What was your "fat" breaking point?

camrunner

I ate a footlong Blimpie sub, a bag of chips and a big soda. Not an exceptionally large meal for me at the time, but for some reason I felt really awful. I hadn't even been considering dieting up to that point (obviously) but the very next day I started.

MyM0wM0w

I had a stroke from uncontrolled hypertension. I had 6 days paralyzed in ICU to think about how I got there. Of course they also found diabetes.

I realized I was killing myself and had almost finished the job.

TraceAT

I didn't used to weigh myself very often. Then when I did, I nearly had a heart attack when I realised I was heavier than my partner who is a foot taller than me! He usually weighs himself often and I knew I was close but NOT that close.....OMG!

megalin9

It's in my profile, but my breaking point was seeing pictures of my friends on Facebook running the Tough Mudder. I was missing out and insanely jealous of them, and it just made me think about other things I was missing out on. Before that, I had looked in the mirror and hated what I saw, but it was never enough to make me change. One excuse after another. Something about those Tough Mudder photos really ignited something in me. I was hoping to be ready for it this year, but I'm going to start with a Mud Run instead and do the Tough Mudder in 2013!

MaryO1216

I kept seeing myself in pictures and asking"Who is that fatty?" Also, menopause has been kicking my butt- gaining weight under my bra straps was not pretty-

corrinnebrown

When I had a gut...always had big thighs, learned to live with that but when I actually got a gut I realized that I need to start working out. My waist has always been small.

caseygotgoals

When my best friends came to visit this summer and I realized, "wow, I'm the only fat person in this group." Then I revived P90X and decided to do as many rounds as possible and eventually maintain a healthy weight and lifestyle.

DaleenvanSchalkwyk

An Zimbabwean Lady at our Church came to me after church and said " Hey mamma, Your getting fat now... You are not running right now, are you?" I could not believe my ears... should i be offended or thankful...(after the shock) I knew then its now or never... I think more people saw it they just did not have the courage to say anything...

aml7880

being diagnosed with psuedo-tumor and being told that I had already lost 5-10% of my eyesight

Italianyc84

When I realized that I was distancing myself from certain friends because I didn't want them to see how fat I had gotten. There are some people I haven't seen in YEARS because of this. Vain, I know, but it is what it is! I was an actor and people always complimented my figure; I just couldn't let people see how I had let myself go. That, and suddenly realizing that I'm getting closer to 30 and it will be harder to lose weight the older I get, and that I really wanted to be healthy and active in my older years!

PinkEnvyx

When my Dr told me my cholesterol was high and my glucose was low. I was only 138 lbs and running Triathlons?
Only think that made since was to lose fat.

ashlinmarie

I went to visit my brother after Basic Training. I knew I'd put on some weight, but not to the point I was at. I saw myself in pictures and they were HIDEOUS! Not only did I look fat but I kept trying to suck in my neck and chin and cheeks so I was making awful faces in almost all the pictures. Worst part was, my mom FRAMED some of them and put them around the house. I was MORTIFIED!

I started eating better and cut out junk food and probably lost a few pounds but when I joined a gym and saw my weight was 195, I thanked every diety out there that I never saw the 2 at the beginning of the number that I'm sure was there.

Sarah_Wins

Making the poor guy on the plane next to me miserable for an 8 hr international flight. That was it, I was not going to be a fat *kitten* anymore!

Kelley528

When I saw pics of myself at a birthday party and my face looked like the thing that swallowed Kelley. I felt like I didnt even look like me anymore. It wasnt until I saw those pics that i realised how much weight I gained. I never saw it when I looked at myself in the mirror. I took a camera to show me.

Now i love the way my face looks in pics. I saw myself on video 4 weeks ago and I literally didnt even recognize myself until the camera showed my face and was like, OMG, thats me? !

DoomCakes

My breaking point hit me several times before I actually accepted it as I need to do something. Each time was with the same group of friends. We would go to the mall, they would go into stores, they would try on cute clothes and dresses (they're not size zero's, a bit chubby, but they can fit into the Large and XL's) and I was just left watching. The ONLY thing I could do on that trip, was enjoy a shake from Godiva with them.

Another trip we went to Victoria's Secret, they all could buy something... me... again, left with just a book as clearly that has no weight limits.

And then recently, my friends doing the mud run. I don't think she wanted to ask me at first because of my weight, but I guess my dad told her I was working hard because I was going to do it, with or with out a team. So the mud run was my challenge, and even after that, I'm going to keep on going because I don't want to be "that fat friend" anymore. I want to be the cute girl that can go out shopping and people take with them because of my personality. Not as a means to make them feel better about their appearance.

jdploki70

44 inch waist did it for me. My wife bought me pants with a 44" waist, and I just looked at them and thought "wow, these are fricken huge". When they fit, I couldn't think anything but that I was fricken huge by associations. I'm now down to a 34 inch waist. Way better for the ego.

