What is the thing that made you say enough?

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  • MrsNina1972
    MrsNina1972 Posts: 105 Member
    I had an operation in February 2011 and when I went back to my gyno and got on the scale he looked at me and said you've gained almost 8lbs since I've seen you (which was only 4 weeks) putting my weight at 194 pounds. I have never in my life weighed that much, not even through 3 pregnancies. The most I weighed pregnant was 165 tops. Right after that I was diagnosed with diabetes and 3 months after that high blood pressure which took 3 different medications to bring my BP down. Now I am down to 147 pounds and only on 1 blood pressure med and no meds for diabetes and don't even have to check my blood sugar anymore it is controlled with diet and exercise, and right now I think my BP med is to strong, I go see my pcp next week for that! That is my eye opening I am fat experience.
  • McBully4
    McBully4 Posts: 1,270 Member
    when i was banned from missionary, and the belly was a beej blocker...
    *tear*

    rock bottom
  • LeidaPrimal
    LeidaPrimal Posts: 198 Member
    A picture.

    THE picture. I was putting together the pictures for the X-mas DVDs to send around the world to all our scattered relations, and I realized that I was cropping myself out to keep my beautiful 2 yo in focus and the whale in the background out. I was the whale... I felt deeply ashamed.

    I put so many years and efforts in getting pregnant and having a baby, that the fact that pregnancy weight never went away and that i was still wearing my pg wardrobe (really my mom's) 2 years after delivery just did not register. At all. Now my daughter is 6, and I am the same as before pg and striving to be better and stronger and ageless. That picture on the beach awoke me to the need to be a mom that can be a role model to her daughter in the world where childhood obesity is an epidemic.

    I have my moments of 'aww' when I see my daughter storming the monkey bars with the determination of an athlete, bypassing a cake because she spotted shrimps, and thinking nothing of asking her mom to carry her around.
  • MelissaGraham7
    MelissaGraham7 Posts: 406 Member
    For me, it was when I realized there were virtually no pictures of me with the grandkids because I kept deleting them because I was too fat. I realized that I was avoiding not only pictures but life in general by being weighed down, literally. Now I have LOTS of pictures and live life to the fullest!
  • Im_NotPerfect
    Im_NotPerfect Posts: 2,181 Member
    A picture of me in my bathing suit at my daughter's 2nd birthday party. I realized I was wearing a "mom" bathing suit. I said "Oh h3ll no!" I'm only 33 (at the time). Then we decided that we were going on vacaction about a year after that. There was NO way I was taking that Mom suit on vacation with me!
  • Laddiegirl
    Laddiegirl Posts: 382 Member
    Ordering a size 20 bridesmaid dress for my sister's wedding, and when I picked it up a month later it was a little tighter. Ugh.

    Happily, I took that SAME dress to a seamstress to have it taken down to a size 14 a couple of weeks ago! MFP and a wakeup call really work!
  • Mojamabo
    Mojamabo Posts: 31 Member
    I had a series of mortifying events. My husband and I went to get life jackets and I had to buy one that was bigger than his! I cried as I left the store. Then the next day we went out on the lake. As we were coming to the dock, my husband asked me to toss out the rope. When I tried to reach between the windows (the walkway to the bow), I got stuck! I looked at my husband in shock and dismay. He helped me out and never said a word. And as if mortifying myself in front of my husband wasn't enough, there was a slender mom of 3 watching the whole time! After throwing myself a pity party for a week, I started making changes.
  • ariesmom07
    ariesmom07 Posts: 57 Member
    I get comments from kids all the time about how huge I am, usually I can ignore them because I know they don't know any better. One day I was grocery shopping and I heard a kid say "mommy that girl is fat" and his mom said "yeah maybe we should put your treats back" as if to use me as a caution to her kid on what could become of him.
    I've had a few comments before from kids too even before I was as big as I am now and so I know how that goes :/ People can be so rude and mean. From your profile pic I can tell you are a beautiful lady so feel good about that and F*** the haters :) You got this!
  • shara85
    shara85 Posts: 70 Member
    Seeing pictures of myself did me in.
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
    i turned 40 and my dad died in the same year. that was the final kick in the pants i needed to get back into shape.
  • rsboyd
    rsboyd Posts: 12
    When I was told I had to have by-pass surgery, NOW!!!!

