Remember the day you said enough is enough?????

polo571

Mine was 6/14/10 375 pounds. I see alot of people looking at the posts of success but I truely think we need to share our sadness with the start before we can get to our destination. Lets pay it forward!

MissAnjy

Mine was August 29th, 2010.

ObviousIndigo

I went to play billiards with some friends in October and I remember going to the washroom and looking in the mirror afterwards and seeing a huge muffintop and feeling really diheartened because up until then I had thought I was looking fabulous. I left the bathroom feeling so uncomfortable and wishing I had something to cover up with. That was when I said enough was enough!

healthychick26

Yes I do! I was on facebook and saw a picture of myself...I was dressed cute, makeup was nice, dress was cute and I was FAT. Definitely not a good look going into my 30s! Not too long following, I bought a scale that measures body fat and started the couch to 5k running plan. I now have a gym membership and am continuing on the C25K plan and setting monthly health goals. This month's goals are to do 1hour cardio 5x per week and drink 2 liters of water per day. I'm down 7 lbs since starting my healthy living regimen.

jemmajoy

my day was 01-03-2011.. 330 pounds.. yikes! I was shocked that i hit that weight, but i know how it happened. Now I have this great site, making better choices, I am going to use that great free gym at work and start talking my son & dogs for a walk around the neighborhood & parks!
my goal is 50 pounds by Oct 2011. I will be happy with that weight lose but ecstatic if i lose more.

polo571

Danny Health and Jemma thanks for sharing! Today we start the pay it forward nation. Add me as a friend if your in!

caramel827

I am sad to say that I have had TWO days/occassions where I said enough is enough.

The first was in March1999 (Can't remember the exact day). There were several things leading up to it, like being in a wedding in June 98 and barely fitting my dress among the other size 2s and 4s my 16 was super tight. But the DAY occured sometime in May when I remember coming home and getting out of my work clothes. I took off my pants and saw that my thighs had rubbed together causing them to rip-now this was not the first time i had seen this but for some reason something clicked. Joined a gym at 218pounds, entered a weight loss contest and by December 1999 I had lost 80 pounds to my all time low of 138 pounds.

Fast forward, slowly but surely the weight crept back on one husband and one child later (she's three now) in April 2010 I had a moment. I was getting dressed to have lunch with friends and NOTHING fit. Jeans that were once loose (I had yo yoed through the years) were now super duper tight! I said no more. That evening I went to the gym weighing in at 213 pounds. I was disgusted with myself but knew I could do this.

Today I am 167.5 (down 46 pounds) and striving to lose more. Maybe not down to 138 because that was super hard to maintain. I am trying to get to 150.......enough was and is enough!!! I can and will do this as a lifestyle change this time!

polo571

Good for you caramel! Welcome aboard. Add me as a friend if yah want to start pay it forward nation . Yah in?

mem50

I will never forget mine. July 15 ,2005. Wound up in the hospital certain I was having a heart attack. Wasn't that. Large blood clot in left lung. That was my wake up call. I weighed over 300 at the time. After a month in the hospital....complications....I got home and was able to see my toes (barely) I had lost almost 40 lbs while there. Two years later I was down to 145 then because of medication changes gained back almost 50. I am getting close to where I want/need to be. GO US!!!!!!

simplexserenity

I went to Six Flags in Vallejo when I was a freshman in college and went to get on a ride with my boyfriend at the time.. no matter what I did, the seat belt wouldn't buckle. I couldn't fit on any ride, so we left and that's when I realized I was done with that part of my life.

RMinVA

Mine was a trip to the doctor in late 2006. I was healthy, and wanted to keep it that way. While I had absolutely no signs, I knew I was a ticking time bomb since both my parents were type 2 diabetics. I had been eating healthy and exercising some, but struggling with my weight. I just didn't understand why I was struggling....the doctor even ran a thyroid panel to be sure (of course there was nothing!!). But during that visit the doctor reminded me of something that I knew to be true but for some reason it hit me like a ton of bricks that day: it's simple math. Calories in < calories out = weight loss.

I was eating healthy, but not watching my portions. I was exercising, but not pushing myself, or doing enough to facilitate weight loss. I pulled out the measuring cups, started working out more, and now run. I've completed several races including 2 half marathons. My first 15k and 5th - 10miler are coming up this spring.

I am new to MFP, but have maintained a 50# weight loss for over 2 years now. I was down 70# @ one point, and about 20# away from my goal. I got off track, and watched the scale creep up in 2010. I want to get rid of the creep + the additional 20# that I never got off to begin with.

chefdan

The Monday after last Thanksgiving I woke up feeling tired and achy as usual and thought "well I can either go on feeling like crap on my days off and doing nothing or do something about it." I finally decided to do something about it. Started slow with stretching and found MFP to monitor my food, and decided to build up from walking to running eventually...having been a x-c runner in college and starting to miss it. Unfortunately, the week before Christmas I can an accident walking an over-enthusiastic dog on my icy road and tore some ligaments in my ankle.

