What was your moment of "enough is enough"?

My moment was in June. My bf and i went to a resort for our 2 year anniversary and they ahve an indoor water park. i made excuses to not even go and swim or go on all the cool slides because i knew i would not look good in a bathing suit. that same weekend my bf took a picture of me standing in the hallway of the condo and once i saw it i about died!! i felt so ashamed that i was literally SO wide!! i oculdnt believe that thats how i truly look from another persons persepective.

all in all i just decided im sick of having to wear layers of shirts (the lacy kind), im sick of not being able to wear shorts and skirts during the summer, feeling super self-conscoius when we go on my parents boat, and quite frankly i feel incredibly unattractive in the bedroom, if you catch my drift.

i am doing this to better ME!!!

think about this: how long do you enjoy that naughty snack? whether it be a candy bar, ice cream, whatever your temptation is. how long would you say it takes to devour it? a whole 30 seconds? 1 minute? think about this now, how many minutes, hours a DAY do you think about how unhappy you are with your overall appearance and unhealthiness? for me, it would easily be all day long. that feeling is a constant in my mind! so is it really WORTH it to induldge in some yummy food for a whole 30 seconds when really all those yummy foods are the reason we feel this way OVERALL?? the answer is NO! Now if only we can all overcome temptation... its not easy in the slightest..

just food for thought:)

good luck with the weight loss and happier lifestyle everyone!!

This is so totally embarrassing but it was when I sat down and the toilet seat broke in half. I mean, really! Several years ago I was on a treadmill when the tread broke and threw me off.

I broke my shoulder, collarbone and dislocated my arm. Long story short, by time I was up and about I had gained almost 60 pounds. Since then I had gained another 30-40 pounds. Being older and retired I just hadn't noticed how big I had gotten.

That was April and I have endeavored to change my lifestyle habits since then. I have lost 65 pounds. I have 40 more to lose. I will do it!

I had planned on getting started again back in June but I was dealing with a health issue and had major surgery 7 weeks ago. Now I feel I have a new lease on life and want to be the best me that I can be. So I started tracking on MFP again and walked for 30 minutes on my treadmill last night. I know I can't pust myself too hard on the excercise right now. My incision site is a little sore this morning but I can eat well, drink water, track what I do, and rebuild my strength.

Honestly, there was no "one" moment, but rather a series of events. The final event was someone posting this website on Facebook. The rest is history.

several years ago i injured my back..i was always a big guy but after that i did less and less exercise and just sat more and at the time i had a truck driving job.. so u r sitting probably 20 hrs a day for most part if not more. any who..things snowballed lost job and then had to fight for disability for the next 5 years. every day things just got worse, harder to move, gained weight, pain became worse, other health and physical problems came up. the last october before i finally got awarded my s.s.d. i got sick again and pissed off and quit smoking cold turkey and this october i believe it will be 3 years? and then we moved and i finally got my checks coming in. and now i could afford to see doc and get meds and such and go to gym.

year and a half ago got my gym membership started. started watching what i eat a bit more. bout 6 months later i joined a tae kwon do school. which i had done when i was younger and really loved it. although both going to the gym and to my tkd classes i was in pain and everything i did hurt and taxed my body and so i pushed harder. i was in pain all the time any how and got sick of it so if im going to hurt im going to hurt due to my own actions and do something positive with it. at some point a couple months ago something else in me kicked in and now for the most part i have to force myself to eat. cant stand food really any more. any up to that point over a couple years i lost bout 25 lbs or so..not to great but not terrible either since i was losing weight. but since things kicked a couple months ago i have lost 55 lbs. sadly last couple weeks i have been in a slump on my weight loss and trying to rework things to get back moving again..

here is a little honesty here... i am not an emo or suicidal or any of that crap... but there for a while and even now occationally the thought comes up.. one stupid little accident and my back is screwed up for life. lose my job and everything i own. forced to live off of couches and get help from others. being a burden to those that care for you that barely are getting by themselves is not fun. embarasment, shame, etc. its true life is only one what you make of it..but at same time ..life isnt fair either. the honorable thing would have been to end and save my self the pain and torment and those around me the burden of me. but im stubborn and vengeful. for every wrong i want my revenge.. thanks to stupid laws all i get to do is fantasize a bit. but in the mean time all i can do is fight back. fight by losing weight, working out.. doing what i need to do even though i am in scrutinizing pain.

so... my own health in part drives me.. but mostly vengence against those who have wronged me..(if only in my head) and vengence to the pain and turmoil i go though.. and hope that i may see some light at the end of the tunnel some day and maybe get the one thing i have always wanted and maybe a couple other smaller things.... hhmm well this got a bit winded

;my enough is enough ; day was when i saw my photographs of bulgaria august 2012 which ive used one as my profile picture to look at to keep me going to lose weight i will be returning to bulgaria aug 2013 and i hope this time i will have lost the weight and like what i see .

When I ended up in the hospital with a raging systemic bacterial infection that half killed me. My blood pressure and cholesterol were great but of course, my blood sugars were off the charts because of the infection.

the worst defining moment ever was the day I realized (or was told) that most of my breathing issues were because of the weight Id gained since getting sick on March of 2011.

Now...some 50 pounds less, my breathing is 80% better than it's been since

Very recently I realized that I was having a LOT of trouble staying awake for twelve hours. It's true that I'm an insomniac and I haven't been sleeping well, but I always tell myself that my day is simply broken in half and everything is "normal". In a moment of clear thinking, however, I noticed that I'd been struggling to get through five or six hours in the past few weeks and then I drew the line. There are a couple other problems that added into my immediate decision, such as my memory failing me often, but that one hit home the hardest. It isn't so much my weight that bothers me as my complete inability to function because I'm clearly not getting whatever it is I need. Enough is enough for my spirit, but my body needs a bit more work to claim even one of those words.

Looking at my holiday photos and realising I looked at least 10 years older than I am and a whole lot bigger than I thought I was and coming to the conclusion just how much I had let myself go.

I was at a business meting in aq conference room with alot of people there. They had those cheaper kind of chairs to sit in and when i got up to shake the VP's hand the chair stuck to my butt.

This was a few years ago. I worked at a call center and I forgot a client was coming in and we had to dress up. The plan was to go to Fashion Bug and pick up something "real quick". Well 1 hr into my quick shopping trip I discovered NOTHING in the store fit. I didn't realize I had outgrown the largest size 28. I finally found an AWFUL pair of stretchy pants that passed for "dress pants" and found a top that fit around my belly (I honestly popped 2 buttons by the end of the day). I cried and cried that day horrified to discover how large I had become. I never looked back.

When my gut sat right up next to my desk at work, and all i ever wore were huge hoodies to cover up all my fat. I felt horrible, I never wanted to go out and i just wanted to be invisible. One monday night at work, I looked at my stomach sitting flush to the desk, it was so big, and decided then and there that I was going to change my life.

Three months later and 39lbs lighter, I'm feeling so much better about things. I still have 60lbs to lose, but my life is completely different. I'm never going back to that person or that life.

I literally woke up one day and went 'I want a pair of red trousers'

So I decided to slim into some.

I'm on my 3rd pair now. long way to go!

Their was no defining moment I had just been slowly but surely putting on weight and I knew I was and I knew I needed to do something about it but I was only half trying or starting then stopping, then I watched a utube video about a person who lost weight and she talked about how she did it. She mentioned this site and thats when it all started. I have been on here for 10 weeks and have lost 5.6kg (13 pounds) I have another 11 or so kg to go to be in a healthy weight range and I know I can do it and keep it their.