What was your point of disgust?

curvesfordays8907

When did you know that enough was enough, and from that moment forward you were changing your life?
Mine was the fact that I was eating nothing but junk all day, I felt like crap all the time and I would get home from work and just sit on the couch for hours. I hated the way I looked, I didn't look good in anything and I constantly was hearing that I looked tired but I was sleeping am much as possible. I felt myself spiraling into depression, my anxiety was bad. I just knew I needed to change. I started going to the gym, at first it was only for 20 minutes to walk on the treadmill, now I average 1 1/2 hrs with cardio and circuit training. I stopped eating crap and started cooking for myself again and held myself accountable for the food that went in my body. Through tracking and actually working out I'm down 14 lbs since 6/5.
So what was your point of disgust?

laurenebargar

My husband loves taking our dog out to play in the creek or go hiking, and he would always invite me but I would always say no because I was too tired from work. The truth is I was too tired because I had so much extra weight and I was lazy. He finally told me once that he was lonely always taking the dog by himself and we never get to see each other anymore. He wasn't saying it to be mean or to purposely make me feel bad, but I felt terrible. I started going with him every night starting slow, but now we do a few miles each night, and I look forward to it every day. I'm down 30 pounds since 3/19, I still think there isnt enough time in the day, after work walking for 2 hours, then making dinner its time to go to bed, but Im prioritizing my health, and my marriage now.

kristikitter

I was doing a press-up, looked to the side, thought "COOL! Look at my muscles!"

Rapidly found out it was the fat bulging forward.

TheMothership71

I need new knees. And the extra weight is keeping me from playing with my children and stuff. Also even though my husband found me attractive I don't like what I see. Time to turn this around! 17 pounds down in the first 20 days. Yay!!

88olds

I wasn't discussed, I was afraid. I got on the scale and it said 285lbs. I saw 300 coming. I was afraid.

_thewriteninja

As a dancer, moving as lightly and with strength is something I enjoy. Due to some weird shift in mindset and careless attitude, I ate and snacked without care. The weight piled up and I started feeling snug in my clothes. I hated looking at my dance videos because I felt heavy and slow and I was mostly going through motions but dying on the inside. I have a show coming up and rehearsals were killer. I could not do tricks because I am heavier and my strength has slackened. Enough of this *kitten* feeling. Have been eating healthy and working out hard for 3 weeks now. I have never cooked, grocery shopped this much in my life. I feel lighter and in better control of myself. This is going to be my lifestyle.

packersfan0103

Seeing old high school pictures.

SkimpyMrsCarter

I would see people and they would make little comments about my weight gain, on every picture i looked fat, i felt fat and uncomfortable my clothes stop fitting i even avoided date night with my husband because i just didnt like what i saw in the mirror, and i had no energy i new it was time for a change and since then i purchased a Tredmill, begin eating healthy, counting calories and i have lost 29 pounds so far, i look better and i feel great.

AliNouveau

_thewriteninja wrote: »

As a dancer, moving as lightly and with strength is something I enjoy. Due to some weird shift in mindset and careless attitude, I ate and snacked without care. The weight piled up and I started feeling snug in my clothes. I hated looking at my dance videos because I felt heavy and slow and I was mostly going through motions but dying on the inside. I have a show coming up and rehearsals were killer. I could not do tricks because I am heavier and my strength has slackened. Enough of this *kitten* feeling. Have been eating healthy and working out hard for 3 weeks now. I have never cooked, grocery shopped this much in my life. I feel lighter and in better control of myself. This is going to be my lifestyle.

Similar mine was skating. My dresses were getting bigger and bigger and I hated watching videos of myself. I just looked like a whale trying to be graceful while squeezed into a sausage casing.

Not to mention I couldn't do many things because my centre of gravity was off. It's always being back to fighting shape

cwolfman13

I didn't have any disgust. I had a lot of bad blood work that needed corrected...losing weight was just gravy.

JeromeBarry1

I wasn't motivated by disgust for my appearance. Frankly, I fit right in with American fatness and it was my skinny vegan Indian doctor who was the oddball. I knew just enough to be proud of my lucky/good blood numbers over the years and when those took a turn for the worse in a January 2016 test I immediately responded with the intentional effort to log my food and make some changes. I started exercising, finally putting to regular use the treadmill I'd owned for several years. The small changes accumulated and here I am, in the Healthy BMI, slim, comfortable in my loose skin, satisfied with my eating and still losing approximately 1 lb per week.

