When did you know it was time to start losing weight?

I was with my now ex at the time. I barely ever left the couch and pretty much stopped going to uni. When we broke up I just stopped eating as I was so depressed. I remember stepping on the scales before we broke up and it said nearly 20 stone. I was shocked. Also I went to see a nurse for something completely different, she then weighed me and was like OMG I don't know if I can give you this pill. She then ran out of the room to consult her colleague . I was allowed the pill but her face could not hide how fat she thought I was (this was not even at my heaviest) To make it worse I had a massive bag full of biscuits crisps etc. I was so sad I gave it all to my friends but still carried on getting fatter.

In the end when we broke up I just seemed to lose loads of weight in about a week through stress. That then continued and I remember weighing myself and realising I had lost a stone. I liked the feeling and carried on. Met my now partner a year later abut 4 stone lighter and just kept on going. He is very lean and active anyway so the weight loss was easy. I was doing well, got pregnant at about 12.5 stone. Only went up to about 14 stone throughout the whole pregnancy, lost about a stone. Then I got very lazy and went back up to 14 stone.

I realised about 3 months ago that i was unhappy, my clothes didn't fit and i was as fat as when I was I was pregnant. I The wake up call was not being about to push my pram without getting tired and spiralling into deep depression, I also found out I was severely Vitamin D deficient, which I think aided to my weight gain. If you look up Vit D deficiency it has a whole host of side effects and i think I was eating in stress and depression, as soon as my Vit D levels raised I was happier and fitter. My bones no longer hurt ( another side effect) so I was able to exercise without being in extreme pain. The Vit D deficiency made me tired all the time and irritable but I assumed this was because I was fat but I actually had a medical problem. I always now urge everyone to get theirs checked.

.Also as shallow as it sounds, no men even looked at me whereas they used to, even when i was pregnant. I didn't care about my appearance or health. Now I have taken action, I feel alive again.

when i had to buy size 18 jeans that was horrible!

That particular size woke me up to. Then size 20. Then 22. Then 24.
The kick up the backside was when I could no longer fit into anything store bought.

Size 14 now, and proud.

All of what Apazman said and more...

I started to pile on the lbs once I hit 30. at first it didn't hit home as I always thought I was fat... just didn't realise that a little tummy could and would balloon without too much effort.

..Or rather too little effort. I became a couch potato and feeling trapped in a dead-end relationship didn't help either.

I did Slim Fast, Atkins and WW for a while with limited success. Once I stopped I just got FAT again.

Then I broke up with my then long-term partner and stress and exercise led to a fairly dramatic drop in weight. I felt great and thought I looked great too... but I hadn't yet become aware of how much I was eating, so when I stopped exercising regularly and settled down it wasn't long before I started getting bigger again.

When I met my husband, I was so happy that I didn't realise just how much I was eating, plus he's such a great cook and we go out regularly to eat and drink. :drinker:

Then it started to dawn on me how I was having to give all my XL shirts to my OH. That I had to go to Tesco to shop for clothes because I couldn't get trouser to fit elsewhere (not that these supermarket clothes really fitted well, most of them were less than flattering to the blobby body! ) I was getting breathless just walking to the station in the morning and I'd regularly find it difficult to reach down to put on socks or reach back to my powder my posterior :embarassed:

And then there were my wedding photos. I got married in a kilt, but boy did I look like a spacehopper in a skirt. It was one of the happiest days of my life and yet when I look at the photos I want to cry :sad:

So I'd been thinking that I needed to lose weight for a good few years when one of my friends had a go at me in the pub... tough love... but it was the catalyst that made me give up chocolate for 8 weeks and that's when I found MFP and the rest... as they say... is HISTORY :bigsmile:

Or at least the fat will be history in a couple of years time. This IS the new me and I know that I can do what I need to achieve the level of fitness I want to achieve. I may never be skinny... but I'll be able to tick most of the list and say... GOTCHA!:happy:

I knew when I went on holiday to visit my family in Orlando and my holiday clothes - i.e. summer clothes, did not fit me any more. It was terrible and I decided that week to do something about it.

It was when I look in the mirror and got pissed, angry frustrated to the point I smashed my fist into the tile counter and elled "come on". All of the Being fat things just surfaced all at once ..
- Not being able to sit comfortably in ANY chair, without the arms digging into my hips.
- being able to not worry about if the new restuarant will seat a fat person.
- The humilation of asking your friends to move from the booth to a table.
- subtle way people look at you, They won't say anything negative .. but you sense what they are thinking.
- knowing that no matter unbelieveably awesome you are, You will never get that girl who is a 10 in your mind because she just can't see what is past fat.
- realizing that fat people aren't mad at the world, they are just depressed and angry at themselves.
- Having trouble with seatbelts in small cars
- Friends making plans going hiking and camping without you and rightfully so
- Theatre seats
- amusement park rides
- shopping at regular stores getting stylish clothes
- skinny people saying " oh man I am so fat .. I need to lose like 3 lbs to fit in my dress"
- worrying your parents or family memebers
- being considered to work at places like Nike
- Feeling like a second class citizen
- Feeling trapped in my own body
- Feeling like society doesn't accept me and staying home most of the time.

ALl of this hit has been pretty easy to anage but one day it all hit me .. and that's why I will keep trying until I make it happen and all these burdens can be lifted and can feel free.

ummm excuse me sir please get out of my head and give me my thought back... these points being mad ... i have felt alot of them...

I know .. right?!?

My partner took a video of me with our 4 month old son, and I just had this horrible bulge like a tyre, around my tummy. I know I hadn't exactly given myself enough time as it was only 4 months post partum, but I was like "RIGHT THAT'S IT !!" and now I am 20lbs lighter

I'd like to lose another 7lbs or lose the jelly belly, either one !

a couple of things: one a picture of me and I was so disgusted, next the number on the scale 242, I knew that if I creeped over 250 without a problem I would more than likely end up seeing 300,and the last thing was how I felt with my husband I was so ashamed and did not feel like his attractive wife

When I saw a home video that my boyfriends family shot, I did not realize how big I had gotten at 272 5'10", thought I just had a little gut but boy was I wrong...There was no way that I was going to hit 300lbs...:noway: ....Now Im down to 242 and I WILL make it between 175-185!!!

When my bottom caused a vacuum on the loo LOL seriously !!!

At my sons 2nd Birthday party.. I let someone else take the pics for me and got me in a lot of them, when i seen them I was like ugh! That's what I look like? Really? It was horrible, I wouldn't put them on my face book until I edited them to cut some of me out!

same thing for me, it was my youngest daughter's first birthday, and when I saw the pictures i cried for weeks. My husband was no help with his "i think you're beautiful no matter what" but I couldn;t bare the thought of hating my girls' big days because i hate how i look