What was you're tipping point?

Sugar_Apple

Seeing myself in pictures I took around Easter....
I was almost 200 pounds my biggest ever

Kimdbro

The mirror had stopped lying.

skeetpea

It was pictures that were taken at my Grandmother's 80th birthday in September. I got them back in October and they put me in a state of shock. I had known that I was overweight, but that person was not who I see in the mirror everyday. Maybe it is because I was standing around with the rest of my not-so-fat family that put it in perspective. I literally was the heaviest person there and it made me cry. So I found the MFP app on my android phone and here I am 1.5 months later and 19 lbs down. I am so not stopping until I reach my goal.

kennedar

Booking the appointment with the infertility specialist. I realized that I could keep eating the way I was and keep gaining weight and never be a mother, or I could get my weight under control and actually give the meds a chance to work. I weighed in the day of my dr appointment as "overweight", which was the first time in over a year I was not in the "obese" category, which made me so happy. I am now healthy enough to carry a baby to term, if and when it happens for us. Even better, the dr that day said that my weight should no longer impact our efforts to get pregnant! I am going to keep trying to lose weight until we get pregnant, but in the meantime I know that if this is our month the baby will have the best chance at being healthy that I can give him/her.

PrincessPudgy

I've tried a lot to lose weight, but for some reason I'm more determined this time around. I think the main thing that happened that made me more determined was that my Nana went to the hospital with chest pains. I'm very close to my Nana, and when I found out she was at the hospital I thought "I don't want her to die without ever seeing me fit and healthy." I know that might sound a little selfish, but she's always been encouraging me to lose my weight.

I've had a lap band and the weight has still stuck around. I think I just want to prove to people that I can do this.

I also just want to be fit, healthy and confident in myself. I want to find love and I feel like my weight makes me so self concious that I won't ever be able to find it in my current state.

I'm also sick and tired of having to spend more on clothes, and miss out on all the younger clothes because they don't make clothes for plus sized people here like they do for the smaller sizes. I can't wait to pick up a cute dress off the rack, or a nice pair of jeans.

Finallyhappy03

My uncle was doing some remodeling at my house and he had to widen a doorway to get an appliance out of my kitchen. At one point he looked at me and said "if you get any bigger you won't be able to fit through this doorway, even after I finish widening it". Ouch! The next day I was on this site and have lost 12 pounds since September.

BrentGetsFit

I bought some new shorts and shirts off the rack because I knew my size, got back home and they were too tight. It was then I noticed that my belt was on the last hole, when did that happen? So I stepped on the scale and it was over 300, good lord!

lacroyx

Fell asleep @ work. Got caught, warned. Didn't wanna lose job. Figured it was sleep apenea. Found out it was type 2 diabetes from doctor. I sleep much better now and almost down 100lbs!

Delicate

Why did i start working out? the endorphine rush and was increasing my confidence, my gym was pretty cheap too, the classes are infectious

Why did i start getting ride of weight through dieting? I was reading about pcos that i got diagnosed with a number of years ago but never did all that much about it (complained mostly) until i came across syndrome x/metabolic syndrome can be linked with it (pcos for dummies and even wiki!) told i was prediabetic too, so started taking the drugs for it, it scared me into action, went from bmi of almost 34 to 25.5, still need to get to my goal which is 23 lol.

alantin

High blood pressure.

That and finding out that exercise doesn't have to be dull. I can do stuff that I like! Now I'm addicted to training.

maurap26

Back in May I was in I.C.U. with a severe rare pnemonia (hope I spelled that right) After 10 days in there, it took me about 4 months to recover enough to start walking 30 min. It was then that my Dr. ordered tests & we found out that my cholesterol was high & I am pre-diabetic. The diabetic clinic said that I have this time to turn things around & not get diabetes.
So, I joined a gym, started going & started eating better
I now go to the gym around 4-6 times/wk & keep track of everything that I eat
I go back in Dec. to be re-tested again (fingers crossed)

krishatherley

for me it's to feel more confident when going out, as am a bit of a hardcore clubber, and like to get hot and take my top off when out. all the muscle boys in the clubs look great, and i got a belly, so its soon to be bye bye belly!

alantin

Back in May I was in I.C.U. with a severe rare pnemonia (hope I spelled that right) After 10 days in there, it took me about 4 months to recover enough to start walking 30 min. It was then that my Dr. ordered tests & we found out that my cholesterol was high & I am pre-diabetic. The diabetic clinic said that I have this time to turn things around & not get diabetes.

Some motivation!

Jourdan_Rystrom

For me, it was seeing 155 on the scale and looking in the mirror hardly recognizing myself. I could grab a chunk of my arm and belly fat with my hand, and it felt DISGUSTING.

Since then, I'm 16 pounds lighter! yay