So, with changing the diet alone, things are still going well. Although the ankle is frustrating me. I just have to remember it's a marathon, not a sprint and keep the long-haul in mind. Still feeling way better than I did before my decision to change things.

runningneo122

July '08

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The company I was driving for went under, I got stiffed on about $1500 pay and I was not liking the job market. When I started hearing that the Federal govt. was adding a BMI limit of 30% to the medical test for a CDL-A I knew I had a little work to do. I was at 34% according to my bio scale. Things looked pretty bleak and that was when I decided to make the next change in my life.

polo571

Thanks for sharing. If you want in with pay it forward nation add me as a friend and im in it with you for the long haul!

dbosh

My office started a fitness challenge and I had always avoided those. For some reason, this time it clicked. I joined, out team won and I have been trying to keep at it since the challenge has ended. During the 11 week challenge, I lost about 33 pounds by tracking what I eat and hitting the cardio hard. I found MFP about halfway through and that has really been a big piece of this puzzle for me. Thanks one and all for providing insight and inspiration even when you don't know you are doing it.

karenjoy

Not really, I just knew I was fat and thought I was just not able to do anything about it and that it would just go away on it's own or some miracle would happen, I made excuses to myself and I ignored the mirror and the bigger and bigger sizes I needed to buy. I did not even manage to lose weight for my wedding because 'I had been measured for my dress!' then I was talking about my honeymoon and my daughter was telling me about the wonderful infinity swimming pool at the hotel and I said well I won't go in it! She said why not?! I said because I am NOT wearing a swimming costume looking like this!! And then I thought about it, I was going on my honeymoon to Egypt, a place I wanted to go all my life and staying in a 5* hotel with a wonderful pool that I would not go in because I was ashamed of how I looked!!

So THAT was when I decided that enough was enough and I stopped making excuses and started being acountable to myself.

I was just over 200lb when I started this journey in March last year, I have lost ALMOST (lol) 50lb and might even go on for a couple more (but these last few lbs are stubborn!!)

I DID wear my swimming costume on my honeymoon, I did swim in that fabulous pool and I am so proud of myself and am much happier with how I look too.

ladyhawk00

12/24/2010 - Family all at mom's house for Christmas dinner. I had dressed up a little (but had a hard time finding anything, since 95% of the clothes in my closet don't fit), hair done, makeup on... I thought I was looking ok - not great, mind you, since I'm not delusional - but decent enough.

Then the cameras came out. All digital, with the little screens to see what the pictures look like. We took a couple and I looked at them - and have never been more horrified. It wasn't ME in those pictures. How could it be? I don't look like THAT! It must be a bad angle. I've always hated having my picture taken, but this was a new, ghastly level of disgust. So I tried again...and again...over 20 pictures later, I finally realized there was NO good angle.

I resolved then and there that I refused to let myself continue my denial and laziness toward nutrition, exercise and a healthy lifestyle. So I'm here, and I'll never give up.

stephgabriele

I don't know an exact date or really what was going through my head but I do know it was after I had a vivid flashback of my Father yelling at me for eating too much when I was way younger, maybe 11 years old. Ever since I remembered that I was going through so many moments where I'd picture my Dad's face and feel like I was going to end up like him.

6 months ago he found out he had diabetes and ever since then I noticed he was projecting his pain and insecurity of being overweight years back. His goal this year is to lose 100 pounds (he's still very unmotivated and it scares me). I really, really want to live and see my friends have kids and have kids of my own. I do not want to scare my future kids, my friends, anyone like that.

It hurts far too much to wonder if a family member is going to live to see the most important parts of my life.

And hell it would not hurt to be able to let even one person see me naked without feeling completely ashamed.

bluemagic33

July 5 2007!!

Many things happend around that time,But I wont give all the details, but that is when I started researching diets.. In Sept I ordered Medifast at 219 in 8 months following the program I had reached my goal weight of 144... I followed through trasition and lost an additional 15 lbs getting down to 129.. I maintained throughout the first year until June I gained 10lbs when I started running doing the c25K.. I was ok with that since my clothes still fit very nicely.. I ran my first 5k that Oct. in 34.20 I was stoked my goal was 1) To finish, 2) to do it in less than 36 minutes.. I did both and was a smoker on top of it.

In Nov that year I got sick and was unable to run for 6-8weeks, When I was finally feeling up to it I did three days of 5k's back to back and blew out my knee. Was out for another 6 months..

So now I am just trying to find my happy place again around 138.. It is maintainable, and I feel good in my skin..Not to thin for my 5'5 build and no muffin top...

Support and friends to share the journey with,, Makes it so much more enjoyable, and so much easier to handle.. I do have a very supportive husband, (whom of course can eat anything and remain thin).. But on that note I have two sons One built like his dad and the other like me.. And he is the one I worry about.. He is 22 and about 40lbs overweight.. I hope he see my dedication and will want it for hiself as well..

