What was your "fat" breaking point?
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When my ex wife cheated on me and I divorced her.0
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if you insist.......after i did shrooms absolutely every thing changed. which included being healthy
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honestly it was after plenty of years of depression and self abuse, I felt just so betrayed,a social outcast, some kind of ****ed up villain in this world of ours, I was filled with rage and misery it was just maddening I was waiting to die. Everyday I felt the same and if I ever was happy the brief moment vanished in the ocean of societies pressure to make me into their slave.
So...............
One day I tried shrooms didn't have 1g or 3g...but 10grams of shrooms om nom nom.
evan tried putting it on pizza lol didn't taste good kinda like dirty feet, anyways I had a revelation, Tripping complete balls sitting at dinner with my family( I have no idea how they didnt notice me completely high on magic mushrooms but hey that's a family for yeah, they don't notice anything anyways their neglectful)
And I went to the bathroom and started crying and crying and crying and I asked myself " are you happy " and I said " No, this isnt right its dysfunctional its unbalanced its not my life!"
Within 2 weeks I left home the day before my 16th birthday without telling a soal, without saying goodbye to mom or daddy,without a note-**** that wasn't going to be my life anymore. I took a plane to BC and was homeless about 6 months, I had nothing but managed to still be happy i was away and i was restarting, i spent most my time in the nature hanging out with trees and animals feeling good doing nothing not having to rely on attention from others or anyone's approval needing nothing and that's all i needed. I started to care about my health I had ideas and dreams I wanted to live I wanted to create the life I wanted not the one being shoved down my throat by media,my parents,peers,and all these so called authority figures. I wanted to be me and happy and I wanted to see magic around me and be friends with it. I worked as a laborer and roofer and bought myself a van for 1000$ i lived out my van for a few months parked outside the gym so I can shower and workout everyday. I wanted to be strong,healthy,balanced,something I could never be as a slave depressed and angry. Its something you have to decide and become its a firm confirmation no one can guide you through but yourself you need to take a confident leap out in to the world and the universe will respect that.
Now I am a very healthy individual and I'm almost always in a good mood, living in a beautiful loft with my boyfriend and pets making very adequate money working from home,tax free just like I pictured. You see your mind is very very powerful and it like all energy- vibrates. The whole universe is made up of energy and its consciousness that strings the energy together, like attracts like. Every thought in your head, is a prayer,and is the corner stone of your physical manifestations that you see as the world around you.
So basically you just need a reason to live and your confused ? Well the reason is just because you chose to be here that's why ,and as human beings we are made to create, and every thought you choose to express is a seed.... some grow beautiful flowers and some grow weeds what do you want your garden to look like? It's in your hands.
Wow! That's really beautiful! Thank you! Sorry about the sucky family. Apparently we choose our family before our birth to give us life's lessons.....not sure I like that belief, but then I'm certainly a stronger person through my experiences. Well done on coming so far and doing so amazingly!
I love everything that happened i am not a victim i am a warrior. I welcome any challenger including the invisible forces that want to suck us dry. at this point im the one trying to help my parents grow up,...their scared abused children still and need alot of love and support.0 -
wow. You're really inspirational :flowerforyou: I think this is the point everyone needs to come to, we have a choice to be victims, or to move on and grow and to make the world a better place through our experiences 0 -
When I took an honest look at myself in the mirror. I thought OMG I dont want to look like this anymore:embarassed: I hate having my pic taken. Its horrible I am soo ready to lose this weight.0
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When i looked in the mirror and my belly was blowing up like the pilsberry dough boy, i resented looking at my reflection on the computer, and the final photo that was sent to me by my father-in-law a few days after we returned from a vacation. I look the the Michelnman. I was at my heavist point in my life! no wonder I had trouble breathing going up stairs, hills or snoring when i slept. Ugly!!!0
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I was watching The Avengers, wondering why the hell I couldn't look like Scarlett Johansson. And then I really thought about it and was like, "Well, why the hell not?!" I decided that if you want something enough you just work your *kitten* off for it, so that's what I'm doing.0
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When I reached a weight of 2 kgs more than my mom's while being pregnant with me. We have similar bodys, so I believe it's relevant. I thought that's absurd. And I wondered how much more could I get when I hopefully get pregnant one day. I still wonder (e.g. I worry...) as I'm not done yet with fighting my apetite and with making really new eating habits...0
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I turned 65 and didn't want to be a fat old lady. It took me four more months to find MfP and realize i could stop the upward trend.0
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Eh... It's embarrassing to tell, lol. But I hit my breaking point when I was asked "When are you due?"
And was like, "Im not. I just got fat. Thanks."
It was probably just as awkward for them. Lol
But it doesn't matter if a woman is pregnant, or looks pregnant, or is obviously ready to pop.
You never, NEVER ask her that question, or anything of the sort. Unless she brings it up to you first.
