What was your "moment"?

I had several smaller moments that lead up to mine. I have always been on the heavy side. My entire family is on the heavy side. We all know that we need to do something about it but no one seems to actually get up and do it. I joined MFP a while ago and I'd log my food for a week or so and then I'd have a bad day and give up. After awhile I'd start entering my calories again but then OOPS! bad day again so I'd stop again and it was a vicious cycle. Then in April my boyfriend and I had our 3 year anniversary. He was unemployed at the time so we wanted to keep it less expensive so we went to dinner and to play mini-golf (not a usual activity for us). After finishing the first hole I went to pick up my ball from the little cup and was surprised that I had a hard time doing so. Since then I have been noticing other little things, like my shirts not really fitting right, or my hips not really fitting in chairs with sides on them. All of these things I already knew but I just ignored because I didn't want to think of myself as "fat". I have reached a point where I am tired of being overweight. I started using MFP again just 6 days ago but this time I'm sticking with it!! I'm still sort of in my moment.

I am 24, should be in one of the healthiest phases of my life and had never thought of myself as unhealthy or "big" even though I always tried to lose weight (to no avail). I got married, realized my wedding pictures didn't look how I thought I really looked. Then my husband deployed for 6 months. Due to eating habits and illness while in Africa, he came home about 30lbs lighter than he left. He is 5 inches taller than me, but was only 10lbs heavier when he got home! It was definitely a wake up call. I started to look back at pictures from the last few years and realized that I was the "big" girl among my friends and decided that there was no reason I couldn't be healthy and thin. So, here I am, struggling everyday to overcome lifelong habits to be a better me. :happy:

I raced to the doctor in my 1 hour split from work where I was doing 80 hours a week in an Italian (pizza, pasta!!!!! devil food) restaurant. As I sat puffing in the chair, she started asking about my job and family history.
Does anyone in your family have high blood pressure? Yes I answered my dad
Has anyone in your family had cancer eg breast cancer.? Yes I answer my mum
Does anyone in your family have diabetes? Yes I answered my mum
Does anyone in your family have high cholesterol? Yes I answered my dad
Does anyone in your family have/had glaucoma? Yes I answered my dad

She took my blood pressure and guess what it was too high. We had a little talk.....
I quit my job, went away to my friends in Wales. They had started MFP in January. I was there obese mate. The pictures said it all.
That was April 12th. I'll never forget it. It's the day I found MFP. I've not once looked back!

My momemt was seeing pictures of myself at christmas 2010; I was not happy and knew that i needed to do something . I have lost 42 pounds so far and have quite a bit more to go , But i am never going back to the person that i was last year . I feel so much better !

Mine was when I once again topped over 200 pounds. My knee was hurting, working out wasn't working, I got so depressed over my weight. Then, I bought a new cellphone just for s&g and searched for calorie counters. The app for this site popped up and I clicked it. After work, I went to the website and checked it out, signed up and decided that 205 was not for me and I didn't want to go back to 225. I also wanted to set a good example for my daughter who has gained a lot of weight and is almost up to my weight.

I've been trying to do this all my life, thinking I could without keeping track of what goes in my mouth. Obviously, I haven't succeeded and the consequence of my being overweight the majority of my life is two bad arthritic knees. My moment is/was when the pain from my knees being bone on bone bothers me to a point I have to do something. I'm hoping to get 80 lbs off to make having knee replacements this Dec. or Jan. safer for myself. My friend showed me MFP and I'm hooked. I still struggling some but the support of everyone here is great and journaling is a must for me and of course, it's free. Good luck on your journey.