I'm all about facing my issues with being overweight now, I used to try to ignore them and hope they would just go away. I figure facing them is the only way I'll stay on track.
Here's my least favorite "issues" about being overweight (aside from the weight itself)
1. My pants get holes in the inner seam from my legs rubbing together. It seems my pants last a few months tops before they are full of little holes. I really HATE that.
2. I know even some women who aren't overweight experience this, but I don't recall it being a problem until I was overweight. Boob sweat! I can't wear some shirts when it's hot because my boobs sweat and leave marks on the front of my shirt for all to see.
3. My width causes injuries. I constantly misjudge spaces or misjudge the actual width of my hips and bump into everything. You name it, tables, beds, walls, pretty much anything that one could bump into.
4. Kids are brutally honest. A few years back while at a holiday family gathering my niece looked up at me and said, "You're huge". Oh the embarrassment, the utter embarrassment. Though she spoke the truth. I was huge, it was just awful. I lost like 50 lbs in about 4 months after that thanks to her. Gained it back of course. She's older and more polite now so I can't go to her for enlightenment.
These are only a few of my "issues" with my weight. I could probably go on for days.
The funny part about #3 is that, in my case anyway, it only gets worse - Now I can't visualize spaces in comparison to myself and I'm always doing stupid stuff like turning sideways to walk in between desks at school or something, when there's absolutely no need to... a friend of mine commented a couple of months ago that I walk with my hands swinging really far out from my body.
On the whole boob sweat issue...the worst thing about that is getting a rash under your breast from the warm moisture. I know I'm not the only one who suffers from this. Whoever said big boobs are a good thing?
Oh there are just some many things. My favorite pants are getting the holes in thighs. I go through work out pants like water because of that as well.
I changed positions at work but in the old studio, the computer desks we almost spred enough a part for me to talk through if I was careful but of course I wansn't and the corners were rubber so I not only bumped into them but they would hold onto my pants not allowing me to keep going. ahhh!!!
Another thing I hate which I do't know if its a weight/sweat factor I'm hopeing when I lose weight it will be better but I break out on my butt a lot no matter how much I scrub and what soaps I use. Yuck!
At least we arn't a lone and we are imporovign on these things. right?
Oh yeah, I left out the overall sweating. I can't stand how I will be standing there on a hot day doing nothing and be sweating profusely. I can't wait to not have to deal with that.
Oh Ive got one how bout the belly over hang sweat!!!!!!!!!! Be glad when I dont have that anymore. Or how much my husband loves me I hate the uncomfortable feeling I get when he touches my sides or belly or any where oh where the rolls are uggggggggggggggggg Thats one feeling I am not going to miss!!!
4. Kids are brutally honest. A few years back while at a holiday family gathering my niece looked up at me and said, "You're huge". Oh the embarrassment, the utter embarrassment. Though she spoke the truth. I was huge, it was just awful. I lost like 50 lbs in about 4 months after that thanks to her. Gained it back of course. She's older and more polite now so I can't go to her for enlightenment.
These are only a few of my "issues" with my weight. I could probably go on for days.
I can totally relate to everything you mentioned, but this one really stood out! My mom used to teach kindergarten and I'd visit her after school when I was in high school to see the kids, and one time I went, I hadn't been there in a few months. One kid didn't know who I was, and he said "that's your daughter? she used to be SKINNY, now she's fat." Now I laugh, but I still remember it 7 or 8 years later! Yikes.
how about the whole bra thing
i nedd two when i work out, and always need one with clothes
the pants one def sucks
my prob is when I think im looking ok, then i look at myself in a pict next to a skinny girl... thats when I notice it the most can't wait till i feel and look normal.
I hate having only a few pictures to cover about 10 years of my life, because I was too embarrassed to pose. I look back through my pictures and don't have any ones of me and my friends. Where did those years go? How could I have let the weight control me so much, for so long?
I hate that I have regrets, of things I didn't try or do, because I was afraid of looking jiggly in front of people. Instead I just sat on the sidelines and tried to hide for a long time.
I remember when I was about 6 or 7 I went to my friend (um, "friend"?) Tyler's house to play. I ran the doorbell and he opened the inner door and told me through the screen, "Hippopotamus' can't come in this house."
The holes-in-the-pants are terrible! Even at my goal weight my thighs still rub a little bit. I'm hoping pants last a little longer, but I haven't been this size long enough to see yet.
