During our XXLarge life how many times have you said this?

Me of course

I remember when I started wearing 24/26 size I would have given anything to wear the 14/16's sitting in my closet.  But when I was wearing 14/16's I thought I was so big....

I've definitely said that more than a few times

We all have......

Yes! What makes me angry is realizing that I started thinking I was fat after the other kids started calling me fat. Thinking back now, I know I wasn't skinny but I don't think I was really that fat. But at the time, I assumed it must be true and used it as an excuse to over eat and accept that I was stuck being fat. I really started gaining weight after that.

You are so right! And the more they made me feel fat the more I ate  

I say the word Fat is the Fword and no one is allowed to say it in my house. 

Lol.  My first goal weight was 220 cuz I distinctly remember seeing 220 on the scale and thinking, "holy christ...how did I get so fat?"....then I blinked and I was 320.

Ugh... Yes. I was a measly 116 lbs my freshman year of high school and thought I was fat. Looking back, I was just a little curvy because I developed a little earlier than  most of the other girls.

Oh dear God, yes.

The first time I went to Weigh****chers I was wearing a size 18 and thought I was a whale walking.

Before I had my surgery I was steadily eating myself out of a 30/32.  I'm smaller now than I was when I thought I was ginormous, and a lot happier.

Of course, as a young woman (lo, these many years ago) I was not in any way what was conventionally considered to be "pretty".  I was way too tall (5'8" -- about five or six inches taller than just about every other girl I knew except my sister and my mother), with short frizzy curly hair (this was in the days when there were no such things as "hair products" -- there wasn't even conditioner, for the love of God) when it was popular to have perfectly straight hair down to your waist, and large-boned (I mean really.  My shoulders are wider than my husband's, my hands and wrists are bigger, I could go on).

I remember reading in Glamour magazine, probably close to 40 years ago, that the average fashion model of the time was 5'10" and weighed 110 pounds, while the average American woman at the time was 5'4" and weighed 145.  Which raised, and continues to raise, two questions:  1) who's the real freak here?, and 2) is it any wonder none of us really have any sense at all of what our body really looks like?