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

A guy was trying to get fresh with me and my friend told me everyone knows he only goes after fat chicks :frown: I think I was 15 years old at the time

I could feel the fat rolls on my back move when I walked...eewwwwww! Gaining 15 pounds in the first 3 weeks of Dec will do that to ya

I started feeling worse and worse, no energy. I look frumpy in my clothes. My husband made comments about my eating habits (although, truthfully I didn't eat that badly) and looks (stares) at other women who are much thinner.

Diagnosed with hypothyroid, and finally feeling back to normal after a year of searching what was going wrong with me. (docs kept saying oh, its just perimenopause) then scale started dropping and I have more energy to do my workouts and normal every day things. Came here to keep myself motivated and hopefully moving forward.

What I can't believe is that it's been 8-9 years that I have been heavy. I wish I would have taken notice much earlier and appreciated myself when I was thin. I have no memory of what that felt like and truthfully I really felt like I was thin… even saw a thin person in the mirror. It wasn't until I saw myself in photos with friends I realized I'm the fat girl in the group.

Walking by a mirror in a store and thinking it was another woman - I didn't recognize myself.
Turning sideways and seeing that my belly was now even with my boobs.
Feeling uncomfortable in jeans with "muffin top" and wearing "fat stretchy pants" instead
Realizing that I weigh more now than I did at 9 months pregnant with my daughter.
Not wanting to take meds for my high blood pressure.

lost my pperiods to being such a fat lump

My kids asked me if I was ok? and I said yes, why? They said well you keep breathing really hard. So I jumped on the scale and found that I was about 7 pounds shy of 300. How did this happen? why couldn't I see it? That explains why my seat belt is so tight and my shoes don't fit right. The same reason my husband says I have been snoring so much at night the last 2 years. Guess that also explains my loss of energy and clothes that fit. My husband has bought me 5 new pairs of pants in the last 2 months because I have worn the ones I currently have out between the legs. I immediately have started MyFitnesspal and FOCUS T-25. I pray that I can get healthy and breath easier and not embarrass my kids.

i told myself after i got in the 140's i would never see a 150 again... and then 153- so here i am.

Unexpected health crisis that led to 33 days in the hospital. HELLO - wake up and smell the coffee. 110 days of logging since that date and down 38lbs with another 65 to go. Bad kidney damage so I must make sure I don't develop high blood pressure or diabetes.

Every day I woke up with a massive sugar hangover and then I would cancel plans because I felt so sick all of the time. Finally, after missing an appointment that cost me some bucks, I said ENOUGH and decided to do this. This isn't my first go either, but it's my first serious go in a long time. This time I'm going to view this as a journey, not a destination. My goal isn't to lose XXX amount of weight or get down to a size society deems appropriate, but to feel healthy and good about myself. In the past if I've slipped up I have used it as an excuse to go insane with eating whatever I want and it's not the way to go about things. Wish all of us luck! We can do it

After my youngest son was born (he's 4 now) I had lost over 80 pounds and did a fairly good job of keeping most of it off until the last couple years...just kept slowly gaining it back. I started to realize my clothes, even the ones that used to be very big on me, were now either extremely tight or didn't fit at all...very depressing moment for me. I have gained 30 pounds back. So I decided that the day after Christmas I would start fixing it. I know people say if you're going to do it then DO IT..start today, but allowing myself to have the goodies thru the holiday season helped me i think..personally i believe that even beginning to try at the time of year when all that temptation is around would have just led me to feel incredibly deprived and fail. Plus it was kind of like how ppl say to set a date to quit smoking or any other addiction..it gave me time to mentally prepare or something. When I did start I was READY

was diagnosed with PCOS and was told if I didn't lose the weight, I wouldn't be able to have children. I was fourteen at the time and over 400lbs its 10 years later and I'm 192. Still a way to go, but I'm getting there xx

Finally done reading through everyone's stories! Very inspirational.

I think for me it was around mid-December of 2013--but we'll get to that. I've always been at least somewhat overweight since I was about 10 years old or so (Before that I was actually TOO skinny according to the doctor, but that was because I ended up choking on a piece of candy and was afraid to eat for a month and a half, so I lost a lot of weight and was almost diagnosed anorexic, but that was forever ago! Let's talk about now!). So, yeah. I was probably around 170 or so in high school, then ballooned up after that and made it to 200 lbs when I was about 19...That was a number I always told myself I'd NEVER get to! I always told myself "I'm fine just as long as I never get over 200 lbs!" Well, after a while, I DID get over 200 lbs, and then I suppose I just fell into a depression after that and stopped caring (to a point, I always felt bad about myself for being so over weight but I never had the motivation to lose it).

I eventually weighed myself at some point last year and was a disgusting 273 lbs at 5'4". That was pretty much it for me. I went on a strict diet and only ate around 1000 calories a day (I know, not healthy! This was before I did any real studying about how much I should eat), and I dropped around 36 lbs in 3 months in early 2011...I believe. Then I sort of just sat at around 237-240 lbs for the rest of the year (give or take a few pounds).

Then, mid-December of 2013, I ended up having very bad asthma attacks every night for about a week straight. Asthma was something I've always had, but these were probably the worst attacks I've had, ever. All I could do was sit in bed trying to relax while my boyfriend sat beside me, trying to rub my shoulders to calm me down. I was wheezing and gasping for air and none of my asthma medications I had was working for me (Inhaler, Round Advair disc and a nebulizer). I had probably been taking an absurd amount of puffs from my inhaler a day, to the point I was in danger of overdosing on the stuff since it was affecting my heart rate/beat. I didn't want to go to the hospital because I already had such high bills already that I couldn't pay off due to other years I went in for my asthma.

That was pretty much it for me. I knew that with how bad my asthma already was, the extra weight pushing up/down on my lungs was making it even worse. I was tired of having to sit up almost completely in bed to actually breathe somewhat normally, and I was tired of all the extra fat doing this to me, so I decided to get in shape once and for all. (Okay, the lack of fitting clothes also helped motivate!)

It's mid-January now and although the weight loss is slow, I'm down to 226 lbs, and I'm still showing no signs of stopping my weight loss. Hopefully when I get down to a healthy weight I won't need so many medications to get my asthma under control.

For me it was our family trip to Florida/Disney. I was at my absolute heaviest at 228 pounds. I didn't want to wear a bathing suit, be in any pictures etc. I was ashamed. We spent all this money on a fun/family vacation and I was miserable. Now I'm at 144. I still want to lose a little more and tone up. But I'm getting there :drinker:

Anyone who wants to add me for more motivation feel free.
I'm a SAHM of 4. I'm 29. So if you think we'd be good MFP friends add me

My biggest clothes were getting almost too tight to wear, and I absolutely detest being photographed.
My babies just turned 1, and there are very few pictures of me with them. I want to change that, and be happy to play at the park or beach with them once they are more mobile.

I was refusing social invitations or be in any pictures at family events as none of my 'good' outfits fit and I only have casual clothes in bigger sizes. Not good to turn into a recluse because of your weight:/