That "Revelation" Moment

muziclver

I'm just curious to see what one moment made you realize "I need to fix my diet" or "I HAVE to get this weight off", or even "I MUST get healthy quick!". What was your revelation moment that made you decide you had to make a drastic change in your life style?


For me, the major realization came when I had to move a size up to 16. I had been a 13 for as long as I could remember. Then senior year in high school I somehow managed to squeeze myself into 11 size jeans. I was in denial for a while trying to force myself into those 13's and when I finally gave up and bought 16's I told myself this just has to stop.

crazybookworm

It was a Christmas Photo taken in December of 2010. At the moment, the photo ruined and absolutely crushed me. Now, I am forever grateful for it! It got my butt into gear, and ultimately changed my life!

VasylP

That "revelation" or "epiphany" as a personal friend who is a personal trainer calls it, was when I had a hard time tying up my shoe laces and had to sit down and lift my leg up to tie them. I still out of habit do that but it is no longer a necessity.

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JessicaOnKeto

It was a number of different moments that set me in motion really...
-I noticed that my boyfriend was putting my socks/shoes on for me, since I couldn't bend over and touch my toes.
-My little cousin drew a picture of me with her, and drew a circle for my body, and she said "this is your big tummy!"
-My grandma/mom and others asked me if I was expecting...
-My size 24 jeans were getting tight. (Since then I now fit into a size 20, comfortably and can squeeze into a size 18 :drinker:
-My doctor threatened to take me off birth control since I was too heavy. (That scared me!) :embarassed:
-My boyfriend and I had a huge fight which included him pointing out that I kept saying I wanted to lose weight and get healthier and did nothing about it. (Which was absolutely true) :frown:
-And just taking my life day after day, feeling lethargic, with no energy, feeling out of breath when walking through wal-mart and feeling horrible about my looks.
-And lastly, being 22 years old, and not living my life to it's fullest potential I know I can achieve.

I'm turning it around day by day though :happy: :drinker:

muziclver

Wow those are some real tough reasons. I know a big thing for me also was seeing my little cousins (like my little sisters to me) they are soooo gorgeous and real skinny. It makes me jealous, but at the same time they look up to ME and I just want to be a better role model in that way as well.

muziclver

Bump! Come on, I know we aren't the only ones with that moment.

msvsbarbie

For me, I always struggled with my weight (never been overweight= never over 133 pounds at 5'5ft but have had very high body fat percentage my entire life-around 28%) and no matter how many times I would diet and crash diet and attempt to exercise nothing ever pushed me as hard to be healthy than my wedding. I have my wedding coming up in June to the most incredible man in the world and my honeymoon in July and why my wedding really mattered, even though he loves me just the way I am, is I didn't want to feel insecure or ugly on our wedding nor our honeymoon because the most special day in the world should never be taken over by insecurities. I've been working my butt of for 3 fulls weeks and soon to be 4 on Monday and have seen great results. I got rid of my scale and now I purely measure my level of happiness by what I see on the mirror not a number on a board.

ContraryMaryMary

When I hopped on the scale and it said 81 kilos. I knew I'd always been bigger but I'd never really been fat. That was a horrible and completely unexpected shock.

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DebbieLyn63

My Mom died from Diabetes in June, 3 weeks before my first grand daughter was born.. I vowed I would see my great-grandchildren, and wouldn't put my family thru watching my die from a preventable disease.
On a less dark note, I turned 49 the day I started on here, and was determined not to be an obese 50 yr old.

taigatoo

Looking at the vacation pictures taken during a trip to Las Vegas and remembering being offered a seat belt extension on a sightseeing plane.

