What was your moment?

ChrisMarion0821

Everyone has a moment when you know NOW is the time you need to buckle down and lose weight. Now is the time where you're not going to fail again and this time will be different. Because 6 months from now you'll wish you started today!
Mine was a doctor visit. We were just going over my family history and the realization that all of the men in my family don't make it very far was enough for me to not want to end up having a short life! So I'm making some big changes and it's all coming from counting calories and this app community!
So what was your moment?!

kthompson601

There were three separate incidents that happened to me that finally encouraged me to get serious about weight loss:

1. I visited an amusement park with my family and was too fat to ride any roller coasters. I LOVE thrill rides and was so embarrassed and let down that I couldn't enjoy the rides
2. My mom, who has Type 2 diabetes due to her weight, experienced a sudden drop in blood sugar and I had to help her walk to the car, then get out and get her something to eat because she felt incapable of walking. It is scary when your mother, only in her early 50s, tells you she can't walk without help.
3. My aunt, who has battled her weight all her life, developed sleep apnea and now has to use a CPAP machine.

That all happened in the course of six months. I started losing weight a year ago and am now 65 pounds lighter!

kthompson601

There were three separate incidents that happened to me that finally encouraged me to get serious about weight loss:

1. I visited an amusement park with my family and was too fat to ride any roller coasters. I LOVE thrill rides and was so embarrassed and let down that I couldn't enjoy the rides
2. My mom, who has Type 2 diabetes due to her weight, experienced a sudden drop in blood sugar and I had to help her walk to the car, then get out and get her something to eat because she felt incapable of walking. It is scary when your mother, only in her early 50s, tells you she can't walk without help.
3. My aunt, who has battled her weight all her life, developed sleep apnea and now has to use a CPAP machine.

That all happened in the course of six months. I started losing weight a year ago and am now 65 pounds lighter!

David_2015

Great thread idea! Mine was going to an interview and wearing a suit I hadn't worn since a christening a few months before, and it was suddenly really REALLY tight! I'd woken up on the morning of the interview and after putting it on and realising, it was too late for other options and I had to just wear it. Horrible feeling and I felt awkward the entire interview.

DeguelloTex

Doctor mentioned blood pressure medication. Went home and looked at a picture of me from the previous vacation. Decided to lose 112 pounds. Downloaded MFP and MapMyWalk/Fitness. Lost 112 pounds.

callsitlikeiseeit

i just... decided i was tired of being fat. i was confident and happy with how i looked, my overall health was good (BP and sugars within normal ranges)... i was just tired of being fat and looking fat in pictures. enough was enough.

460mustang

I was tired of being tired all the time. But what really lit the fire under me was a physical and blood work that showed I was borderline everything.

Asher_Ethan

Do you remember that, "Ice Bucket Challenge," from last year? I got nominated by my cousin so I did it... When I watched the video I thought, "I can't believe I'm really that big." hahaha that was my turning point.

peterjens

One day I told myself I didn't want to be another middle-aged man who had let himself go.

Lounmoun

Not a single moment but several added together.

Twice I was walking somewhere with my family and watching them get further and further ahead of me despite walking as fast as I could. My leg hurt and I just wanted to sit down on the sidewalk. It was just a couple of blocks not a 5 mile hike! I don't want to be left behind or have people have to slow down for me. I was only 40 years old. I don't want to end up stuck in a chair or a bed while life passes me by for my remaining years.
Climbing a couple of flights of stairs and being almost out of breath.
Increase in pain and discomfort. I would spend a lot of the night tossing and turning because I couldn't get comfortable in bed.
Spilling something on myself just before going out and realizing none of my nice clothes really fit anymore.
That isn't how I want to live.

After losing 24 pounds and feeling really good now, I know that I didn't fully realize how poor my condition was getting. At the time I wouldn't have said I felt bad. I told myself I was okay because I wasn't actually sick but there were a lot of things I wasn't doing because of my weight.

lovelaughrun

Today actually. I weighed myself finally (I have avoided it because I jumped on the whole "go by how your clothes feel" bandwagon). The weight I lost a few years ago has crept back on. I had to face reality that just because I train hard doesn't mind I can treat myself daily and that it's time to calorie count and eat to a deficit and that the scales will be a reflection of the effort I put in. I remember how unhappy I was when I first started this journey 3 years ago and no way am I going back there

SezxyStef

There was this pic...and then I yo yo'd..then there was a doctors visit and I found MFP...that was 2 years ago...haven't looked back.

bpetrosky

It involved a KTV in Taichung.....

cyronius

I stepped on the scales one day, just out of curiosity, and I was at 99.7kg. So close to the dreaded 100... That spurred me in to doing something...

kristydi

There's a picture of me at my oldest daughter's 3rd birthday party. I was wearing an outfit I really liked at the time. I looked so different in that picture than my mental picture of myself. My love handles were so pronounced that they looked like a second set of boobs! I looked at that picture and knew something had to change. It took some experimenting to find what worked since I had never really tried to lose weight before, but that was the beginning.

crazyjerseygirl

My son being born. It was like "well crap, it's not just about me anymore". Tried eating less, failed. Tried moving more, failed. Found MFP and I'm down 40lbs in 5 months. Just had to find that sweet spot!