    Changed my life
  • AliciaAnne1984
    AliciaAnne1984 Posts: 35
    For me it was all vanity. I knew I was gaining weight but wasn't ready to do anything about it. I started pulling myself out of a massive slump I had been in and finally decided to weigh myself. I couldn't even get upset because I knew how it happened. That same night I was trying a really great online shopping site and realised I had gone up a couple of sizes and was officially a large (in all brands).

    Funny though how something happens and you're finally ready. I knew before this happened that I was gaining but you have to be ready and willing to change.
  • hollyday11
    hollyday11 Posts: 14 Member
    Pictures!

    My sand volleyball team was doing really well in our corporate playoffs and an employee of mine took some great action shots of our matches. They were amazing pictures, but I barely recognized myself. I blamed my age and playing in sand for my lack-of-vertical. I didn't bother to take into account the extra 40 pounds I'd packed on in the last year and a half.

    I can fool myself when looking in the mirror that I still look good, but pictures don't lie.

    I would post a pic, but I don't know how.
  • historygirldd
    historygirldd Posts: 209 Member
    A friend that I had not seen in years came to my workplace, saw my picture on the webpage and told my supervisor that I had really gained weight. I think she used some ugly words. It hit hard, and now I am on my way, Thanks friend, according to my supervisor, you are not one, but at least you put me back on the right track to health and a healthy attitude. Now, what keeps me still going on this weight loss journey? People have recently been asking me how much I have lost and asking my opinion about diets, which could make me feel I am at a good place, until ..... my dear sister sent me a picture of myself with my niece. Let's just say, I still need some work.
  • toya316
    toya316 Posts: 137 Member
    JENNIFER HUDSON......
  • kf4vkp
    kf4vkp Posts: 164 Member
    Pictures of myself were a definite factor.

    But I want to have children and a friend that had a baby ended up with an emergency c-section because her ab muscles weren't strong enough to push the baby out. My future children deserve the active me that I have always been with my neices and nephews and as the weight came on, that slowed down. I want it back.

    I want to be able to climb mountains, and one day I'm gonna.

    Also, the moment I was on a white water rafting trip and couldn't pull myself into the boat...with help.
  • ariesmom07
    ariesmom07 Posts: 57 Member
    Pictures!

    My sand volleyball team was doing really well in our corporate playoffs and an employee of mine took some great action shots of our matches. They were amazing pictures, but I barely recognized myself. I blamed my age and playing in sand for my lack-of-vertical. I didn't bother to take into account the extra 40 pounds I'd packed on in the last year and a half.

    I can fool myself when looking in the mirror that I still look good, but pictures don't lie.

    I would post a pic, but I don't know how.
    You are so right about that. Often I see myself in the mirror and I'm like "well....its not THAT bad..." But when I see a picture Its like OMG....is that real?? I read something on reddit a while back saying that people actually prefer their image in the mirror than that of pictures but friends and relatives prefer the picture over the mirror image. Our brains trick us in the mirror :/
  • Morenosn
    Morenosn Posts: 28 Member
    when i looked at the picture i have on my profile.. i knew i was big, but dayuhmmmm i didnt realize i was so roly poly
    I haven't allowed any one to snap a picture of me full body for over 6 years and even then I hated it. I just didn't want to see it because I knew it would depress me!

    Oh my goodness, ME TOO! I hate being in pictures. I will only allow face shots and even then i dont like what I see. If i am forced to be in a group pic and everyone crowds around the camera to see what it looks like, I don't look. I just dont want to see the mess I have created! :(
  • beansprouts
    beansprouts Posts: 410 Member
    I was in denial about my weight until the day that my PC doctor suggested referring me to a bariatric surgery group...The term "morbidly obese" can be a real wake up call. .I decided to try and do it on my own.
  • ChgingMe
    ChgingMe Posts: 539 Member
    when i looked at the picture i have on my profile.. i knew i was big, but dayuhmmmm i didnt realize i was so roly poly
    I haven't allowed any one to snap a picture of me full body for over 6 years and even then I hated it. I just didn't want to see it because I knew it would depress me!

    Well after you get that rockin hot bod you are gonna wish you had more 'fatty' pics. So take some NOW!!! but for you lose too much weight.
  • Brujah1981
    Brujah1981 Posts: 23 Member
    I was drinking way too much Mt. Dew and would get horrible headaches if I skipped a day. So after cutting pop out of my diet, the next logical step was watching my other eating habits. The hard part was already over, now it's just about sticking to the plan.
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    When I saw THIS pic of myself.

