Is anybody out there properly fat?

[fatwomanfat]

None of this ‘I’m a stone overweight and huuuuuuge.’

I’m 15 stone. At least 5 to lose for normal BMI. Anyone else? This is the place for proper fat MNetters.

Just recommending a book called How Not To Die, it totally changes the way you look at food and what it does to your body

pieceofpurplesky Thankyou I feel back to myself again! I used meal replacement shakes alongside a low carb healthy evening meal because the loss is fast and gives you a good head start quickly. Once I'd lost it all I stopped the shakes over a month and reintroduced food, just normal healthy stuff. I let myself have treats every now and then so I don't go mad!

I’m an absolute mess. The problem is I’m not motivated to lose weight because it just makes my body look worse not better. At least when I’m fat my skin is reasonably taut. When I lose weight I start to look like a deflated balloon. I’d love to be slim but until they invent a magic skin shrinking machine there’s just no point.

Me! Recovering now after 25 years of binge eating disorder.
Have stopped dieting and bingeing and managed to eat normally for 7 months, it's a habit now.
Was 18 stone 11, now 16 stone 13 so a long way to go, but no longer worried by it. Lots of headspace I lacked before.

Let’s not turn it into one of those barking orders at other mnetters threads and let people do what works for them

Admitting to myself that this is me! I’m 15st1 as of this morning and need to lose just over 3 stone to reach a healthy weight.

I don't actually know how much I weigh but it's around 14st. I want to be health and lose weight but I find it hard to motivate myself. I don't believe in New Years Resolutions as they mostly fail but I intend to try and tackle this soon. How? Not sure yet. But I won't be telling anyone other than DH. Me weight stops me enjoying my life and impacts on my confidence and also limits what I can do with the kids. So I need to do something about it. You would think that would be motivation enough.

@Gilead- my surgery date is at the end of January. I’ve put on over a stone because I can’t move around much. The pain when it twists in the socket and sticks is off the scale 🙁. Have you got a date yet?

Im 16st 5lb and 5ft 8. Just gone up a size in clothing recently. Now a 18/20 rather than an 18

Me. Morbidly obese, 7st overweight.

Exhausted, sick, despair of ever being normal again.
So many ways to lose weight, but I can't stick to any of them.
So many ways to exercise - but how do you start when getting out of bed is a struggle?
Even basic stretches & a slow walk is beyond me right now.

No motivation, only desperation.

Me! I’m at my heaviest at over 20 stone. I am living in misery and know I’m eating myself to an early grave. I have no life but even now I’m not doing anything about it. I don’t know where to start with so much to loose.
I’ve spent most of my adult life loosing weight and regaining it.
I also agree with being treated differently because of it and as such I’m virtually a recluse because of the shame

I find vanity sizing has made it easier over the years to slip weight on. What size is everyone in at the weights they've given here these days?

ANiceLuxury's post is interesting. The largest i've been is about 14 and a half stone that was back in the 90s and i was a size 20 at that. I yo yo diet, up and down over the years between 10 and 14 stone. (Bad for you i know) If i get up to 14 now i can easily fit in 14/16 stuff.

I'm 5'3", size 18-20 and about 14st 10 I think.

I've lost and gained the same 3 stone 3 times in the last 9 years. It gets harder every time and old habits always creep back in. I'm giving it another go and I'm determined, yet cynical.

5ft 2.5" & 17st currently TTC at age 39 and it just gets me so down. Rejoining SlimmingWorld in the NY though!

Me. Could need to lose at least 5 stone.

Made myself a fat cloak of invisibility (the irony) after being bullied.

Bully gone now. Cloak remains.

Feel hideous.

OP, I completely understand the feeling. I broke my ankle very recently and am still recovering so have piled a load of weight on. I normally weigh 81 kg, (about 12 stone) and am a size 14/16, but I think I must be about 90kg or more now - haven’t weighed myself for ages. I am a size 18 now - none of my clothes fit me, I have been living in pyjamas (when at home with broken leg) and tracksuit bottoms.

To make it worse, my size 10 sister is always whinging how fat she is and on Xmas day didn’t eat much as she doesn’t want to get fat!! She doesn’t have any lumps or bumps at all!!

I need to get back to my weight of 10 years ago, which was about 8 stone and a size 12 all over ( I have boobs and a bum even when slim).

More importantly, I feel weak, tired and generally unfit and unhealthy so that is the key here - I want to be strong and healthy when i am old and to achieve that I need to be fit and strong now ( I am 40).
As soon as I start physio on my ankle I will start going to gym and exercise classes. Once 1st Jan comes I will have a new lifestyle- no junk food and lots of walking (well, as much as I can with ankle) !!!!

COME ON LADIES -WE CAN DO IT!!
DO WE WANT TO BE 73 AND LOOK LIKE CHER, OR BENT OVER WITH OSTEOPOROSIS UNABLE TO MOVE??!!

Me, over 21 stone.

Small changes each day can go a long way. Will power really is the key here.
What do you think of we keep this thread going and keep updates on how we are getting with weight loss - swap ideas of what has worked for each of us, recipes, exercise tips - even if you have gone from not being able to stand, to walking to the end of the road and back - just any kind of support from each other. What do you think??

Me! 5’ 4”, 15st 8lbs and 65 yes old. Been fat most of my life but it’s beginning to impact hard on my life now. Foot pain mostly and general lack of stamina.

Have a couple of black bags full of smaller clothes in the attic and every year I promise myself that I’ll get into them but......

Yes, I lost 7 stone with a gastric band, I paid for it, and have another three - four stone to go.
it was the menopause that did it although I was on yoyo diets all my life but never got that fat before.
People generally treated me like a subhuman at my heaviest, I get a lot more respect now but not as much as I used to get when I was slim.
Being fat equates to most people as being stupid, lazy, ignorant and having no self control. I'd be ignored in shops and at social events completely.
Either ignored or made fun of, or have to suffer comments like do you know your weight will kill you in the end. No shit Sherlock!

Exhausted, sick, despair of ever being normal again.
So many ways to lose weight, but I can't stick to any of them.
So many ways to exercise - but how do you start when getting out of bed is a struggle?
Even basic stretches & a slow walk is beyond me right now.

One foot in front of the other. Even if it’s only to the end of the road and back.

I felt the same and on a whim signed up for a 15 mile charity walk. It was bloody hard but I did it. I just put one foot in front of the other, for a bit more each time I went out.

@WhoisitnowRalph - I've lost and gained the same 3 stone 3 times in the last 9 years.

Oh god i hear you! It's so .... boring, apart from anything else, being fed up with yourself isn't it? And keep having to drag up the will power to lose the same bloody 3 stone.

I have 7 stone to lose to get to my target weight which will still be technically overweight

I've made myself this "star chart" in Microsoft Word, personalised to my height (5'4).

Every row is 1 stone. The coloured squares going diagonally down are obese/overweight categories. The green section at the bottom is 'normal weight' territory.

Then I punctuate it with kg milestones too, so that I'm never too far away from a 'next goal' basically.

I started at the top row and am now mostly through the fourth down - I 'X' out each square as I pass it. I look at it every morning and it keeps me on track/motivated.

Am doing VLCD low-carb (800 cals/day) with short breaks at 6-week marks. I've done this before and consistently lose about 1 stone per month whether or not I exercise (health permitting).

I’m 15 stone and only 5 foot 2 so seriously overweight. Iv put on approx 18lb this year. Seriously on a mission to loose it next year as it’s getting me down and my moods awful!!!