What was your "Gotta Change my Life "moment ?

camiller02

!. I had high blood pressure
2.. By 1 oclock at work I was so tired I wanted to sleep
3. I felt unattractive
4. The final straw my mother in law came to visit and exclaimed "man you are fat" as she walked through the door . I was so embarrassed. It sounded to me like she said damn your are not good enough for my son. Who by the way is always supportive at what ever weight I am.

sunshineshell81

For me, my moment came January of last year. My husband and I had went out to celebrate a friends college graduation and we had our picture taken, and I could not believe my eyes. I knew I had put on some weight.. my Dad had passed away a year before and my life was turned upside down, but I had no idea how bad it was. So, I decided to get on the scale (which I had not done in a VERY long time) and there it was.. I was 90 lbs overweight. I had always been overweight my whole life, but nothing to that extreme. I was so ashamed and at first, deeply depressed. But then I realized that being depressed about it would not solve anything, so I decided to change.

I changed almost EVERYTHING about my life. I cut out fast food which was a main staple in my diet, I also cut out artificial sweetener, colors, and flavors whenever possible, I buy organic whenever I can and joined a gym. I am 55 lbs lighter and healthier and have 35 lbs to go and LOVE my life now! I have WAY more energy, I am much more happy, I can see muscle definition in my arms (which I gladly show off as my guns) and I am gaining my confidence back one step at a time. This is not a diet, this is my lifestyle. I am a healthy person so that is how I will live. Diets come and go, but lifestyles are sustainable.

I use this APP on my phone everyday and the logging my food and exercise has helped keep me honest. Also, all the support from my friends on here is so motivating and helpful. It is nice to have people understand )

KrazyAsianNic

I would consider myself having two moments. The first one was at a doctors appointment when the doctor told me I was diabetic (we think it was to scare me because my actual doctor told me the test came out negative). At this point, I was taking like 9 pills a day, and only 23 years old. My second one was more recently. I had just graduated from college about 3 weeks ago and all i've been doing was sitting around the house watching netflix. I kept telling myself to go walk or do a workout dvd, but then resulted that there was always "later" to do it, that i should just relax now. What really hit me was opening my dad's graduation gift. he had themed it "independence" by giving me two things that will help lead me to a better life. the first gift was money towards a new car i'm looking to buy. the second gift was a 2 year membership to a local gym with the start of 3 personal training sessions. It took me while to accept how amazing this gift was. The day after opening the gift, my dad took me to the gym, and told me that next week, when the busyness dies down, he'll join the gym with me for support. He takes me 3-4 days a week when my sister has her classes near by it and I stay at the gym for 2-2.5 hours. it's nice to have him ask me how it was and if i'm enjoying it. What i haven't told him is how perfect his timing was for this gift. i was at my final straw. I was unhappy with my family, in my relationshp with my boyfriend, and with my life in general. I was sad that no one ever made time to hang out with me, and my body was starting to give me pains and difficulties I've never even felt before. It hasn't been a week yet, and the gym has already made a difference in my outlook on life. I know I can do better in the eating category, but I hope this is the push i need. My boyfriend even decided to join with me on the days we work together or nights we want to hang out.

The biggest push is having my father behind my back. We don't have a good history together and normally when he refers to my weight, it is done with teasing and jokes, and just mean stuff. This is the first time I feel like he cares.

TheSlimWithin

I went to my friend's aunts wedding reception and genuinely thought I looked really nice, which was a rarity as it was. Me and my friends had a couple of professional photos taken and I couldn't wait to see them. They were published online, and I was absolutely horrified. I had never been more repulsed by a particular photo in my life! Not awfully bad, but it definitely gave me a HUGE push to change, and I never want to be in that situation again, at least not through weight and body issues.

Megdmcda

mine was when i seen my sister in law who was always twice as big as me....she started counting calories and just over a year got down to my size.....i was like i wanna do that...and also i didn't want to end up being the biggest out of us all....kinda mean sounding but it got me going....

prettygirlhoward

When I seen a photo of me at a family gathering..... I seen how much weight I gained and the look of unhappiness on my face. I realized "This Isn't Me!" I have always been in shape, fit and was always active! If was time to get the"Real Me" back! And I'm on my way there.

