When was your last straw that made you want to change?

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  • rebranding101
    rebranding101 Posts: 16
    I never had a weight problem, but I never had a great body even when I was quite slim. I was always pretty average, but 4 events occured before I realized I needed to do something.

    1. When I was buying pantyhose, I looked at my height and weight and it recommend that I go up to the next size. These are pantyhose, I've been wearing the same size since I was 12. I'm not changing sizes.

    2. I did my BMI, and it classified me as slightly overweight. Yikes! Dashing my belief that I was average.

    3. Pictures with my friends. My arms looked huge!

    4. Realizing I put on 42 pounds in 10 years. At that rate I'd be pushing 180 pounds when I'm in my 40's. So not cool.
  • Spewze72
    Spewze72 Posts: 82 Member
    Well I've had a few "last straws" in my time...usually seeing myself in photos...but just recently my lower back pain has got so bad that my previously routine 90 minute off-road dog walks are a thing of the past. I have difficulty putting socks, tights and jeans on, because I can't lift my leg high enough to get my foot in. My hips hurt. I have violent reflux (to the point of regurgitation). I find myself in a UK size 20 (US 16?), when my previous "fat" trousers were a UK 16 (US 12??).

    Seriously, there's only so many years I can keep losing 10lbs and putting 15 back on. I'm 41, I'm ashamed to visit family members and it's got to stop.
  • Rebekah718
    Rebekah718 Posts: 134 Member
    Had to start taking blood pressure medicine and was diagnosed with thyroid disease.
  • jjhappymama
    jjhappymama Posts: 1 Member
    My daughter was being bullied , by being teased that her mom was fat.
  • March87MFP
    March87MFP Posts: 19 Member
    Going up the stairs and gasping for air and realizing it really is no way to live. That and a bunch of other things pretty much did me in.
  • oxsarahhxo
    oxsarahhxo Posts: 51
    Does anyone remember that app 'Fat Booth' that made your face look fat? A nurse at the hospital told me I looked as though I'd been 'Fat Booth-ed'. I damn near cried there and then. I thought next time I come here I'll be a nice weight - and I was! ^_^
  • LisaMS83
    LisaMS83 Posts: 41 Member
    Mine are like last Straws!
    1) when I realized I weighted more then he does
    2) My clothes were getting super tight
    3) I looked horrible in photos (even wearing spanx)
    4) and the last finally straw..... When some ask when your baby is due, and you've never been pregnant
  • Lieridder
    Lieridder Posts: 7 Member
    I had a smooth and scarless skin, until 3 weeks ago, suddenly I was 5 stretchmarks richer. Then I looked up a picture of me in summer 2012. I had a flat tummy! (how can i not have cherished that haha, guess you don't know what you have until it's gone).
  • smiller750
    smiller750 Posts: 1
    oh my gosh! I thought I was the only person out there having muscles cramps when I wipe! Time to start using my muscles more!
  • lejenn
    lejenn Posts: 9 Member
    My last straw was feeling sharp pain in my knees if I went up too many stairs, or heel pain if I stood for too long. I used to have to wear heel inserts in my shoes at all times except when showering/sleeping otherwise my feet would hurt too bad. After dropping some of the weight, I don't have to wear those inserts anymore and I have no pain whatsoever going up stairs or standing prolonged periods of time, but I still have more work to do to be completely healthy :)
  • watchhillgirl
    watchhillgirl Posts: 597 Member
    I was praised for being an amazing opera singer, but was also told that I wouldn't make it far if I didn't fit the bill physically. Fitness standards, visually and physically, in classical performance have changed dramatically (lil tongue in cheek for you).

    I want a legendary career.

    I love opera!! Most people expect (because they have never been to the opera) that opera singers are fat but most are not! It s physically and mentally demanding! Most people couldn't handle the demands!! Good luck on your journey! Would love to see you perform sometime!
  • votkuhr
    votkuhr Posts: 276 Member
    There were many straws for me ;)

    1. I just didn't like my body at all. I was really repulsed by what I looked like under my clothes. That kind of mentality didn't do well for my self-esteem.

    2. I was hanging out with girlfriends who were HOT, so the pressure kind of sunk in.

    3. My family has a long line of diabetes and high blood pressure conditions. I didn't want to be part of that.

    4. People were starting to take pot shots at my size.

    And then BAM! Enough was enough. Deep down, I knew that I had the power to change myself and my thinking. And that's what I did.. :)
  • scaraway138
    scaraway138 Posts: 13
    I have begun to feel like I am literally "rolling" out of bed because of the fat.
  • B406095
    B406095 Posts: 6
    Well, I was overweight before but then I quit smoking last summer and I've piled on a load more weight. I'm limited to wearing a few outfits as I refuse to buy new clothes the next size up. I loathe the way I look and the fact that I'm so unfit.
    It's time for a life change.
  • Mary_Eliz29
    Mary_Eliz29 Posts: 11
    Losing my job a few days ago. Made me realise I need to get serious and do this weight loss thing properly.
  • nonnironni
    nonnironni Posts: 9 Member
    gained 30 pounds since i got married and moved out of state. i quit my job and didn't have to work anymore, so i sat around the house munching and drinking soda all day. my stomach now extends past my breasts( not sucking it in) and i am so disgusted with my self. i used to be 120 lbs in high school and after i was 142. when i had my son i was 194lbs i got down to 144 and then quit smoking and got back to 166. then i got down to 142 for my wedding and now back to 17.5. I've lost 2 lbs so far and plan to lose another 30. sad thing is when i was 140 i thought i was fat. looking back at pictures, i looked pretty good..
  • Jessica11221
    Jessica11221 Posts: 58 Member
    When out shopping or running errands I would dodge people I hadn't seen in awhile because I didn't want them to see how much I let myself go. This is not an easy task since I live in such a small town. I knew something had to change.
  • Tigredia
    Tigredia Posts: 107 Member
    I had been planning on doing more exercises and lowering my calories. I had a knee replacement in November. My knee doesn't hurt anymore. I have no excuses.