DeguelloTex

cyronius wrote: »

I stepped on the scales one day, just out of curiosity, and I was at 99.7kg. So close to the dreaded 100... That spurred me in to doing something...

Hey, I'm done losing and I still weigh more than the dreaded 100.

ahoy_m8

Whenever I can't fit into my red jeans, it's time to buckle down and count accurately.

kshama2001

DeguelloTex wrote: »

cyronius wrote: »

I stepped on the scales one day, just out of curiosity, and I was at 99.7kg. So close to the dreaded 100... That spurred me in to doing something...

Hey, I'm done losing and I still weigh more than the dreaded 100.

You're TALL!

kshama2001

My moment was when my fiance and I set a date and I thought about wedding pictures.

gadaniels72

In May, my mom and I went on a cruise. Three things happened:

• We did a ruins tour and I had a really hard time with the steps
• We did a beach/boat tour and my 2 piece swim dress, in the largest size I could find, the bottoms kept falling down under my shorts because they were too small
• I remember sitting on the promenade and looking up where there were mirrors above the sofas. I did not like how I looked sitting on the sofa.

Dawn410

Mother's Day. We went to lunch with DH's family. I insisted on on a group photo. I was wearing a white dress that I thought I looked cute in. When I got home and saw the photos in Facebook I wanted to cry. I am wearing a size 4 but I look like a whale. That was my turning point. Took a few weeks to start with a trainer and such, but I'm on the right track now.

Caitoriri

I didn't really have a moment. I left home, started cooking for myself, started naturally losing weight and I guess I just kept going.

Ati13

I woke up in the middle of the night, dizzy, nauseated, and anxious. I made an appointment for the doctor and confirmed my suspicions that it was due to high blood sugars. I'm prediabetic, but thanks to being on top of it I'm very early in the process. I started eating better that day, and when the blood results came back showing my A1C was elevated slightly I really kicked my butt in gear.

I've been exercising and really paying attention to what I'm eating. I had lost 5 pounds in 2 weeks at my last appointment. This is the beginning, and I feel confident I can control this with diet and exercise, which is a huge blessing. My dad was type 2 diabetic, too, and succumbed to complications of the disease when he was only 52.

riderfangal

I was sitting at KFC with my son and I glanced over a got a reflection of this very heavy woman and I thought she should really lose some weight then it dawned on me that the reflection I was looking at was me. That was December now I am down 41 lbs with 40 to go!

Kalikel

I never had that moment and I still worry that when I'm done losing, I'll gain it back. The statistics are sobering.

I began losing because I had health problems that might be fixed (or at least helped) by losing weight, so I went in with an "I have to do this crappy thing. I have to give up what I like and eat what I don't." Mine was not a Woo Hoo! kind of deal.

I didn't even know I was going to lose weight. It was all about getting better. The weight loss was an added benefit and I got really into it!! But it was always Health First and the whole How I Look thing (and weight loss thing) was a distant second.

But it's great to lose!!!

chochol1

So I'm new here and this is my first post, hopefully I do it right lol but my shock came this week. My daughter is headed into highschool so she had her 8th grade graduation and a dance all in the same week. So of course we took pictures, Lots of pictures and there i was stuck in the middle of my 4 skinny kids and my tall skinny husband and I swear when i looked at the pictures all I could see was all these skinny hotdogs and my round hamburger self! I looked so akward like I was wearing a fat suit or something. So I stepped on the dreaded scale and sure enough I now weigh 189 lbs. Thats the same weight i was right before I gave birth to my son who was not only late in arriving but also weighed 10 and 1/2 lbs! So today is the day that I start a new life and hopefully get rod of this fat suit by next year. Wish me luck!

LouisianaHotSauce_93

When I saw some pictures of myself,I just cried. I mean ugly cried. Sure I had just had a kid a year ago & had been more focused on his milestones. But, I worked really hard before I got pregnant and Lost a bunch of inches and I felt like i had failed. Especially after seein those pictures.

Jaxxie1181

I had three incidents occur within the span of one week that were the catalyst that made me decide to get serious about weight loss. The first was I went to put on underpants one day and I could barely lift my leg to stick it through the leg hole. Putting on my own panties made me out of breath. The second was I went to get into a camping hammock and it broke and I fell. It hurt my back pretty bad, but beyond that it was humiliating. The final straw was the following day I looked down and didn't recognize my feet, because they were so swollen. Just stumpy little toes on puffy blobs. That was when I said enough is enough and re-joined MFP. I've lost 17lbs in a little under a month and a half and I'm feeling really great.

eatgoodeat

All my pants were worn at the inner thigh from friction

brrrycicle

When I went to a quick care back in March and had to step on the scale. The number staring back at me was the largest I've ever been (210lbs). I've since lost 20lbs and have another 15 to go.