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

Confidence is invaluable... but without wisdom, it can be dangerous.

wow-- that is so true. i felt the same was through high school and college. thank you for sharing

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January 12, 2011. I was getting ready for work and my favorite pants would not go on. I whined to my husband and he went out and bought me EA Sports Active 2. I did a 20-minute workout and thought I was going to die! But I decided no video game was going to get the better of me and kept at it. A week or so later I decided I needed to track calories too and found the MFP iPhone app.

39 lbs later, the pants don't fit again--I donated them to charity 2 months ago!

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I always knew I was heavy and wanted to change but never had the motivation. This sounds really gross but one day at my heaviest weight 249 lbs.... I couldn't even reach to wipe after using the bathroom because my back rolls were so big. I had to do it the WRONG way. I burst into tears and knew THAT day that I HAD to do something. I wasn't going to let myself do it anymore. After a week I could wipe the right way again. I was DETERMINED and I will NEVER let myself get that way again!

Also around the same time my friend came up to me telling me that she didn't want to hurt my feelings but thought I should know that my bosses were talking bad about me and she overheard them. She said the reason that I couldn't work on the weekends was because I was sooo big and slow and got in the way. That hurt me soo bad.

In Feb of this year. My knees and back hurt so bad that I had to start using the motorized cart to finish grocery shopping. It was too much to spend even 15 minutes walking around getting my stuff. :embarassed:

After another christmas of hiding from the camera. Not being able wear the clothes i wanted.
Missing out on fun nights out because i felt like crap. Enough was enough.
I am one of these people that put things off because of my weight. I know people bigger than me that do not and wish i could be like them. I started to see i was wasting my life "waiting" to lose weight instead of living it.
I had wanted to go traveling for years but told myself not until i lose weight but did nothing about it. Years went by.
So after christmas i got my visa,booked the tickets and am going august 24th.
I have lost 14 lbs, done a 10 week course of zumba(have two more before i go aswell as starting ck25 & shred)
I will do this and stop putting my life on hold

This is such a great topic!

Mine was April 5, 2011, when my doctor told me that was my blood sugar was so out of control that I was going to need to go on insulin to get it to where it should be. The three maxxed oral meds weren't doing it for me. The next day, I started counting calories and really paying attention to what I was eating. Two weeks later, I joined MFP and since then, I've lost ALMOST 30lbs.

March 15, 2011. I got on the scale and I was the same weight I was the day I left the hospital after giving birth to my daughter in May 2009. I realized she was almost 2 years old and I still haven't lost the 'baby weight'. I was still wearing the same clothes I wore months after giving birth - I had enough.

The 'finally going to do it' decision was a conversation I had with a friend. I told her I wanted to do something about my weight and her statement to me was, "I'm not going to lose any weight, I don't want to buy new clothes". Well I DID want to buy new clothes and I didn't want them to be a size 12 still. So I told her, "I AM going to buy new clothes, and they're not going to be a size 12 or XL". My last shopping trip I bought a size 4 shorts!!! I think I'll donate my 'fat' clothes to her

Sept 10, 2010
Decided I was going to start living for me. Everyone has always come first but me. My girls are all grown and on their own and now it's my time to do for me, make me happy, make me the person I know I am 100%

Mine, for real this time cuz it hurt, was June 4, 2011. I was getting ready for a family function and glancing at myself in the mirror...I actually saw what my body has become...I had (operative word now) the body of an overweight 60 yr. old. woman. I just turned 36! In my head, the image of me is of when i was at my fittest, hottest. But boy was that a reality check to actually 'see' what I have become!! I have always felt and acted young, but seeing that did it for me. My kids don't deserve to be embarrased by mommy, my hubby should be proud to have me on his arm ... looking like this ain't gonna happen.
so that's it...

Thanksgiving 2010, I had my family in from out of state
I have been working on scrap books for my grandkids
both 2 yrs old one boy and girl, When i realized there was
no pictures of me with them EVER and all the ones we had taken
the holiday weekend only one of me and i deleted it!
I knew then i wanted them to always have memories of me
I have lost 41 lbs total 30 to go

For as long as I can remember I have been overweight; morbidly obese to be exact. I can remember seeing those words on a doctors report in '88, when sent to Halifax when I was pregnant for my daughter; seeing that word was a shock to me, obese was bad enough, but seeing "morbidly" attatched was an OMG. You would think that would have been a wake up call I needed, but no.

