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

My clothes which were already only one size below the national average (UK Size 16) and I gained weight meaning those clothes were starting to feel tight, a number of them only recently bought. Currently wanna get back to my original weight right now which is losing 2-3 stone, then drop more til I'm in a healthy range, but not super skinny.

I joined a dance class and watching my overweight self be so uncomfortable with dance moves all the while watching myself in the huge giant mirrors in front was it!
Also just before that while visiting family, unnecessary comments from far relatives and also clothes shopping! I had to start buying clothes from Big stores :noway: Now i am in Medium :drinker:

Not having any energy! That was the worst for me! Coming home after work, shower and lay down. No energy for the family. Same on the weekends. Just sitting around all day feeling tired and drained.
I had enough of it and had to make a change!! It feels so much better to wake up in the morning ready for the day!

Breathing hard just walking up a flight of stairs was a tip off I was way too overweight. Not being able to give myself a pedicure anymore. And then I saw the pictures of me at my wedding the other day. So many people took side view pictures and I was horrified. So my new hubby and I are very motivated to lose weight and get healthy! Just started the journey yesterday..

I'm going to be 50 in January. 18 months ago, I just decided that it was time to get my act together. I set 2 goals to reach by the time I reach the big 5-0.
#1 - lose the weight, permanently. I started at 165 lbs. I'm just 5 feet tall, so that was heavy for me. I weighed more than I did during any of my pregancies. 32 lbs down and I am almost at GW.
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#2 - master eyeliner, LOL. Still practicing on that. :laugh:

I met my half-sister and wanted to look like her...I always thought the weight was in my family because everyone was...curvey.

Yeah not so much.

My husband left for 14 weeks and I guess I just wanted him to see me in a different way. I put on nearly 70lbs since we first met 5 years ago.

I haven't been doing it long enough to know if I'm serious but I want to be. I have always been a chubby guy and I'm not really ashamed of it because I just think I make a good fat guy... anyways I'd always say "Come on it's not like I'm 300lbs or anything. Then I was in the Dr. with a serious (so I thought) health scare (like an extra lump where only two should be) and when I got on the scale I always push the weight to where I think it should be because they always try and be too kind, anyways I kept pushing it and it didn't balance off till 298lbs and I was in utter shock. I had gained 20lbs in less than a year. The Dr. says your in here because you are scared that you have something serious, but your weight is your most serious health issue... Here I am, hoping this time I'm serious!

For all of my teens and twenties I was obese, but didn't mind. Seriously. It felt normal for me and I didn't have any problems with work, friends, relationships, clothes, etc. I had loads of energy and was GENERALLY healthy. I had no health issues, normal BP and blood sugar and periods, didn't take medicine, etc. But...yes I was very obese.

Then at 30-32 I started a new career and gained 40-50 lb mainly from stress eating and having $$ to dine out all the time. I turned into a type of person I'd never been before...I had trouble walking up stairs or long distances. My ankles & feet swelled in the summer. I felt gross even in my baggy 3X tops. It was just time for change, I couldn't continue feeling "like that". I started hating every non-face pic of myself and hiding even from fun social outings...I had always been obese but never "like that".

So I lost 45 lb before joining this website (through exercising a LOT more and laying off the Starbucks) and I kept it off for a couple years.

At that point, I was back to my normal self. Fat & happy. Really. I wasn't miserable. The only problem I had was being embarrassed if my boobs and belly were touching the table when my friends insisted on a booth, or cringing at full length photos because was I really THAT much bigger than all of my girlfriends?!? But I felt great.

Joining My Fitness Pal for me was a great thing because it has taught me a lot about what I actually eat...calorie wise and nutritionally. I have not had any problems at all losing 85 lb since I joined in March 2013. It has honestly felt much easier to me than the 45 lb I lost before I joined, when I was clueless about calories and thought cereal with milk was a light healthy breakfast. Now I'm at my lowest weight since middle school (I'm 37).

Christmas this year, I seen a photo of me playing video games with my mum and thought "who the hell is that fat guy".

After being extremely skinny for the first 29 years, I had then all of a sudden gained a but load of weight out of no where.

5-6 months later I am back to 63kg (from 83kg).

was the best wake up call ever

When it took effort to tie my shoes and I ran out to breath walking up the stairs - i said enough is enough and started to watch what i eat.

6 weeks ago when one day I say the scale and thought.. "hmm, I wonder what I weigh" because the last time I had weighed just a few months before I was around 180, I got on the scale and it said "205"... I stepped off and I started crying, I had a major epiphany, it was terrible.

OMG this is exactly me.. exactly. It has been months since I stepped on a scale and I did the other day and it was 207. It hurts, but it definitely was the kickstarter I needed to get on track.

When my fat jeans no longer fit and hurt to button.

When I was wearing my fat jeans at work, sitting all day, and I just couldn't take it anymore, I just had to unbutton them. It's a good this I had a long shirt. Lol :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I wanted to participate in track and field in high school. My doctor hesitated to give me the OK to do so because of my weight (BMI of over 37). She also tested me for pre-diabetic. I realized then that I wasn't heading for a fun life if I didn't get my health in check.

When I got my driver's license renewed and saw the picture. It was disappointing to say the least. I had gone from a perfectly healthy weight to obese and it really showed in the pictures. Heck my passport picture is still from when I was at a healthy weight.