So what was your uh oh moment?

Hating every picture I ever see of myself because I look too fat in each one. I never thought I looked fat in the mirror really but when clothes keep getting tighter I know the pictures aren't lying.

I just pulled out my summer clothes. That was depressing. None of my pants fit and my arms are so much thicker than last summer that my tops look embarrassingly bad as well. I refuse to by up a size, so I'm kicking it in high gear...which means I will most likely be wearing skirts most of the summer until I can get the weight off.

Mine is also hating to see myself in pictures!

well i had gone from 140 lbs to 105 lbs over 5 months later, i was cleaning out my pictures and saw a picture from when i was 105 lbs.... my stomach was flat as a board.. when i looked down at my tummy, i had a ROLL hanging over my super duper tight pants..... i was like holy crap, when did this happen!?!?!? how didn't i notice!?! how did i let this happen!?!? then i looked up calorie counter and here i am at 111.6

Laying in the hospital bed, hooked up to oxygen, recovering from a near fatal asthma attack! Thinking to myself I am only 39, what is the rest of my life going to be like?

when I started getting irregular heart beats constantly. My lower back was always hurting...and I actually hit hte 200 mark on the scale. But the irregular heart beats was the scariest part. With a better diet and daily exercise they have stopped. Now I work towards getting smaller all the way around and feeling GOOD! I want to be rid of the back pain. My frontage hurts my backage.

I second this!
sick of "the turn to the side, face only pictures"
Does this angle make me look fat? YES, because I was

Hating every picture I ever see of myself because I look too fat in each one. I never thought I looked fat in the mirror really but when clothes keep getting tighter I know the pictures aren't lying.

Sitting in the ER with blood pressure of 256/147.

Scared skinny.:laugh:

when my mother , who recently lost some weight, gave me some of her old clothes.

Yep...that'll do it! lol!

When I was pushing at morbid obesity, my uh oh moment was going for a leisurely walk with some friends while we talked, and realizing that I could not slowly amble, on a flat surface, without sweating profusely and audibly huffing and puffing.

Recently, when some of the pounds I had lost came back, my uh oh moment came when I tried to put on some pants I had bought TWO months ago, and I get them only a couple of inches past MY KNEES. The rapidity was scarier than the actual pounds!

My uh oh moment was putting on some clothes one day and being unable to hide my stomach - normally I can look decent enough in my clothes (and basically hide my pooch), but one day I went through my closest and nothing I chose would disguise my tummy..........that pissed me off! Another one was every skirt above my knee - I hated the fat right above my knees - nothing looked good on me, and I find that I don't wear short skirts anymore because of my thighs and the fat right above my knees! Oh, and don't get me started on the double chin!

That's when I decided, I gotta lose this weight (tummy and all)!

I was eating some popcorn.
I dropped a kernel, and it landed on my stomach ... and stayed there.
Figured it was time to get rid of THAT 'shelf.'

wow, that has to be an eye opener..

when my mother , who recently lost some weight, gave me some of her old clothes.

Realizing that I only had 2 pair of pants that I could pour myself into - and those were getting tight!

I've had so many "uh oh" moments in the last year. Ranging from seeing myself in pictures to not being able to put on jeans. But I think the worst was this past Easter. I had literally NOTHING to wear to our outside family BBQ because it was all too tight. I had no shorts because I had "grown" out of them all, no cute sun dresses, no cute tops to go with the one pair of jeans I owned that didn't create such an extreme muffin top. I literally had NOTHING. So, I found a pair of old jeans my aunt had given me that were too big for her that were size 10s! I've never been bigger than a size 6! So, I tried them on, and they were too tight!!!!!! Then, I tried on another pair that she had given me (these hand me downs were supposed to go to Goodwill last year and somehow ended up in the back of my closet) and they fit ok...but they were total mommy jeans. I was running out of time and almost didn't even want to go, so I cut them up and turned them into rolled up shorts. They looked ridiculous and may as well have been higher than my belly button. Forget trying to find a cute top to go with these monstrosities, so I had to wear a t-shirt, of course it was too tight, with a bathing suit top underneath so I could make it seem that I planned on getting into the water. I mostly always wear heels, and obviously heels wouldn't go with this hideous outfit...so I wore running shoes. This was my absolute last straw. I was always the one in the cute outfit or dressed somewhat decent. I looked like I should have been gardening or something.

I was so uncomfortable and so miserable and it showed. The next day I signed up for MFP and have been making some changes so I never have to feel the way I felt that day ever again.


*EDIT*: I sound like a total shallow brat going back and reading this story. In short...I guess not having a single thing in my closet that actually fit and having to fashion a pair of shorts out of my aunt's old "fat" jeans would be the gist lol.