What was you're tipping point?

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  • Sweet13_Princess
    Sweet13_Princess Posts: 1,207 Member
    When I became engaged and tried on my wedding dress for the first time. I had to buy it in the largest size possible (I'm blessed with a full bust), but when I tried it on I could hardly get it zipped. I loved it and didn't want to get a new one.... nothing would compare! So, I've been working my tush off, literally, since September.... I hope I need to spend a few hundred on alterations to have it taken in by the end. I want to look pretty for Dan on our wedding day. I don't want to look back at our pictures and focus on how fat I was.:-/

    Shannon
  • binary_jester
    binary_jester Posts: 3,311 Member
    I have some facial hair on my chin. I kept it there as proof i successfully completed puberty as the sad lack of hair on my legs was not an indicator. I have found it difficult to keep it properly trimmed and shaped. One morning out of a sleep-encrusted eye, I jacked it up beyond repair (proof that sharp objects are a hazard in the morning for me). With a sigh of resignation, I shaved it off. To my amazement, I realized my goatee effectively hid my 2nd chin. I stood there staring at it in abject horror. For the next 2 days, every time I looked in the mirror, it reminded me of how out of shape I was and I was helpless to immediately resolve it. Oh, I could have shaved a spot off the cat and pasted it back on, but the cat is white, which would have looked strange and worse, he and I weren't on speaking terms at the time.
    So I then decided it was time the Chin family moved out. My first step was to buy a bottle of rogaine and slather it on my chin.
    But more importantly, it got me back in the gym.
  • dmedina
    dmedina Posts: 10
    I got tired of being "fluffy". I don't use the words "fat" or "obese", they hurt. I think I just snapped; i drove to a nutritionist and in 11 weeks have lost 21 lbs. Because of the holiday, I am weighing in tomorrow morning.
  • dmedina
    dmedina Posts: 10
    I got tired of being "fluffy". I don't use the words "fat" or "obese", they hurt. I think I just snapped; i drove to a nutritionist and in 11 weeks have lost 21 lbs. Because of the holiday, I am weighing in tomorrow morning.
  • FireRox21
    FireRox21 Posts: 424 Member
    I have some facial hair on my chin. I kept it there as proof i successfully completed puberty as the sad lack of hair on my legs was not an indicator. I have found it difficult to keep it properly trimmed and shaped. One morning out of a sleep-encrusted eye, I jacked it up beyond repair (proof that sharp objects are a hazard in the morning for me). With a sigh of resignation, I shaved it off. To my amazement, I realized my goatee effectively hid my 2nd chin. I stood there staring at it in abject horror. For the next 2 days, every time I looked in the mirror, it reminded me of how out of shape I was and I was helpless to immediately resolve it. Oh, I could have shaved a spot off the cat and pasted it back on, but the cat is white, which would have looked strange and worse, he and I weren't on speaking terms at the time.
    So I then decided it was time the Chin family moved out. My first step was to buy a bottle of rogaine and slather it on my chin.
    But more importantly, it got me back in the gym.

    Best. Post. Ever. !!!!! Pure Hilarity.

    For me, it was seeing the playback of my first swim meet in 10 years. My fiance was recording my swims and he just had to hit record when I climbed up on the blocks. All you could see in the little camera screen was my giant butt. I was mortified. I cried and cried, then cried some more. Oh, and the pictues he took of me in the kitchen in a tank top pointing at a GIANT pot of spaghetti that we had just cooked. Absolutely awful.
  • doublexhelix
    doublexhelix Posts: 199 Member
    i had gotten broken up with by my then-boyfriend of a little over a year (my longest relationship). it wasn't due to weight or anything like that, but i was feeling pretty down after it, and decided to get into shape to attract the next one!


    also, just for your information, he and i are friends again.
  • thektturner
    thektturner Posts: 228 Member
    Going over 200 pounds for the first time in my life.
    I knew I was fat before that, but I'm married and wasn't trying to attract anyone so I had a hard time motivating myself to REALLY do anything about it. But 202 pounds was NOT acceptable for me! And standing next to my sister and not feeling like a giant would be nice (she's 6" shorter and probably 90 pounds lighter than I was).
  • Mamoonie
    Mamoonie Posts: 328
    My tipping point was a rather slow motion :-)
    During this summer, the family of my son's girlfriend talked about having a beach holiday next year. I LOVE beach holidays, sunbathing, swimming, high temperatures... but my family prefers not so hot weather, no sunbathing, rather visiting places etc. So I thought I could join them for that holiday, I wouldn't have to have that holiday all alone, and still not bother my family about it.

    They are all slim and fit, and I am not :-(
    I looked forward to a holiday and feel ashamed of the way I'd look beside them. These thoughts developped over days and weeks and slowly turned into the wish to loose some of the weight and look less big next summer.

    I've been struggling these past few days though: they decided to go to a different place for holidays now :-(
    My motivation goal has disappeared and I haven't found a new one yet and I had a hard week accepting this. I haven't given up loosing weight, but I was quite down for a few days.
    Maybe I find somebody else to join me (my daughter offered but I always thought she was the visiting kind of person), and I'll get that beach holiday next summer!

    MM
  • haileemou
    haileemou Posts: 153
    My wedding dress arrived and it isnt a comfortable fit! I also have a hiatal hernia, slipped disc in back and i need to lose weight to feel comfortable and get well
  • Moogie2
    Moogie2 Posts: 3
    I saw a gorgeous coat - tried it on and looked like a whale in it.