Thanks for listening
Laurie

luvamig

Late October of 2010. Got some labs back from the doc. I had/have high cholesterol. I'm only 24... Decided that it would only be down hill from there if I did not do something. Checked my BMI, and discovered just how overweight I am, and that was it. Never turned back. (Granted it hasn't been that long, but it's not a diet; it's a lifestyle change)

jemmajoy

Please feel free to also add me! I would love to get tips, support and share in our success!

polo571

hos had enough and wants to joing pay it forward nation! Friend me and lets make a change!

HotMomma86

I had what I thought was my moment last year in the Spring. Just seeing pictures of me, and realizing that my clothes kept getting tighter and tighter. The most recent moment, which was the final straw for me, was in November. First, I was having stomach issues, which an endoscopy would determine was from an ulcer. If I lost weight and ate better, it would heal along with the esophogeal damage from acid reflux. I would also no longer have acid reflux. Then a girl I went to high school with and was always "the fat one" was getting rid of some of her clothes because she was losing weight. She offered them to me, and when I got home and tried them on, they fit. I cried, a lot. Then the next day I put my goals into action. I will no longer be described as chubby and will not allow myself to be "the fat one". Since November I've lost 12 lbs & 6 inches and will continue to lose the next 52. At my heaviest I was 194. Friday I weighed in at 182.

JayneWilson1963

Mine was 7/4/2010, 1 day after my 47th birthday. I decided then I was not getting any younger, so I was going to get better. Best decision I ever made! Lovin' life now!

jkestens63

April 2008- I had been struggling with infections in my legs for 2 years. At 430 lbs with a history of bad circulation I was spending 30 days at a stretch in the hospital in effort for the docs to cure me. They kept telling me to lose weight but it didn,t sink in until I could no longer work at a job I loved and the doc started talking amputation.
So here I am 3 years later, 250 lbs lighter (and a non-smoker now too) and I am healthy, happy,and loving my life. It was a lot of hard work, not quite but no matter matter where I end now, as long as I maintain I am 1,000 times better off from where I was.

nancyhorta

I think I've had many A-HA moments through life, where I finally got to the point of sticking with something and making it happen.... for a while. Having been overweight my entire life, and never knowing what thin looked or felt like... weighing less and feeling stronger was always an improvement.... lossof 50lbs, 90lbs.... and I was satisfied... but then there was always something that made me stop my journey and gain it all back and thensome..... Here I am today, 41, married for almost 2 years, and rather late in the "game".... Wanting so badly to have children, but know that the weight is probably keeping it from happening... not to mention being pregnant at my current weight would not be good for me or my child. Having met my now husband, someone who always accepted me as I was, was a miracle in it'self..... however, our lifestyle over the last couple of years has caused him to become a couch potato and overweight. He was not that way when I had met him, and now has approx 50 pounds to lose too. I somehow, in the back of my mind, feel responsible for this weight gain.... although I didn't shove food down his throat, or keep him from exercising.... I think my horrible example of living really grew on him..... It is with this A-HA moment, I have taken a good look at myself, as well as my husband and realize that I want us both to live highly productive lives, and be healthy..... I want to be able to do whatever I want to do... i.e. watersking, dancing in public, flying comfortably in an airplane.... fitting in all seats for themepark rides.... attending concerts and being comfy..... gonig out with confidence, knowing I look and FEEL fantastic!!!! I want to be healthy, first, and certainly in GREAT shape. AT the age of 41, I am in bad need of knee replacements in both knees..... which is quite young.... I've had numerous operations.... and that has caused most of it... however, being very overweight has caused 50% of the damage..... Getting the weight off my knees is a HUGE priorty for me.... and will most likely allow me more time NOT to have the replacements and yet still feel good. I would love to join your group... as it's finally time!!!!!
Thank you,
Nancy

alysen2012

Mine was when i put on my graduation cap and gown and i looked like a marshmellow...I am determine before i graduate college not to look like that again i am so tired of being big. I have been big since i was in 7th grade and now its a time to change.

sizzboom

That is what I have on my home page. ENOUGH!!!!!!
September 24 2010.

Been committed to this lifestyle change since then.
To date I am down 50 lbs from the start with 59 more to go.

I have lost 7 inches from my waist and 5 from my hips.
Last month's plane trip was the first I can remember that I did not have request a belt extender.

roland72

I don't remember the exact day, but it was end november 2010. Going to A&E with a suspected heart attack, being wired up to all sorts of beeping machines, medical staff running back and forth carrying out tests only to scratch their heads as they couldn't find anything. Turned out that it was just a fat man (me) who had tightening round his chest and tingling in his left arm as a result of a combination of indigestion and shovelling snow ... the embarrassment made me say enough is enough. I signed up with a gym and started a proper diet that same week!

polo571

Please add me as a friend and join Pay it forward nation!

Lacey9693

Mine was Jan 2009. I weighed as much as a proffesional football player. That's what got me started see that on TV. Now I am 90lbs lighter.