I don't have the boobs issues since my girls are measley little B-cups, even at my highest weight of 310.5 pounds--guess I don't carry much fat in my chest I do have some issues that I think not everyone can relate to only because I think I'm much bigger than many on this board, but here goes:
not being able to fit comfortably in a restaurant booth (my stomach sometimes hits the table even when my back is all the way against the booth back)
not being able to fit comfortably in an airplane seat--I DO fit, but sometimes the armrests poke into my sides
not being able to fit in a roller coaster--I haven't tried in years, but I think Jeff is taking me to King's Dominion for Halloween, so we'll see...
having doctors blame EVERY health problem on your obesity--no, my fat did not cause my upper respiratory infection!
having car seat belts sometimes be tight
fearing that when someone tries to hug me, their arms won't even reach all the way around me
bigger feet than necessary (I know you can have big feet and be thin, but I also know a lot of women whose feet got smaller as they lost weight)
only being able to buy Plus sizes, and only in certain stores (I can wear size 26/28 shirts from Lane Bryant or Avenue, but I can't fit into a 26/28 shirt at WalMart or Sears )
I guess even if you can't relate to all of my issues, it could serve as inspiration for none of you to EVER reach the point that I have reached, especially at such a young age
Eekk I can only agree... I would add some, like when I go to get Mike food, as in fast food, I feel that people are looking at me, thinking "you don;t need that, why are you ordering that??" OHOHOHO andI hate hate hate, that I cannot wear high heals, well maybe im afarid, because Im afraid that my heel will buckle, you know the stelleto ones that are oh so cute!... I could go on, but blah! Monday mornings....
Jill,
I can totally relate to the size thing, it's got to be one of the most frustrating things for me. I can go anywhere from a size 18 - 24 sometimes even in the same stores. Errrrrrrrrrrrr.
My worst experience with this had to be buying my wedding dress. Of course they make wedding dresses smaller, why is this? They want to may brides to be feel more frantic than they already do. It's just so freakin' fun when you walk in a store and a salesperson approaches you and says as quietly as they can as if people can't see you're fat "Let's take you over to the plus sizes." followed by "What size do you wear? We'll have to go a size or two higher than that" Great, thanks. I ended up having to buy one that was 3 sizes larger, then had to take it in several sizes because I lost weight before the wedding. Not to mention despite being well endowed I couldn't come close to filling in the bust on the dress. But had no problem filling in the bottom half with my larger than texas derriere.
Ah, venting is so nice. Thanks.
why is it that stores make clothes clothes in-style until the size hits 16, and then everything is made to look like a sheet? all i want is to wear the clothes that everyone else is wearing... but in a bigger size! is that too much to ask?
and why do you have to pay so much more for 1x and above clothes? is there really THAT MUCH more material on them that you have to pay $5 more for a shirt?
why is it that stores make clothes clothes in-style until the size hits 16, and then everything is made to look like a sheet? all i want is to wear the clothes that everyone else is wearing... but in a bigger size! is that too much to ask?
and why do you have to pay so much more for 1x and above clothes? is there really THAT MUCH more material on them that you have to pay $5 more for a shirt?
I KNOW! I hear my friends talk about getting like $10-jeans off clearance racks at American Eagle (or wherever), and I get so annoyed because jeans my size are like $35 ON SALE! And yeah, I don't want to wear a mumu, a big flowered dress, or jeans with an elastic waist. I want NORMAL clothes! I want FUN clothes, too, not just business attire and old-lady clothes (which is all I can ever find in women's sizes in department stores). It's just not fair...we feel badly enough about ourselves as it is, do they really have to make us feel like we don't deserve normal clothes as well?!
Ahhhgg.. I have about a million things I hate about being overweight..
I didn`t even know the thighs rubbing the material out of pants thing was a fat thing....
I guess everyone I know's thighs rubbed together so I thought it was just a cheap-pants thing. hehe ignorance is bliss..
* I hate having a roll when I sit down. Since as far back as I can remember I try to carry a jacket with me so that I have something to put in my lap to cover it up. If there isn`t a jacket, then I try to sit some place that has pillows. An ex pointed this habit out to me.
* I hate having 95% of my pictures look terrible to me because of some fat part of my body sticking out. Most of the time it is the double chin from the side veiw, but it could really be any part that I've avoided obsessing about.
* I hate being so freaking sweaty. Granted, I've read that people who exercise more have more active sweat glands and are more likely to sweat.. but I think being fat and getting hot adds to mine.
* I hate the desks at school. I can fit ok in them (I guess I'm like.... guy-sized) but I feel claustrophobic.
* I hate having to squeeze through rows of seats like at movies or in lecture halls.
* I hate wondering if every over weight person I see is what I look like. I know this is so shallow, but I'll see people who are at least 50lbs heavier than me and in my mind That is what my body looks like.
* I hate having legs too fat for calf length boots.
* I hate having legs too fat to shave properly. It is just too much area to cover!!
* I hate having wide, fat feet.
* I hate it when I'm laying on my side and a guy wraps his arms around me. All the belly goes to one place and it is so uncomfortable.
I could probably go on foreverrr. Being fat just isn`t fun.
The worst thing about being overweight...
it was just awful. I lost like 50 lbs in about 4 months after that thanks to her. Gained it back of course. She's older and more polite now so I can't go to her for enlightenment. 
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I can only agree... I would add some, like when I go to get Mike food, as in fast food, I feel that people are looking at me, thinking "you don;t need that, why are you ordering that??" OHOHOHO andI hate hate hate, that I cannot wear high heals, well maybe im afarid, because Im afraid that my heel will buckle, you know the stelleto ones that are oh so cute!... I could go on, but blah! Monday mornings.... 
