What pushed you over the edge?

A picture on my daughters 1st birthday, I'd kinda been kidding my self i looked okay as i weighed more or less the same than before i got pregnant, BUT i have lost alot of muscle tone which has been replaced with fat. so i do look bigger. Also i can out-eat my husband and he has a big appietie, and when i asked hubby if i was looking fat he said "your not there........yet"

Facebook.
Can't go anywhere these days without everyone taking unflattering pics and then tagging me! I have to say that was my final straw because I was forced to look at myself in pics all the time which I usually tried to avoid.
Sad, but true!

I had an epiphany on my birthday this year in January and simply said - I'm not going to try to keep any resolutions. I'm just not going to procrastinate any more. I'm fed up of waiting for life to happen to me. I have to make it happen!

Then my brother announced he was getting married at the end of August (next week in fact) and that really solidified my resolve. I did not want to be the fat bird in the photos.

So I have lost 36lbs and love how I look in my purple trouser suit. I have further to go, but I am tall and don't look chubby any more. I can hold my head up high. With my heels on I'm 6ft so carry my current weight quite well.

I've been anorexic in my teens so I was always afraid I'd go too far and I think that held me back from trying to be slim again. I have engaged my friends and family to intervene if I go below my safety weight this time round and I feel confident that I will maintain control and not go too far.

I should be at goal by January. What a difference a year makes! I'll be 39.

I turned 25 this year. I realized that I have never been happy with my body because I have always been overweight. I want to look in the mirror and like what I see, and I want to do it while I am still young.

Realizing I always hid from the camera & that I have very very few pictures of myself with my son. Also the fact that I am in very few pictures from family functions & holidays b/c I always ran when people started getting the cameras out. When I do see a picture of myself from one of those functions or holidays that someone did manage to get a picture of me I am not smiling. Then last but not least realizing just how BIG I had gotten from the pictures from Christmas of this year. I was truely disgusted with myself & realized just how unhappy I was with it all. I pretty much hated myself & hated how I looked. How was anyone else supposed to like me little on love me if I hated who I was. It was the MAJOR kick/jump start that I needed to make up my mind to do something about my weight. When I logged in & seen that I was in the obese catigory only pushed me harder!

So, I decided that Jan 1st I was going to make a lifestyle change. AND I have stuck to it!

Buying larger pants...again. Going up the one size stunk. But when THOSE jeans started to get tight, and the scale said 140, I was done. Heavier than I've ever been, minus preggo/breastfeeding. I cut out most of the junk food (a girl's gotta have a little piece of chocolate now and then!), upped the water, and made the commitment to exercise more. The weight is not my concern, so much, it's about where the fat is sitting on my pear shaped body (hips and thighs). I have my calories cut to lose 1/2 lb/wk, lift weights w/DH at the gym twice a week, and do 30 min of cardio a day now (had to start at 5 min as I'd never done any cardio before). Now I am very slowly watching those thunder thighs melt away

The missus booked us in for an induction at a gym and sulked when I said I wasn't sure I wanted to join!

That was my turning point... i'm doing better than her though atm so I suppose I should be grateful of her help and support!

June 20th was my oldest son's 6th birthday. We went to the aquarium (which he loved). My husband took a picture of me with the boys when I was not looking. In the picture I was kindof standing sideways to the camera. It was seeing THAT picture that finally made me say "Enough!"

The next week I did some research and found a nutrition plan was well rounded and HEALTHY. No pre-packaged foods to buy, no protein shakes, no crazy fad diets....

Once I got used to eating healthier, then I joined a gym and bought a package of personal training sessions.

I am now down 17lbs from that day in June.

God bless!

I love to travel and recently getting into an airplane seat was impossible. Also noticing that the clothes I want to wear
don;t come in my size. The recent fire I started when my thighs rubbing together on the elliptical machine has proven
to be quite a motivator as well!

