...0 -
Mine was when we installed security cameras around our house. Seeing myself on the monitor, there was no hiding from my size. It was to the point that I was viewing recorded activity in the driveway from the day before and was alarmed to see a "very large woman" walking around our cars. It was me! I love 30lbs since the cameras were installed. I still dont like to see myself but I will after the next 30lbs.10
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Dress I'd had for years (which I wore to graduation) was visibly too tight, especially at the back. My face also looked tubby and in some of the photos I looked vaguely pregnant. I think I was really disappointed that the photos of that day had to be so bad. I did get this amazing edit out of it, though (sadly, our cat could not attend).17 -
Someone/friend asked me if I was pregnant.
When I said I wasn’t they replied with “ when did you let yourself go?”
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freespirit427 wrote: »Someone/friend asked me if I was pregnant.
When I said I wasn’t they replied with “ when did you let yourself go?”
Wow. With friends like that, who needs enemies???18 -
mortuseon_ wrote: »
Dress I'd had for years (which I wore to graduation) was visibly too tight, especially at the back. My face also looked tubby and in some of the photos I looked vaguely pregnant. I think I was really disappointed that the photos of that day had to be so bad. I did get this amazing edit out of it, though (sadly, our cat could not attend).
I am really sorry that happened to you and your flet so hirrible. But I gotta say that picture is awesome!
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Wow my typing was horrible, oops!1
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trying on all my jeans from the past 9 years did the trick. i put them in two piles. the ones i could still get on..and the ones i could not. I stacked them largest to smallest. That was five weeks ago. I'm into my second pair in the skinny stack. Three more pairs to go until i'm done.8
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Denial....now ready for action. Noone treated me bad, but my baby is 2 and it's time to get back to my size 6 ( now 10). Pics are still ok, but bathing suit....not so much.1
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Just realised ... I never realised I was “getting” fat .... I more woke up 1 day and seeming had become fat2
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Mine was a photo too. I had a photo taken with a friend (this sounds terrible and I do really love her) but she has always been rather on the large side, we went to school together and she’s one of my best friends but has always been larger.
I knew I had been putting on a bit of weight, but we had a photo together, and I was like, double her size. I honestly didn’t recognise myself, I saw myself as a fat person for the first time in my life. That seriously shocked me, so I started my decade long journey with yo-yo dieting.7
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