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I hit my 'fat' breaking point when I realized that even though I'm not massive , my joints started to hurt. My gran suffers from osteoporosis and arthritis since her late thirties - big big warning sign to cut out the junk and emotional eating and regaining control- to me it's not just about having a good looking butt, but mainly about working on my health !0
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Was never fat to start with, but because i'm 19 years old and didn't want fit the stereotypes of lazy, unhealthy binge drinking, Fast food British youth that apparently plague our streets
So really I just want to give a big F you to the previous generation for labelling the youth like they have0 -
At Christmas when I barely fit into the bucket seats at the carnival..0
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I hadn't seen my favorite cousin in two years, She came and stayed with me on vacation and she told be about her struggle with weight. I had been struggling really hard over the past few years and gained a ton of weight. She told me what her weight was and it was pretty much the same as mine, we are about the same height. I finally realized just how big I had become. It's like my eye were tricking myself in the mirror to not see how heavy I really had gotten. I live 1000 miles from home, the next time I can afford a trip back, I want to go home proud of myself, not ashamed to let my family see what i've become. I am no longer a salad dodger. Slowly but surly its working and the weight is coming off. I won't forget how bad I felt when I finally hit my rock bottom.0
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I used to not care about my weight at all. I used to always weigh 125 pounds. Then I started college and got a boyfriend and didn't weigh myself for months. Then I decided to weigh myself for the hell of it. I'd gained 13 pounds. I freaked out and decided to lose the weight. Then I lost more.
Here I am, at 116 pounds and I still think I'm fat.0 -
when I walked up the stares and practically couldn't breath any more0
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I started getting stretchmarks on my stomach.
I already hate the ones I have on my thighs and hips, and I knew I was getting fat I just didn't want to believe it so the day I saw the stretchmarks on my stomach I started dieting.
I caught them early, they're not visible anymore.
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When the scale said more than 250 and i was embarrased about a picture i got tagged in on facebook!!0
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I want to look hot naked. Seriously though, realising that I would stay depressed unless I started achieving my goals.0
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I was bursting out of my size 16s and struggling to keep up with my daughter. I wasn't happy with myself so I decided to get fit and fabulous!!!0
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I realised that it's not rational to start thinking about ordering clothes from shops in another country because I couldn't find any clothes to fit me in my own!
Long legs and a huge *kitten* make shopping a bit tricky, but the solution is to make the *kitten* smaller, not spend £££'s on enormous clothes I'd have to have shipped internationally!0 -
By that I mean when did it finally hit you that no matter what you need to start dieting to make a life style change and to stick with it?
In July I landed in the hospital with a systemic bacterial infection that settled into infectious cellulitis and a raging UTI. It all checked out clear of MRSA but I had both staff and strep. It was nasty. Id never been so sick. I had toyed with losing weight for the last several months. Lord knows Id tried everything over the years and nothing "stuck"
After I got outta the hospital I had no appetite. I had been on so many antibiotics battling the infections that I was nauseous and dry heaving 20 minutes out of every 60 that I just didnt wanna eat.
THAT was the kick start I needed. Then I found MFP and started over here. Id been here about a year ago and lost my login so I hadda start over. Ive since signed in every day, dropped at least 35 pounds, am logging food faithfully and feel better than I have in years
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It finally hit me when my friend uploaded some pictures onto facebook from a night out we had been on and it was the first time i'd like seen myself as other people would see me in a long time and i was horrified!0
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when i got pregnant with my third 6months after my second and i still had 30lbs to lose from that pregnancy! i started light exercise during that pregnancy and actually lost body fat and only gained 2lbs so i was off to a good start when my daughter was born! i didnt want to look like a chunky mummy who didnt care about how i looked. i wanted people to think wow you cant have 3 kids haha!0
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I've always been a very large guy.....6'4".....built like a football lineman. Got on the scale and it was at 395. I swore I was NOT going to join the "400" club. Down to 340 with another 120 to go.0
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When i went to the doctor for flu last December and he ended up taking my blood pressure and telling me that it was borderline high, and that I have to go on regular meds pretty soon if I don't lose weight . That scared the hell out of me and I decided to do something about it.0
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I woke up on Sunday morning and thought "Right, time to get some weight off" and have been doing since then... Only a week and a half into it, but so far I am still in the right frame of mind to do it.
For me, it didn't matter what anybody else said, it was only at that point when my mindset was right that I have had the motivation to do it.
I hope that I am able to keep myself motivated to reach my first goal and then see how we go from there.0 -
I fell in love with a man I ant to spend my life with. I have 84lb to lose - but I am deted to losing it slowly, through a healthy lifestyle that will last forever, rather than a crash diet which isn't healthy.0
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a visit to coronary care two and a half years ago was the straw that broke the camel's back! 0
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I had put on forty pounds in medication weight over the course of about a year and a half, only one of about seven pairs of jeans I owned fit any more, and I took a research trip to Paris, France in May for two weeks. I walked a half hour one-way to the library every day of those two weeks and came back five pounds lighter, at 145. That was the initial kick I needed to start getting serious about logging meals and losing weight.
So far I am down 13 pounds since joining this site; a total of 18 pounds with the Paris weight loss factored in. Now I can fit into two out of seven pairs of jeans. I am looking forward to the day I can wear all my clothes again.0 -
I didn't lose the weight from my second baby like I did the first (he's 2 now!!) and I can't fit into most of my trousers and I can't afford to buy a new wardrobe of clothes...also seeing photos friends had taken of me made me realise how obvious it is that my clothes don't fit. As my face is still quite thin I think I had looked in the mirror and fooled myself but those photos made me look again properly and I didn't like what I saw.
Apart from the vanity aspect, I have two kids that I want to keep up with and be healthy for long term.0
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