I had been going up and down for years with my weight - I knew I was heavy but it wasn't until my doctor said I was a candidate for gastric bypass because I had over a hundred pounds to lose. I was so shocked which sounds stupid but I was. He said even with the surgery I would need to diet and exercise and I thought - well, why don't I just try dieting & exercise?? I look at pictures now from that time period and I can't believe I was that big. (I'm 5'2" and was close to 280). It's been a really long process but I'm down about 100 lbs with about 50 to go. I didn't want to be fat and 50 - didn't quite make that goal (I'm 52) but I'll get there. I did WW for years but I've been stalling out until I found MFP. I've been losing every week since.

I have struggled with anorexia/bulimia since I was 13.
I was in bad marriage which spiraled me into a depression and after having 3 kids my body was shot. I went through a divorce and was working and going to school full time so I never had time to eat or stop or you know, live. I got down to around 165lbs completely healthy.

I met my husband who is a complete and utter blessing and we had our last child. I have never been happier in my life. My depression had lifted and I was enjoying my pregnancy and our new life together. I enjoyed it a bit too much.....
When I left the hospital 3 days after having my son I weighed 255lbs.

Six months later we went on vacation to visit my brother a few states away and at that time I was around 200-210lbs. When I got home and looked at the pictures I cried. I was so happy but looking at those pictures I was completely ashamed, embarrassed and at a loss for words. I could not believe how big I had gotten.

I spiraled into a very bad bulimic phase which took me down to 141lbs. My husband helped me out of the spiral and I went back to 165lbs.
In February I decided I was ready to do this the healthy way because I do not want my daughter to go through the same things I have. I do not ever want her to hate her self so much that she has to starve herself or purge after every meal.

A friend was using MFP and I gave it a try. Turns out it is a huge life saver to me. Now I had someone telling me it was OK to eat and I *needed* to eat.

I have tried a few times....to work on my weight loss....but knew going in it was going to be an uphill battle because I have PCOS. I still gave it my best shot though. But when you plateau after just 20 lbs and get stuck there for months...I would give up.

This year, in May.....my whole mindset changed....thanks to being diagnosed with cancer in my uterus and having to have a complete hysterectomy. I came home from that surgery and it has just been this way since. I was watching my portions and what I actually ate....without it being thought of...I was just doing it. The first two months after the surgery I wasn't allowed to do very much in the way of activity/exercise so my food intake was the only thing I could do. I lost 13 lbs between surgery day and going back to work.

Now I am walking to/from work most days and 1.5 weeks ago I signed up to the YMCA in my city and have been going almost every day.

But, I am at that dreaded plateau right now. I have to find a way to kick my butt over it. Thanks PCOS for still showing me you are still around. LOL

After graduateing High school, I gained the "freshmen 15" twice over, and have been carrying it around since, and then some. It's not a lot, but at 5"3' it's noticable in anything form fitted. And I LOVE haute couture fashion, and am in Fashion design school. The biggest thing that motivated me is being able to fit in designer clothing.

The first indicator for me was when a friend and I went to the bar one night. Now, she's stick thin, and still is. A couple guys starting hanging around us, and all was well enough. Then my girl and I went to the wash room, and when we came out I heard one of the guys says "No way are you sticking me with the fat friend". That's when I started the crazy "get-thin-quick" scemes. And you can tell by my profile that obviously nothing worked.

Moving ahead in time (weight goes up and down), I found a pair of Micheal Kors distressed denim jeans at a local thrift store. They looked amazing, they were under $10, and they were my size! So I bought them without trying them on...You see what went wrong? They didn't even go up passed my thighs. Now they're my target pants!

And like everyone else, I hated being in pictures. So now I'm with MFP, and am going to get rid of this 30lbs once for all.

I was at the Dr's office for my daughters 12 month appointment and I hopped on the scale just out of curiosity. I was 12 months post partum and weighed 10lbs more than I did at 40 weeks pregnant.

When the scale showed 200 lbs. Granted, I was pregnant, but I had weighed 127 less than a year earlier!

And after I had my third child and tried on my jeans, I couldn't even pull them up, let alone button them!