What I Won't Miss About Being Fat...

[justmeandmysleeve 91]

• Being short of breath
  
• Sweating…all of the time
  
• Constantly self-conscious
  
• Worrying about eating in front of others
  
• Being squished in an airplane, Angel Game, Concerts, etc.
  
• Worrying about fitting in rides at Disneyland
  
• Obsessing about food
  
• Physical pain; arms, shoulders, back, knees, etc.
  
• Going to the restroom more easily
  
• Wearing flats or ugly shoes because high heels are exhausting
  
• Missing out on life
  
• Comparing myself to every other woman
  
• Feeling lazy or tired all of the time
  
• Not being able to keep up
  
• Shopping at fat-kid stores
  
• Not fitting into CLOTHES!
  
• Hating my reflection in the mirror when I am naked, I literally cringe and look away
  
• Jiggly arms
  
• My legs rubbing together, holy rash
  
• Tugging at my clothes to hide the bells rolls
  
• Laying on the bed to button pants and then being in pain all day from sucking it in
  
• Bathing suits!
  
• People thinking “she has a great personality”….there’s more under there!
  
• Faking happiness
  
• Getting my hair as big as possible to off-set my double chins
  
• Not ever being in “the mood”
  
• Being the fat kid in the family
  
• Dreading people’s reaction when they are next to me on a plane
  
• Knocking over things because my ass has a mind of its own
  
• Long showers and needing a nap after them
  
• Sitting on my husband’s lap
  
• Not afraid to squish my husband
  
• Getting my back fat played like a wash board
  
• Children asking if I can even be tickled through all of that fat
  
• Looking at the “skinny’ clothes in my closet….loathe
  
• Having to return an outfit because the person thought I was a much smaller size
  
• Knowing that stepping on the scale means I’ll be eating a **** ton of ice cream and in a deep depression that night
  
• Pretending I know about nutrition when my doctors lecture
  
• Thinking if I just lost the weight, I’d be able to tackle the world
  
• Society assuming I am a lazy pig
  
• Not chasing my dreams of performing because the anxiety of being on display is crippling
  
• Being too big to zipline in Maui
  
• Being too big to horseback ride in Maui
  
• Being too out of breath to hike down to the blow hole
  
• Wearing tights and just dying to rip them off at the end of the day
  
• Never wearing shorts
  
• Wearing dresses to hide my figure
  
• Online dating and picture a great picture of my face, getting to the date only panicked because I know they will be disappointed with the rest of me
  
• Having to buy a circus tent to use as a bra
  
• My husband saying I have sleep apnea
  
• Being the one who would rather take the picture then be in the picture
  
• Breaking a glass table from sitting on it
  
• Not wrapping my arms around my husband
  
• Being able to balance, I swear my stomach throws me off balance
  
• Shopping in the maternity section when your coworkers pregnant sister has the same dress
  
• My cankles!
  
• Wide shoes
  
• Anything stretchy
  
• Someone asking where I got that cute shirt and lying because I don’t want to tell them a fat kid store
  
• BBW- I HATE the acronym for “big beautiful woman!”
  
• Never cutting my hair so it can hide my face and back fat
  
• Being the big bride
  
• Not crossing my legs…..because I can’t
  
• Sitting and using my belly as a table
  
• Doing everything I can to avoid bending over because let’s face it, it’s freakin’ hard to get back up
  
• Feeling miserably ill after eating too much
  
• Realizing I am more likely to miscarry when pregnant
  
• PCOS
  
• Wanting a baby so badly, but worried about the high risk pregnancy
  
• Stretch marks
  
• Feeling my stomach sitting on my lap when I sit down (my fanny pack)
  
• Ditching my high school reunion because I didn’t want to be the girl who gained 100 lbs. in 10 years
  
• My boobs crowding my throat
  
• My wedding ring never coming off because it keeps getting tighter
  
• Not being able to see my feet
  
• Not being able to give myself a pedicure without sweating and being short of breath!
  

[gaye jarvis 751]

Amen Sister! On every single point! I just want to be normal just like everyone else in my family!

[notime 340]

Thanks for this.

[ashleyxx 277]

You hit the nail on the head, about everything you listed I feel the same! I'll list a few that are first to pop in my head.

One thing I always worried about the most is when I went somewhere would I be able to fit in that chair or booth, or would it be able to hold all my weight.

I want to be smaller then my BF, I want to be able to put on a t-shirt of his and have it be baggy on me, not the other way around! I want him to be able to pick me up, or feel comfortable sitting on him and not feel self conscious that Im squishing him lol.

I want to be able to walk into any store that I want and be able to fit the clothes.

I want to be pain free.

I want to feel normal like everyone else.

[Ms skinniness 3,003]

Right on!

[thetruedream 54]

Yes.!!!!!!! So true...!! So so true.... It's So depressing but true

[Slenderella 153]

Amen!! Thanks for this, it really puts things into perspective.

[justmeandmysleeve 91]

Thanks friends! I have been feeling stalled. My surgery date isn't until July 19th and all of these medical tests are making me feel like a lab rat. I needed something to remind me to keep my eye on the prize.

All of those things have really happened......I really sat on a glass table on a family vacation and it broke. Absolutely mortifying. It is equally as embarrassing when my Uncle brought it up AGAIN last month, I couldn't have died!

I will no longer let my weight define who I am, because I am soooooo much more!!!

[Tammy Ansley 16]

Great list!! Most of the above for me, and also cutting my own toenails!

[NenaLinda 20]

Oh my... Everything so truthful it hurts got approved so surgery date coming soon!

[IsaacsGram 58]

This is a great list to give people who don't "get it"! (my Mother!)

[justmeandmysleeve 91]

Oh my... Everything so truthful it hurts got approved so surgery date coming soon!

When is your date? Mine is July 19th.....getting closer!

[Tammy Ansley 16]

I gave this list to my husband...but doubt he's read it

[SLIM12 19]

Omg what a great idea. If for one moment I have doubt about this surgery read the list. I'm working on mine right now! It goes in my journal!

Surgery 6-18-12.......wooohoooo

[girlfriday 59]

Love love love the list. everything listed I would have listed.....

I would add for myself......not being able to tie my shoes.

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