What was your straw that broke the camels back?

xp0sed

I guy I used to be interested in (USED TO being the key word) called me a fat *kitten*.

LorinaLynn

It took a few weeks for me to realize the camel's back broke, but...

In early November, my water heater bit the dust and we had to replace it. My brother and I carried it down the outside cellarway, and I forgot to close the gate before I let the dog out. And he sneaked off.

When I realized he was missing, I ran a few blocks to the park, hoping that's where he went, and found him happily barking at a dog in a fenced in yard. "NEENER NEENER! I'm FREEEEE! And you're NOT! HA HA HA!"

I was thrilled beyond belief when he came when I called him. And he looked so damn proud for "taking himself for a walk." So I hooked the leash on him and walked back home.

I couldn't breathe normally for about an hour. Wheezing. Heart racing. So embarrassing, especially since I was with my brother who's 15 years my senior and regularly runs 5ks. I'm too young to be this out of shape.

A few weeks later, I found out about the Warrior Dash, and started the Couch to 5k program. I can now jog a little over 2 miles and have lost 10 pounds.

And I always double check the gates before letting the dog out!

monoxidechick

Mine was simple but powerful for me. I was looking through my closet and realized that I was going to need more work pants really soon and that the ones that I had were getting old and TIGHT. I told my husband this, and he said that since I needed new ones anyways I could just get the next larger size since these were getting tight!! This was something that I was thinking, but when he said it out loud, it sounded way too horrible to even consider. I did not want to go to the store and look for size 18 pants!!

I decided right then and there that I was going to do somehting about this, or have to walk around without pants. I promised myself I would not buy size 18!! I bought a case of slim fast shakes, not knowing what else to do. I got online and searched around and found this site the same night. I drank two shakes a day for two weeks and counted calories on here. I didnt stick long with the shakes, but it was a good way to begin cutting back on calories and getting used to the changes.

I went shopping after that two weeks and fit comfortabaly into size 16 again. It wasnt a huge step but it wasnt the 18's!! I am now down 22 lbs, the same size still fits, but I can see and feel SMALL changes happening, and I know that I will not be an 18 EVER in my LIFE!!!

Also looking at pics from a friends wedding which was a year after mine, and I looked sooooo much bigger!! Gaining weight is not the way to spend your first married year!!

MissAnjy

My wedding day & my wedding photos. I didn't feel beautiful (like i should have) and I cringe at our pictures. It was eye opening, and devastating to feel ugly & fat on the one day in your life you're supposed to feel beautiful. I had to change.

ME.TOO.

So...when I'm at my goal weight, we're redoing the wedding pics. I'll put on my dress (maybe get it sized) and we'll go back to the beach with a photographer.

You can do it too.

that's exactly what we're doing )

kbairdphillips

I have 4 major reasons that all happened within 2 weeks of each other!!

1. My husband tagged me in a picture he uploaded to his facebook and it not only offended me but pissed me off.......Why? Because that picture "made me" look like a whale. So, when I confronted him about it, his response was "What's wrong with that picture, it's a good picture of you and Ally (my daughter)." I was absolutely disgusted with myself, because that person in that picture, that whale, was me and that is how I looked to the entire world. The picture did not make me look fat, that's who I was! :frown:

2. When I told my gorgeous chunky 5 year old that she wasn't having another snack because she was eating a little too much, she told me, "I want to have a big fat belly like you Momma." :embarassed:

3. After those first two instances I decided to get on the scale (let me add that all of my clothes were really tight, I wore my work scrubs all of the time). I stepped on the one at work, and had to move the bar to 300, I weighed 306lbs. I broke down crying.

4. Health Fair at work, I had my cholesterol checked. My total was great, my HDL on the other hand was in the low 30's (major risk for heart disease). So, I was in a major risk for heart disease in my 20's. Pretty scary stuff. :noway:

I started starving myself immediately, then realized I needed to make a lifestyle change as did my entire family. So here I am, 5 months later and 55lbs lighter.

jaelanne

I feel kinda silly for mine. It was one part closing the chapter on a very bad relationship and one part revenge. My ex is the reason I got so heavy. He was an athlete. He got injured, and decided to be a chef after he lost his job. He didn't want me jogging or cycling alone, and didn't want to go to the gym with me. I would be accused of cheating if I went out on a long ride. He wouldn't let me cook, and fed me unhealthy (albeit delicious) fatty foods and sugary desserts. He would even joke, as we both got heavier, that he was fattening me up so no one else would want me. He lost the house over five years ago in the midst of a drinking binge and (I suspect) drug use, and I lost him. I weighed 187 at the time and found out after the fact that he did indeed cheat on me. Over the course of my first two years as a happily single girl, I lost fifty pounds. Now, after maintaining that weight for so long, I am want to lose a little less then 20 more and get some more muscle, not just to be in better shape than I was before I met him. I am in my last semester of training to be a paramedic, and will be in fire college soon. After eight years as a desk jockey with someone that made me miserable, I am so thankful for the past six years. Loosing the weight changed my entire life. Keep up your faith and don't give up.

