What was your turning point?

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  • prattylessfatty
    prattylessfatty Posts: 31 Member
    I was 226 lbs. Today I am 186. On my way to 150. This was my turning point...and now my journey https://prattylessfatty.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/somewhere-between-jelly-beans-and-long-runs-how-pratty-became-less-fatty-in-500-miles/
  • zkhanman
    zkhanman Posts: 132 Member
    For me my turning point was seeing myself in friend's pictures. I was officially the chubbiest guy in all of them. I know you shouldn't judge yourself based on your friends but still... I don't want to be the fat friend.

    Part of the problem I think is how my body stores fat. My face still looks skinny even though I'm 35ish pounds over weight, my body likes to store it all in my stomach area. Every day I'd look in the mirror (at my face) and think "I look pretty decent today". It just wasn't until I started looking at pictures and I realized... my beer belly had evolved into a beer keg.
  • sturchiok89
    sturchiok89 Posts: 14 Member
    I had finally gotten the knowledge I needed to be successful and had started to lose weight but then I had a loss in my family, it devastated me and it was another 2 years before I could bring myself to start again. The day I picked it back up was when I had hopped on the scale and it flashed 205. I was disgusted. I mentally shouted at myself "ENOUGH!" that was the limit, I was done. I bought a fitbit a HR monitor and started using MFP again. (thank god for MFP, without this I'd fail.) I can't believe i made it through the first week, I cut my calories so I would have a 1,000 calorie deficit. My body was screaming at me to eat food, all food. Slowly that went away and walking didn't seem so hard and soon I was jogging.

    life hits you sometimes and it hit me again a few months ago. I got beat down by life and nearly gave up completely. until a week ago. I saw a post from someone asking "how do you find your motivation agian?" the one and only response that hit me was a guy who said "Just F#@%ing do it!". those words got me out of my funk and back on track.

    I'm my own worst enemy. no one can make you start or quit, if you lose a day....a week so what. remind yourself why you started and keep going. I have so many friends who just seem defeated and I wish I could find their trigger so that they could join me on this journey, but everyone has to find their own trigger. Good luck to everyone. you CAN do it, no matter what that voice in your head says.

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