What was your rock bottom?

Bottom for me has been a culmination since right after Christmas....

1) Had to buy size 22 jeans for the first time ever
2) Going to LegoLand and not being able to strap myself in on the roller coaster and the attendant asking me if I could put my breasts somewhere so he could force it to latch. Umm...they don't detach!
3) A visit to the doctor where the scale hit 250 lb. which was a number I swore I would NEVER see.
4) Last and not least...the end of my 2 year relationship with a man that destroyed my self-worth.

It's time for the losing to begin and I am thrilled to find this site. (Wow...can't believe I actually shared all this with strangers)

Going to the Doc again and having her increase my insulin one more time and having someone say your are an insulin dependant diabetic with thyroid issue. You will never be able to loose weight. I was on so much medication and sick of it continuing to increase. At that time I weighed 230 and had lost 26 pounds why couldn't I just keep going.

Pictures from my daughter's 3rd birthday party. My husband and I had separated a few days before that. I was at my highest ever (252). I did not want to see any more pictures like that again. Fast forward to her 4th birthday party, maybe 20 lbs lighter but still waaaaay too much of me, red faced and round... I have too much to live for and she is my #1 motivation. I can't wait for her birthday this September, to see what i have achieved and feel proud of myself.

When my aunt died from a diabetic coma & my mother-in-law died of lung cancer within 3 months of each other. I usually deal with stress by doing extreme things. I stopped smoking cold turkey, cut out salt & excess sugar. I ran out & got a tattoo (very therapeutic) and started at the gym a year later.

I promised myself I wouldn't go over 200 lbs & when my family members died I looked at myself and said what the heck are you doing??? Life is a gift. Embrace it! You're body is but an instrument and you musn't take it for granted. I am so sad that my family members died, but I'm glad I got my life back because of it. I had to take something positive out of the whole situtation and bottom line... we're all going to die of something, but I'll be damned if it's from something I can control!

my wedding pictures (being 235 on my wedding day was depressing enough), I had to photoshop out my double chin just to be able to look at them or want to put them in a scrapbook.

Having my doctor tell me at age 29, I have high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. I was shocked; I requested getting my cholesterol checked so I could have a baseline figure of what it is like while I am "young". I never thought, that it would be abnormal. I have lost 23 pounds since then, and I need to continue on my journey to a healthier, fitter, me.

It wasn't really rock bottom. I didn't own a scale at the time so I had no idea how much I weighed... I was at my grandma's house on Christmas and she has a scale in her bathroom so I stepped on it. It was more than I had ever weighed in my life. That's when I started. That was what, 8 weeks ago... I'm down a little over 10 pounds.

I went out & bought three new pairs of pants, size 22.
A few days later, I pulled the tags off the last new pair... & they didn't fit anymore. I couldn't even say "Oh, they shrank in the wash!" (You know you've done it too, lol!) like I "normally" would. I called into work, laid in my bed & cried nonstop for the next two hours.
All I could think was "Your mom has always been fat. Grampy is too. Aunt April with her giant *kitten*. Esther. Angie. Everyone. Do you want to end up like them? High blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, asthma... "
That day, I decided I would not be 24 in a SIZE 24.

Seeing patients in their 50's who can't get out of a chair without pain or walk down the hallways without losing their breath. I thougth that 1) I have to set a good example and do what I ask others to do and 2) I cannot let that happen to me

When you don't turn your husband on anymore and they almost leave you for a skinnier woman. Is my rock bottom. What got me to put my butt in gear tho is a trip to FL I'm taking in Apr I so wanna wear a swim suit on the beach and look decent.

Maybe it isn't only the physical health part of your life that you need to change. Just sayin. Your husband should love you no matter what. I'm sorry.

Seeing this picture on Facebook after a friend's party....joined this site the following day.


More acceptable recent picture that I actually posted myself on FB....still working on it.

