Any Embarrassing Moments Because Of Your Weight?

I though maybe if we list the things that have happened to us, it might spur us on to losing.

I'll start:

Last year me and my uni friends decided to go to Alton Towers (a theme park in England). On every ride that had safety restraints, the workers had to really push it down on me to fit. And then we went on a ride that goes upside down, so we had to have one of the restraints that goes over your head. Well they couldn't get it to close on me, even TWO workers tried, in the end I had to get off. Everyone was looking at me, and I had to wait form my friends whilst they had the time of their lives. Oh and then they wanted to go on it again.

I never wanted to cry more. And I have promised myself I will never go to another theme park until I have lost a few stone. When I feel like giving up, I remember that day. I never want that to happen again

I so understand what you're saying. My family went to Silver Dollar City, a theme park in Branson Missouri, and we were riding a water ride. The belt would not reach around me, so one of the staff yelled, "WE NEED AN EXTENSION HERE." That can be pretty embarrassing.

It's horrible isn't it. I always feared when I was on an airplane that they would need to get an extension for the seatbelt, they probably would have needed to if I had gone on holiday this year or last.

Also I have had people just shout out things from their cars as they drove passed. Why would anyone do that?? Evil

I had a living anatomy class where the class was segregated by gender, then we had to take our shirts off and count each other's ribs and mark off the pleural cavity and listen to hearts and so on. Fortunately I paired up with a close friend but it was really hard for her to feel my ribs at all, let alone count them easily. So I started feeling like my fat was interfering with her medical education...

Oh and being shirtless when you're the only fat girl in the group of 40 didn't help either. And I mean no one else was even a little overweight, they're all size 0-6. And ten years younger than me to boot. Oh, and at one point we had to jog in place to get our hearts beating, so our partner could hear it better, and I had to hold by huge boobs because they were just flying and threatening to blacken my eye. (At least I was wearing a cute bra and my pants weren't muffin-top tight.)

WAY too many of these to count, haha.

One of the most memorable....about 8 years ago I was at my heaviest (240+ and Im only 5'6) and started having insanely bad back pain. I went in for the xray of my lower back, Im laying down in a paper robe on a cold table and the xray tech was trying to find my hip bone so he could center the machine properly. He couldnt find it! There was so much fat, he had to poke around for what seemed like several minutes to even find my hip bone....and it was like a foot away from the actual 'hip' area (read: where my fat/skin whatever end).

Im not at my goal yet, but at ~150lbs, Im thankful my hips are completely visible ;)

Ohh I have another one (I have been big all my life so I have soo many to pick)

When I was about 13 me at my very thin friend decided to go to karate lessons. One of the warm ups was to pair up and give the other one piggyback rides. I carried my friend to one side of the room easily, but then she was supposed to carry me back. I begged the teacher to let me just carry her back again, but he wouldn't let me, and so my poor friend had to keep trying to pick me up, only to be able to do one step before having to put me down. Obviously we were so far behind everyone else so they all watched this embarrassment.

I never went back.

This didn't happen to me (Thank God. Otherwise, I would have dunked my head under water and drowned myself).

I was on the "It's a Small World" ride at Disneyland one time and a boat in front of us got "stuck" and was holding up all of the boats behind it.  Then, one of the ride operators walked up the side to the boat and asked an obese couple to disembark.  Once they did, all of the boats started moving.  I couldn't even look at them when they walked by because I felt their embarassment.  Some people on the ride started laughing (mean people suck).

That Small world ride is freaky. I went to Disneyland when I was 3 and then again at 7, and thinking of that ride with the evil dolls still make me shudder lol.

But that's horrible what happened to that couple. Why do people get such amusement from other peoples problems?

I'm not really overweight, but I the fat seems to like to expand for some reason. I've gone to several parties with girls that are all puny and one party was right before a school dance, and the prettiest girl in my school looked amazing and wore whatever she wanted and I was the only one out of 6 beautiful girls that wore jeans with a fugly shirt and it may not sound like a big deal, but all of these girl were models. I wanted to die.

Then again in December, even though I was 20 pounds thinner, I went to a party where we went in the hot tub and every girl looked thin except- you guessed it- moi. It was absolutely horrible and I just wanted to bawl.

Wow this is good motivation! My goal for when I'm older is to be in a beauty competition and show all those girls that are models that I can do it too!

I ripped the ass out of my pants not long ago in front of all my friends. Literally, a rip from the top of my butt to the bottom. It was huge.
I didn't have a change of clothes either so I had to go home like that. Ugh

That sucks about the theme park. I live right next to a famous theme park so I go regularly. Luckily for me I live in the US so our park rides are made for fat people, rofl. I still have a hard time getting into some but it's not too bad.

holy crap I ripped the ass out of my pants too, I was kind of young  but overweight and I thought they fit. It happened at my friend's cottage and I was outside, around people, and far away from other clothes. I had to use my hand to cover it up so no one saw me undies.