JeromeBarry1

packersfan0103 wrote: »

Seeing old high school pictures.

At my 30 year high school reunion 7 years ago, some of the people who were slim kids are now fat adults. That's not my main observation, though. Some of the adults were stunningly gorgeous. That's possible? At this age?

CoueCoue

I saw a photo of myself and I thought it was my Mum!! Bless her, I love her very much and she is a wonderful, talented person in so many ways, but she has struggled for the past 30 years with her weight (and never conquered it). It has dominated her life and has done nothing but reinforce a hopeless sense of underachievement, failure, guilt and self-loathing. I am much sportier and more active than she ever was, but I was suddenly terrified of going down the same path as I had started to let a few pounds creep up on me. My shape had gone from "minx" to "matronly"

She was slim until around my age and beautiful. Seeing the picture of me suddenly looking like her NOW, it was like her shadow and all that potential misery was cast over my future - and I stopped and said "NO WAY".

NO

WAY

timtam163

Hmmm... honestly it just took a long long time and therapy for me to admit I hated myself. I'd lost some weight before and gained it back, and I was in denial. I didn't feel like I deserved better. The final trigger was a serious bout of depression, and a subsequently messy breakup, for me to take a good look at how many unhealthy coping mechanisms I fall back on, how little control I have over my vices, and just how much self-loathing I was carrying around. It makes me tear up still to think about how much I let myself hate myself.

curvesfordays8907

Not sure how to edit my post to my phone but I just wanted to add; your point of disgust doesn't have to be appearance-wise it's just simply that point where you wake up and you realize you are never going to go back to where that you have been. Your point of disgust can simply be your wake-up call it's that moment where everything changes for you.

vmbourg

I had a ruff , modified bed rest pregnancy. I wasnt allowed to even bend over to even bathe my daughter. I was on extra hormones that increased fatigue and hunger. When I delivered, I had gained 50lbs. The worst part was I was so out of shape of 9 months of barely moving, I couldnt touch my toes in a stretch. I would get dizzy and light headed just trying to stand up in the tub. I was disgusted. As soon as I was medically released and off of maternity leave, I found a trainer and began working out right away. It was hard to look at myself but I pushed through. I lost 20lbs and gained strength and flexibility I never knew I had.. but my eating was still utter crap. So even though I plowed away at the gym, I was still putting empty calories into my body. Then I finally just got tired of not treating my body like the baby making temple it was. So I got back onto tracking and started taking my health serious. I have been consistent for the last 30 days and I feel great. Even seeing a differnce in energy at the gym. Now I am ready to get rid of these last 30 pounds! I have already gone from a size 14 to 8. I am only one size away from pre baby even tho I weigh more. I am much more toned. And I can do things physically I have never been able to do in my life. So cheers to a continued journey of self love and enjoyment!

Brabo_Grip

I was 2 months shy of my 38th birthday the heaviest I had ever been. In pictures I didn't even recognize myself.

However, it was getting winded just carrying my infant son in his car seat from the car into the house, that was the final straw. I want to be able to play with my son and be around to see him grow-up. I said enough. Made serious lifestyle changes and dropped 85lbs lbs in 1.5 years. 3 years later, I have kept it off.

jennybearlv

I don't think I've ever been disgusted with myself. I like me. If you are asking what my motivation is, then I'd say my size giving me mobility issues and being aware that the amount of body fat on my body was not healthy. I've always been one of those active fat people, but being fat makes me wear out easily and body parts get in the way of each other. I moved somewhere where there is fun stuff to do outdoors all year and didn't want to be held back by my size.

aggiepringle6665

When it took 2 measuring tapes taped end to end to measure me for an outfit for my nephews wedding

fiddletime

When I was in a hotel for two months and eating out every meal and gained probably 30 pounds. I'd always maintained in a 15 pound yo yo style. I realized I needed to make some drastic changes in my thinking as working out daily wasn't going to cut it as I neared 60. That was 4 years ago.

Geocitiesuser

On my 34th birthday on the way to a christmas party I sat in my car and my pants ripped. I've been hell bent for a lot of reasons but that was a big day. Really woke me up.