In '88 my daughter passed away from SIDS. With numerous failed attempts with diets over the years, my bad habits and emotional eating continued. The secret of how much I weighed to family and friends was kept, and at times even a secret from myself. When one doesn't fit into store bought clothes or can get on a normal scale, you build a life of hiding, avoid it, therefore the problem doesn't exist.

I ended in the hospital with a ruptured appendix that nearly killed me, (I was 445 lbs then) and subsequesnt appendectomy later in the fall of '86. It was late that fall that my brother told my mother how much I weighed, he had heard it (as well as other stories the surgeon boasted of) around the supper table at his friends house. The friend's mom was a surgical nurse in the OR where I had had my surgery. I wrote the hospital, and never heard anything back. My faith in doctors needless to say diminished.

In "92 I was rushed into emergency surgery for what they thought an incarcerated hernia, but when opened up, found a very large abcess, which remained open to heal. I was in the hospital 10 weeks... then my father passed away and I then was let out and went back to emerge daily for dressing changes. Still had a hernia. I had lost some weight in the following year...but as always gained what I had lost and then some.

In September of 2009 I reached my biggest. The exact weight I am not sure, but looking back I would have to say I was at least 550 pounds, if not more. Being laid off in January and having been in emergency the day before with pain due to the hernia; it was revealed that my gut was fully outside my abdominal wall. The doctor had told me that if I was to be rushed into emerge with a perforation, they would be able to open me up but not close me. So elective surgery was a must and he would put a referral into Dr Klassin in Halifax to see me. My health was in bad need of a turn around. I went home, got on my diabetic diet, watched my bloodsugars, took my insulin, and then after a month of not hearing anything I called the doctors office. I inquired of the referral, of which I got the run around, and in throwing a fit finally got a response that they would call Dr Klassins office for I wasn't allowed. I never heard back. and being fed up, gave up and began to eat whatever i wanted once again.

On Sept 25th 2009 my life changed. A wake up call on health issues that will forever be burned in my memory. My husband of 25 years was diagnosed with High Blood pressure, High Cholesterol, Diabetes and Penile cancer. He had an immediate amputation. Lymphadenectomy followed, he then had a heart attack, went into cardiac arrest, paddled back, heart cath/stent put in, genital edema, subsequent surgury for what they thought a perineal abcess but found to be a reoccurring tumor of the kind before and had mestates in the lungs. Curtis passed away July 14th, 2010.

In helping Curtis get his diet on track, diabetes & cholesterol controlled, I too hopped on the band wagon and have been on ever since. Eventhough I have had my moments, they are short lived for I am determined to keep this path I am on to a heathier me. In September '09 I was on 90 units of insulin in the am and 80 units at night. Today I am on 22 units in the am and 11 units at night, and am fitting into 3x clothes I can buy in a store!

I started seeing the doctor regularly the end of July, in which she got me into see Doctor Dzierzanowski who referred me to Dr Ellsmere.

Finally on Tuesday Feb 22nd I received a call from Dr.Ellsmere's office on Feb 24th.

Dr. Ellsmere said he would put me on the Weight Loss Program, and once 30 pounds down (was weighed in at 430lbs) I would have the first surgery so to lose weight. Then once down to 250 I would have a hernia repair. He said in two years I will have this fixed. I was to get the website url and read all I could, and Diane would call me with the date.

Well since then I have lost the 30 lbs the Dr wanted...and more. I am off blood pressure meds. Have done my 3 week trial liquid diet.. I walk daily and follow the plan. I have my first appointment with the Weight loss team next week.

It's been a rough few years and although my husband is no longer able to walk this journey of healthiness with me..i walk alone and will continue with it. .. Ive lost 175 pounds (if not more) so far and I will continue on this road to healthiness.

I went to the beach and remembered feeling very insecure when I saw all the younger girls running around in bikinis with perfect beach bodies!!

I started my journey, I suppose, on Jan 3, 2011. It was one of those, blurry, undefined "New Years Resolutions". I began exercising lightly (it had literally been years), but really didn't watch my calories carefully at all. In March, I decided that I wasn't happy with my doctor (if you want to call him that). I switched doctors; the new one did a complete workup - my first in YEARS (I'm 51) - finding that I have Type 2 diabetes and high triglycerides, that in addition to the High Blood Pressure that I have been treated for, for 2 years.
So, my REAL enough is enough day was April 5, 2011. I am now on medication, I exercise regularly - for 5 straight months! - and I am very careful of my calorie and carbohydrate intake. Since Jan 1, I have lost about 28 pounds, since Thanksgiving, I am down 30 pounds.
I refuse to be a sick old man that they are cutting parts off of to keep me alive, simply because I was too stubborn to take care of myself!