My bottom started with the death of my father just 3 months after the death of my brother. My brother's passing wasn't health issue related to weight or anything like that, but my father's death was caused by a heart attack...he was 54 years old and diabetic, but refused to manage it. I began to wonder why I hadn't really been living my life. I was going through a depression of sorts, but the two deaths in the family brought me out of it by teaching me that I should be cherishing life, not hating it.

A year later, I was at the doctor's office because my fiance and I were planning to try to get pregnant. I wanted to be prepared in every way I could be, so I was requesting a prescription for prenatal vitamins to begin taking before getting pregnant. My doctor decided that I should also have blood tests ran so that we could be aware if there were any issues that may hinder our ability to get pregnant. My blood tests came back stating that I was diabetic. I was referred to a dietician and put on Metformin. I was 27 years old, and refused to accept that I was at my midlife (if I were to die at the same age my dad did). I ended up losing 20 pounds prior to getting pregnant and was able to keep that off for the next 2 years (I only gained 20 with my pregnancy and lost it within 2 weeks of giving birth). After the birth of our son, I was no longer a diabetic (yay!) I found MFP this past summer and have lost another 18. I have around another 35 to go. It might take me another few years, but I do know one thing, I will never be diabetic again!

It seemed where ever I went, I saw not just overweight people (especially women, but certainly NOT exclusively), but everywhere I went, everywhere I looked I saw obese and morbidly obese people and I would have the NERVE to be disgusted with how so many people "just let themselves go".

Well, on January 20th...I made an emergency call into my doctor, because I started developing these really UGLY and disgusting rashes all over my body. I've NEVER had skin problems and always have had lovely skin. The doctor couldn't figure it out--said it looked like several things and gave me a prescription for some stuff. As her assistant gave me my prognosis report, I saw the word OBESE as one of the possible contributing factors and was a part of my medical history.

WOW! All I can say is something snapped, crackled and POPPED within me and SCARED me something awful. Kinda like when the ghosts came to see Scoorge in ****en's Christmas Carol--what my past, present and future will look like if i don't make a serious lifestyle change. I said, that's it!! I'm getting this nasty looking and feeling fat off of me. But I also had to do a LOT of soul searching, apologizing to a lot to people (including and especially my family and friends) to get my NEW Life style starting out RIGHT.

It like God Himself showed me myself in every obese and morbidly obese person i saw, and gave me the CHOICE of changing--drastically, and immediately and Assured me He will help me if I humble myself and follow a new lifestyle of eating, drinking, thinking, behaving, believing and loving. I said YES, and today is my 1 month anniversary of change and I've released and banished FOREVER 15 pounds of FAT, have gain muscle in many places I never have and helped me to drop my body fat percentage from a HUGE and unacceptably SCARY 46-47% to currently a miraculous and blessed body fat percentage of 32% body fat--just from changing my eating, personal and spiritual habits. I've got a long way to go--55 more unhealthy pounds to BLAST out of my life forever more--but it's a awesome and exciting road ahead, that i look forward to meeting everyday for the rest of my life!

When you don't turn your husband on anymore and they almost leave you for a skinnier woman. Is my rock bottom. What got me to put my butt in gear tho is a trip to FL I'm taking in Apr I so wanna wear a swim suit on the beach and look decent.

Maybe it isn't only the physical health part of your life that you need to change. Just sayin. Your husband should love you no matter what. I'm sorry.

i couldn't agree more jgood21!

This is embarrassing but.....grunting and turning red when bending down in a seated position to tie my shoes. My gut had gotten so big, I couldn't breathe when I tied my shoes
Going to Mexico right after Christmas with my family. Lots of pictures were taken and I was shocked and humiliated to see myself in pictures. I see myself in the mirror every morning, but there's something about seeing a photo of yourself fat. I didn't recognize myself.
Buying sweaters and realizing that I had lost my feminine shape- just looked like a blob
Realizing that I was dangerously close to 200, and that if I didn't do something, I would burst right through it and beyond with lightening speed.
Running out of breath when walking up the stairs.
Realizing I had no ankles.
Heart pain, knee pain, stomach pain. Always pain, unnecessary pain for a 33 year old woman.