Highest weight how you felt

This is a great question and I really needed to be asked this! At my highest weight (152, Im 5'2), I felt so self conscious and insecure. I felt embarrassed of my appearance and I never wanted to go out anywhere. My "fat" clothes werent fitting me anymore and I was left only able to wear loose t-shirts and one pair of jeans. I felt tired and had no energy. The thing that topped it off and made me want to lose weight was when me and my husband were being intimate, I felt so out of breath and tired that it wasnt even enjoyable for me. And my husband is in great shape and has a nice body, so I felt bad that he had to be with somebody like me. Ouch! Its kinda hard to remember those days! But what a great reminder of why I am trying to be healthier and in shape. :happy:
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Good job putting you first!!!keep up the fantastic job!!:flowerforyou:

My highest weight was 220lbs, and was in physical pain due to arthritis. Now at 137/139lbs I feel great

My highest weight was 318 pounds. I could not believe that I allowed myself to get so heavy over the years, after being underweight during high school which was 123 pounds. Congrats on your weight loss success thus far. I would love to just lose 5 pounds right now. I start off well in the mornings, but by mid afternoon all my efforts seem to go out the window. I will continue to track and exercise regardless.

I loved taking pictures of myself and looking beautiful, dressing up and going out with friend when I was at a smaller weight....
When I gained all the weight, I didnt care about myself, I rarely took photos, and when I was in a photo I wanted to puke. I guess my brain still thought I was skinny, until I looked at a photo. I hardly went out and never dressed up. All my clothes are in boxes...I take one out and try it on hoping I can fit into again oneday.

This is exactly how I feel. I am not happy about it. I am lethargic and depressed. I am currently at my highest weight ever- 166 pounds (I'm 5'6). I joined MFP today in hopes of taking back control. My goal weight is 138 pounds...what I weighed when I graduated from high school (10 years ago).

Maximum density for me was about 350 (I'm 6 feet tall fyi). I don't know for sure because none of my scales went up that high...

I felt like I was wearing a deep sea diving suit out of water.
I'd get home from my very sedentary desk job and have to take a nap just because I'd been awake for 10 hours.
I wore the biggest clothes I could find because I thought it "hid" the fat better.
I researched car seat hip room when I was car shopping because it was the first thing I had to take into consideration.

I'm around 235 now and that feels way better than 350. I still have work to do but I can do normal everyday things and not get all sweaty or rundown now. Part of it is the physical presence of the weight dragging you down, and part of it is the effect of the horrible stuff you eat that makes you get to that weight in the first place. I usually feel good now - I only feel like crap after I eat crappy food. I never made this connection before because I always felt like crap.

AT 430 POUNDS I HID BEHIND PEOPLE IN PHOTOS AND ONLY USED THE STANDARD ABOVE HEAD PHOTO ANGLE. I WAS IN COMPLETE SIZE DENIAL. I KNEW I WAS BIG. FFS IT TOOK YOGA POSES FOR ME TO WIPE MY A** AND I HAD TO USE THE HANDICAPPED STALL. I COULD BARELY FIT IN MY LITTLE DATSUN TRUCK WITH THE BENCH SEAT AND MY STEERING WHEEL DUG INTO MY BELLY. SO WHILE I WASN'T HAPPY, I ALSO WASN'T REALLY AWARE OF HOW FAT I WAS. MY SCALE STOPPED AT 350 AND I DIDN'T KNOW MY WEIGHT UNTIL I WAS ON THE SURGERY TABLE.

NOW I FEEL BEAUTIFUL.... AND SOMETIMES FATTER THAN I EVER WAS.

I'm 6'2" and my highest weight was around 350. I. Felt. Awful. Physically, I was tired ALL the time - completely lethargic. I work in retail, and I would come home, sit on the couch, and not be able to get back up for like a half hour or more because of back pain and stiff joints. Right now, I'm still in the low 300s, so I still have some of those problems, but now that I'm eating healthier, I have much more energy.

My highest is 250. I am now at 243.0. I felt fearful. I was honestly waiting for a heart attack, blood clot, diabeticshock, something bad to kick in and happen, but I used that fear to turn it around. I started on Tuesday morning and am down what I think its 7 pounds. Just burn 400 cal a day and stay under cal intake suggestion!

My highest weight was 260. Wish I could say the number on the scale was my wake-up call but it really came down to how I felt about myself. Eventhough I was heavy from the time I was 18 years old until my mid 30's, I still felt confident. I was still cute and people loved me and I had a good life and even met my wonderful hubster. But the bigger I got, the worse I felt about myself - it even got to the point where I tried to think of ways to avoid seeing my own best friends because I was so ashamed.

Mom told me years ago that it's not worth wasting time and energy on something you have no power to change. Good advice! And in this case, the opposite was true. Here I was worrying about soemthing I COULD change and but I was wasting time and energy worrying instead of doing something about it! So November 2009, I pledged that it was time to change - and I've been on my journey ever since.