Do you get irritated by your fat?

Okay, so I'm 5'7'' and I weigh 165 lbs. So, I'm not what you'd call obese. I also don't look THAT big, but I've obviously quite some wight to lose.

The thing is that when I sit down (or lately, doesn't even matter if I'm standing or lying down) I just feel so FAT. My pants feel too tight and it makes me feel like I'm a massive whale. When I sit doen, I can just FEEL my stomach bulging over my waistline even when I don't look at it or touch it. I can just feel it and it makes me so damn angry.

Anybody else feel that way?

My god. I feel exactly the same. And by the same, I mean that I'm also 5'7'', and that I also weight 165. 

And I've gained that weight quite recently, and I can just FEEL it on me all the time. I don't fit in half my clothes and sitting down makes me feel like a pile of meat. 

It's gonna sound rly strange, but I can't even cross my legs the right way anymore because I feel my thighs are too big to cross over one another. It just annoys the hell out of me.. 

However, I am gonna stay positive. I've had enough with the restrictive diets. I'm gonna lose the weight really slowly, I'm gonna keep it off, and I'm gonna be HEALTHY :)

I hope you're gonna feel better about yourself too.. I swear there is still room for happiness at 165 so cheer up an hit the gym! That's what I'm gonna do ;)

Yes, I feel you. Until seven weeks ago, I was 166 pounds but an inch shorter than you both -- 5'6", so even worse! I hadn't weighed that much in years, and it made me feel angry that I looked so bulgy in my skirts and pants...even sitting down I was embarrassed by how my thighs would spread.

I've been working hard to eat around 1500 cals per day and do 30 minutes of exercise daily (plus, I walk about a mile to and from work five days per week), and today I weighed in at 157.5. My thighs are spreading less, my "saddlebags" have gotten much smaller, and my butt feels smaller (you know, when you take a shower you notice, right?). I have a goal of fitting into the skirt I was wearing when my husband and I first met...this July it will be five years ago...the skirt was a size 8 and I was rockin' it. I think my goal is reachable, because at that time I weighed around 145.

I'll cheer you on if you cheer me on!

All my flab is concentrated on my inner thighs, my butt, and my belly.  They are the only parts of my body that jiggle (ick!).  My belly is the worst.  It's been "deflating" and it looks like saggy elephant skin. *dies*  Yep, it's irritating.   

I feel your pain. 

What are you talking about there's nothing I love more than the feeling of my belly fat spilling all over the place

I looked at a full body shot of me today. I'm a ball on toothpicks. Thanks mom, thanks dad, thanks for the most horrendous genetics. Not only did my sister get the good hair, she got the small waist and saddle bags. I would kill for saddle bags if I could trade my gut. I got the height and killer legs so take that (*bitter*)

Original Post by spirochete:

What are you talking about there's nothing I love more than the feeling of my belly fat spilling all over the place

I looked at a full body shot of me today. I'm a ball on toothpicks. Thanks mom, thanks dad, thanks for the most horrendous genetics. Not only did my sister get the good hair, she got the small waist and saddle bags. I would kill for saddle bags if I could trade my gut. I got the height and killer legs so take that (*bitter*)

 That's EXACTLY what I am built like!  I sometimes get upset thinking, I do not have a female shape!  But then I quite like my killer legs.

i'm not overweight by any means, but i am absolutely OBSESSED with feeling the fat on my stomach- even though i realize most of it is skin. it's actually quite a problem but i can never stop thinking about it.

yes. i hate the little bulges that sit on top of my hip bones. i hate being in the middle of a glorious intimate moment with my husband and the glance down and see my belly roll of fat and it totally spoils the moment for me.  i'm actually not overweight - i'm 128lbs and 5'7" but it used to be 120 lbs and felt great.  i gained some weight on bc pills and its all on my hips, butt and thighs and belly. my top still looks slender, and i have skinny calves. i just swell up in the middle. yuck! i am trying to work out more and keep the cals under control so i can tone up and lose these nastly little flabs

Oh boy do I empathize. Especially since a while ago I was at my goal weight and loved the way I looked for the first time in my life... now I've gained back 20 pounds and I am so aware of all the fat on my body.

