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.

I was. I've lost over seven stone in six months. Bit more to go.

Fuck diets, get weight loss surgery.

If you are 21 stone or whatever you have fucked your metabolism. No diet will work for you. Your body will always want to put weight back on.

Google 'new York times biggest loser', have a read and weep.

Go to your doctor and get on the waiting list or if you can pay privately.

Life is so much better now already!

ps don't get a bloody weight loss band. Gastric sleeve or gastric bypass. The bands are a pain in the arse by all accounts

Me! Fat as a very fat barrel.

Me! 15 stone and 5ft 1. I have spent a year eating my emotions. Spending the last 3 years trying to have another baby, having a miscarriage. We made the decision to stop trying this year. I got rid of all the baby stuff and it broke me. Onwards and upwards now. I would like to lose 6 stone but over 2 years. Going to do the 5.2 thing as I think it will fit in with my life and start running again.

Me, I'm at least 3 stone overweight if not more which is a lot on me as I'm very short.

I'm not doing diets this year as they make me feel mentally unwell.

I'm watching my portions, trying not to binge on chocolate and walking more. I'll see how it goes.

That is amazing, PatriciaBateman!

Me.

Less than five feet tall and nearly 11 stones.

That may not be much compared to some of you guys, but I still need to lose somewhere like four stones.

Four years ago I was 17 stone and lost 4 stone over a year. I felt fantastic and could buy clothes quite easily. I wore a swimming costume on holiday with my son and his family. It was the best feeling.
Then two years ago I suffered a brain haemorrhage which resulted in 5 months off work. I wasn’t allowed out of hospital until I started eating so my body proved it was working iyswim. I forgot to regulate my eating and have put two stone back on. It’s making me miserable but I’ve lost my mojo!
I hope to find it again in the new year - I still have my size 14 clothes to get into!!!

14st and only 5ft4. I don’t want to be thin, the only time I was properly thin was when I was life threateningly ill. I want to get to about 12st so all my beautiful tailored work clothes will fit again and I’ll look all hourglassy again. I hate my beer belly stomach and my flabby arms but it’s crept up on me over a couple of difficult years and now I feel like I have a mountain to climb.

I have to deal with this. I know how but I can’t help sabotaging myself.

I was 21 stone two years ago. Got down to 11 stone before I fell pregnant and I've gained give or take 2 stone through the pregnancy so far (32 weeks).

It can be done

@shockers, no date, need to recover from colitis flare first!

Just checking in for inspiration - lost 4 stone, realistically eight more to lose (or ten and a half, if the NHS charts that give my ideal weight as one I haven't seen since puberty).

I have just been looking up bariatric surgery, I am so desperate. But weight gain in my life has always had a massive correlation with very poor mental health, and I am not convinced that surgery is going to be my answer. Especially since I've developed BED in the latest (14 years and counting) severe episode.

Fuck me, though, it's a hell of a lot quicker and easier getting fat than it is getting rid of the fucker

@doublebarrellednurse how did you lose that, if you don't mind sharing? (And congrats on the pregnancy )

I'm practically 19 stone. 120kg. 5'7" if I stand up very straight and stretch. So morbidly obese. Damn.

Anyway, I'm not actively working on losing weight. I am working at staying mobile, exercising, etc. I have fibromyalgia so get a fair bit of pain and need to be careful not to overdo it- I can only manage about 2,500 steps a day without suffering for it, which is a bit limiting.

So is this a chat thread, a weight loss thread, or what? Just checking, @fatwomanfat !

I was 4 stone overweight in June this year. I am now 2 stone overweight so have a bit more to go. I've found weight loss really easy for the first time in my life as I am motivated to try and get to a reasonable weight as we have been having trouble TTC no2. What I have found that works for me - and that I personally find easy - is doing the 16:8 way of eating, and only eating carbs at one meal per day.

Me

I’ve been fat since my early twenties (32 now) but weighed eight stone as a teen and am 5’8. I’ve got massively disordered eating and have a history of starving myself /binging and purging and now just binging. When I was 27, I left a long term abusive relationship and got down to 13 stone healthily and looked good. Got pregnant, gained three stone, lost two, had a year or two of appalling mental health and gained 1.5.

This January I was in a good place finally and lost 10lbs through exercise and no binging. Then my cousin killed herself, my dad died, dp had another breakdown involving self harm and hospitalisation and three months of trying to kick me out and revealing debt up to his eyeballs. During that time I put another stone on to reach my heaviest at 16.5 stone

Over the last 8/9 weeks, though, something has clicked. I calorie count and try to stick to 12-1600 a day and have lost (or had lost before Christmas) 13lbs. I’m trying to eat healthily and keep a healthy relationship with food, so haven’t weighed in this week and won’t the next. I haven’t binged but I have indulged.

Yes me. I believe I'm some where between 14.5 and 15 stone (haven't weighed in a while). I lost a bit (1.5 stone)last year then put it back on again. Still paying for my gym and weight watcher subscriptions so once Christmas is over and the kids back at school then I will make the most of them until my notice periods expire.

I'm very fat. I haven't weighed for weeks but at last I was over 19 stone. A couple of years back I was 14

Combination of shit to deal with and greedy bastardness has put me here. I am going to tackle this after the holiday period. I genuinely can't face it yet so I'm just stuffing my face

I’m a size 30, no idea what I weigh, I’m 5’7”
I have very severe rheumatoid arthritis. No exercise for me. Given up caring. Gastric bypass surgery killed my mum 😞

Yup, haven't weighed lately but prob about 15 stone.

I’m 5’5 and weigh over 16 stone. This is the biggest I’ve ever been. I have two disabled kids and the stress of the last few years have meant I’ve eaten any emotion I’ve had. I’m disgusting and so ashamed of myself. Determined to lose it next year. I’m going back to a vlcd as I struggle with moderation (suspected adhd) so I figure cutting out everything is the best way forward. I hate how I feel fat as it effects everything I do and I know my kids are embarrassed by me and i know they’d love me to take them swimming.

Me 😓 I’m so ashamed of myself. Mid 30s and my knees ache. I grunt when I heave from a chair 😳 and can feel my bum cheeks wobbling when I walk. Disgusted with myself.

Binge eating,
New, sedentary job
Not enough exercise

@SiliconHeaven Oh God I’m so sorry to hear that 😓

🙋🏼‍♀️
I've just had a baby and will be getting back on the diet wagon next week.

I'm fat and happy! No way in this world I'm buying into the 'New Year New You "self loathing diet shite this year. I gave up dieting this year. And honestly, I'm the happiest I've ever been.