what was your wake up call?

KrazyAsianNic

My whole life I was able to say I have never been over a certain wait, always just under. My wake up call was about a year ago when I went 12 pounds over that weight. That was also around the time I went to the doctor and started taking so much medication for different things. with 122 pounds to lose, I'm glad to say in 11 months I have lost 17 (6 which have been on MFP)

JackieLM

mines a little differnt to all yours. i was extremely underweight, i was anorexic (had eating problems since i was 6 - it was in no way related to image, but rather controll), its still hard, but my wake up call was my dad. he was very sick (on and off with cancers since i was 18months old), and so was i differnce was he never caused himself to be ill. he died in october and since then i have gained almost 10kgs and am at a healthy weight. i wanted a future.

So proud of you, eating disorders are no joking matter and you have done so well! Congrats!

Goofy076

mine was a cancer scare, after losing my father, grandparents and my other sets of grandparents battling cancer not to mention countless family members we have lost due to cancer when they found a lump my boob my heart stopped...thankfully it was negative but after reviewing my family history they gave me the genetic testing and I tested positive for the gene so that on top of family history I run a extremely high risk of cancer... that was it for me... knew it was time to stop screwing around with my weight and finally take control... i could not risk losing a second of my life and the time i get with my hubby and girls

msudaisy28

getting called "tubby tosha" by my boyfriend. definatly openned my eyes. lol

And you're still with him??? Glad it was a wake up call, but that's some negativity that you could maybe stand to lose...

kylesmommy89

Oh, I'd say about the 10th random person congratulating me on being pregnant or asking me how far along I was when I was NOT pregnant.

monicamk1975

I was at a really chaotic time in my life last year that was uber stressful. I honestly felt so out of control and overweight and miserable and I thought..I can control what I eat. I couldn't control that my husband was laid off, that I had a crappy, very painful surgery, that we were dipping way deep into our savings and getting into debt, but I could control what I was putting in my mouth. Of course, my husband found a great job, we are paying off our debts and slowly restocking our savings accounts, but that little bit of control really helped me through a rough patch. And now its just second nature. I've lost about 75 pounds, a few before MFP, and I will not return to my old eating habbits, even if I have an over indulgent day now and then. I control what I eat, and hence my health. No one else does. Sounds odd, but its what worked for me.

Elizabeth0913

These are things that happened to me (or rather things I let happen) but not one was a wake-up call unfortunately!

1. I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
2. Asked when I was having the baby AFTER I'd already had the baby.
3. Being called a fat *bleep* by a total stranger driving by my house.
4. Having a 11 pound baby because of the diabetes also having pre-eclampsia with this pregnancy.
5. Actually having all 3 of my pregnancies with diabetes.

The list goes on and on.

But what actually helped was having a Florida vacation opportunity and having family and friends join MFP with me for support. And even though it was a rough start, I think I'm gaining a mental edge on this whole weight loss thing and surprising myself in every direction!! I'm down 11 pounds and have lost over 10 inches!! No stopping me now, I'm addicted to MFP!! I plan to be in onederland this week!

Claiire_Louise

My 6 yr old had her friend round to play and her friend asked me if i was having another baby!! I knew I had been drinking too much budweiser as my clothes had started to get tight again but when i actually weighed myself i had put on 20lb in 12 months!!!

Tybalt71

NOT HAPPY, didnt get my 5am wake up call, missed my hot yoga class

TLL09

My sister posting a very unflattering picture on facebook of me, taken at the family Christmas party. I thought I looked pretty good in the outfit until I saw that picture. It was the wake up call I needed although I still think Sis is nasty for posting it LOL

naseak

When I realized that I didnt have any pictures of me with my 4 year old this christmas... purely because I wouldnt let anybody take my picture. I realized how selfish I was being, because I can never get that exact moment back, and I was depriving her of photos of us as a family on Christmas day.

Pictures was my thing to. My Husband was complaining that looking back over the last bunch of years I pretty much managed to not be in any pictures and how that was unfair. When the kids look back at pictures of vacations and Christmas it will be like I wasn't there. It's weird he wasn't asking me to lose weight but to let my picture be taken but it was my wake up call.

Z_I_L_L_A

When my health got bad, I felt bad and doc said make a change and heres some pills to take and finally the kids saying we need you daddy. As of January liver test fine,BP this morning 116/58, pulse 55 bpm. 47 pounds lighter. Doing the Warrior Dash later this year.

CasperO

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This picture. I looked like a walrus. Not a skinny walrus either... I looked like the walrus all the other walruses call "Lard Tusks".


(my favorite joke,,, forgive me if you've read it before).

hkmamma

having my doctor telling me I was diabetic. after a year of good eating and exercise I am healthy!

