What is your most embarrassing "fat" moment in your life?
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I've never really had any embarrassing 'fat' moments. Worst I've had is someone calling me a fat *kitten* at school. That stung for a while.
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My five year old nephew was amazed that the number 110 even exists so I asked him "what do you think there could be 110 of?" and his answer was "mosquitoes. then they could all get on you and you could be skinny." Kinda stung a little bit, but still kinda funny because I secretly wish for that too lol.0
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I have been heavy all my life...so I have had the "I didn't fit in the ride...got stuck in the outfit...called names in school" but the most memorable and degrating moment was in Middle school and semi-skinny chick, whom was more of an aquaintance, used to sing the "1-800-95-Jenny" song to me as I walked by...at the end of the year she signed my year book "Remember this summer...1-800-95-Jenny" She also wrote something similar on a shirt I passed around to have my "friends" sign.
I was mortified.
My family used to go boating a lot and we would swim in deep water, jumping off the boat. Once as a teen, I jumped in and swam but when it was time to get back in the boat I couldn't huff myself back ontot he platform! My Dad had to drag me back up onto the boat like a freaking whale!
As an adult the most embarassing moment was when I broke my ankle because a yard swing came crashing down on it and the paramedics had to try and help me up to the gourney. I was over 300 lbs...they struggled!
And yup all the crazy fat pics of FB is what finally made me change my life style!0 -
Ah yes...I forgot the comments from my kids...."I don't wanna be big like you , mom".".why are all the other moms skinny?"
I was just plain tired of being the biggest in the room all the time!0 -
My worst story is too sad to tell, unfortunately, but here's a less depressing one.
I'd taken my son sledging at a place where you could hire skiwear. It was a few years ago when my weight was going up, and I couldn't fit into my own skiwear, so I asked to hire some in a size 20. I got the outfit, and really struggled to squeeze into it. It was stretched tight. I mean, I could hardly move. I felt as if I was upholstered, rather than dressed.
I'm pretty sure that was also the time I hired wellies. I have no idea why I even bothered because I didn't fit into wellies even when I was much slimmer (a combination of big calves and little feet!). So there I was, in wellies which only pulled up to just above the ankle, so they were concertinaed up and trying to ping off at every step.
I was so scared that I was going to just burst that outfit right open. Thankfully, through careful, robotic movements, I managed to avoid doing that. But when I handed it in, I found out that it was a size 16, and that that was the biggest size they had. I wish they'd just said.0 -
I have literally cried reading some of these. At the cruelty of it all.
Last night my almost three year old was was lifting up his shirt and pointing to his belly, everyone thought it was cute. Then he walked up to me and tried to lift up my shirt to see my belly. There was a consensus of "NO!" all around the room. So there's that...
And I feel terrible when I am talking to people and I see their eyes stray down to my stomach. I know it's big, I know there's a roll there, I'm working on it!!0 -
it was when people started saying to me....oh my Karen, you look just like your Mum......
My Mum was fat, and all my life people told me i looked like my Dad, I didn't LOOK like my Dad, what they meant was he was the thin one, and so was I, and when I put on weight people started to say I looked like my Mum, they meant I was fat...
and when I was going to a Wedding with my Husband, I couldn't find anything to wear, and had to go into the 'fat' shop that my Mum used to use as it was the only place I could get something to fit....I cried in the changing room.
And please don't think I didn't love my Mum, I did, but she was hugely overweight and in the end it led to her early death and spoiled the quality of the final stages of her life0 -
I dont think I have a really embarrassing ones, but whenever I leave the house I feel embarrassed of myself, so yeah just being outside is a huge embarrassment for me because of how much I dislike my figure..plus I am quite paranoid so probably seriously over think things that everyone is staring and judging =\0
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A few years back I had bought a dress online to wear to church at Christmas time. I was a sized 20 at the time, I loved the dress and thought it looked and it felt great on me. Then a friend of mine saw me in the dress and made some rude remarks. She said my arms look humongous and you can see you fat rolls and back fat as well. Then said I should burn the dress cause it's so unflattering on me. This is me in the dress. Yes I'm fat but I felt good in this dress until she started running her mouth, I was mortified!
ps....I look nothing like this now, this was in 2006. I'm no longer friends with the person mentioned either. Just want to slap the b*tch, she never had anything good to say about me and kept trying to do anything and everything possible to split me and my husband up.
