Do you feel obese or over weight ?

[mummymels]

Just looking back at pics of myself from before I started losing weight and realised how terrible I looked and been looking at charts and realised how obese I was. I just wondered how you perceive yourself?

this is the second weight loss thread you have started in the last few minutes.

Sorry DuelingFanjo, just having a thoughtful evening when I should really be in bed by now!

Much better to be starting weightloss threads on here than sitting eating cake

i feel vile and try as I might im just not in the right frame of mind to lose weight at the mo. Im getting fatter and fatter by the week! I feel gross and disgusted when I look in the mirror but i dont know what to do.

lol don't tempt me. I could so easily be eating cake! Mind you that would mean getting up off my chair and if I do that I am off to bed as need to get up early in the morning but just can't be bothered to move. That is lazy!

Spookycharlotte - you sound as if you have other things going on. When you feel ready then thatis the best time.

I've been on a diet for about 4 weeks now. I was feeling much better, fab infact as my clothes are fitting better etc.

Until my Dad got out some old holiday pics the other day. There was a pic of me on the beach at 17 years old, looking super skinny. He said "and this is C, before she discovered the joy of Mr Kippling). Now I don't feel so fab anymore.

spookycharlotte- Just rember that you are never as fat as you imagine.

I heared that in the Sunscreen song, but it is very true.

I think with diets, it's the getting started that's the hardest part. I kept putting it off for months, now I'm doing it It's actually fine. The thought of it is worse I think.

mummyloveslucy - that wasn't very nice of your dad but maybe he didn't realise how much it hurt you. Have you told him that you don't really appreciate comments like that? Besides, I obviously don't know how old you are now but once we are in our 30's or whatever I don't think there are many of us that would look like we did when we were 17. I can dream!!! I hope you are feeling better today.

I agree that it is the getting started that is hard with diets. For months I was saying I will start once this birthday is over and this day out has gone and this occasion has happened etc! But once I started and the weight started coming off I wished I had started sooner and I would have then been slimmer for all the events I was waiting to pass. Oh well!

Thank you mummymels. My Dad is just very blunt and likes to think of himself as a bit of a comedien.
It's so true about when you start, you wish you'd started earlier. At least we are on the right track now. Things can only get better.

Hi Mummymels - I am obese! It started with chubby, led to fat and now I am clinically obese. I used to hide whenever a camera came out, or hide at the back of the crowd always wearing black and hoping I would disappear into the background
The final straw was a swimcostume picture my DH sneakily took when we went to Center parks in Nov last year. I looked horrendous and seeing it in that picture broke my heart. Feel upset again just thinking about how I felt that day....
But I have stuck to my plan of getting Christmas out of the way, and yes I gorged myself a bit but it was also like saying goodbye to the old me. I know you are also on Go Lower and so pleased it is working out for you too. I know others comment about the weight going back on after but you know this time I really don't think it will. Although that awful pic of me is not on my fridge or anything it is in my chest of draws and when I am struggling I get it out to remind myself I am never going back to that miserable person

I feel disgustingly over weight, I use to be very skinny until my second pregnancy (mc), so I fell into depression and began to comfort eat and I gained weight, Than I got pregnant again and after my daughter was born I gained even more weight, I now weigh just over 11 stone and iv tried almost everything but I just slip back into old habit. My weight is really depressing me. HELP!!!

mummyloveslucy - I understand about your dad now. Yep we are definitely on the right track now so at least we are doing something.

simmo39 - I so understand about the picture. I know this sounds silly but before I lose this weight (it is really starting to show now) I think I looked worse in pictures than the mirror for some reason. I was also obese and it happened so gradually that I think when I looked in the mirror for some reason I didn't realise and then got a real shock when I saw pictures of myself. Silly really.

Joni783 - Sorry to hear about your mc and depression. I hope you are feeling more positive now. It really is hard getting started with the diet but once you do it is so easy. Good luck with it.