What was your 'I finally need to lose this weight' moment? (And was it as bad as mine?)

I've been made fun of my entire life and I i've most definitely been the duff of my group of friend forever but, some recent moment were going to church camp and not wanting to ride the zip line afraid I may embarrass myself if there was a weight limit, having to wear TWO flag belts for a game and everybody watching the man put them together for me and my younger brother (jokingly) telling me I was as big as a Cadillac I am sick of my weight dictating what i can and cant do in my life :

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Dave_GettingFit wrote: »

My aha moment was in December when I went to the doctor and had my blood work done. I'm type two diabetic and my A1C was 7.2, which is fairly high. He wanted to put me on a second medication. I was already on Metformin. Not only did I not take that second medication, in April I stopped taking Metformin. Thanks to counting calories and running I was able to lose nearly 20 lbs. I went back to the doctor this month and my A1C is 5.8, which is the high end of the normal range. The doctor told me I can continue not taking Metformin. So in the space of six months I went from being put on a second medication to not taking any medication for diabetes.

Similar to me. My doctor called me with my blood results on Christmas Eve 3015 and said look I can't do this for you but it's not a case of if but when we chop a foot off and start treating you for blindness. That really scared the *kitten* out of me as I'm a photographer so I started on Christmas Eve and have lost 30 pounds so far. My last check up was good and I'm hoping to lose the pills by this Christmas :-)

TheLittleGingerDoesWeightLoss wrote: »

I keep having my moments, but I can't follow through!

I love photography, but hate to be in front of the camera. I used to be fifty pounds lighter and if I had something I felt to be unflattering, then I could move my body in such a way to mask or hide it. Fifty pounds later, I can't do that. The weight is all over and can't be hidden.

I am about to move up into plus-size if I haven't already. Depends on the store.

My butt is wider than the chairs at Cracker Barrel.

My family has history of diabetes and a family member just had to get a leg amputation as a result.

I am terrified of meeting people in real life romantically, because surely all the men I find attractive will only be attracted to "tight" women.

I have acne on my face that is scarring my skin and this got worse as I aged and gained in weight, so it's probably my diet written all over my face.

I am always the DUFF in my group of friends. Or at least that's how it seems to come off.

And so many more....

Me either!

I am terrified of meeting people in real life romantically, because surely all the men I find attractive will only be attracted to "tight" women.

I've also noticed that if men are attracted to me, I feel like they are . . . I don't know . . . defective somehow because I feel so unattractive. If they are attracted to me there must be something wrong with them too. (I don't say this makes sense, in fact, I know that it doesn't but feelings aren't rational.)

Mine is a couple things...first of all I've always been chunkier than others but was always active gymnastics basketball danced cheer all that stuff so it never really got worse than just a belly and thighs. But senior year I switched over to all things theater and worked at Coldstone so I gained 25 lbs which I thought nothing of it...now fast forward to 7-8 years later at 5'0" and 206 lbs with bad back bad knees and bad shoulders and seeing pics of me from my brothers wedding I knew I had to do something! So that's when I found a gym where it's all personal training and changed my eating habits. I'm down about 10 lbs now and it's been about 2 months.

Aside from all the little things (fights, stretch marks, more kids, intermittent shortness of breath at rest, overeating), I went to employee health and had Marshmellow like pedal edema on annual physical. I check my patients every day for this. I was becoming a Cardiac Patient. ^infinity. Im off all meds now

SamiHearken wrote: »

My wedding photo were my catalyst. I look bad, and kept thinking "wow Samantha, you have no ankles". I felt so happy on the day but this photos kicked me in the gut. I've told my wifband that for our 10th anniversary (9 years away ) were redoing our wedding

Same here. I hated my wedding pictures, and honeymoon pictures. Wife looked fantastic, but not I.

My moment has been a life time coming. All the signs were there, I just ignored them.

August 27th will mark 9 years since I lost my dad to diabetic complications. I sat with him holding his hand while he died and I promised him I would change my life and I would make the changes needed to not go down the same path he did and his father did. See, diabetes runs in my family.

2 years after that day, I was diagnosed as a pre-diabetic...4 years I maintained a pre-diabetic status. 3 years ago I was finally diagnosed a full blown type 2 diabetic...313 pounds, was clueless on how to eat healthy. Had no idea what was a healthy portion was, how to prepare healthy foods...the list goes on and on. Doctors and dieticians were useless. There was nothing more delightful than being lectured to by an overweight doctor...it was even more thrilling to have a thin Doctor snap his fingers in my face and tell me to "just loose the weight". It was depressing to be greeted with the attitude from the medical doctors that overweight people "want to be fat, they're lazy, and they lie".

I started growing my own food and raising my own meat. A year and a half ago I stopped dealing with the medical profession completely. In my area they aren't current on diabetes, what they are learning and teaching is old school and the doctors I deal with have no interest in learning anything new and current. I went from 313 to 294 and couldn't get any lower. This past May I buckled down and got my act together. I raised more of my own vegetables, I added more livestock, I stopped buying ANYTHING that was processed, I cut out legumes, pasta, rice, dairy, sugar and I measure all the food I eat. If I didn't grow it or I didn't butcher it, I didn't eat it.

Since June 1st. of this year I've gone from 294 to 264...and I won't stop until I reach a healthy weight. My blood sugar has gone from readings of 150 and higher to consistently 80's and lower...I'll never be the same as a person that never had diabetes, but I can be a very well controlled diabetic...something my dad wasn't able to do.

For me it was sitting on the couch one evening after eating a box of mac and cheese and 3 beers. I was like this has got to stop. Id been yo yo dieting via paleo for years. I remembered I had signed up for mfp a year ago. One of my close college friend lost loads of weight. I reopened it, typed in my goals. Now im 26 days in and 6lbs lighter. Excitex to keep at it and do the unimaginable

My size 18 UK jeans didn't fit, I had reached 15stone and I had to go dress shopping for my twin sisters wedding, she looked amazing but I hate the pictures of us together.