What made you say ENOUGH! ?

keithmustloseweight

I don't want to be associated with people like this

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/23/pictures_of_people_who_mock_me/?upw

metacognition

I realized that I didn't really have a life ahead of me at my old size. I felt tired and run down all the time. I felt physically disgusting, almost like body dysmorphia. My "social time" involved playing World of Warcraft on my computer. Men my own age frightened the hell out of me. I had crippling shyness and self-doubt, and could not even go out of my house and say hello to someone without feeling very uncomfortable about it - doesn't matter if the person is old, young, ugly, or pretty. I felt inferior to them, and I don't know why. I can only describe my old state of mind as self-loathing on a pathological scale. Most people don't have those feelings when they are big, but I did. If someone can love themselves at any size, more power to them. But I can't. Being the only child in gymnastics class with a pot belly, the only girl at a pool party without a swimsuit, the only teen at prom without a date really takes its toll.

Thank God that's over.
I'm fit.
I'm thin.
I have muscle.
I don't have to worry about this **** anymore.
Everything's good. Blood test results are normal. Even when everything's not good, I know how to not gain weight.
For someone who thought being obese is genetic and permanent and some kind of ugly curse, this was revolutionary for me.

Today if I want something, I just go for it.
Everything worth having is worth working for.
It's not worth being embarrassed around anyone.
My shyness is 90% gone. Not even dating brings it out anymore. I don't know if it's some biochemical response to exercise, improved nutrition, or simple confidence from getting svelte, but how can I go back to a half life of misery when there are so many other options available to me?

meggyshae

I was always over 200 lbs my entire 20's (I'm 27 now)...every year I would put on another 15-20 lbs. Last September my aunt came to visit. She has lost over 180 lbs on her own and kept it off for decades. I woke up one day and went to her and for the first time in my life admitted that I had a serious problem...tipping the scales at 281 lbs. I was crying and absolutely MISERABLE...it took everything out of me to even leave the house to go to the store. I didn't want to be in public because I was ashamed of myself. The moment I decided enough was enough...was the moment I truly changed and have not stopped fighting for my health and happiness!

I wish you all the best of luck! It isn't easy..but it's SO worth it!!!

IreneAdler221

I saw a photo of myself and thought, "Holy *kitten*."

Joined MFP within that week.

Same here. I think I was in denial of how big I had become until I saw a picture of myself.

akp4Him

I'd had enough when we had a family reunion. I saw the pictures and I looked like a beached whale. Nothing looked good on me...I might as well have been wearing a tent. I felt awful. Enough was enough!! I was getting to the point that a size 26 felt tight around my hips. A few months ago my daughters showed me the picture. Now I just feel sorry for that person. I keep that picture to remind me to keep moving and keep logging!!!

Ke22yB

May 22 2008 was not feeling well all day but wasn't sure why took my BP 220/110 was afraid Dr might hospitalize me but was also afraid might have a stroke so that was day 1 . I stopped drinking that day after years of almost a pint of gin a day. First few weeks lost a lot of fluid pressure going down feeling better starting to walk half a block a day and just kept going from there
May 19 2013 going out to CA. and going to run my first 10K at age 65 with my daughter people say what a difference a day makes well not a day its now 5 years and I will be approaching half my body weight gone by this summer
I can do it so can you regain your lives have some fun

yanniejannie

Stepped on the scale at the drs. and realized I was almost at the point where I was 8 yrs. ago before I lost weight the first time.

LRH64

The first time was after my daughter's 12th birthday. I saw a video of myself and couldn't believeit. I was livivg in elastic waist pants and baggy ****s. I was at 183 which was heavier than either time I was pregnant. But that wasn't even the "moment" I said Enough. I brgan having terrible headaches, worse than my "normal" migraines with spots of blurriness in my vision. I had to go thrugh a spinal tap to rule out menigitis. I was ultimately diagnosed with a pseudotumor on my optic nerve and told I needed to lose 10% of my body weight to make sure the symptoms went away and stayed away.
I went on WW with my mother. It took me a year to reach my goal weight of 150. Because of the medications I am on I set my goal on the high end of the acceptable range for my height. I was able to keep the weight off for 3 years. Then I stsrted TKD and lost another 10 lbs.
My second time was in the fall of 2011. I was at a baseball game with my husband. The game went into extra innings and all I could think about was how tight my jeans were. The next day I weighed mysel and I was up over 150. I knew I had to do somethig to stop the slide. I decided to write down whst I ate and found MFP went looking for a calorie data base. I set my first goal at 140 but liked MFP and the support I was getting so I decided to challenge myself to lose 15 pounds for a goal of 135. I made that goal within 6 months of starting (took advantage of exercise "points"). I went on maintenance and did ok until this fall when I started to slide again, but I am working through it. Only 3 more lbs to go!!!.