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  • strawberrytoast
    strawberrytoast Posts: 711 Member
    when i realised i had 2 bellies instead of one, i reckon you could hide a small dog in the middle :laugh:
  • ariesmom07
    ariesmom07 Posts: 57 Member
    when i looked at the picture i have on my profile.. i knew i was big, but dayuhmmmm i didnt realize i was so roly poly
    I haven't allowed any one to snap a picture of me full body for over 6 years and even then I hated it. I just didn't want to see it because I knew it would depress me!

    Well after you get that rockin hot bod you are gonna wish you had more 'fatty' pics. So take some NOW!!! but for you lose too much weight.
    I actually told my husband yesterday that this weekend we're both gonna take pictures. I want to have something to compare later!
  • mommy1126
    mommy1126 Posts: 146 Member
    Pictures of myself were one thing.
    But other than that it was an accumulation of small things. I have an 18 month old son, and one day about 6 months ago, I said something to my husband about me losing the "baby weight". His response was, "I love you even if you are heavy." that hurt. Even though I am just plain old fat, it still hurt.
    My little sister lost 40 lbs. We were always basically the same size, part of me never realized how big I was, until she gave me all of her "fat clothes".
    This year I turn 36, and I look 36. I don't want to look 36!!!!
  • bsuew
    bsuew Posts: 628 Member
    I was hurting all the time! And the scale topped 260 :noway: I couldn't let it go any higher. I decided 100 + needs to come off!:
  • Morenosn
    Morenosn Posts: 28 Member
    I get comments from kids all the time about how huge I am, usually I can ignore them because I know they don't know any better. One day I was grocery shopping and I heard a kid say "mommy that girl is fat" and his mom said "yeah maybe we should put your treats back" as if to use me as a caution to her kid on what could become of him.
    I've had a few comments before from kids too even before I was as big as I am now and so I know how that goes :/ People can be so rude and mean. From your profile pic I can tell you are a beautiful lady so feel good about that and F*** the haters :) You got this!

    I so second this! Adults can be worse than the children. I know that kids don't know what they are saying is hurtful but for the mother to join in on it is absolutely disgusting! My son saw a REALLY large man at walmart once, this poor guy looked like he was in pain trying to walk thru the store with everyone just gawking at him and my 3yo son (bless his heart) says "Mom! That guys i HUGE!!" And the man was right next to us so I made my son appologize to him and of course I apologized as well for my son. He said he is used to it and hears it almost everytime he goes out but was soooo nice and funny! People dont know other peoples stories of why they are that way and what they are doing to change it. Keep your head up and keep working hard and do not let anyones comments get in your way. People can be mean and hurtful but just focus on bettering yourself! Good luck with everything!
  • Chameleone
    Chameleone Posts: 281 Member
    My boyfriend weighed himself in front of his family, and he was about 170...His family joked, telling him he'd gained weight and he's gotten a little tubby, and all that...I later went to the bathroom (by myself) and weighed myself, and I was 175.
    My bf is 3 inches taller than me and a dude, it was unacceptable, I promised myself I'd never weigh more than him again unless I was carrying his baby....

    Now he's got almost 30 lbs on me =)
  • ChgingMe
    ChgingMe Posts: 539 Member
    The pic did it for me as well. Saw a picture taken at prom season of my daughter and her friend. She tagged me on FB. I have to approve all pics. I told her I looked way too fat to have that pic on FB. She told me pics add weight. I told her TV adds weight NOT pictures. Then I realized my size 14's were getting tight and then I was diagnosed pre-diabetic. My dad died from that and an Aunt lost a leg. It has to stop with me!

    I'm now wearing a size 9. Working on losing more of my belly. No six pack here but on my way....
  • ChgingMe
    ChgingMe Posts: 539 Member
    My boyfriend weighed himself in front of his family, and he was about 170...His family joked, telling him he'd gained weight and he's gotten a little tubby, and all that...I later went to the bathroom (by myself) and weighed myself, and I was 175.
    My bf is 3 inches taller than me and a dude, it was unacceptable, I promised myself I'd never weigh more than him again unless I was carrying his baby....

    Now he's got almost 30 lbs on me =)

    same here. My hubby was 180. At my highest i was 184...

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