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You look beautiful in the dress. I love the style of that dress, especially the way it is cut under the bosom area.0 -
And I feel terrible when I am talking to people and I see their eyes stray down to my stomach. I know it's big, I know there's a roll there, I'm working on it!!
^^^^ This! I also have had a couple people's eyes stray to my stomach!! I hated it! I was starting to get the fat hang down stomach that hangs over the legs...oh my!! Thank goodness it is gone...I still have a pooch but it's not hanging down anymore! I was mortified at that!0 -
I was at one of those "Home Interior" parties sitting in a living room full of woman when I adjusted myself in the chair and it broke. I fell to the floor and I was going to laugh it off, but when I looked up I saw that absolutely no one was laughing and then I realized what they were all thinking of me.
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A few years back I had bought a dress online to wear to church at Christmas time. I was a sized 20 at the time, I loved the dress and thought it looked and it felt great on me. Then a friend of mine saw me in the dress and made some rude remarks. She said my arms look humongous and you can see you fat rolls and back fat as well. Then said I should burn the dress cause it's so unflattering on me. This is me in the dress. Yes I'm fat but I felt good in this dress until she started running her mouth, I was mortified!
ps....I look nothing like this now, this was in 2006. I'm no longer friends with the person mentioned either. Just want to slap the b*tch, she never had anything good to say about me and kept trying to do anything and everything possible to split me and my husband up.
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You look beautiful in the dress. I love the style of that dress, especially the way it is cut under the bosom area.
Thank-you, I loved it! The top half is made of metal thread and it was real cool feeling. I hated that someone who was supposed to be a friend told me to burn it and its ugly. I never wore it again I was too self conscious after that because I believed her opinion over mine0 -
Every time I have to suck it up and tiptoe carefully between seats to get to my seat in a crowded classroom. I'm so concerned I'm going to knock someones stuff down.
I can't wait for when I don't need to be so cautious!0 -
I tried on jeans that didn't fit anymore and late last year or early this year, can't remember, I saw 140 on the scale and was disgusted. Ugh0
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A customer at work asked me "will this be your first?" and I had no idea what she was talking about so I was just like "first what?" and she said "your first baby." I'm sure I must have turned blood red cause I could feel heat coming off my cheeks. I wasn't even very big. I'm 5'4.5" and I only weighed around 125-128 pounds at the time.0
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When my ex-husband and I were in Wal-Mart shopping for clothes for my 3-month-old daughter.... I was going to go down an aisle but saw it was blocked... so, I started backing up to get back out of the aisle. He started saying "beep beep beep" (that noise that big trucks make when they back up) and then yelled "watch out, shoppers, wide load coming through". There were tons of people everywhere and they all started laughing. I was mortified.
Needless to say, the *kitten* and I are no longer married. My current husband would never act like that.
What the hell kind of husband says something like that in front of everyone to his own wife? What a prick! Im so sorry!1 -
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When my mom gave me her old fat clothes -.-
even worse.. my now ex husbands aunt brought in clothes from chicago AND said "but they still might be too small for YOU"
UGH... and they were butt ugly to boot0 -
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I was swimming in the pool at my gym and my bathing suit top was too small. Well yeah my boob popped out and I had no clue why people were staring OOPPSSS LMAO!!!!!!!!!! I laugh now but I was really embarrassed then.0
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I would have to say like many of the other people, I couldn't fit into a roller coaster. I was so humiliated, I was hoping it was just one ride, but it was three times I tried to fit, but couldn't. I cried so hard in front of my cousin, sister, and boyfriend. I cried when I came home to my mom when she asked how it was. It pains me to even write this.
My dream is to ride the coasters again with my sister. I hope it is by next summer.0 -
Just one? Lord, but there are so many choice ones it is hard to choose one. How about the top three?
Roller coaster ride at cedar point. Could not get the bar to lock in and had to get off. :sad:
Refused to believe I was not a certain size and ripped the zipper out trying it on.
