Breaking Point for Weight Loss

CG419
CG419 Posts: 35 Member
in Motivation and Support
Just curious to know what were everyone's breaking point for taking action to lose weight. Mines came a couple months ago at a Macy's in my hometown mall. I was in the dressing room trying clothes on (of course very few could fit) and this happens to be one of those rooms where there's like 5 or 6 mirrors to see all angles. I just took a good look and told myself I can be much better than what I see in front of me. So the next time I see myself between those mirrors, I can look back and realize this is where the motivation for better started.

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  • paxbfl
    paxbfl Posts: 391 Member
    Two things happened at the same time. A good friend nearly died from weight-related health problems, and I stepped on the scale to see the number 250, which I promised myself I'd never see.

    At that point I got angry and VERY motivated, and lost 40 pounds in 4 months. I'm now 204, and close to my ideal body fat %.
  • haidos
    haidos Posts: 69
    Realising I weighed 250lbs. It was a pretty big shock and gave me the motivation to make a change.
    Thinking about it there were plenty of times before that I should have taken the initiative but I guess I wasn't mentally ready.
  • CG419
    CG419 Posts: 35 Member
    You're doing a great job succeeding to your Desired Body Fat %... Hope everything is ok with your friend hoever...
  • ChgingMe
    ChgingMe Posts: 539 Member
    Mine is pretty simple. My size 14's were getting tight. I REFUSE to wear a 16. I'm now in a 10 going for a 7/8. Woot Woot!!
  • CG419
    CG419 Posts: 35 Member
    I had a very simialr thing with myself haidos... I saw 295 on my scale so I know the feeling
  • ImtheOnethatsCool
    ImtheOnethatsCool Posts: 212 Member
    my clothes didn't fit, and i despise shopping for clothes. So here I am
  • ChangingAmanda
    ChangingAmanda Posts: 486 Member
    My clothes didn't fit and I didn't want to buy a bigger size.

    More so, my anti-depressants kicked in, I started feeling normal again and finally mentally ready to start losing the weight.
  • alliemarie77
    alliemarie77 Posts: 378 Member
    I actually had a series of bad events happen over a year and a half. Some were pretty depressing, and very hard to go through. So I decided that I can sit around and be depressed, or I could get off my *kitten*, and make a change in my life. So.... Here I am.

    I'm not the same person I was.... Pain changed me. I am just trying to get my happy back.
  • saeede83
    saeede83 Posts: 96 Member
    mine was when my doctor said with my weight., pregnancy will have complications, both for me and for baby. I was in denial until then
  • mattschwartz01
    mattschwartz01 Posts: 566 Member
    That's a very good question. My breaking point was when I hurt just walking a few steps and that left me out of breath. Not only did I hurt all over but I became clinically depressed because of the chronic pain. Finally, on March 14th of this year I did something about it! I entered a medically supervised weight management program through the University of Pennsylvania. At my starting, I was 362 pounds and had a 52" waist. I had to begin exercising slowly and I started out being barely able to manage 20 minutes on the elliptical trainer and 20 minutes on the stationary bike at the lowest settings. Now, as of Thursday, May 23rd, I'm 303 pounds and a 46" waist. I can withstand 3 intense 60 minute sessions of Spinning per week, ride my road bike almost 20 miles on flat/paved trail and feel like I can do more, and I've been doing heavy lifting. I feel like my friends at MFP and the University of Pennsylvania have given me my life back. I lost a lot of weight over ten years ago and got all the way down to 220. The funny thing is that, now, at 303 pounds I actually feel better physically and mentally than I did at 220. I'm feeling the best that I have ever felt in my life and I'm looking forward to 188 or being at my 9th grade weight. I'm also looking forward to continuing to be on this journey with the wonderful people I've met on MFP. I've grown to really appreciate each day in a way I never have before!
  • sonyalbruno
    sonyalbruno Posts: 63 Member
    About six months after having my daughter I had lost most of the baby weight and felt great then didn't pay attention to what I was eating and wasn't working out then my dad asked me one day "Are you pregnant again?"
  • imafitmom
    imafitmom Posts: 116 Member
    4 weeks ago when I could not button my "fat jeans". Enough is enough!!!
  • neilvv
    neilvv Posts: 146 Member
    I live 300 miles from my brother.on a visit last July he wanted to go out to on a pub crawl on a busy Saturday afternoon.
    I went but felt so uncomfortable it was unreal i mainly stood in the corner but we still had a great time.
    I made myself a promise that i would be able to go out confident with him next time i visited.
    I am going to visit at the end of next month and i am very confident now especially after losing 80lbs and hitting goal weight with 9 weeks of Stronglifts (so far) and 9 Half Marathons under my belt.
    I feel i have earned my forthcoming pub crawl, it's going to get very messy Haha.
  • Bearbrat
    Bearbrat Posts: 230
    This might sound weird to some people, but I think it was at a doctor's appointment. I got on the scale and weighed at 209, not my heaviest, but close. I was used to having doctors lecture me about my weight, even one doctor I worked for who I know truly cared. My current doctor didn't seem to be concerned and kind of waved off my questions about diabetes risk. I walked out of there pretty ticked off and couldn't stop thinking about it. I finally thought that maybe he just gets tired of giving advice and having it ignored (not really the best excuse for his ignoring it). So I got a scale, a measuring tape and a kitchen scale. I weighed, measured and threw out all the crap in my kitchen. Yesterday for the first time in years I bought a pair of shorts in size 12 and I think I scared the sales lady with my very loud exclamation of OMFG lol. So long explanation, but it was that day in the doctors office :flowerforyou:
  • GmomLinC
    GmomLinC Posts: 45
    4 weeks ago when I could not button my "fat jeans". Enough is enough!!!