FearAnLoathing

the straw that broke my back was going from this



to this




(the bottom picture was at my biggest,i have since lost almost 40 pounds)

_Christine_

I'm 37 with toddler twins and a very active 7 year old. My husband still sees the 18 year old he married and for that I LOVE him, but I can't keep up. I want to be that mom that runs in the park with her kids and can bend down to their level without moaning and groaning to get back up.
I'd also love to play sports again. I grew up playing basketball and would love to play with my 3 kids. I loved the feeling of being healthy and the power and sexiness of toned muscles. Yep... I want to be sexy at 40 damn it!

neenie1

For me it was having to link 4 large safety pins together because I couldn't zip up the zipper up on a size 16 skirt. It just killed me because I had nothing or no one to blame it on but me. My kids are in they're late teens and early 20's and I had no problem losing weight after having them. In fact I was in the best shape of my life after having my kids. I've lost about 50lbs in the past year but still have 15 to go before being at the top of my healthy weight range and another 15 before hitting my goal. One day at time.....

ajbeans

For me it was when I bought new, larger jeans to accommodate my expanding behind -- and a month later couldn't get them on. I realized I was gaining at a ridiculous rate, and it had to stop. I didn't want to get to a point where it was going to be too hard to lose the weight, because I knew that if it was too big of a job I'd never do it. I wanted to nip it in the bud.

mjf0461

Mine was this past Christmas at my daughters for Christmas dinner, she took pic's of everyone there. She took a pic of me playing on the wii with my youngest daughter. Posted it on FBK and I saw it a day or two later and was floored. I really have never seen myself that large, and it was like running into a brick wall... I started on New's Year Day and said NO MORE.... It's been good since, and I will achieve my goal...

That_Girl

I think, too, the thing that made me "wake up" was realizing that I'm always telling people how to take pictures of me LOL I would tell them what angle, position, etc to snap just a simple pic. That's not right.

Even my 'go to' angles were failing.

Big time. LOL

NOLAdy

My parents. My mom cooked most meals at home but she wasn't the greatest cook so we had a lot of processed foods. It was never anything that was obviouslly unhealthy, and nobody was overweight. My dad had had heart troubles in the past and recently found out he has diabetes. NOW, in his 70's, he has to change his diet. I started eating healthier when I was in my 20's so I know how daunting it can be. Especially when you learn that things you used to enjoy, and you thought were healthy, are actually not the best choices.
Now, with my dad's diagnosis, I'm moving into a much more natural diet for myself as well. I had always been eating cold/boxed cereals, healthy choice (or similar brands) frozen dinners, diet versions of everything... and I thought I was so healthy. Yes, there are worse choices, but my parents thought they were making good choices as well. So now I'm trying to go as natural as possible. I still have some things to shuffle around and adjust, but I can tell you that it is MUCH easier for me to do since I was already kind of conscious of what I was eating than for my dad who is having to get used to the flavors. They actually come to me for advice LOL.

And, yes I realize that the flavors from the more ntaural versions of something, ie: sprouted/whole grain bread as opposed to white bread, are so much better but if you're used to the processed things than it can be an aquired taste.

Natalie43

motivating stories - good luck everyone on your journeys :flowerforyou:

digby765

:noway: :noway: I had been really slack looking after my health/weight, and am now almost twice (in weight) the woman i used to be, my knees hurt going upstairs, i injured them last summer and they haven't been the same since, and i know all this weight isn't helping the situation. At my fittest/slimmest i was a size 10/12 in jeans, now i'm a size 18 pushing a 20, I love fashion and especially shoes, I want to wear what i want, not the horrid things that fit :grumble: , only one way to be able to do that and thats to drop a couple dress sizes, so here i am:happy: .....Yvonne :flowerforyou:

jaitken_22

I've wanted to try lose weight seriously for years but MFP is the first thing that has made me keep on track and I am doing well so far with it. There are several reasons which made me decide now is the right time to lose weight and get healthy:

- Looking at recent photos of myself and seeing the double chin and the rolls of fat and the fat arms
- I'll be 28 this year and I have never been slim.. I realise that I'm not getting any younger and I want to sort myself out while I still can
- Not being able to wear nice clothes because shops do it up to a certain size. I hate that a UK size 14 is classed as large. I'm an 18-20 so god knows what that is!
- I calculated my BMI and I am just in the "obese" category, I have another 2.4 whatevers before I'm classed as "overweight" and will have to fight to get my BMI to "healthy"
- Holding up my clothes when folding them up and seeing how big they are... I realise that this fits me and I'm THAT size!

Suzy_B

Mine was when I happened upon the MFP app on my phone & out of pure curiosity decided to log that days meals. Wow...I was shocked, over 2500 calories, way over the fat recommended & so much sugar that I was grateful I had not yet become diabetic. Have stuck with it for nearly a month now & have no plans on going back to eating like that ever again. I had searched weight lose apps because I hit that number on the scale that I vowed I'd never be.

arwsgirl

1. My husband tagged me in a picture he uploaded to his facebook and it not only offended me but pissed me off.......Why? Because that picture "made me" look like a whale. So, when I confronted him about it, his response was "What's wrong with that picture, it's a good picture of you and Ally (my daughter)." I was absolutely disgusted with myself, because that person in that picture, that whale, was me and that is how I looked to the entire world. The picture did not make me look fat, that's who I was! :frown:

I couldn't agree more! I'm a photographer and I absolutely hate being in front of the camera because I look like a whale. The result is that I have very few photos of me and my girls and I hate that as well.

columbiasmiles

My doctor and the nutritionist basically told me I was fat the nutritionist added that I was toxic as well, LOL ..

carolyng66

I've been trying to lose weight and get in shape on my own for far too long. I'm gaining muscle but not losing fat. My 14 jeans which used to fit me fine is not very snug. I don't want to go to a 16. Maybe keeping track of what I eat and the excercises I do will help me tweek a program that will finally take the fat off.