What was your moment of "enough is enough"?

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  • LollipopViolet
    LollipopViolet Posts: 121 Member
    Well, there have been a few. The biggest was realizing i'd rather take a photo than be in it.

    All through secondary school (age 11-16) I was bullied horribly. Suicidal at various points. I got myself through that but unfortunately I turned to junk food to do it. I'm now 22, 5 foot 2 and, at my heaviest was 185lbs. That was, sadly, 4 months or so ago.

    I've been trying to lose the weight for over a year, but kept slipping back into my old habits and making excuses.

    Over the last 4 months I've lost 7lbs in total (my MFP ticker isn't set to my heaviest weight so shows less) and I'm feeling better.

    I want to do this for me, I want my confidence to grow and to do that, my body needs to shrink. Also, I have a wonderful boyfriend, and if we ever get engaged, i'd like to be able to wear the wedding dress I want, not be restricted by my size.

    I am making progress though, on a recent holiday to Prague, I wore shorts for the first time in over a year and actually felt really comfortable in them.
  • Future_Mrs_Serr
    Future_Mrs_Serr Posts: 1
    When I was 21 weeks prego I was in getting an ultrasound and found out my daughter had spina bifida and a few other issues and My doctor said " well you sure aren't the easiest person to ultrasound" and later on made a joke about getting gummy Prenatal vitamins. I changed a few things I could change like drinking more water,eating healthier and light exercise like leslie sansone but I can't do anything too extreme until she is born in nov . that was my enough is enough moment.
  • mollymoo89
    mollymoo89 Posts: 202
    Today. I've been on MFP for over a year now and am fairly close to my goal weight. However, I really need to lose fat and tone up. I started lifting weights last week and doing less cardio and have been feeling amazing! I've cut out all junk and fast food and have been eating healthy. I've also increased my calories since I am so close to my goal and 1200 was just way to low for me. However, everything came to a screeching halt today. After I left my internship, I stopped by a boutique to try on some cute clothes. I picked a few things out and went to the dressing room. Once I undressed and looked in the mirror, I was horrified. All I saw was lumpy fat, massive thighs, and fat dimples. What happened to the skinny toned girl that I've been feeling like?! What I saw in the mirror absolutely does not match how I've been feeling. Needless to say I left the store in tears and obviously didn't buy anything. I'm so frustrated that I'm not where I want to be. After an hour (or 2) of self-pity, I'm now headed out for a run and will do weights tomorrow morning! Taking it one day at a time!
  • cindybowcut
    cindybowcut Posts: 250 Member
    Last July when my doctor called to tell me how my blood test had went from my physical. He told me he needed me to come back in that I was diabetic. He sent me to see the dietician and put me on metformin. That was like a slap in the face. I think it was the slap in the face that I needed. I have lost 54lbs and have been off my medication since April 2012. I still have a little ways to go. But my last physical was awesome. All my test results were great, no high blood pressure, cholesterol was normal, iron great and my A1C was 5.4. My A1C is where a normal persons is without diabetes. I have been told that I am the doctors new poster child for how to take care of diabetes. I refuse to let it take over my life. I am a much happier person. We were comparing pictures at work the other day and I can't believe that I never thought that I was really that big. I was huge and apparently clueless that I was overweight.
  • gazelleintraining
    gazelleintraining Posts: 107
    There had been lingering "signs," that I had so adeptly ignored along the way to the path I'm on now to get healthier; the doctor writing "obese" on my chart (I'm just over the limit), going up to a size 18, not liking any picture I'm in (even just the "face"-only ones), feeling tired all the time, realizing that some people who I used to regard as bigger were actually smaller than me. Then the turning point: My husband got up the courage during a very honest conversation to tell me very gently and respectfully that while he will always find me pretty that he is less sexually attracted to me because of the 52-pound weight gain. The next day, I joined MFP. I'm two weeks in.
  • crazygrkgirl
    crazygrkgirl Posts: 1 Member
    This past weekend. I tried on my wedding dress I bought in august and it didn't fit, I almost need to go 2 sizes up from when I bought it. I decided that I needed to become healthier and eat better so that I can look and feel good about myself
  • mindy_jubs
    mindy_jubs Posts: 4
    I was out shopping and I bent over to try on a pair of shoes and ripped a giant hole in the butt of my jeans. I tried to blame in on the pants being old and thin. Then one week later I ripped a hole in the butt of another, newer pair of jeans and I had to face the fact that my butt was simply too big to be contained by my pants any longer. I couldn't afford to throw out another $90 pair of pants because I was too lazy to go to the gym...
  • sjellsworth
    sjellsworth Posts: 4
    when i took my kids to the amusement park and was going to ride the roller coaster with my sons ages 5 and 9. It was my 5 year olds first time on a roller coaster so i was going to sit with him and keep him from being scared, and I couldn't buckle the seat belt. Me and my children had to get off the ride because i was to big to fit in the seat. I also had to tell my children that mommy was too big to go on the ride with them. I decided that enough was enough... I have lost 20 pounds since then.
  • Domi_BTGfit
    Domi_BTGfit Posts: 149
    It was July 2011 and I stepped on the scales and saw 96.7kgs (212.74lbs) and realised I was SO close to hitting that 100kg mark! I refused. I was wearing size AU18 (US14) and they were so tight I was about to have to start buying size AU20. I refused that too.

