What was a your wake up call?!

Having to spend a month staring at my daughter in a plastic box because she was born 7 weeks early at 3 pounds 6 ounces. This came after I spent a month in the hospital myself on bedrest trying to keep her in as long as possible before she wasn't able to get enough oxygen and I had to have an emergency c-section. This was all due to me being 250 pounds and having pregnancy induced high-blood pressure (pre-eclampsia). Now I can't say for sure if I had been 150 pounds that I wouldn't have still had issues with the pregnancy but I can't help but think to myself everyday while looking into my baby's brown eyes that I could have been healthier and somehow things could have been different. She is 9 months old now and has finally made it onto the growth chart (3rd percentile) ... she has gained 13 pounds and I have lost 45! I am going to be healthier for her now since I failed her before.

What are you eating? Holla at me if you are trying to see a number difference, might well be your diet.

I never really paid attention to the scales at all, but when I went to a company health fair and they checked my blood pressure the nurse told me I should see my doctor right away. My BP was 171 over 91!! So he outright told me in no uncertain terms that I lost some weight or I was at risk of brain damage or death at 50!

I was 15 and hit 180 pounds. That was wayyyy to much for me. Plus the emotional crap i had to deal with as a fat kid.

i ripped 2 of my favorites pairs of jeans while pulling them on. in one day...yeahhh that night i went out and bought 150$ worth of workout clothes and never looked back.

For me, it was the fact that I was totally drained and out of energy by time my kids took a nap at 1 or 2 o'clock in the afternoon. For whatever reason, that totally snapped me out of my haze. I'm so glad too because I've actually been spending more time w/ my kids since I've started working out and paying attention to my food intake.

Outgrowing my jeans. It's hard to find jeans that fit as it is because of my hips, but when they started not fitting and being tight...I realized I had let myself slip. I couldn't get off my horse and run alongside her without feeling like I was going to die, and that was wrong. I expect my horse to be in shape - I better be in shape, too!

I also saw a few photos where I was very, very round in the face. I realized I had gained almost 20lbs somehow.

I'm the biggest I have ever been starting weight 375lbs. My Dad was real sick before he passed and fell a lot I would have to pick him up and me from the floor. I tore the muscle behind my knee cap in August. For months I have been dragging my I have right leg very painful and just could barely move. I went to the DR and he said if I didn't lose weight I would get to were I couldn't walk and to exercise in water.. My husband has a lot of health issues and he is not willing to change and doesn't seem to want to support me. We have a six year old boy He is just great... I couldn't bare the thought of not being able to play with him and be there for him when he needs me his Dad doesn't do much with him. So the being of the Year I joined the gym and joined TOPS and logging everything on MFP.... I love this site.....I seem more determined them ever.

My teenage daughter said to me "you're not THAT fat" which to me was a wake up call to the fact that although I was not "that" fat I was still fat

Over the course of a few years, I'd started to notice some sharp pains in my heart. The last time it ever happened, I was sitting down watching TV and all of a sudden I felt like a knife went straight through my heart for a solid 10 mins, it was excruciating.

I looked blankly around me and thought to myself "is my lifestyle worth my actual LIFE!?"

I would make excuses for so many things that would lead to me being fat but the one thing I will never compromise - and SHOULD never compromise - is my god-given health.

I'm 25 and I don't want to be having heart problems at this age - ANY age, but ESPECIALLY not now while i'm young! In a way, this terrible thing is the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Going to doctor seeing I was 320 pounds! Having the same doctor see my blood pressure and hooking me up to a ekg machine, because he was so concerned about me. Finally doctor sent me to a cardiogist for a stress test, and the cardiogist scared the cramp out of me saying I was at risk for a heart attack.

My best friends daughter who needs to lose a lot of weight snapped a picture of me at her son' s bday party without my knowledge and posted in on Facebook. The pic was so huge and in my face showing my double chin, I looked like I could reach out and eat someone. I was so mad not just about the pic but because she didn't have one pic of herself for her own son's bday party. So I made everything private no one can see tagged photos of me on Facebook and I got off my butt and said time for a change I won't let anyone try to embarrass me like that again!

Realizing I couldn't fit into "normal" sized clothes at the mall and had to shop at "plus size" stores. Which, for a 19 year old, is the end of the world. Muumuus and spandex to suck everything in underneath clothes were the only thing I could find in my sizes and not a single store sold my size in clothes while still being stylish.

I have had a lot of wake up calls but the most recent was...When one my my longest pals deleted me because had no prgress in like almost a year. It hurt but I did understand why. I was cheating myself. i should be further along but im not. its my own fault. No longer getting in my own way!!!

I was 268 lbs, and I refuse to see 270! I remember saying this when I was approaching 200, but this time I was scared for my life.