AliceKlaar

A friend on facebook tagged me in some New Year's Eve party photos I'd been to a few years back. I got really upset looking at how much slimmer I used to be and decided there and then I'd stop messing around and actually get serious about losing the weight again.

fitpilatesqueen

There are so many reasons.
First of all I´m not happy with the way I look, I feel ugly, I look ugly and people look down on me.
People constantly tell me what I may and what I may not eat and constantly remaind me I´m too heavy.
I´m constantly reminded that I´ve been single for years and years because of my weight and how bad I look.
This weight has caused me problems with my legs and feet.
I have reached the point of hating myself for how I look and for how I´m being treaded and not valued or respected for who I´m. I felt worth nothing and was so angry with myself. You could say I hit the bottom.
I have to and I shall change this around one way or another.

DoggeeCatMom

Mine was just recently when I went to my Doctor's office and I hit 200 lbs. She also told me that I was a few points away from being pre-diabetic. I have always had high cholesterol but low blood pressure. I am on cholesterol meds. My family has a history of heart problems and I, myself, have a heart arrhythmia and a possible value issue. I also have an under active thyroid (hypothyroidism) so I am now on a very small dosage for that.

My adult niece just had gastric by pass surgery and she encouraged me to join a gym so that we can work out together. She is a great source of knowledge and “pushiness” ( lol) to keep me on track.

kylejh

I went to Vegas to celebrate my 40th birthday in February. I wanted to do the zip line on Fremont St. and was over the maximum weight of 250 lbs. The nest day I went shopping, and XXL shirts did not fit. The day after I got back home, I completely changed my diet, and a week later my sister told me about MFP. It's been a tough 4 months, but I feel the best I have in my adult life now.

mariaj1979

After I had my son, I didn't think I could have a baby. So after he was born I lost 70lbs and kept it off for 8 years but I'm on route to loosing the extra 30 to get to my life long achievement of a 100lbs

small_ninja

After being continuously unhappy with each and every photo posted of me on Facebook... I knew I'd gained a little bit of weight, but just tried to accept it. After actually confronting myself about it and realising how unhappy I actually was with my appearance, I decided to do something about it. I know I don't have a lot to lose compared to many people on here, but it's a self-confidence thing, and being so short I am still technically only JUST within the healthy range for my BMI.

juggalettenell

Ive always been over weight and cared but didnt care at the same time. My light bulb light up when we had a house fire back in october and thinking about how things could have ended so different we could have been home or asleep and we all could have died I became so thankful that we were all safe including our dog that i realized i dont wanna die i wanna be here with my family as long as i can so after 3 months in a hotel eating crap we moved back home and i started mfp and am so thankful for all the support and love from all my friends on here !

Kcinnamon

For me, it was when I took my (then) 9 year old daughter to the doctor for a physical. The doctor reamed me for her being obese. I realized that I had been teaching her horrendous eating and fitness (or lack thereof) styles. I have always battled with my weight. I was just like her at her age. I always felt awful about it when I was young. When I hit high school all the weight dropped away because I was so active, but then when I got pregnant with her when I was 20, it was right back to battling with my weight. I've always been about 50 pounds too much. Now my daughter swims 2 hours a day 3 days a week on her local swim team and is doing great at it. She is still working at getting to within her normal range, but she has not gained a pant size in over a year! She is making healthier decisions on her own, and I have dropped from a tight 15 down to an 11 and I'm not done yet. My husband and I have each lost 30 pounds, and my 3 year old son will never know what it's like to be the fat kid!

Mzfoster0517

My gotta change my life moment started on 2004. When I saw a New Year Eve picture of me and my ex husband sitting next to each looking like two big stuffed brown bears. Then a year later I saw a picture of me at my older daughters 5th b-day party. Still wearing Maternity clothes and my youngest was going on 2 yrs old. I said OMG "Why didn't anyone tell me about this" At that point I started exercising, watching my weight, and treating myself better. Just in this past year I noticed some of the weight I lost coming back (my highest weight being 248 lbs) I freaked and got back on the ball.

AllTehBeers

and just hate the clothes shopping when you're in plus sizes, the selection is- well crap to be honest, and it's never fun to shop in large sizes like that, I DREAM of shopping in a normal size...

This. No one apparently knows how to make plus sized clothing. I think they hold up some fabric cut a square and call it good.

lol Either that or EVERYTHING is made in some kind of nasty muted flower puke colors that not even my grandmother would wear.

kympow

My moment was in January when my blood sugars (diabtic) rose to 400-500 ....entirely off track... I was put on insulin....and I swore I would not stay on it long... Luckily I was right... I lost 25 pounds got off the insulin...plus an oral pill... I have 117 to lose yet...but am confident that I will be off half of my medicines...

africaa

My momment was reallynot all that dramatic...I transferred to another university and compared to my previous universities here the girls workout a lot (so it seemed to me) so I just decided hey why not, especially since the gym was directly behind my dorm! lol plus I was just tired of saying every year that I was going to lose weight, then i'd start and stop 3 weeks later smh. & my last reason is because of my 21st bday! I don't wanna be fat all through my twenties

CountryMom03

My moment was when one day I was shaving my legs and realized that I no longer could shave or get to my upper thigh area because of all my flab and rolls on my stomach. I would try to smush in the fat or push it off to the side so I could see but it just didnt work:( I cried! Thats when I knew that somehow I had to change, I had to loose weight one way or another.