tracieangeletti

After I got married and had my new driver's license picture taken. My face looked HUGE. Like a chipmunk with it's cheeks FULL of nuts. I was MORTIFIED. Truly. I knew that I wasn't happy or proud with the way I looked at all. Changes had to be made!! BEST THING I HAVE EVER DONE FOR MYSELF!! :-)

emilyc85

I have always topped out at 160 pounds, always, no matter what I ate I always stayed at 160 pounds. Until recently... I don't know what changed but I missed 170 completely, I was 180s, then 190s and I figured I would just hover there.. Nope. I then topped the scales at 212 and I was HORRIFIED! I realize what made me start eating was I was unhappy in a relationship I had been in, then I got a third shift job (11pm-7am) and I ate LOADS of sugar and drank LOTS of pop to stay awake, and when when I quite the job because I got married and moved away from it, I continued those eating habits. At least at the job I was walking 8 up to 25 miles a night (and no I am not exaggerating, me and another gal figured out all the routes we walked once), but then when I quit I was not getting ANY exercise and gained 25 or so pounds VERY rapidly, like in 2 months. So, I had a doctors appointment and it was HIGHLY recommended that I lose weight, my cholesterol is bad, my blood pressure was coming up, and I was at risk for a couple of other things. And I knew that the doc had been right. I had let things spiral out of control and I needed to figure **** out So, I started logging on here again.. I have only lost 14 pounds, but it is a step in the right direction and I am in ONE-derland again!!!

Good luck to everyone in their fitness goals!!

applekoko19

I had my major revelation on the 25th of November 2011 at 210lbs (I'm 5'4), my mum put me on a diet, she said I needed to do it. I had to wear shirts for work that were 4 sizes bigger than my normal weight size. I thought that they were just making the work shirts a really tight fit!! So after that I lost like 60lbs in around 4 months and thought I was amazing Actually I was pretty amazing
BUT I let 20lbs creep back on since November of last year. I threw away all of my 'big' work shirts and just kept the size 12 ones... the other day I realised that i was bringing safety pins to work everyday to stop my shirts from opening so This is day 1 all over again!!

nomoredoughnuts

My boyfriend's housemate was saying that I am fat to his friends. My boyfriend told me during a conversation about my weight, not realising how much it would hurt me. I new I had put on weight but it was due to a number of things and I wanted to lose weight but wasn't trying hard enough. His friend just gave me the biggest push. I also realised that my boobs where officially touching my tummy rolls.

Asterie

Instead of sharing clothes with my sister, I was at a point where I could share clothes with my mom--went from XS/S to a L. Basically all of my clothes were rendered useless, especially the jeans. Plus I was tired of hiding parts of my body behind someone else in pictures. AND there was another point where I weighed just a little less than my boyfriend--and he's 5'10" (versus my 5'3")!

ETA: Also, my lower back was constantly in pain from how big my tummy had gotten, and my boobs were always sore, too.

smichelle65

Last year, when I started carrying paper towels in my purse because I needed to wipe off the sweat that was pouring down my face after walking for three minutes. Uncomfortable (but nice) cashiers would ask me if it was warm outside (it wasn't--sometimes it'd even be raining!). Also, at 47, I realized that I basically "sat out" the first half of my life due to my weight. But mostly it was the scary physical symptoms that started occurring with increasing frequency: heart palpitations, sleep apnea, nightly headaches, and very scary, sudden stabbing pains in my eye. I was basically a mess last year.

BonjourLamour

Being told that I was no longer at a healthy weight to be on the pill. I never weigh myself, so I had no idea that I had gained 50lbs. I knew I was getting fatter, but I just didn't realize how much by, and what kind of effect it was going to have in my health. I was so shocked, but the nurse was so nice to me about it, I really want to makeher proud when I go in for my next check up

gracielynn1011

Having my niece look at me and say "There must be another baby in your tummy, cause its big and fat." I thought I was doing so well, until I really looked at myself that evening. I wanted to cry and scream and pull my hair out, instead I came here.

blisser99

My moment... Or moments... Is say are as follows

- Seeing photos of myself
- getting angry at the scale reading 210lbs
- little kids asking me when I was going to have my baby (is say.. I'm not pregnant. I just really like beer.)
- not being able to find jeans that fit me for work.
- my terrible muffin top hanging over my too small jeans.
- jealousy of other ladies around my age "having it all"

That pretty much sums it up.

