My moment kind of had phases. At the end of 2010, I weighed in and found that I had lost some weight since the previous time I weighed in. That got me going in the direction of I have to continue to lose (I had wanted to for a long time but never stuck to anything) with the unexpected loss, I was hopeful.

Next, about six weeks later, I was talking to my physician and discussing healthy foods and my husband asked about the Paleo diet and my physician said, it's not so much what you eat but how much. That was the moment it clicked in and I understood what I was doing wrong. I started watching portions and started losing weight. But then my brother and his family came into town and my losses stalled while entertaining them and when they left I could not figure out what to do now, what I had been doing did not seem to be working any longer. This is normally when I would quit, but I kept at it even without losses, I was maintaining.

Next I walked into a meeting at work, and one of the ladies said "the price of bananas is going up" it was a peculiar comment and I asked why? She said Weight Watchers just made fruits 0 points (we had done a short at work WW stint, thus her comment) I was intrigued.

Leaving that meeting I noticed a male co-worker was looking trim, I asked him "have you lost weight and what are you doing?" He said I am following WW unofficially, my wife is the member. I asked him to expand a little and he followed up with some tricks/practices he was using via email.

About 3 days later, I signed up for online only PointsPlus program...I was actually nervous as I made the commitment. Several weeks were tough, but once the weight started to come off I was sold and never looked back.

My recent moment was a complete stereotype. I saw a photo from my vacation and was horrified.

My original moment was never a moment. It was a constant realization that I didn't feel well, I wasn't energetic, I hated how I looked, and I hated that I was likely on a trajectory to keep gaining weight. I joined Weight Watchers and that helped for awhile, but it wasn't until graduate school that exercise and nutrition finally clicked. I hated grad school, but being isolated in the middle of nowhere is definitely one way to help change habits!

A bit like 88 olds. Weight came on in college and grad school with ups and downs . No real aha moment.
Some real ohhhhh sheeeeeeeet moments looking in the mirror in a swim suit. True dat. My first real loss was also in grad school but regained later. Love the outdoors and biking too but can outeat my legs witnout a plan in my brain.

While there are certainly moments when I realized I had to take action (candid photo of me at a wedding, catching sight of my reflection in the elevator which clearly showed the rolls of fat around my waist, my aching knee which was making walking up to the third floor at work a challenge), that action took a while to gain momentum and actually result in weight loss and improved health.

I'm currently struggling with weight creep that has been going on since last summer. Not sure what it is going to take for me to get serious about taking action that lasts more than a few days. Intellectually I know what I need to do (stop comfort eating), but finding viable alternatives for boosting my mood seems to be elusive as I still need to work for a living.

My mood is as gloomy as our weather this morning - foggy and mid 50's.

It was gradual for me. In Mid Year of 2010 I joined WW and did fairly well but soon resumed back to a close weight of my high. Finally I had to have a Sleep test and after that at a weight of 400.8 lbs was my moment. I knew with my OSA under control I could proceed with a weight loss program in July 2011.