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

I knew it was time when I sat for about 2 hours in my bed crying because I couldn't remember a time I was happy with the way I looked. 12lbs lighter, I still can't remember that time I was happy, but I'm hoping that I can make a new happiness at the end of my weight loss.

When someone looked at me and said: you have a nice face, but your body....hmmm.

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!

I know exactly what you mean! I saw the pictures from my Daughter's 1st birthday and I couldn't believe how big I had gotten. My goal is to be down 60- 75 lbs by her 2nd birthday so that I won't be ashamed to post the pictures on FB.

My story is similar to yours. I didn't know the girl in photos; she kind of looked like me but man oh man, I did not know her at all. The scale story is exactly the same as mine, I hit 297 and said there was no way in hell I was going to hit 300. Plus, I could bend over to tie my shoes any longer; I could barely get myself off the floor after playing with the dog; I felt ABSOLUTELY horrible; I hated going out in public. the first 5 months I just exercised with sutle food changes. I had lost 25lbs but wanted to lose more. That's when I found MFP. In the past, I would pay people to weigh me weekly (all the "diet" companies). I searched the web for food journals! Here I am 7 months late and 66 lbs lighter!

I realized once i stepped on that awful scale after a year lol

I was at a healthy BMI, 130 lbs at 5'2", but all I did was gorge myself on junk food, take naps before and after gorging myself, and then sit at the computer for the rest of the day/night, since I had insomnia. I would get chest pains and just feel downright cr**py every single day. Oh, and my mom kept snickering about how fat I was behind my back to all my family and other relatives ;D.

I have been trying to be healthy for years, on and off.. Now i want to be serious as im almost at the same weight i use to be before i lost weight, so i know i have to really try

When instead of my 16 jeans falling off me they were getting way to tight

When I stepped on the scale for the first time in 18 months and it was 393! Last time I was on a scale before I gave birth to my son I was only 330! I did not realize how bad I was, but now I look back at photos of that time and I don't understand how I didn't know it!

The doctor told me that I was prediabetic. I weighed 267.5 at 5'4". I have lost 23 pounds since August 6th. No way I wanted to be diabetic!
I was also sick and tired of being sick and tired. One woman posted about Vitamin D. Please get yours checked. Most doctors do not run this automatically. It is very important esp. in areas that do not get much sun. We are told to use sunscreen and wear hats and long sleeves and drink skim milk. Where is the vitamin D going to come from? Also, have your B vitamins checked. I was very low on both. My doctor said I was about a week from being hospitalized due to low vitamin D and I had started taking them about 10 day earlier. Good luck!

I have always been a heavier set person. I started gaining weight when I was 11 and my best friend died in a drunk driving accident that was his father's fault. I fluctuated a lot throughout middle/high school.

I was at my thinnest when I was 22 and I got pregnant with my twins. At 4 months old, one of my twins passed away. I realized how fast life can end. I sunk into a huge depressive state and lost 44 pounds because I couldn't eat. No the healthiest of ways to lose it but I kept it off until I got very comfortable in a relationship that turned into marriage and 2 more kids.

My (ex) husband was serving in Iraq when I had my youngest son. When I took pictures to email to him, I was disgusted. I didn't have the energy to do much about it, though.

Fast forward to March of this year, I had to buy size 18 jeans. I bawled my eyes out. I joined MFP, but didn't do anything about it because I had 3 kids that had some kind of need needing to be met. My oldest was DXed with ADHD and instead of putting him on meds I wanted to try diet change first. OVERNIGHT I switched from a decent, but crap ladden diet to only whole foods with snacks here and there. Not only did his attitude change (not 100% yet, but we are getting there), but I started losing weight.

Since August of this year, I have lost 21 pounds. 31 since I switched to whole foods only. I am in one of the most stressful times of my life, but I'm not even blinking an eye. I am ready to start my 30's off with a huge bang (turned 30 in September) and rock the (as a friend said) smoking MILF body. LOL

When my tom stopped and I was told I wouldn't conceive without fertility treatment..

When I found myself spending an hour going through my pictures on facebook to detag ones were my arms showed or I thought I looked fat. Also during that I found pictures of me in a semi-formal dress I loved and thought I looked good in - I detagged more than 50% of the pics in that dress. That was my turning point. And I'm not looking back

When my future sister-in-law, asked me to be one of her bridesmaid. She and her friends are a size 0-2 and I was a size 28. I didn't want to be that girl. While that started it, I also realized that I didn't diabetes, high blood pressure or heart troubles. That runs high in my family. So why am I at that weight, it was just like I was asking to have problems.

When I struggled to fit a size 14 was my sign.. I remember struggling to fit into 10s..then it moved to 12s.. now 14s.. I don't want to feel that way every time I go to buy jeans!