What was your straw that broke the camels back?

I guy I used to be interested in (USED TO being the key word) called me a fat *kitten*.

Mine was simple but powerful for me. I was looking through my closet and realized that I was going to need more work pants really soon and that the ones that I had were getting old and TIGHT. I told my husband this, and he said that since I needed new ones anyways I could just get the next larger size since these were getting tight!! This was something that I was thinking, but when he said it out loud, it sounded way too horrible to even consider. I did not want to go to the store and look for size 18 pants!!

I decided right then and there that I was going to do somehting about this, or have to walk around without pants. I promised myself I would not buy size 18!! I bought a case of slim fast shakes, not knowing what else to do. I got online and searched around and found this site the same night. I drank two shakes a day for two weeks and counted calories on here. I didnt stick long with the shakes, but it was a good way to begin cutting back on calories and getting used to the changes.

I went shopping after that two weeks and fit comfortabaly into size 16 again. It wasnt a huge step but it wasnt the 18's!! I am now down 22 lbs, the same size still fits, but I can see and feel SMALL changes happening, and I know that I will not be an 18 EVER in my LIFE!!!

Also looking at pics from a friends wedding which was a year after mine, and I looked sooooo much bigger!! Gaining weight is not the way to spend your first married year!!

I have 4 major reasons that all happened within 2 weeks of each other!!

1. My husband tagged me in a picture he uploaded to his facebook and it not only offended me but pissed me off.......Why? Because that picture "made me" look like a whale. So, when I confronted him about it, his response was "What's wrong with that picture, it's a good picture of you and Ally (my daughter)." I was absolutely disgusted with myself, because that person in that picture, that whale, was me and that is how I looked to the entire world. The picture did not make me look fat, that's who I was! :frown:

2. When I told my gorgeous chunky 5 year old that she wasn't having another snack because she was eating a little too much, she told me, "I want to have a big fat belly like you Momma." :embarassed:

3. After those first two instances I decided to get on the scale (let me add that all of my clothes were really tight, I wore my work scrubs all of the time). I stepped on the one at work, and had to move the bar to 300, I weighed 306lbs. I broke down crying.

4. Health Fair at work, I had my cholesterol checked. My total was great, my HDL on the other hand was in the low 30's (major risk for heart disease). So, I was in a major risk for heart disease in my 20's. Pretty scary stuff. :noway:

I started starving myself immediately, then realized I needed to make a lifestyle change as did my entire family. So here I am, 5 months later and 55lbs lighter.

the straw that broke my back was going from this



to this




(the bottom picture was at my biggest,i have since lost almost 40 pounds)

For me it was having to link 4 large safety pins together because I couldn't zip up the zipper up on a size 16 skirt. It just killed me because I had nothing or no one to blame it on but me. My kids are in they're late teens and early 20's and I had no problem losing weight after having them. In fact I was in the best shape of my life after having my kids. I've lost about 50lbs in the past year but still have 15 to go before being at the top of my healthy weight range and another 15 before hitting my goal. One day at time.....

Mine was this past Christmas at my daughters for Christmas dinner, she took pic's of everyone there. She took a pic of me playing on the wii with my youngest daughter. Posted it on FBK and I saw it a day or two later and was floored. I really have never seen myself that large, and it was like running into a brick wall... I started on New's Year Day and said NO MORE.... It's been good since, and I will achieve my goal...

My parents. My mom cooked most meals at home but she wasn't the greatest cook so we had a lot of processed foods. It was never anything that was obviouslly unhealthy, and nobody was overweight. My dad had had heart troubles in the past and recently found out he has diabetes. NOW, in his 70's, he has to change his diet. I started eating healthier when I was in my 20's so I know how daunting it can be. Especially when you learn that things you used to enjoy, and you thought were healthy, are actually not the best choices.
Now, with my dad's diagnosis, I'm moving into a much more natural diet for myself as well. I had always been eating cold/boxed cereals, healthy choice (or similar brands) frozen dinners, diet versions of everything... and I thought I was so healthy. Yes, there are worse choices, but my parents thought they were making good choices as well. So now I'm trying to go as natural as possible. I still have some things to shuffle around and adjust, but I can tell you that it is MUCH easier for me to do since I was already kind of conscious of what I was eating than for my dad who is having to get used to the flavors. They actually come to me for advice LOL.

And, yes I realize that the flavors from the more ntaural versions of something, ie: sprouted/whole grain bread as opposed to white bread, are so much better but if you're used to the processed things than it can be an aquired taste.

:noway: :noway: I had been really slack looking after my health/weight, and am now almost twice (in weight) the woman i used to be, my knees hurt going upstairs, i injured them last summer and they haven't been the same since, and i know all this weight isn't helping the situation. At my fittest/slimmest i was a size 10/12 in jeans, now i'm a size 18 pushing a 20, I love fashion and especially shoes, I want to wear what i want, not the horrid things that fit :grumble: , only one way to be able to do that and thats to drop a couple dress sizes, so here i am:happy: .....Yvonne :flowerforyou:

Mine was when I happened upon the MFP app on my phone & out of pure curiosity decided to log that days meals. Wow...I was shocked, over 2500 calories, way over the fat recommended & so much sugar that I was grateful I had not yet become diabetic. Have stuck with it for nearly a month now & have no plans on going back to eating like that ever again. I had searched weight lose apps because I hit that number on the scale that I vowed I'd never be.

My doctor and the nutritionist basically told me I was fat the nutritionist added that I was toxic as well, LOL ..