What was your "moment"?

I have always been very active, a runner, athletic build and after my first two pregnancies, I snapped right back into shape, but after delivering my twins 3 years ago, my whole body changed. I was on bedrest for a very long time and gained A LOT of weight. I was submerged in all things baby and seriously sleep deprived for the next year and a half. All of a sudden, there was no athlete left, just a tired mom with stretched a stretched out tummy and no energy. I lost quite bit of the extra weight in the last year, but hit a hard spot in my life where I didn't really care about it for awhile. A couple months ago, I was in a fitting room and saw myself in the mirror and walked out of the store empty handed. That was probably the turning point!!

I got engaged, probably not the answer most want to hear but I just couldn't stand the thought of looking at my wedding pictures at 250lbs. or looking for a wedding dress, I actually put it off so long people would freak out when I told them I didn't have one yet.

I know what you mean! Although I am not engaged, I just moved in with my boyfriend. I'm hoping my next step is engagement and I want that forever moment to be me in a size 8 or smaller!
Last Summer I went to a friends wedding and when I saw pics of me I knew I needed to be serious.

DO it now, you be happy you did!

I lost quite a bit 2 summers ago when I was SURE my bf was going to propose while we were away, when he didn't I was pretty upset and stupidly gained it all back plus more!
Then when he did propose in January I felt horrible and huge, didn't want to get engagment photos, my wedding dress, didn't want to go to my shower because of the pictures. I let my weight ruin what were supposed to be a lot of great moments leading up to my wedding!

I had been avoiding the scale for years. When I stepped on one in December and saw 210, I almost threw up. No more...

22 lbs down now, but still a long way to go.

Mine wasnt really just one moment... it was like a week lol I went to the doctor and jumped on the scale and almost started crying in the office there... the next morning I decided to wear lace up shoes to work (I have avoided any shoes with laces for years for the following reason) I sat down on my bed and tried to tie my shoes and i couldnt do it without struggling... either to keep my leg on my knee or just to bend down. It was horrible, my fiance woke up to me sobbing because i couldnt tie my shoes on my own (i wore flip flops that day) I decided then that I needed to do something about it.
The fact that I looked like a hippo when i was trying on wedding dresses had a pretty big impact on me too lol Since I have joined I have helped 4 other friends join and get on track

I've been depressed for years about my weight - it's crept up and up and because I've got a lovely supportive partner, I've been able to shove it to the back of my mind.

There was a really great festival in my town for the Royal Wedding and my mum and I were watching a street band playing. There was a woman in the band who I reckoned to be about the same age as me and I was commenting on how she was living the live I thought I would be - she was slim, looked happy and joyful. I commented on this to mum and she said ' it's only down to you, it's your life to make!'

Something clicked and when I got home I did a search and found this and one other site. I've lost 14 pound since May, am getting my head around the slow is better principle and am feeling better than I have in a long time

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.