    But, the last draw was when a good friend came over (after losing 55 pounds) and gave me all her fat clothes. I love them, buttttttt I have enough fat clothes of my own.
  • fionat29
    fionat29 Posts: 717 Member
    This last time, it was because I've had a skirt that has fitted me through thin and fat. It's not elasticated, it's a zip up, it just lies really low on my waist when thin and a bit higher as I put on weight.Well, just before the new year I couldn't do it up and sit down. Oops! Lol!
  • rezekiel
    rezekiel Posts: 209 Member
    It just hit me anew. Time for a change. Going to start a new challenge: Summer Sizzle 2014!
  • Spinelli217
    Spinelli217 Posts: 9 Member
    For me, it's when I stepped on a scale and was ready to punch a hole through my wall and when my favorite pair of jeans became to small for me, that's when I knew it was time to make a change!
  • pug52169
    pug52169 Posts: 1
    Mine was when I felt like a stuffed sausage in everything I put on. I also began feeling depressed again and knew my weight was the cause. I also have lost lots of weight before and realized that I was within 35 pouds of gaining back my 75 pound weight loss. I was tired of feeling bad and I wasn't about to buy a bigger size even though I did try to buy full body spanks to shove my fat in them so I could ignore it. Never used them and returned them and went on a food addiction program to beat the addiction.:wink:
  • rondaj05
    rondaj05 Posts: 497 Member
    sad thing is when i was 140 i thought i was fat. looking back at pictures, i looked pretty good..

    I can relate to that!! Moving last year I came across some old pictures and remember at that time being unhappy with my weight. Right now I'd give about anything to look like I did in those pics!!
  • STrooper
    STrooper Posts: 659 Member
    The picture of me at a street fair. It's the one in my pictures in the deep magenta turtleneck. When I saw that I said "Wow! That's not me! Time to do something about this!"
  • amtreth
    amtreth Posts: 3
    i realized that i was done living a life of pain and depression. I have been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called Sjorgen syndrome and a big part of staying off the corticosteroids is loosing weight so that my body doesn't have to fight that as well. It will help me be able to move and enjoy my 1 year old and 2.5 year old. so I am loosing weight, getting active to keep the joints as loose as possible and we shall see how it goes. i have lost 60 lbs before, but of course i got pregnant with my older daughter and that weight loss has dsappeared. now is a time to start again. i have done it once, i can do it again dang it.
  • amtreth
    amtreth Posts: 3
    A friend of mine posted Halloween photo's and this is what she posted of me and I thought it was a cruel sick joke.

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    Could not believe I let myself go that much. I had enough!

    Now that I have a little more time, I'd like to add to this. Before this photo was taken, my dad had a heart attack and found out he was a diabetic. Months before that, my grandmother made the comment that he and I both needed to be tested for diabetes, I didn't want to know, didn't care, was depressed and could careless if I lived or die. After this photo in April, I did find out I was a diabetic. I found out in april because I was pregnant with my last baby, I had a reason to care, found out in my first trimester, had the symptoms of it for quite sometime though. My unborn child was my motivation to take care of me. My dad almost dying was my motivation to not let that ever be me, that photo was my breaking point because I did not ever believe I was that big.

    Proud to say that I'm now healthy and happy! 815 days today of logging!

    YOU are my hero, just thought i would let you know. :)
  • Snow3y
    Snow3y Posts: 1,412 Member
    When I was smacked across the face by some random, total liberty shot.

    I have now never had someone challenge me or lay a hand on me with means to harm me since.
  • ThePinkPenguin
    ThePinkPenguin Posts: 138
    Last year a few days after Valentine's Day and eating chocolate I hopped on the Wii Fit to weigh myself. Saw that I was almost 219 pounds and then my Mii figure blew up and it said I was obese. It's only a video game, but that was enough for me!

    My Wii still blows up but I was 196 before Christmas and I am trying to get back there now.
  • Ahmee2034
    Ahmee2034 Posts: 1,330 Member
    Well I've had a few "last straws" in my time...usually seeing myself in photos...but just recently my lower back pain has got so bad that my previously routine 90 minute off-road dog walks are a thing of the past. I have difficulty putting socks, tights and jeans on, because I can't lift my leg high enough to get my foot in. My hips hurt. I have violent reflux (to the point of regurgitation). I find myself in a UK size 20 (US 16?), when my previous "fat" trousers were a UK 16 (US 12??).

    Seriously, there's only so many years I can keep losing 10lbs and putting 15 back on. I'm 41, I'm ashamed to visit family members and it's got to stop.

    I feel like I wrote this myself. I'm fed up with myself, too. I'd like to be motivation buddies, if you don't mind...
  • AndreaForts
    AndreaForts Posts: 7
    I was unhappy with how much I weighed and then I gained another ten pounds to add to it. I was overweight for my age and it was unhealthy so I decided to start living more healthy :)

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