Split my pants open at work one day when I bent over to pick up some parts out of a bin. Witness involved...of course.0 -
My family and I went horseback riding. The horses had a 250 # weight limit. The workers called me out in front of everyone and made me get on the scale to make sure I didn't exceed the weight limit. Luckily I was able to ride, but I was humiliated!!0
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I usually don't post anything, but this thread really got to me. My embarrassing moments happened recently in April when I first decided it was time for me to start my weight loss. I decided that if where I needed to go was within two miles of my house I will walk so I started walking. Everyday there was at least some guy that would yell out his window "you're fat" or my personal favorite "ride a bike you fat b!tch" or similar comments. Now, I still walk but my husband downloaded a bunch of metal and nerdcore on my mp3 so I don't hear mean things and I upped my two miles to three miles. I walk everywhere.0
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I was about to get into a hot tub when someone whispered, but loud enough for me to hear, "she's going to let all the water out." Talk about embarassment!0
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I hate that so many of us have had so many moments like this. Thanks to everyone who had the courage to post...because in the moment, when something embarrassing happens, you feel like you are the ONLY person this stuff has happened to.
My first memories of being teased was in 3rd grade...a boy behind me called me "twinkie" and made "boom" noises when I walked. And the teacher just let it go on...never stopped him or moved him to another desk. I ignored him as best I could, but it stung. The crap didn't stop at school...lucky me had a stepfather who seemed to think that calling me names, not allowing me to eat breakfast on the weekends and watching what I ate like a hawk, forcing me on exercise equipment until HE said I was done, and otherwise shaming me was the way to make me lose weight. And back in high school..I was between a size 7 and 9. I wasn't fat, but I did have a butt.
I have had issues with self esteem and my perception of how I look ever since. This past December was the first time I had an issue with a ride...I was at Silver Dollar City with my kids and this dumbo-like ride had rather short seat belts...they did not go around my youngest son and I together, so I called the attendant over. She said that we wouldn't be able to ride - so I got to do the walk of shame. I was ok with not going on...and so was my son, but it was embarrassing regardless.0 -
For me it my bed I have now. My husband is a skinny little thing and his side of the bed is the way it was when we bought it. My side is so sunkin in and broken. When you lay on my husbands side of the bed you actually feel like your falling off a cliff onto my side of the bed. Its embarrassing.
My daughter is 5 and wants me to go on the water rides with her but I cant most of the slides say 250 limit. I plan to next year be able to go on them with her.0 -
I was at work (Security Officer) when a little boy and his Dad walked by me and the little boy said to his Dad " Did you see that fat guy, Daddy?" ugh.0
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Thanks everyone for sharing your stories. We have all had a moment in our lives that still haunt us. I applaud ALL of you for staying true to this site and doing something for yourself. Good job!0
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I flew to Florida to visit family, it was only the second time I had flown and been at least 15 years and 130 larger. The plane was small, and I kept bumping people trying to find my seat as I was one of the last to board. I finally get to the seat, and couldn't get my bag to fit overhead, had to head back down the isle bumping into everyone again. Then I make it back to the seat and squeeze into the seat next to a really sweet 19 year old who became my friend over the next hour. I wish I could tell his mother what a wonderful young man he was... he gladly switched seats (I had the window side) and helped me get settled... then I realized the seat belt wouldn't go around me. I was mortified.... I was scared because it had been so long since I had flown, but now not only scared, I was just dying of embarrassment. I had to flag down the flight attendant to let her know my belt wouldn't fit. Again, the plane was so small everyone knew my seat belt didn't fit. She brought me an extender, all the while holding up the flight which was already late. I was getting flustered, and my face was red...the kind young man beside me was trying to calm me down... he made me miss my girls who would have done the very same thing he was. I am glad that I didn't have to stay on that plane for long, and was soon on a larger plane headed to FL, and didn't need an extender on that plane, but I had charlie horses in my legs the entire flight... i was a nervous wreck by the time I got to Tampa. I will have to say my second flight back home was much better, but I vowed I was losing weight, enough is enough.
Then of course there is the time I stood on my new kitchen chair to reach something in the cabinet and it broke...crumbled underneath me... in all the years I've been climbing on my chairs as ladders... only family there, but it hurt my pride, and I always check weight limits now. LOL
I've just started this journey here with fitnesspal, but prior to finding this last week, I lost 20lbs over the last two months, and looking forward to using the site... so far I love it.
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