    This is what motivated me too! Beginning of May, my "fat jeans" were getting way too snug...and I didn't like my muffin top hanging over the sides. I had lost weight last fall, and I looked and felt great. Then the holidays came....and the weight began creeping back on again. Instead of doing something about that back in January, I kept trying to tell myself that I was probably maintaining or, at the most, putting on a couple of pounds. But......I refused to weigh myself because obviously I knew I was lying to myself. Fast forward to the beginning of May this year. I was back wearing my "fat jeans" and I looked awful in them. One morning I just woke up and said enough is enough. I weighed myself, made myself a new account here at MFP....and I'm determined to lose the weight again. I'm off to a great start too.
  • SabrinaLC
    SabrinaLC Posts: 133 Member
    I listened to everyones advice while I was pregnant. I ate what I wanted because according to them it was okay and I'd lose so much weight after giving birth. I went home 5lbs heavier than when I went in. It took me 6 months to lose 20lbs, which is what I was told I'd lose within those first few weeks.

    My whole family is overweight/obese and I promised myself I wouldn't settle and blame genes.

    I worked my butt off ( literally ) and after 3 babies I am 15lbs under pre-pregnancy weight.
  • StarChanger
    StarChanger Posts: 605 Member
    Stepping on the scale, seeing 230 (for only a BRIEF second because I was so shocked I actually jumped off thinking it wouldn't "stick" somehow...true story.....) and realizing I only weighed 15 lbs less than my 6'2", athletically (read: broad-shouldered, big guns) built, active-duty military, hubby. The rest of the day was outright anger at letting myself get to this point, especially since I'm supposed to be a role-model of sorts, being in health care....
  • miadhail
    miadhail Posts: 383 Member
    My breaking point was when my fiance and I appeared on the newspaper last August and I had bad comments said bout me :( I actually wrote about it here http://mfpmiadhail.blogspot.ca/2012/11/how-it-all-began-and-my-progress-since.html

    Glad to say that I have lost alot more since then :)
  • djeffreys10
    djeffreys10 Posts: 2,312 Member
    My breaking point, as stupid as it is, was the body type of women I was attracted to. I just looked in the mirror one day and had to honestly ask myself why someone with the body type that I generally find attractive would find what I see in the mirror attractive.

    But then, along the way, things changed. While dating was my motivation to start fitness, fitness filled a place in my life that I had been trying to use dating to fill. It was something that I could do for me. I love my kids, and I love being a single father raising them. But I needed something for me. I found that in fitness. And I really don't like dating anyway. So I stopped dating, started sculpting the body that I want (still a work in progress), and am actually very happy and content with my life now.
  • TedStout
    TedStout Posts: 241
    For me it was blood pressure way higher than it should have been, higher cholesteral, and seeing a picture of my fat face at Christmas. I am NEVER EVER going back there! EVER!
  • thenextstep
    thenextstep Posts: 54
    My breaking point was when I didn't want to walk infront of a mirror because I would just cry. I didn't want to leave my house and I couldn't find anything that fit. Instead of being the beautiful bride I had always pictured myself being, I was the bride that burned her wedding photos.
  • ButYouGotMySoul
    ButYouGotMySoul Posts: 44 Member
    Having an intimate moment and realising that I couldn't do what my fiancée had asked simply because of my weight. It ended in a bit of a breakdown in which I realised how much, and for how long I've loathed myself and my body.

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