Remember the day you said enough is enough?????

good for you, I hate that it has to take rock bottom for us to see the light, but now we have each other to help one another.

mine, was October 2010, when I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and was just tired of being FAT!

mine was recently in early December 2010 and it was actually a process over a matter of days. i lost my car and saw myself forced to ride the bus. i remembered cycling daily in my early 20s and really wanted to pick that up again. at 268 lbs, i realized there was no way my FAT butt would survive a bike ride even for just a block. that made me sad, but as always i brushed it off and ignored the need to take care of myself. a couple of days later, i was trying to decide what to do for my birthday (12/30), when i realized there's a 230lb weight limit to sky diving... that triggered a series of thoughts and emotions 'causing everything around me to come crashing down on me. so on December 10, 2010 i walked into LA Fitness and signed up for a gym membership for the first time in my life. On 12/15/2010, i started a year long program with a personal trainer, four times a week. here I am now, almost a month later, and so far i've lost 17 pounds.

It was always "my plan" to get my body back after dedicating it to having children. However, in the meantime, I used being pregnant and going through fertility treatments (although the drugs did affect my hormones, the burgers and fries affected my weight even more) as my excuse not to do what I could in the meantime to get healthier.

Being blessed with so many healthy children already, I was a paranoid freak during this last pregnancy. How could God bless me AGAIN with a healthy child? Why am I so worthy? I decided during my pregnancy to start working out and eating healthier and being a better example for my kids. How dare I use them as my excuse for stuffing my face with unhealthy food and not exercising! It was MY fault- not theirs... so I got my *kitten* up and did something about it.

Previous pregnancies I gained 40+ lbs... because of my changes, I only gained 21 lbs this time! I had a beautiful baby girl on July 7. I also had a tubal that same day... no more babies for us... time to get serious about being the hot woman I always wanted to be!

I started the pregnancy at 196 lbs and ended at 217 lbs. After her birth, I upped the healthy eating and water in order to breast feed. A month after her birth, I was at 186 lbs and on her 1 month birthday, August 7, 2010, I joined this site and REALLY became dedicated and I haven't looked back.

My life changed on August 7, 2010. I am now in the best shape of my life and I'm still going. Most cannot believe I have 5 kids, just finished graduate school in December, worked full time (now staying home), and STILL manage to eat right and exercise. It is possible!!! How bad do you want it?!?

Mine was Monday, December 27, 2010 at 309 pounds.

11/16/2010, 221 lbs. I had just finished reading Portia de Rosi's book about her battles with eat disorders. I realized that, while I was on the other end of the spectrum, I still had struggled with disordered eating for a very long time. I started really examining what I was putting in my mouth and why, and have started moving through the denial I was living in.

My day of had enough? Well..one would think when I was told I was morbit obese by my doctor, or the time when I was told I had to loose weight due to sleep apnea....or just the gross feeling I had daily with the weight I had gained. I got hurt in the Navy back in Feb of 1993. That was when my weight just started going up and up....I will fast forward from that..to last january/feb time frame. I was taking my son on the Max Train system we have here in Oregon. He said, "Dad when are you going to lose weight so you can play with me?"
Wow, what a blow to the Ego of being a dad.. I told him I will lose the weight buddy....I was at 326ls.... I started on Feb 17, 2010 with a weight loss suplement....and dropped some weight, but On may 17th 2010...I started working out 24hr fitness...and changed my eating habits...I am now down to 249.8lbs...was in a size 57 pants down to a size 42 pants......
Jim A

Not too long ago for me, but the day I stepped on the scale after playing the 'denial' game for months on end in early December 2010 and hit 210. I also saw a bunch of photos of me that friends had taken on some outings, and I was just disgusted. I still am. I've not lost enough to lose the disgusted feeling yet. I've lost 11lbs sofar, and have 54 more to go. Feels like it's taking forever...

1. July 2010- My husband and I took our 2 kids (ages 6 and 3) camping. I watched my kids have a water baloon fight with some other kids and their parents as I sat in a lounge chair in the shade because I was too tired, too hot and too fat to get up and run around with them. I was soooo mad! It should not be someone else playing with my kids, it should be me! That's when I joined and lost 20 lbs.

2. Had a short relapse and restarted again 1/3/10 after watching a video someone recorded of me and some friends dancing to Just Dance 2 on the wii and actually seeing myself. I avoid all cameras and video normally, but was having a blast. The next day, I seen myself dancing next to 2 skinny chicks! I don't want to be that person anymore!

Down 3.6 lbs since 1/3/11!!

6/15/10<

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When I realized that only 10lbs out of the 52lbs I gained during my pregnancy was off my body after delivery and 3mths of brestfeeding! And I lost all 10lbs the night she came into the world.