I wear sweats and dresses as often as I can because I just can't stand the feeling of all that fat hanging over the waistband of my jeans and slacks.

Gah, and I feel so freaking jiggly all the time!

It does feel awesome to complain about it with other people, though. :-) Really, thank goodness for these forums, or I'd think I was completely alone in the world, sink into a depression, and eat myself sick every night just for the hell of it. (I'm not kidding!)

Irritated is not the right word for me.

Motivated by my fat to lose it.

Inspired by my fat to exercise.

Driven by my fat to get healthy

Enthused by my fat to help myself and help others

Encouraged by the fact that I need to buy a new belt because I have run out of holes

The only thing about it that is irritating is that it took 30 damn years for the light to go on in my head and do something about it.

Yep- I know what you mean and have been there big time.  During my 160s  I would feel it the most when I was driving.  I just felt like the seatbelt was cutting into one of the fat rolls that my waistband wasn't choking to death.  I was the type that tried my damn-dest never to buy a size up in pants, so go figure.  I looked and felt like a stuffed pork sausage. 

i think thats a reason a lot of people are here.... i cant STAND my butt/thighs soooo jiggly, i am perfectly content with the rest of my body. I think i have a great upper body and such just need it to match damit >O

Ugh you know the part I hate the most?

When I see on the scale that I've gained weight.. it makes me want to binge soo bad!! It's the worst reaction ever!!! Why don't I get it lol.

Ahh anyways.. I'm off to go running. For ONCE it's sunny outside... let's make the most of it caus I know it won't last lol :P

ugghhh wow irritated doesn't even BEGIN to explain how much I hate my fat!!  I'm 5'7" and even at 155lbs (down from 160lbs) I STILL feel so incredibly conscious of my fat rolls!! everytime I sit down at my desk my gut protrudes out and it's so uncomfortable how my fat rolls touch and spill out on each other.  I WANT THAT FAT TO DIE!!

and don't even get me started on my stupid butt fat, thigh fat, cellulite...

ahh good to vent :)  I feel so much better knowing i'm not the only one who gets so frustrated with that fat!!!

Imagine doing burpees (I hate those things) and hearing your fat slap against other parts!  I only hope others can't hear it too.  Mortifying.

I feel the same, i always have to adjust my pants or shirt when i sit there is no comfortable place to but my waist band and really it just makes me think hey its slowly going away i have already lost enough to be able to get rid of my big jeans that were wearing out between the legs ( just in time i didnt want to go shopping). people sometimes think im pregnant because i am shaped like im about 5 months along, that wouldnt be so bad if i actually was. But yeah i cant wait for my tummy to be gone or at least not sooo big.

YES! YES! god, it's making me INSANE.

and spirochete: a ball on toothpicks is exactly how i feel! i'm aaaaaallllll legs, and then BAM, fat. it downright physically uncomfortable.

it's good to know that i am not the only one. sometimes i get so jittery and irritated about it that i have to get up and walk around in circles because i just can't stand the feel of my own skin. what an odd feeling!

This thread is the worst thing we can do to ourselves! I was about to start complaining again then I thought, this isn't good for my poor little soul

i see what your saying but i think if we look at it as a place to vent our frustrations and understand that we have to do more about it than complain it should be ok for me it was nice to know im not the only one, no one around me would understand and i usualy feel foolish fixing my pants all the time.

oh jessica you're hardly the only one

You're right spirochete...

Its rly important that we stop beating ourselves over these fat rolls. Low self-esteem can lead to more weight gain and less motivation to be healthy. 

ahh let's all cheer up. What has been gained can always be lost! And I read the book "dieting for dummies" and they say that no matter how many times you've dieted (yo-yo dieting) or gained weight in the past, it doesn't affect your weight lost. So it's a myth to say that we are stuck with a body that makes us unhappy! :) we can improve!