Aljn27

When I went to my doctor's appointment and the scale was getting to a higher three digit number. I recieved a print out with my discharge paperworks on weight loss and realized that I could eat better and with the help of MFP I am over 30 pounds down.

mkrainville7409

Last year I went to a theme park last year the restraints were so tight... i almost didnt fit


however - it was an older ride - and smaller seats. but I love coasters... it scared me that I would be one of those people that they would have to tell me "your to big to ride"

Qskim

Alot of reasons as has been posted but the one that has hurt the most was when I was asked if I was pregnant when I married husband... The inference being that it must have been something drastic for him to marry me. I'd love to c that woman now. The best thing tho is that I am doing it for myself now, not hubby (who is supportive) and not people like her and there has been a few. Now they c me and they shocked n I make it clear I don't hav time for them n don't care for their compliments either. I know who my true friends are...they were there b4 this journey and still are cheering me on.

MalissaDC

I'm not sure I had one "aha". I have been overweight since I was 6 and have worked on losing weight my whole life--off and on--never really making much progress.

I had trouble buckling in the car--fitting between the steering wheel.
The summer before I got busy working on weight loss, I tried to ride an amusement park ride and couldn't fit--had to get off;0!
Seeing photos.
Feeling so yucky about myself.

Another big one--I am an advanced pianist and LOVE the piano but it got to the point that my body was in the way of playing;0. That was a horrible realization. Reaching up and down the keyboard or crossing hands in some pieces just got hard--my belly and boobs were in the way ;0!.

I still have weight to lose but my life is completely different now! So I'm thankful for all the little things that spurred me into action!

gaiareeves

One particular photo.
I didn't realise I'd let myself get so big again.
I'd been in denial about it until then.

JennyDee2012

Thank you all once again for posting your stories. Reaching into ourselves to see the diamond in the rough that we are and trusting as you take each cut more facets are coming out. Trusting in the end we will sparkle and shine with a brightness.
Keep on sharing collectively we are a bunch of precious gems.

momma2princesses

My moment came when I was talking to my 5 yr old. She was choked by an older boy in the top of the McDonalds play toys, and I asked her later why she didnt call for me. She looked at me lovingly, and said "Mommy, I knew you wouldnt fit " She was so sad for me, and I could tell she didnt want to make me feel bad.

Then, a month later, my daughters (5, 3, 1) were given a full sized trampoline...brand new. My youngest was in the middle and was crying because the older two were jumping her. I kneeled onto the trampoline fast to grab her, flopped onto the middle of the trampoline...and it broke.

I broke a trampoline. A 15 foot trampoline.

My husband was able to bend the bar back and get it back to normal (he is a machinist), but I will NEVER forget hearing my daughters telling my husband that I broke a freaking trampoline.

My oldest still says to me "Mommy, dont get on the trampoline with us this time...okay? You can be on it later after you get healthy!"

Breaking your childs favorite toy is all the push I needed.

I weighed 323 at my biggest...and I am never going back. I lost 18lbs in the first month. I went from being terrified to walk for 10 minutes, to being able to jog for seven straight minutes after a few weeks!

TheVimFuego

I took a year off work and couldn't fit into my trousers despite being in total control of everything I ate, exercising plenty and trying to 'eat healthy'.

That is when I started taking an interest in the science as opposed to magazine articles.

Simone_King

My moment was when I, or one of my moments, went white water rafting. I got thrown over by a rouge wave and stuck in the rapids. It was a scary moment but what's worse..is the fact that the guide had a hard time getting me back in the boat.

Yeah, it was clear that I need to lose weight. That and riding horses at 230 pounds isn't heathly either.

mikeyboy

Diabeties, high blood pressure, cancer. That is why I'm kicking butt trying to get fitter!

vade43113

hasn't happened yet... just here for the chicks



They are so hot here, and there are so many.

But in honesty, it was because my mom got really sick, and I wanted to help her. She passed away about a year ago, and well it was easier to continue than sit and do nothing....