    Our 'moments' are very important milestones, embrace them and figure out how to make you better.

    Good luck!
  • karibj2010
    karibj2010 Posts: 264 Member
    Recently I went go-karting with my husband and I thought I wasn't going to be able to buckle up the seat belt. I had to adjust the way I was sitting and suck in my breath to buckle it up. I wanted to cry. It didn't help matters when we went for our second round and instead of letting me just stay in my kart, I had to move up a kart and do this all over again. I'm glad I am having these "enoughs enough" moments because we are taking our 2 kids to a water/action park this weekend and I really want to enjoy the go-karts with the kids and hubby. It definitely is not an easy battle...but it will be totally worth it in the end. :-)
  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
    winning a sailboat race and not being able to have any pictures of the *kitten* I was kicking because I was a bohemoth and couldnt bare to see pictures that would ruin how I felt about that day. Seeing what I looked like during some of the most fun ive ever had would have destroyed me. I decided that I would stop living in a disconnected mind-body situation.

    it was time to go get the life and body I was supposed to have - i had to go for both though, trying to do anything halfway would lead to problems with balance and my happiness would suffer is one thing was always compromised and the other never.

    I needed my life.
    I needed my body.
    I needed to prove to myself that everything Id done up to that point was not written in stone and I could save my own life and if I was kind and honest enough, I could do it with minimal collateral damage.

    It involved calling off my wedding, losing a hundred pounds, changing my job and my friends and facing my family and explaining to them that I need to be happy and I should be allowed to be happy and sometimes that means making god awful decisions now instead of rebreaking bones later.
  • terrilins
    terrilins Posts: 12
    What a great topic. I needed this today. I have been dilly-dallying at this weight loss thing for a year. I also have been having some mild depression for the last year. Some days worse than others. Today as I am walking the dog I was reflecting about how different I feel from a year ago. I was trying to figure out what changed. I think it's the weight that's causing the depression, then I eat because I'm depressed and hate myself for being overweight. Vicious cycle. Today i'm breaking that cycle!
  • amclaughlin88
    amclaughlin88 Posts: 10
    My "enough is enough" moment was just the other day. I was getting out my fall/winter clothes and was looking at some of the jeans and such, it crossed my mind.. " I know I've gained weight I wonder if they still fit?" and some of them I couldn't even get remotely buttoned, the rest make me have the WORST muffin top ever. I've noticed that my shirts are a lot shorter too (i guess they have more fat to cover). This is a big problem b/c most of these clothes are from last winter when I was only 8lbs less than I am now and I was fat then too!!! I've regressed back to the weight that I was in 2007 when my medications blew me up like a whale. My boyfriend always tells me I'm beautiful and I feel beautiful... but only from the chest up! I am doing this so that I am happy with my body again. I'm just too awesome at life to not be happy with myself overall.

    Angel
  • demonlullaby
    demonlullaby Posts: 499 Member
    when i stepped on the scale and saw that i was a pound away from being 200 lbs. the highest I have ever been in my life.
  • fitsin10
    fitsin10 Posts: 141
    bumping...awesome read!
  • karibj2010
    karibj2010 Posts: 264 Member
    It's very motivating to me to read the different stories each of us for why we are now here. Good luck to everyone!
  • Palouse
    Palouse Posts: 3
    My BG and LDL levels after my last physical.

    I don't know what a BG level is, but for me, it was total cholesterol (202) and LDL too.

    I'm guessing Blood Glucose.

    Yes, sorry...blood glucose.

