What was your "fat" breaking point?

When my highest weight was 3 lbs MORE than I weighed the day I gave birth to my son. I weighed 212 pounds when my son was born, and that was including a LOT of fluid from blood pressure issues. At my highest, I weighed 215 about 15 months ago. It was embarassing, I was creeping into size 18 jeans, and I had resorted to baggy t-shirts and stretchy pants to hide my expanding wasitline. I never liked what I saw in pictures, and I couldn't find a "good" angle to hide the unhealthy blob I had become. My husband left for six months (he's military) and I had to do something. After losing weight slowly on weight watchers last year, I decided to approach this with a lot more energy, and put in the blood, sweat, and tears.

I've lost 30 pounds since then.

Several things happened at once:

My son went to college and I suddenly realized I had a lot of personal time. I booked a trip for my husband and I to Puerto Rico and I am scared the seat belt won't fit on the plane. I finally weaned myself off of taking nerve pills every day for the past 15 years. I had crazy energy and felt great, although I hurt all over now.

No excuse to not take care of myself now.

Had a big weekend, spent the Saturday in the pub having massive burgers, drank all evening and stayed in bed with a pizza all day the next day. Got up the next morning, fell over the (giant) pizza box on the way to get dressed and realised that the clothes I'd bought the previous summer when I was already horrified that I couldn't buy anything that fit and didn't make me look fat wouldn't fasten.

Something just snapped and I got the app and started recording everything the next day.

Ive had several.

Lost my sister in 98 to a car accident. I had to move to FL. No friends so I turned to food for comfort. Within 2-3 years I was in plus sized clothes just out of my teens. Bounced back and forth with the same 10-15lbs for several years.

Spent 9 years with a man who had the metabolism of light speed. I blindly ate what he ate and suffered. Couldn't break away from it to start the struggle again.

Have gained medical problems that the weight has contributed to as well as my self esteem and depression. Being ridiculed by men on dating sites for my weight.

And the final was having cousins and nieces and nephews that i cant keep up with. I'm in my early 30's and damn it I shouldn't be out of breath when playing with them. This time I'm ready to make the change, Ive cut out soda, fast foods, extra sodium and Ive made the effort to log my food as I now realize how extremely important it is.

When I couldn't outrun my 7 year old while playing tag with him. That made me take a good hard look at myself and the direction I was headed, and I didn't like it at all. Now I can run circles around him!

That was 2.5 years ago, and I'm never going back to being like that!

Sadly after i got cheated on..... and now everytime i go to the gym it burns in the back of my mind.... so far 70lbs down and i have a hard time keeping the ladies away

When I was sitting on a cheap IKEA chair at a friend's house and it broke, dumping me on the floor in front of a roomful of people. Yes, the chairs were crap, and badly put together, but it was MY chair that collapsed. I started working out the next day.

When the doctor told me I have high blood pressure and would have to take medication for the rest of my life.

Recently saw a photo of myself on FB that is just terribly unflattering and embarrassing. On top of the fact that I am pale because my skin never saw the summer sun, it's a mess! Saggy boobs (despite a good bra), cankles, double chin, huge arms. And let me assure you -- I removed that tag pronto!

It is amazing how the mind allows us to see what we want to when we look in the mirror. I never understood how an underweight person who suffers from an eating disorder could look in the mirror and see someone who is gross, fat, overweight, disgusting, etc. Well, it's the same way an overweight person can look in the mirror and see someone who is chunky or a little pudgy and think to herself, "it's not that bad."

Other little things: fear of flying because I am afraid I won't fit in the seat (in fact, I know I would require a seat belt extender), having trouble sliding in and out of restaurant booths, worrying about sitting in a chair that looks "questionable", worrying that a child will call me out, dreading the swimming pool.

I have two moments: The first one might be gross but here it is anyway, I was having a hard time wiping and cleaning my butt because I could not reach it :embarassed: and the other one was getting on the scale and I was 12 pounds from 300lbs. The only pants that fit were the stretch kind and even those were busting at the seams.

I knew that it was time to make a change and I was about to buy into another lose weight fast scheme and someone made a comment and talked about MFP and I came to the site and knew that I was home. Even though it has taken me 6 months to really get serious, I am serious now because of all of you. Thanks to the entire MFP family. Happy Losing.........:flowerforyou:

The first time was when I would eat a whole bag of miniature sized peanut butter cups in one sitting almost every night. That was before I lost the 100 lbs. The second time which was recently was when someone I used to work with almost a year ago told me twice in the same conversation that I was gaining weight.

I had to buy a new pair of work pants an they were getting tight and no more than 3/4 weeks later I needed another pair..

That was it for me I know then and decided I needed to get the weight off...

I then went to lost 3.5st and was at my lightest and happyest for about 12 month.

Then I met my Fiancee and with contemptment, Although I am still very happy I have put back on about 1.5st of the 3.5 I lost.

I am getting married next July and am 100% going to get back to how I was when I met me fiancee :drinker:

I was mentioning to a couple of friends of how much I admire their ability to get up at 5am to go to the gym many mornings that I could NEVER do that. They told me I just had to want it bad enough. That's when I decided, no more excuses, lets get this done!

When I bought clothes online and discovered that XXL was too small That was a very sad discovery. I kept the clothes anyway: now they're part of my short-term goal!

Being in the Air Force, we have PT tests twice a year (once a year if you score above a 90--which I have NEVER done!). I have failed more tests than I have passed and it was this last one that I failed when I really woke up. I don't know what it was, but this one hit me really hard. I am now determined to not only lose the weight, but to score at least an 85 on my next test!