Oh my friends definitely saw my undies. And lucky me, I was wearing really flowery panties, LOL. Ohhh man. 

The amount of trousers (or should I say pants to fit in with you Americans lol... but pants are mens underwear?!?) that I ruined because of my weight, whether it be because they have ripped, or the button has flew off, zipper broke, or the more usual, esp with jeans, the belt holes break because I use them to try and pull them up, and they can't take the strain.

Oh well, right now my biggest fear is that my work trousers are going to fall down, as they're so buggy now. woo.

Ohhh my embarassing story takes place in grade 10 drama class in high school, about 5 years ago.

We were doing mini-improvisational skits in front of the class one day with random partners, and in my group was my best friend as well as another female student who was mentally challenged who I will call Robin, who was also overweight (she was about 5'3 and 210lbs, I am estimating, while I am 5'4" and was weighing at the time around 170 I believe).

Anyways our improv involved being in the cinema and eating popcorn, and Robin comes up with a line out of nowhere and says to me "Why don't you go eat some more popcorn, tubby!" which shocked and embarrassed the crap out of me.
Of course the whole class thought that was hilarious because it was so random but I was mortified, and my friend didn't know what to say to 'help' me, so to speak, and finishing the skit felt like it took forever. I know she couldn't really think about what she was saying and how it would affect me, but still I think my face was redder than a tomato.

As for the pants-wrecking thing, I've had jeans end up wearing down on the inner thigh until they're thin as paper and subsequently rip. They end up in the garbage after that.

It makes me so sad, but also so motivated, to read these stories. It's horrible, but a part of me is glad I'm not the only one.

How could I forget the wearing down, that eventually happens to all my trousers. If I wear a dress or a skirt I have to wear shorts or tights underneath, otherwise my thighs rub so much it's agony.

I work for a university, and we have an event every year that includes novelty kind of rides and activities. Last year we had a bungee trampoline thing where you get into harnesses and use the trampolines to do flips and all kinds of crazy stuff with the bungees.

ANYWAY, my student coordinators wanted for all of us to go on it at the same time, and I told them that I couldn't go on (there was a 200 lb weight limit). One of my students really wanted me to go and asked the operator about it, and goes, "He says we can go up to 215!"

I was so embarassed to tell her that that STILL wasn't high enough for me to be able to go :(

I was working out in the spring of 2005 and I noticed that one of my shoe laces was loose so I put my leg up on a small fence to tie it up properly and when I bent forward my pants cracked right between the legs lol. They were black in colour with a white net lining on the interiour and it really showed, but thank god for that lining cuz I was going commando too, lol. My self esteem went really down that day, I felt so damn fat!

OMG, when I was in high school my very best friend "Liz" put on a whole lot of weight in a very short period of time. I'd say 40 pounds or so in a span of 4-6 months. Well we always used to go into this local video store to rent movies that was owned by another friends mother, who was from Pakistan. Well apparently in Pakistan it is not nearly as rude or uncommon to comment on other people's weight. We went into the video store one night and our friends mom looked at Liz and said "Oh my gosh, what is happening with you? Everytime I see you you get fatter and fatter!! It's like some one is taking a pump and blowing you up!" Liz was so mortified she couldn't even respond, and I had no idea what to say. I was so embarassed for her.

Aliciamala - its funny you say that because I worked with a guy from Pakistan, and he used to call me a fat *ss!  I was shocked at first but we had a joking around all the time kind of relationship so I just said it back to him (he was bigger than me anyway!).  So maybe it was a cultural thing after all.

yeah i think that most embarresing and mean thing to happen to me was when i was shopping at a clothing store and the guy outside the dressing room was this young guy about 18 i guess.  he had like 5 friends all standing around and when i handed him a pair of the pants that i was trying on he opened them up and says "wow what a fatass." i was so embarressed that i left right away and ended up going home and crying all night. the worst part was, the pants didnt even fit me cuz they were to small.

Okay, I have two actually. One was in 2005 at work. This is the first time I got really serious about losing weight.
I was at work distributing reports, went back to my desk and flopped in my chair. All of a sudden I heard a pop and down on the floor I went. My office was right up front and surrounded by 4 other offices so many people came out to find out what happened. One of the guys looked at the chair and said it was broken. Yeah, diet started the next day and it was going great until I got pregnant.

The most recent events were my vacation in April and a play in May. I did not fit entirely in the airplane seat because my hips were spilling over into the other seat and the guy next to me kept getting up and pressing down on the arm rest which was digging very deep into my thigh. Didn't even know about seat belt extenders or I would have asked for one because it was murder getting the seat belt to click.

I also went to Chicago to see The Color Purple. It was being held at the Cadillac Theatre and when I went to my seat, I could barely fit in it! Mind you they were a little narrow because it was an older theatre but damn! It does not feel good to be all cramped for over 2 hours but sit next to someone that can sit their purse in the seat along with themselves....