    My overall cholesterol was 224 with an LDL of 161. My BIL is an internist and suggested diet and exercise and then see where I am in six months. His clinical partner--my doctor and also an internist--wanted me on statins right away, but statins screwed up my uncle's legs to the point where his leg muscles are weak and his knees hurt. I'm given to understand that the incident rate of that happening is 1 in 10k, but we're blood relatives, and that makes me nervous. Regardless, and inasmuch as I want to take care of it with diet and exercise, cholesterol can be controlled with meds. Diabetes, however, scares the crap out me.
  • gisele00
    gisele00 Posts: 7 Member
    I was at an amusement park for the last night of my 20's. When all my friends and I got to the roller coaster I'd been looking forward all day, the shoulder bar wouldn't close. They had two guys push down on it and they finally told me they didn't think it was going to close and I would need to get out. In front of everyone, I had to get out of the car and make my way toward the exit - alone, disappointed and humiliated.
  • trinitytrojanmom
    trinitytrojanmom Posts: 13 Member
    I lost 93lbs about three years ago, then I had a hysterectomy. While recovering from that, I lost all my good habits and regained all my weight. So here I am again, trying to get started.
  • cheryl5115
    cheryl5115 Posts: 154 Member
    When I hit 189 lbs. I was like nope I am not going to weigh 190 lbs.
  • dogo187
    dogo187 Posts: 376
    when i stood on the scale at the doctors office and it told me i was 315lbs...but i didnt see that number, i saw 400lbs...

    blood work told me that i was also pre-diabetic...i knew that if something didnt change i was going to die and i was going to leave my two young children without a mother...

    on the way home i stopped by my local Curves, went home and made a meal plan and moved on from there...

    two years later, 124lbs down...well on my way to the best shape of my life...
  • Masonless
    Masonless Posts: 139 Member
    My moment was this week when I took my 4 year old to school and one of the kids in his class said .... your mommie is fat---this is my awakening moment.
  • MariaLivingFit
    MariaLivingFit Posts: 224 Member
    The day my youngest turned 2 years old, I knew it was time to get rid of the "mommy pouch". No more excuses! :-)
  • Kekibird
    Kekibird Posts: 1,122 Member
    When my dad pointed it out. My dad is rather sensitive and soft spoken. So for him to make a joke about my pudginess really stood out to me. Broke my heart a little and he apologized profusely afterward but that was the start of it 2 years ago.
  • FJcntdwn2sknyluv
    FJcntdwn2sknyluv Posts: 651 Member
    When I realized my 'lose' jeans were not at all lose anymore and I looked at the size they were a 22 I was going to have buy a 24..Not to mention the realization, that same day. that I had eaten an entire bag of Doritos in 4 days.. the Costco sized bag.. yeah...

    That was 5 years ago, down 88lbs, and size 12 jeans that are lose :) It's been a long hard road, but I'm getting there and one these day's I'll be done:)
  • KeegansMomma
    KeegansMomma Posts: 156
    My "enough is enough" moment was when I was trying to find capri's and shorts for the summer at Lane Bryant. Trying on my usual 22/24's was an eye opener and just so sad. So, I walked out of the store WITHOUT summer clothes and got serious about my weight loss.

    Since June, I'm down 9 pounds, and ended up buying my capri's and shorts at Walmart (instead of Lane Bryant like usual, because I refused to spend that much money on clothes that I hope to be out of by next year).

    I'm hoping to be down to around 230 by the time our Disney trip rolls around in 93 days. We'll see what I can do though. :)
  • lynheff
    lynheff Posts: 393 Member
    Being told by a Dr that he couldn't help me and that I would spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair if I didn't lose weight. I was looking at a life of pain,disability and dependency. My only choice was to create a new life of self-control. DH is sometimes distressed at how little I eat. Unfortunately for me my metabolic rate is--and has always been --total crap so its nibble or gain back the pounds I have lost. But the new freedom is so very worth it....and so is shopping for the clothes I like instead of what I can fit into! Thanks to all of my mfp friends for support and encouragement. It means a lot. Good luck
  • lynheff
    lynheff Posts: 393 Member
    Good luck! The slimmer you will have more fun at Disney!
  • Dianemustang
    Dianemustang Posts: 77
    when my doctor of 17 years looked at me and said i needed to think about by-pass surgery - I went home and started counting calories and walking - I have never looked back!
  • blaquebutterfly75
    blaquebutterfly75 Posts: 136 Member
    When my knees started hurting walking up stairs.

    When I had to strain over my stomach to tie my shoes.

    When my BP started getting boderline hyperpention.

    When my cholesterol reached 246.

    When I avoided spending time with friends because I was embarrased by how I looked.

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