What was a your wake up call?!

XXXMinnieXXX

1. Type 2 diabetes at 24.
2. Dangerously high blood pressure.
3. Hitting 301lbs.
4. Not being allowed my gall bladder surgery coz I was too fat!

55lbs down, 100 more to go!

slashkiss

Having to spend a month staring at my daughter in a plastic box because she was born 7 weeks early at 3 pounds 6 ounces. This came after I spent a month in the hospital myself on bedrest trying to keep her in as long as possible before she wasn't able to get enough oxygen and I had to have an emergency c-section. This was all due to me being 250 pounds and having pregnancy induced high-blood pressure (pre-eclampsia). Now I can't say for sure if I had been 150 pounds that I wouldn't have still had issues with the pregnancy but I can't help but think to myself everyday while looking into my baby's brown eyes that I could have been healthier and somehow things could have been different. She is 9 months old now and has finally made it onto the growth chart (3rd percentile) ... she has gained 13 pounds and I have lost 45! I am going to be healthier for her now since I failed her before.

alil2loveable

Being 28 and so toxic that my skin was the color of fresh tar, wearing a size 26 that did not fasten but was tucked in at the waist and a 4XL shirt covering the fact that my pants were unzipped and unbuttoned. Oh and let us not forget I stopped getting on the scale weighing 277 so who knows what the actual weight really was.

alil2loveable

What are you eating? Holla at me if you are trying to see a number difference, might well be your diet.

femmi1120

I've tried losing weight one and off many times, but the most recent wasn't so much a wake up call as a motivational thing. I saw my ex and he had lost 100 lbs! He was always so lazy and apathetic about his weight, and ate so much crap, I never thought he'd have it in him to really get down and lose it. I thought, "If he can lose 100, I can definitely shed a lousy 25"
He's been helping me through it

Blastgoggles

I never really paid attention to the scales at all, but when I went to a company health fair and they checked my blood pressure the nurse told me I should see my doctor right away. My BP was 171 over 91!! So he outright told me in no uncertain terms that I lost some weight or I was at risk of brain damage or death at 50!

dictations

Going to the pool with my BFF and feeling so disgusted at how I looked in a bikini.

speedycakes

I was 15 and hit 180 pounds. That was wayyyy to much for me. Plus the emotional crap i had to deal with as a fat kid.

kimmillard

My wake up call was when my cholestrol was very high and my blood work came by as a borderline diabetic....was dieting but still eating and drinking what I wanted too, I am very serious now walking 1 hour everyday and going to gym doing aerobic class and the eliptical machine. I have not seen the scale move that much but inches are moving down...

sizesixorbust

i ripped 2 of my favorites pairs of jeans while pulling them on. in one day...yeahhh that night i went out and bought 150$ worth of workout clothes and never looked back.

BarbelleBaby

I'd always been slim and active, suddenly I'm having to buy jeans 3 sizes bigger than I felt.

Today I'm 2 jeans sizes down yay!!

desperatemom

For me, it was the fact that I was totally drained and out of energy by time my kids took a nap at 1 or 2 o'clock in the afternoon. For whatever reason, that totally snapped me out of my haze. I'm so glad too because I've actually been spending more time w/ my kids since I've started working out and paying attention to my food intake.

cherokeebunnie

My Wake up Call was when I went to the doctor and they told me that I was 255 pounds. I did not want to be that big any more so I chose to loose weight. I also see the cute clothes in the department stores and none of them fit and I do not want to wear moomoo dresses... I want to be around to see my grand children grow up and see the great grandchildren. I have lost 20 pounds so far and only 85 more to go and then I will be back at a weight that I have not seen in over 27 years.

pornstarzombie

Outgrowing my jeans. It's hard to find jeans that fit as it is because of my hips, but when they started not fitting and being tight...I realized I had let myself slip. I couldn't get off my horse and run alongside her without feeling like I was going to die, and that was wrong. I expect my horse to be in shape - I better be in shape, too!

I also saw a few photos where I was very, very round in the face. I realized I had gained almost 20lbs somehow.

JenLost

I couldn't afford to buy another size up in clothes...and needed to.