CherryOnionKiss

When I realized I was so out of shape that having sex gave me an asthma attack

twinston11

Two realizations that lead me to change. The first was me realizing i only took pictures of my face because i as ashamed of my body. The second was when the doctor put me on high blood pressure and diabetic medications. I knew i had to do something!

MallorieGreiner

I've had two! One when I reached my highest weight back in April of 2012. Jumped on the scale and had never seen or even thought I was that bad. I knew I had to make a change. From then until the beginning of this year, I did yo-yo dieting. At the beginning of this year, I told myself enough was enough. Permanent lifestyle change of better eating, tracking calories, and regularly exercising to better my bod and health so I don't ever go back.

jessichri

I had several that I just kept ignoring..

-I went to the gyno and got weighed and it was a good 60 pounds over what it was when I moved to florida *under three years ago*
-I stopped even trying to fit into my jeans. They were so tight I switched to dress slacks (for work) that soon become dressy looking pajama pants.
-I looked at pictures I took from my last two vacations back home. The first only had like 4 pictures of me and they all needed deleted (because I couldn't stand how fat I was). The second vacation, that I spent mostly with my dad and 5 year old brother, had no pictures of me. So none of me and my brother at 5. That is one photo op I'm never getting back.
-Finally...I hate looking in the mirror. I can't stand that fat face looking back at me. Its not my face!!!

So thus the revelation... and only two weeks in and I feel so much better about myself. I might not have reached any real goals yet, but I started and its already a habit to eat better and work out and that's 90% of the battle.

Griffin220x

One day I put my skinny jeans on they were tight. 6 months later I put those same skinny jeans on and they're still tight...

My legs are nothing but hard lean muscle. Goal Achieved!

ChrissyC1985

looking at a picture of myself that was not taken very long ago- i had ballooned, i didn't realize at the time but looking back on the picture now i barely recognize myself in it. i have also accepted that i have yo-yoed far too much over the last few years and now is the time to stop that and make changes for the long-term future.

linsey0689

When my size 22 were getting tight. And about a year ago my weight went up to 295 and I didn't want to hit the 300s so I made a change. On 1/20/13 I joined this site at 285 and have already dropped 25 pounds , still have a long way to go but so far so good.

Anyone feel free to add me, always looking for active friends

tomcornhole

I wouldn't call it a moment, per se, but my buddy from the Navy hired me and after 3 years of him telling me I was fat, I decided to show him. Still 10 lbs from showing him, but I'm going to. He's an iron man kindof guy, so he is very fit.

wisebuys

the day i fell off a two step ladder, hit my head into a block wall, went to the ER and was weighed in at 295! WOW 295! I swore to myself I would shape up.
I should mention I have 2 hips replaced and falling is my biggest fear, especially with my husband unable to help since he had a stroke.
I must stay mobile or our entire life becomes a MESS.
This site has been a lifesaver. Since joining in Jan'13, I am back to swimming regularly and eating much better since I am able to easily track my eating habits.
The only regret I have is that I didn't know of this site earlier.
ALL THE BEST to You'all!!! Add me as a friend if you like.

MrsElguapo

Mine was when I recently saw a picture of me at Christmas several years ago-I was the same size as I am now and I honestly didn't even recongize myself. The way I saw myself and what I really looked like were two completely different things. It was mortifying.

msagrero08

I've had so many moments like these... Moments that make me break into tears. But it wasn't until I went to visit my mothers grave site last month to see her thumbstone because it had barely arrived, that i realized I still needed mom so much. It made me think, that my girls too would need me when they are my age,24. My mother passed away at age 45, this february the day after my birthday from kidney failure due to diabetes and other preventable diseases. She was never obese but her eating habits where not the best, wich caused her to get diabetes, high cholesterol and much more. I want to be around my girls for so many years to come. I know you can't prevent everything, but I will not make it easier for any if those darn health problems to put me down! I'm doing this for my girls and then me.