What was your "That's It!" Moment?

I've had a couple of milestone 'ah-ha' moments... the first was after losing 25 lbs which I had not felt really good about, I was still seeing a heavier me. I got my wedding photos back and was like wow, oh... you can really see it. My most recent was, this morning... I got up to start the 2nd week of Boot Camp and I was excited to go. Shoes on, ready to roll. Amazing that my body seems to enjoy this torture, haha.

I had just gone up to a size 13 in pants and was pretty bummed about it. The next day, I went out to eat with a co-worker and ate every thing fried on the menu...no joke.

Duh. That's why I was gaining weight.

I signed up for MFP that night.

P.S. I'm now a size 6! (I just found out yesterday so please forgive the shameless bragging) :flowerforyou:

Last year, 4th of July weekend... it was hot, we went to a family pool party / bbq... after another morning of crying because I had nothing to wear and I looked so disgusting in everything that I didn't want to go.... I decided then that I would stop crying about it and DO something about it!

This 4th of July, I slipped on a pair of shorts 3 sizes smaller and enjoyed our block party! And all day long, I kept thinking how slim & muscular my legs looked!

My older brother got married in April '10. I had to give the little sister speech. Behind me was a mirror. I thought I looked great. The mirror did not. When I got the pictures and videos of my speech back all I could stare at was the mirror behind me only showing my love handles/big hips/huge *ss. Shortly after that my older sister's fiance proposed and they were engaged. That's when I decided that when I got the pictures back from the little sister speech I DID NOT want to get the pictures back to only be like "holy **** I look like a hippo!" I hit the gym, got a trainer, and started counting.

Intellectually, my "that's it" moment came when my doctor told me I had a high cholesterol reading for the first time at my annual physical this year. But my emotional "moment" came a few weeks later. I finally got it after seeing pictures from a party back in April. I'm standing next to a much-thinner friend, and I look so big! I realized I have a distorted body image....I wear size 12-14 and generally don't think of myself as "fat". I still picture myself as a thin person, and some clothes help disguise the weight. Side by side with my friend, though, there was no disguising how blobby I looked. Within a few days I had found this site, and now I've lost 11 pounds in the last 65 days.

this last easter when i was with my SIL and taking pictures i saw how far out and round my tummy was... i can't stand to think my tummy was out further than my boobs.

When I was about to turn fifty years old. I told myself, "Self" I'm not going into my fifties with all this weight and the health problems and not feeling good, not to mention the future problems I was causing myself. That was it, my "that's it " moment. I had high blood pressure, high colestorol, border line diabetic, insulin resistence, hurting back, high stress level. Things had to change for me or I would not have made it many more years. Its a struggle but I've made progress. Went from 400 pounds to where I am now, about 240, and still have more to go.

Divorce. During an unhappy marriage i put on 50lbs...now determined to get the weight off and start my life over.

I have always thought that I needed to lose the weight from having my children (youngest is 14 already!)....and every-time I would hit a new high weight, I thought that that would be the highest I would ever go....but I kept putting it on, little by little .... this spring one of my younger friends (who is a new mom) asked me to join her working out at the hospital's cardio rehab center - my that's it moment is when after working out for about 6 weeks I had an analysis done of my body fat - when I saw that I was carrying around 36 pounds of body fat - I thought, that's ridiculous! and then began my journey on MFP. so far I've lost a total of 10 pounds - and am looking forward to seeing the results of the new analysis when I reach my goal weight - 27 pounds to lose to be in the normal BMI range!

I didn't think I'd ever actually make it to a "That's It" moment .... I'm always in denial and over-confident about my looks and health. I feel pretty dang sexy and beautiful, (not to mention smart and funny) - even being 70+ pounds overweight. At first I said hitting 200lbs (again!) would probably snap me back in to shape ... then it passed, and I was so sure 210 would do it... Then I worked out a little, got down to 202-205ish and then got bored with my workouts and bounced all the way back to 220. There has been this year-long battle of thinking I'm ready to really lose it all for good, then giving up early, then getting mad and trying again, then changing some habits, but not all the ones necessary... just teetering on the edge of being ready.

Then a dear friend who was a bit bigger than me started really busting her *kitten* to get in shape. She is doing a Paleo diet, crossfit, and rides the MS150. Recently she said that she was starting to fit in to size 16 clothes - which is the size I was wearing. Something about knowing that she did all of that hard work and had hit a milestone I was standing on made me think I was going to get left in the dust. She was going to get fit come hell or high water, and I could either stand by and watch her do it, or I could try to keep up and work just as hard. I can't tell you what happened or what changed, really. I just knew that she had worked infinitely harder than me to get to where I am, and she was going to pass me by. I had no excuse, I had nothing holding me back but myself.

That was about two months ago. Since then I've made HUGE strides in the way I look at food, working out, my health and my body. I'm almost 100% positive this time is for real, I'm going to reach my goals, and I'm never looking back.

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I had several
When I sat down an touched the side of my leg...surprise...it was my butt that was expanding sideways..hard to visualize
When I had never bought anything bigger than 9, and suddently found myself that size 11 did not fit, nor did size 12....I have worn size large stretch pants since then!

I had a few AH HA moments that mainly consisted of me being fed up with certain things...

I was fed up with my dad saying that I was always going to have to work out or I would get fat... (Like I was different from everyone else)
I was tired of everyone saying that Iw as like my mom and got the unlucky genes

I was tired of HATING going pants shopping

I was tired of HATING my thighs

I was tired of Feeling guilty for eating

I was tired of being the biggest friend (and I only wore a size 8 at my heaviest)


so finally I got so sick and tired of hating and feeling Being and getting told that I would always have to fight being fat that I decided to do something about it.... coincidentally enough this all happened the moment that I changed states and met a man who is now my husband. DAMN wedding pictures are good motivation.

In July 2009, I attended the funeral of a childhood friend. She was always overweight and although her death was not listed as any obesity related causes, I am more than positive that is was...at the risk of being grotesque, seeing her in the coffin changed my life forever.

this last easter when i was with my SIL and taking pictures i saw how far out and round my tummy was... i can't stand to think my tummy was out further than my boobs.

That is funny that you say that because mine used to do that too and I never noticed it until now they don't and it is so different. I guess I just got used to my stomach sticking out futher Time to change!