    The diet begins!

    :)
  • Sugar_Apple
    Sugar_Apple Posts: 951 Member
    Seeing myself in pictures I took around Easter....
    I was almost 200 pounds my biggest ever
  • Kimdbro
    Kimdbro Posts: 922 Member
    The mirror had stopped lying.
  • skeetpea
    skeetpea Posts: 241 Member
    It was pictures that were taken at my Grandmother's 80th birthday in September. I got them back in October and they put me in a state of shock. I had known that I was overweight, but that person was not who I see in the mirror everyday. Maybe it is because I was standing around with the rest of my not-so-fat family that put it in perspective. I literally was the heaviest person there and it made me cry. So I found the MFP app on my android phone and here I am 1.5 months later and 19 lbs down. I am so not stopping until I reach my goal.
  • kennedar
    kennedar Posts: 306 Member
    Booking the appointment with the infertility specialist. I realized that I could keep eating the way I was and keep gaining weight and never be a mother, or I could get my weight under control and actually give the meds a chance to work. I weighed in the day of my dr appointment as "overweight", which was the first time in over a year I was not in the "obese" category, which made me so happy. I am now healthy enough to carry a baby to term, if and when it happens for us. Even better, the dr that day said that my weight should no longer impact our efforts to get pregnant! I am going to keep trying to lose weight until we get pregnant, but in the meantime I know that if this is our month the baby will have the best chance at being healthy that I can give him/her.
  • PrincessPudgy
    PrincessPudgy Posts: 59
    I've tried a lot to lose weight, but for some reason I'm more determined this time around. I think the main thing that happened that made me more determined was that my Nana went to the hospital with chest pains. I'm very close to my Nana, and when I found out she was at the hospital I thought "I don't want her to die without ever seeing me fit and healthy." I know that might sound a little selfish, but she's always been encouraging me to lose my weight.

    I've had a lap band and the weight has still stuck around. I think I just want to prove to people that I can do this.

    I also just want to be fit, healthy and confident in myself. I want to find love and I feel like my weight makes me so self concious that I won't ever be able to find it in my current state.

    I'm also sick and tired of having to spend more on clothes, and miss out on all the younger clothes because they don't make clothes for plus sized people here like they do for the smaller sizes. I can't wait to pick up a cute dress off the rack, or a nice pair of jeans. :)
  • Finallyhappy03
    Finallyhappy03 Posts: 11 Member
    My uncle was doing some remodeling at my house and he had to widen a doorway to get an appliance out of my kitchen. At one point he looked at me and said "if you get any bigger you won't be able to fit through this doorway, even after I finish widening it". Ouch! The next day I was on this site and have lost 12 pounds since September.
  • BrentGetsFit
    BrentGetsFit Posts: 878 Member
    I bought some new shorts and shirts off the rack because I knew my size, got back home and they were too tight. It was then I noticed that my belt was on the last hole, when did that happen? So I stepped on the scale and it was over 300, good lord!
  • lacroyx
    lacroyx Posts: 5,754 Member
    Fell asleep @ work. Got caught, warned. Didn't wanna lose job. Figured it was sleep apenea. Found out it was type 2 diabetes from doctor. I sleep much better now and almost down 100lbs!
  • Delicate
    Delicate Posts: 625 Member
    Why did i start working out? the endorphine rush and was increasing my confidence, my gym was pretty cheap too, the classes are infectious

    Why did i start getting ride of weight through dieting? I was reading about pcos that i got diagnosed with a number of years ago but never did all that much about it (complained mostly) until i came across syndrome x/metabolic syndrome can be linked with it (pcos for dummies and even wiki!) told i was prediabetic too, so started taking the drugs for it, it scared me into action, went from bmi of almost 34 to 25.5, still need to get to my goal which is 23 lol.
  • alantin
    alantin Posts: 621 Member
    High blood pressure.

    That and finding out that exercise doesn't have to be dull. I can do stuff that I like! Now I'm addicted to training. :tongue:
  • maurap26
    maurap26 Posts: 90 Member
    Back in May I was in I.C.U. with a severe rare pnemonia (hope I spelled that right) After 10 days in there, it took me about 4 months to recover enough to start walking 30 min. It was then that my Dr. ordered tests & we found out that my cholesterol was high & I am pre-diabetic. The diabetic clinic said that I have this time to turn things around & not get diabetes.
    So, I joined a gym, started going & started eating better
    I now go to the gym around 4-6 times/wk & keep track of everything that I eat
    I go back in Dec. to be re-tested again (fingers crossed)
  • krishatherley
    krishatherley Posts: 17
    for me it's to feel more confident when going out, as am a bit of a hardcore clubber, and like to get hot and take my top off when out. all the muscle boys in the clubs look great, and i got a belly, so its soon to be bye bye belly!
  • alantin
    alantin Posts: 621 Member
    Back in May I was in I.C.U. with a severe rare pnemonia (hope I spelled that right) After 10 days in there, it took me about 4 months to recover enough to start walking 30 min. It was then that my Dr. ordered tests & we found out that my cholesterol was high & I am pre-diabetic. The diabetic clinic said that I have this time to turn things around & not get diabetes.

    Some motivation!
  • Jourdan_Rystrom
    Jourdan_Rystrom Posts: 176 Member
    For me, it was seeing 155 on the scale and looking in the mirror hardly recognizing myself. I could grab a chunk of my arm and belly fat with my hand, and it felt DISGUSTING.

    Since then, I'm 16 pounds lighter! yay :)
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