It_never_ends

I was 15 and 180 pounds. I was the fattest of my friends and felt awful. I had zero self esteem.

raven3lise

When I went shopping for the first time in two years and saw how horrible everything looked on me, no matter where I went.

GreekByMarriage

When I realized that my 6'1" husband weighed less than I do (I am 5'2") He is now only about 3 pounds less than me! I will get there sooner rather than later :-)

FungusTrooper

Getting married. Something, or rather someone to actually live for. I don't mean that in a dramatic way, it's just it's something that I actually want to live 'til 100 for, rather than enjoy life 100% until 50 then die. I'd prefer to work at it now then maintain for the rest of my life just so that "rest of my life" will be as long as possible.

imchicbad

when i got sick n tired of being fat, sick , and tired:grumble:

tndieter

When the doctor told my 16 year old that he was killing himself with his eating habits. He put him on a strict diet (which didn't last too long). I decided that I needed to be an example for him.

Also, I turned 50 and want to prolong my life by living healthier. I had cancer 5 years ago and I'm still working to get back to the same health I was at that time. I now have Osteoparosis and for the past 3 years, all the treatment plans I've been on have improved my bone mass only slightly. It's so scarey to think I could break my hip or injure my spine and not be able to work.

It's time to take control! I only have one life and one body...

abadaba

I saw a photo of myself and I was shocked! I had problems with mirrors all my life, so I don't think I really ever saw myself, and it scared me! I already had the MFP app, but wasn't using it, and on January 23, I took stock of my life and decided that I did want to live (was suffering from major depression).

Every day, it's baby steps as I learn how to eat "normally" and am still getting used to regular exercise.

momma2kas

I've recently realized I have become a jealous person. Why? Because I am unhappy with myself and I'm the only one who can change that.

ahviendha

When I had ugly red stretch marks on the backs of my legs and around my armpits...I'd NEVER had stretchmarks anywhere but my breasts...a real wakeup call.

Also I was depressed and unhappy! I never wanted to go out and never felt cute or confident.

dawnp1833

The weekend both of my parents, my grandmother and my brother in law were all in the hospital at the same time. My sister was with my brother in law, so I was rotating between parents and grandma (all at 3 different hospitals). And I realized that I don't have children to come visit me in the hospital and get my prescriptions filled and take care of everything when I'm older. I don't want to be at the mercy of a nursing home. So if I'm going to be independent as long as possible, I have to start eating healthy and exercising.
Also, since I've gotten so fat, the only thing going on in the bedroom is sleeping. So looking more sexy for my husband is definately a bonus.

softballsharie

I put on my boyfriend's shirt that I would always wear as a comfy pajama shirt, and it fit like a fitted one.

Now, it fits like a dress.

I always tell everyone that shirt saved me from myself. haha!

tanyaslosingit

I was unhappy with just about every aspect of my life and then, in a conversation with a friend who was in a very similar situation, I realized that I was putting too much responsibility for my happiness on others. My friend and I created this idea of "My Future Self' in which we envisioned what we wanted to look like or be doing in a couple of years and decided to start working towards those goals. Getting back into trim was one of those goals! My vision of My Future Self does NOT include being house-bound or wheelchair-bound or worst, coffin-bound. I imagine being wearing a vintage Chanel suit (size 6!) at her graduation, adjusting her wedding veil, playing with my grandchildren... I just cannot afford to go back to looking and feeling like crap, especially when it is in my power to change my circumstances :-)

risak

I got engaged and didn't want to hate all my wedding pictures. I also hated looking in the mirror so the wedding was the motivation I had been looking for for years.

holmesp603

Good question!! For me - I had to have a knee replacement at a way to early age - & it was beyond the most painful experience that I have ever had!!! And after being blessed with an excellent therapist who refused to allow me to give up - espcecially because of my age - I came thru w/flying colors!!!! And then on my last follow up visit w/dr - he said - "you know that if you dont lose some serious weight u will only see minimal results...But few can honestly lose it and keep it off - so it is what it is!!""
I left there determined to prove him wrong - because no way did I just go thru all of that excrutiating pain.. just to be told that!!!
Well thanks be to GOD that I made a "lifestyle change" and not a diet - it took a whole year before the weight started coming off and its been 4 years since the surgery and Im maintaining the 65 pounds I lost and would really like to lose 20 or so more!!!
I am finding out that maintaining/losing is even harder than the initial weight loss - But still I rise!!!! Thanks for the reminder of my journey and my "continued" lifestyle change!!!