Same here. During the holidays I realized I needed another size in clothes and I was HORRIFIED! I promised myself I would not need a new size up ever again. I bough some pants in July and was not able to wear them....Until today!!!! One month in and I have lost a dress size.

karen0080

I'm the biggest I have ever been starting weight 375lbs. My Dad was real sick before he passed and fell a lot I would have to pick him up and me from the floor. I tore the muscle behind my knee cap in August. For months I have been dragging my I have right leg very painful and just could barely move. I went to the DR and he said if I didn't lose weight I would get to were I couldn't walk and to exercise in water.. My husband has a lot of health issues and he is not willing to change and doesn't seem to want to support me. We have a six year old boy He is just great... I couldn't bare the thought of not being able to play with him and be there for him when he needs me his Dad doesn't do much with him. So the being of the Year I joined the gym and joined TOPS and logging everything on MFP.... I love this site.....I seem more determined them ever.

shkytalhick

Im a horse trainer & my wake up call was when my boss started letting my coworker ride the younger horses beccause I was too big for them. I've lost close to 80lbs since then

wells0707

My teenage daughter said to me "you're not THAT fat" which to me was a wake up call to the fact that although I was not "that" fat I was still fat

FitKate

Not being able to get into my jeans anymore. Sad day for me.

cjpg

Over the course of a few years, I'd started to notice some sharp pains in my heart. The last time it ever happened, I was sitting down watching TV and all of a sudden I felt like a knife went straight through my heart for a solid 10 mins, it was excruciating.

I looked blankly around me and thought to myself "is my lifestyle worth my actual LIFE!?"

I would make excuses for so many things that would lead to me being fat but the one thing I will never compromise - and SHOULD never compromise - is my god-given health.

I'm 25 and I don't want to be having heart problems at this age - ANY age, but ESPECIALLY not now while i'm young! In a way, this terrible thing is the best thing that's ever happened to me.

BlessedandBeautifulBrown

lol when i looked at my legs and was like uggg i got phat girls leggs.. i don't have much chest so legs is my thang and i have messed that up:blushing:

scribe313

Going to doctor seeing I was 320 pounds! Having the same doctor see my blood pressure and hooking me up to a ekg machine, because he was so concerned about me. Finally doctor sent me to a cardiogist for a stress test, and the cardiogist scared the cramp out of me saying I was at risk for a heart attack.

mommachef

High cholesterol.

Hanablu2

My best friends daughter who needs to lose a lot of weight snapped a picture of me at her son' s bday party without my knowledge and posted in on Facebook. The pic was so huge and in my face showing my double chin, I looked like I could reach out and eat someone. I was so mad not just about the pic but because she didn't have one pic of herself for her own son's bday party. So I made everything private no one can see tagged photos of me on Facebook and I got off my butt and said time for a change I won't let anyone try to embarrass me like that again!

Julesh964

Not fitting in an aeroplane seat properly, and the tray in front of me wouldn't go down really embarrassing xx

xnikkiheart

Realizing I couldn't fit into "normal" sized clothes at the mall and had to shop at "plus size" stores. Which, for a 19 year old, is the end of the world. Muumuus and spandex to suck everything in underneath clothes were the only thing I could find in my sizes and not a single store sold my size in clothes while still being stylish.

mdailey93

I was doing my hair and I used a mirror to look at the back of my hair. When I ran my hand through my hair, it didn't even look like my hand. It looked so fat. I knew I was overweight, but for some reason this really struck me. That day I went and got a gym membership. That was Nov 14, 2011.

ShannanLaNae

I have had a lot of wake up calls but the most recent was...When one my my longest pals deleted me because had no prgress in like almost a year. It hurt but I did understand why. I was cheating myself. i should be further along but im not. its my own fault. No longer getting in my own way!!!

1FitMom326

Going to the Dr and not only was I over 200lbs she told me that my blood pressure was so high that she wanted me to make an appointment with a cardiologist that day to be put on blood pressure medication.

I talked her into giving me one month to get it down with diet and exercise changes and I started running and seeing results. My blood pressure is now in the normal range and the weight is slowly coming off.

kris472

I was 268 lbs, and I refuse to see 270! I remember saying this when I was approaching 200, but this time I was scared for my life.