At what point did you finally decide "this is it..."

I couldn't appropriately reach to latch sandles. It was just...enough.

When I was at 287, I thought to myself I am not even 30 yet and almost weigh 300 pounds, and I said enough is enough.

I wound up in the hospital with pneumonia, was almost 300 pounds, and at one point I could barely walk without my lips and fingernail beds turning blue (I was also a smoker). My decision to quit smoking/start exercising was a mutual killing-of-two-birds and ten months later I am nearly 50 pounds down and a regular runner.

Honestly, there was no real specific thing that made me want to get in shape.
It was move of a "hmm, I should get in shape". So I'm doing just that.

For me, it was when I stepped on the scale and it was 20 pounds over what my "skinny" weight was. It just really shook me up and since then (near two weeks ago) I've really cracked down on myself. I was already exercising and such before then, but counting my calories was an aloof process that I never remembered to record down. Not anymore. I'm exercising hard and log every calorie consumed and burned to this site. I've already seen progress (lost almost 4 pounds this past week), and since I'm lifting (just toning out for now -- hard to build muscle at a calorie deficit), my ideal weight might even be 5-10 over what I thought my "skinny" weight was before. We'll see! If I get to my current goal and still don't feel satisfied, the journey will continue!

Not liking what I saw in pictures. I never felt big IRL and then I saw pics. And was like oh. LOL

Exactly this. When i looked in the mirror, i didn't think i was big (although i knew i was it's like i didn't think it was real?) and at christmas i saw a picture of me and i just could not stand it. I did not recognize the person in the picture at all. 66 pounds later i'm much happier!

When it takes effort to put on socks...! That and breathing hard after climbing stairs

This ^^^

I only started losing weight because of a calorie lesson in physics class. The professor explained how eating at a 500 calorie deficit would lead to losing 1 pound per week and I experimented it on myself. I actually went overboard on the deficit and dropped about 50 lbs in 3 months. I didn't even think I was fat until I saw old pictures.

I know usually we're supposed to do it for us and not other people, but my breaking point was when I realized that my boyfriend wasn't attracted to me anymore. I lost 30 pounds, and nothing changed in our relationship. Turns out, he was just an a**hole.

Now, I keep going because I have gained so much confidence and it makes me feel strong and secure.

It took being told I was diabetic and hypertensive before I took any big leaps into doing something about it.

I went in for an ob/gyn checkup for the first time in 10 years. My blood pressure was 160/97. At 31 years old. The doc was afraid I was going to have a stroke! Sent me to an endocrinologist that very same afternoon.

I was adopted out as a baby.

In June of 2012, I got to meet my biological Aunts for the very first time.

Everyone was floored, amazed, shocked at how me and a certain aunty looked the same, acted the same, gestured the same, same face, same laugh, EVERYTHING.

The only difference was, even with me being at 245lb at the time, this aunt was a couple hundred pounds bigger than me.

I saw my future self that day, and even learned that everyone in the family has type 2 diabetes.

I also had not weighed in quite some time, and it was there I found that I weighed in at 245lb, alone in the bathroom.

That day I was determined to change the family line, and be the one who broke the generational obesity and diabetes.

A few months later, after deep contemplation and beginner efforts, I took my "health oath" (an oath is a very, very serious commitment which not fulfilling is quite punishable and shameful in my religion) and have been going strong every since.

:flowerforyou:

Edited to remove names.

I've had many of those times. I usually manage to lose 20-50 pounds before motivation wanes. Then I gain it back and start over next time.
This time, thanks to MFP I didn't gain during my unmotivated period, so now when I am motivated again, I'm not starting over completely. yay!

Rode mountain bike to a bar 2 blocks away and was out of breath. Decided it was time to get back in shape!

When my friend joined Weight Watchers and let me log into her account and I saw that it was pretty easy.
Then I remembered how I had always told myself "when you move away from your parent's you'll have more control on what you cook and eat" and realized I'd eaten pasta and almost only pasta for a year an a half after moving out.

My mother died at 59, when my daughter was only 5 months old. I am an only child and my daughter is most likely going to be as well. My grandmother and uncle both died prematurely due to health conditions that were made worse due to their weight. I decided that it had to end with me. I had to set an example for my daughter. I want to be able to do more with her AND be able to be around for my daughter as an adult because a girls need for her mama doesn't end in childhood. I know that it is said if you don't do it for yourself first you won't succeed, but I don't believe that. My daughter is my inspiration and I live for her, so she is my number one reason!