Do you remember your tipping point?

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  • vdavis_89
    vdavis_89 Posts: 334
    I went wedding dress shopping.... and had a horrible time because I looked like a hippo in all the dresses.... due to money problems we postponed the wedding... but I told my fiancee we aren't getting married until I get at least back to what i was when we met which was 180 and even though thats a big number for some, I will admit I looked good.
    I also realized that when I was down at 180 i had tons of those cheesy pictures i had taken of myself for facebook and myspace and they were all cute... I stopped taking those piucs when i gained wieght ... I havent taken another in almost 2 years :( I want to take cute pictures again. And i don't feel sexy at all :(
  • cofakid
    cofakid Posts: 213 Member
    A few things all at the same time - 1 looking the mirror and actually being disgusted, not just unhappy but really dusgusted by my own body!

    Health issues that popped up that were uncomfortable and painfull. Id already had some problems from my weight gain but even though they were painful i lived with them, but the extra health issue was the last straw.

    No more uni as an excuse, no more iratic lifestyle, and less stress - time to stop using those an excuse and get up.

    Was job hunting and trying to change my life - new outlook , new job, new me, no more bad stuff!
  • LivingByDesign
    LivingByDesign Posts: 1
    While vacationing in the Dominican Republic with my husband, one of the tour guides asked - "so when are you due?" - as if I were pregnant. To make this worse, this is the second time I get this comment on vacation. The first was in June in Jamaica. No more!!
  • rockstarginaa
    rockstarginaa Posts: 1,529 Member
    When I got on the scale and was almost 150lbs.
  • sneezyalex
    sneezyalex Posts: 2
    I was in Turkey and really didn't like the food that much so I didn't eat too much. When I got back and realized I had lost some weight I realized I could do it.
  • ajmaccar
    ajmaccar Posts: 65 Member
    I was at my sister's house and helping my then 4 year old niece in the bathroom. We we alone, and she looked up at me and said, "You're fat." It was then that I realized that I'd been in denial about my weight and everyone else had just been too polite to say anything.
  • Spitfirex007
    Spitfirex007 Posts: 749 Member
    I was trying to get ready for a job interview. I've been at the same place for two years, so I didn't wear my "nice clothes" very often. I went to put on my pants, and they wouldn't come close to fitting! I had to go to this interview dress in jeans and a T. Of course I didn't get the job.

    Now I have to wear a tight belt when I put those clothes on :)
  • ChristyU74
    ChristyU74 Posts: 234 Member
    When I realized how close I was to the weight I was the day I gave birth to my daughter, who is now 10. I didn't actually gain a lot of weight with my pregnancies, but still...I weighed the same as when I was 8 months pregnant! I figured it was time to make a change. Not just to look better, but to feel better and to live longer and be healthier for my family. I have lost 16 pounds since that day, and I have about 5 more to go! But I already feel so much better about myself!!
  • scoutsbear
    scoutsbear Posts: 7
    I went out with some friends at an amusement park so we could go to the scary Halloween mazes. If getting pushed into the "fat row" wasn't embarrassing enough, when the pictures from that night went online I got to see how horrible and bloated I looked. I was embarrassed and furious at myself. I couldn't believe that I'd let myself get that way. So I bought a scale, started to cook for myself and work out religiously. It's been about a month since that incident, but I've already managed to get rid of almost 13 pounds.
  • sagetracey
    sagetracey Posts: 607 Member
    When my son asked me to MC his wedding and I realised that yet again I would be the fat one - in his photos, wheezing into the microphone, squeezed into a dress I didn't really like.

    Instead I won't be the fat one in the photos, I won't be wheezing into the microphone, I will wear a dress that I love and I will dance all night.
  • Aussie4870
    Aussie4870 Posts: 120
    when my size 28 jeans were too tight...i didnt want to get a size 30...i had nothing to wear but some jeans and two mens size 3XL t-shirts that were getting too tight...
  • istalkzombies
    istalkzombies Posts: 344 Member
    mine was when I stood on a scale just for the hell of it and it said 367, I said to myself no effing way I let myself go this bad and then I looked in the mirror and couldnt believe what I saw, it terrified me and made me start thinking about all the health issues and diseases that run in my family and it hit the msot when Istarted thinking about how I was always tiring out fast trying to play with my kids, I started working out at home then got a gym membership and a few months later I joined MFP and am down over 100 pounds with more to go!
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