What is your most embarrassing "fat" moment in your life?

My most recent one, which sparked me trying MFP for the first time, was shopping for new work trousers and having to buy and 18 and they didn't even have any room in them! Very gutting as I came back to work (after maternity) a size 18 and that was nearly a year ago!

Right after I had my son 2 years ago, We were in the car. My sweet daughter (4 and a half at the time) was talking and she said Mom, why are you so fat? the other kids mom at day are are not fat like you? My Husband didnt know what to say but did his best to stop her, I just started crying. I told her that sometimes it happens to people and its harder to work off. She said, I am sorry I hurt your feelings. We wont say the F word any more ok?

So about a month after that we were in the damn car again ( i swear she does it on purpose) and said, mom you are going to be the opp of the F word soon huh? LOL I told her I was going to see a doctor that was goign to help me get healthy again.

She is 7 and still to this day will not say the F word.

I have struggled on and off for the last 2 years, I was not in the right mind set then to start this journey. I sure am now and feeling so happy about it.

This one is actually something that happened to my cousin, but is just really bad...

She split with her husband a good few years ago and has gained probably 4 dress sizes since and I think was happily ignorant of it (like most of us are at some point) until recently.

Her husband was her childhood sweetheart, which means she has never really dated. She is in her 40's now but finds it all quite scary. She decided to go on one of these dating websites and set up a date with a guy at a local pub..

She went into the pub, saw the guy at the bar with a drink and felt too shy to say hello so went and found a table, thinking he would come over to her when he saw her.

What actually happened was he saw her (she saw him look at her out of the corner of her eye), downed his drink in one, walked outside and called her from the car park to tell her he couldn't make it.

She was beyond mortified. She has now dropped nearly 20lb so far.

Very similar thing happened to me, except he never called, or texted, or emailed, or carrier-pigeoned anything. Hilariously enough, he hit on me at a bar not too long ago. Small world. I had to fight the urge to knee him in the balls.

This one is actually something that happened to my cousin, but is just really bad...

She split with her husband a good few years ago and has gained probably 4 dress sizes since and I think was happily ignorant of it (like most of us are at some point) until recently.

Her husband was her childhood sweetheart, which means she has never really dated. She is in her 40's now but finds it all quite scary. She decided to go on one of these dating websites and set up a date with a guy at a local pub..

She went into the pub, saw the guy at the bar with a drink and felt too shy to say hello so went and found a table, thinking he would come over to her when he saw her.

What actually happened was he saw her (she saw him look at her out of the corner of her eye), downed his drink in one, walked outside and called her from the car park to tell her he couldn't make it.

She was beyond mortified. She has now dropped nearly 20lb so far.

Very similar thing happened to me, except he never called, or texted, or emailed, or carrier-pigeoned anything. Hilariously enough, he hit on me at a bar not too long ago. Small world. I had to fight the urge to knee him in the balls.

:laugh: I would have!!!!

One Of my most embarassing fat moments was when I agreed to play a game our town was doing for a special event. Fish tossing, yes its as gross as it sounds.

We were given some fishing gear to put on, and then we had to get in a huge fish tub, and catch fish.

WEll I didnt fit into the fishing pants, they only came to my knees, so when I went to get in the tub, I couldnt raise my legs enough to get in. I ended up having to get help from people to push me up and over into the tub.

There were so many people watching, it was so embarrassing :'[

Despite the fact I was 260lbs and at my heaviest, I still managed to play netball well enough in school to play for the top team. But one time, we were in the middle of match against one school we all hated in particular, partly because they were all a bunch of no good cheating asshats, partly because they were all just MEAN. (No grudges, clearly...) Anyway, it was an intense one, so much running about and chasing others and yada yada, all the usual stuff. Then at one point, one of the girls from the other school barged in front of me and I stood on her foot when I was running and she started screaming bloody murder. Now, it was quite obviously not broke or anything 'cause she walked on it straight after. But she drama-tised the whole thing, sat on the floor and cradled her foot, flipping words I didn't even know the meaning of at that point - thankfully.

Meanwhile, I went flying onto the tarmac, grazing all the way up legs and cheek in the process and having my stomach flap over my shorts in that really unflattering way. Basically, with a splat. Then what happens? The coach from the other school comes over to the girl, doesn't even check her over but turns to me anyway and says "Jesus, you need to watch where you're going you stupid blimp! You've really hurt her." She didn't even seem to register I was bleeding and that the girl had got up and walked off. Everyone just laughed. AND we had to get a coach home with them to top it off.

It was genuinely mortifying. I actually quit the team after that, in all honesty. I still cringe thinking about it now.

We were at church and after services we hang around a socialize. It was late fall and chilly I was wearing a turtle neck, a fleece jacket and jeans. Since my jeans don't button all the way I had a hair tie holding it togther. Well my shirt was tight and riding up. I picked up the baby and YAY! everyone got a good view of my big old fat jelly belly with my hair tie holding my jeans together.

We all laghed it off and blamed it on the baby but I often thought about it in the weeks after while getting ready to go to services. I now make sure I have enough to cover me completely.

I hate those little spinning counter things that are at fairs,amusement parks, etc.....i have to turn sideways, then go on my tippy toes so my butt lifts above them so i can actually go through.

omg me too! I go to concerts a lot and most places have them. I could barely fit through last time I went. Hopefully by my next concert it won't be such a problem.

Multiple:

The most recent was getting out of someone's pool, and I snapped the step and cut my foot open. While I was told not to worry about it, it was getting old, a bunch of people had gotten out of the pool just fine without it snapping on them. It may not have been my weight, but it just happened to happen to the fattest person there. How could I have not been humiliated?

I was at the beach and going on this ride on the boardwalk, and was the only one who had trouble getting the protection bars to come down. I blamed my boobs at the time, because once I adjusted a little bit, I was fine (for the most part), but I know my weight was one of the issues. I spent the rest of the night wanting to cry. A bunch of people, including my boyfriend, had to watch as the ride guy had to fight with the bars.

And, of course, multiple times I've had to fight with protection bars and seatbelts on rides. You never feel huge until you get in a tiny seat and have to get stuff to click. Then the rest of the ride, you panic because your bar clicked only once.

I wasn't even present for the moment... My husband actually kicked a customer out of the bar we own for making comments about how fat I was after having our baby. He is too sweet to have told me about it, but one of our friends let it slip. I don't want him to ever have to defend me like that again!