What was your wake-up call?

I fell while running my Labrador Retriever in an agility trial. I tore up my knees pretty badly, and was also told that I had bone on bone arthritis in both knees. I was told I will need both knees replaced. While waiting for a bone bruise, sprained ACL/MCL and torn meniscus to heal, I was off from trialling for 5 months and I was miserable. I HAD to get back in that ring. Started seriously trying to lose weight and exercising on my elliptical. This past weekend, we were back in the ring and we were able to finish her fourth agility championship. My knees still hurt like the ****ens, but I wasn't even out of breath when we came across the finish line. I know I'll still need knee replacements, but I know all of that will come back all the stronger after my knee replacements.

On my 25th birthday I was living about 35 hours from home. As I hadn't seen my family in over a month I TRIED to take a birthday shot of me with me cake to send to my mom... and well... the pictures didn't survive. Every attempted was more horrifying than the last. It didn't matter how much I stuck out my chin or raised my crown, I had a GIANT double chin. I ended up taking one in the bathroom of me looking up into the sun... and I was ashamed. I felt like a liar sending them a fake picture that didn't portray me at all...
A couple of days later (about a week) it was still on my mind and I obviously needed more proof... So I thought, I know, I'll take a full body picture of myself naked. I wanted to really see me... surely it wasn't as bad as I had imagined... after a few hours of crying and searching the internet aimless I found MFP. I've now lost 23lbs and have been going strong ever since. I actually just had my student card picture taken, no tricks were necessary!

I got a doctor's report after my phyical exam informing me that I am pre diabetic. Although I am overweight, I have always been active and healthy and do not take any meds for anything. I want to keep it that way.

Every time I heard a wake-up call, I hit snooze.

Clothes getting too tight? They must have shrunk in the wash.

Not being as thing as I was? What did I expect? I was getting older.

Being out of breath for an hour after running a quarter of a mile when the dog escaped? Just cold weather asthma.

Going to my high school reunion weighing more than I ever weighed before? So what? I still look good.



Then I found out about the Warrior Dash, and wanted to climb walls, crawl through mud, and jump fire, and here I am.

when i was 3 pounds away from a number i NEVER wanted to reach....and now i am 53 lbs away from that number

Two weeks ago.... I work on the second floor in my building and I was working on a project that required me to go from my office to the basement and back again throughout the day. So, up and down two flights of stairs. And.... I took the elevator. Because I couldn't face huffing and puffing up two flights.
I joined MFP the next day.

1st tummy over lapped pants when sitting and just barley below the overweight line for my height Febuary 2011 stepped onto scale and realized I was close to being overweight.

2nd People and friends making comments about my cloths and hinting at weight (not like they said I was fat or anything but they made me feel unconformable about my appearance on a number of levels, started April 2011 and was a major influence in June and July of 2011

3rd started comparing myself to other people and friends and seeing how thin they were in pictures and being around really them on Weekends (when I tend to eat more) and bigger people during the week made me semiconscious. So I started dieting in February of 2011 which was majorly influenced by #2.

So here I am thinner but I still compare myself to thin people and still don't feel thin enough.

My friend and I were in San Diego for a weekend get-a-way and we decided to treat ourselves to a specidl visit to the zoo. We wanted to ride the Segways and feed the animals. It sounded amazing and I had the extra cash for it!

Unfortunately, a Segway can only hold so much weight before it can no longer roll...

250 lb MAX

I weighed 267.

My friend didn't get to go on the tour because my chunky @ss exceeded the weight limit.

Unacceptable.

That Monday I began using MFP and have lost 32 lbs in 6 months. :bigsmile: I can Segway all night long now, baby!

"They see me rollin'...they hatin'..." :laugh:

Looking down past my boobs at my belly sticking out. The number on the scale. After having lost so much weight, I was yet again above 300, which made me just sick to my stomach. Realizing they weren't all just bad pictures, I really did look that terrible. Having a closet full of clothes and nothing to wear because in a few months time I had 'outgrown' it all. Realizing I no longer wanted to go ANYWHERE because I felt and looked so much bigger then everyone else, and it was just too embarrassing. I suppose I have no one defining moment. Just an overwhelming buildup of 'I can't keep living like this'.

As I saw my 60th birthday on the horizon, i got very depressed and my weight bloomed up to 230 pounds. I was depressed because the things I thought I'd do "someday" have turned into things I admit I'll never do.
My wake up call was wearing a size 20 mother-of-the-bride dress to my youngest daughter's wedding. I still have one of the photos posted on my "frige, to remind me not to go there again.
I got over my depression by accepting life as it is and moving on. OK, I won't do the stuff I'd hoped, I can choose other stuff.
Losing weight and getting active helped beat my depression. I'm a happy 62 now, 66 pounds lighter, and very active, (especially in Jazzercise). I retired in April and I'm loving it.