Sqeekyjojo

Realising that, unless I change things permanently, I am never going to be anything other than somebody's drunken mistake.

WhittRak

I am a newlywed, and children is in our near future (or we hope). I know I need to loose weight in order to ensure a healthy pregnancy for me and baby. Also..I would just like to be thin and in shape for once in my life.

Shae3891

I had always been small and at one point actually struggled to keep weight on so when I went from 110 to 150lbs in about a year I realized something had to change. I still have the size 10 pants I bought (and could barely sqeeze into) when my other pants couldn't button. I remember calling a friend in tears as I left the store. At this moment I am happily back into my size 2s and feel great when I was down to 110 I was in 0s but I know thats too small and am glad to be where I am.

ImJDLookatME

My wake up call was when I got back from a 2 month backpacking trip. I was looking at the pictures of me in Australia, Fiji and New Zealand in a tankini and couldn't believe how bad I looked. (I never was super skinny) but the pics motivated me to get on a scale and I couldn't believe my number 178, that was the biggest number I had ever seen on me. It was official, time to make a change! I am happy to say I am down 28.5 pounds (149.5) which is the lowest weight I have been since middle school! Now I am no longer so concerned at the scale number but at the bf % of 26%, so my new goal is to at least get it down to %24.


Ps. sorry for the novel

CasperO

Realising that, unless I change things permanently, I am never going to be anything other than somebody's drunken mistake.

This makes me want to cry. Nobody should feel that badly about themselves. You're more than your waistline honey, and certainly not a 'mistake'.

LittleMissNerdy

The weight creeped up, so for me it's when I didn't look awesome in a swim suit anymore. I was all WTF is this about?! :laugh:

kmkersey

Realizing that I weigh exactly what I weighed when I gave birth. Almost 8 years ago. It slowwwwly crept up on me. Disgusting.

DarkWolfX

Congestive Heart Failure at 28... Recovered in 5 years due to modern medicine and lower salt intake.. at 33, discovered my heart was failing again, 9 months later, showed even more progress back to heart failure land. Best bet to combat it now is my stronger meds, and weight loss.

My motivation is to not die.

and if I'm going to.. I'm not going to go gentle.

hikerjen

Nothing as life changing as some of the posts I've read. I was only a little bit out of shape, and was looking for a good food calculator when I stumbled upon MFP. I've got a big 12 day backpacking trip I need to train for in July, so counting calories seemed the right thing to do. Also, I've reached menopause and I've been reading it's harder to lose weight after,and that weight gain and bone density loss is a real possibility. So, exercising longer and harder, increasing my weights for strength training, and really watching my calories is paying off. I've lost 6 lbs. since I logged in, and I've noticed my clothes fitting better.

QueenB985

My wake up call was the sad reality that my "baby" is 5 and I weigh more now than I did with either pregnancy!!! And when the fat clothes started to get tight....time for a serious change!!!

Babrao

Seeing a new doctor and being told that I was "too heavy" for birth control pills and she wouldn't give them to me because I was too much at risk for blood clots "at my weight".

Hopelessbird

These are such inspriational stories. However, mine is turning 30.

My husband thinks I am attractive and smart...but I want to be HOT. I can put on a tight dress and makeup to pull off cute...but not HOT. So when I turned 30, I made a "Become HOT list"

1) Lose enough weight to look good naked
2) Get monthly chem peels to reduce hyperpigmentation and fine lines (crows feet and forhead wrinkles - GONE after 6 months)
3) Get waxed every 6 weeks (after the 4th wax, you can tolerate the pain fine - like a pro)
4) Get a digital perm (growing out my hair now)
5) Boob job in 2013 (maybe). I'm rockin' B cups now.

I know totally selfish. I'm sick and tired of being a nerdy engineer.

jacquelynkay

Eating made me feel good at the moment but, after I would eat, I always felt a horrible type of guilt. That resulted in a feeling of being out-of-control. Not good.

mamelly

I too has to go to the ER for gall bladder stones and was told by the ER Doc that it was because of my weight, felt so ashamed and in horrible agonizing pain that I inflicted upon myself. I would love to lose weight to look better, but honestly I don't ever want to go through that type of pain again, it was worse than childbirth!!

OMGLeigh

My big NOPE moment came when the scale got too close to 300. I told myself that I was not going to hit 300, so I got myself down. Now I tell myself that I'll never be 280 again, never be 270 again, etc.

nz_deevaa

When I went to a department store to get fitted for a bra, and the shop assistant, told me that they didn't have any bra's in my size and that I'd have to go to a speciality store to get a bra.

I found some bra's that (barely) fitted online, and brought all their stock of them, and then vowed I wouldn't buy any more bras' until I could fit a bra from a 'regular' store.

I'm only 1/3 of my way to my target, and already have brought 7 new bra's in my my new size.