Tell me about your rock bottom

I stepped on the scale and it read 252 (I am only 5ft 2). It was at that moment I realized that I was officially closer to weighing 300 pounds than 200. Something in me finally snapped and I signed up for Weight Watchers (for the 5th or 6th time) that morning. I made a promise to myself that I would continue going to WW until I got to my goal -- no matter how long it took.

Took me 6 years to lose 100 pounds and 6 1/2 years to get to goal and Lifetime with WW. I gained and lost so many time over the years, but I never gave up. It was so worth the time, money, and struggle. I have a life now and I don't plan on giving it up!

I have had 2 very different rock bottoms

The first at 27 - I faced the fact I was anorexic when I saw my back reflected in a friend's sun glasses and could see ribs all the way down my spine until my bony pelvis I started weight training and put on 10 lbs the first year


The second at 43 when I walked 1 block and had to use my inhaler because I was so out of shape and overweight. I realized I was killing myself with food and that I wanted to live to see my grandchild grow up. I started weight training again, quit smoking, got divorced..( I count him as 200 lbs of ugly fat) and lost 35lbs.

My "good angle" for pics made me look like my mother's pregnancy pics, and I'm a triplet. :noway:

Before I found out I was pregnant i had planned a vacation for the summer of 09 and was trying to lose about 50 lbs starting in january but i really didnt stick to any diet plan didnt workout all that much and i weighed 184 which was my highest. Found out i was pregnnt in march of 09 and went to my pre natal apt and weighted 186 made me upset but i was pregnant so i couldnt do much about it. So i never went on my vacation due to complications with the baby. the day after i delivered my son I weighed 202 I was so upset but i knew i just delived a baby and thats what happens you gain weight when your pregnant. I delived my son in october and by april i weighed 160 which i was really content with i felt great in my body during the summer i actually did a biggest loser challenge at work and by the end of the summer i was 150. In september I started school full time and still trying to work and chasing after a little one i was 148 still pretty happy but i got so stressed trying to keep up with everyhting that slowly i started slipping up. I was always eating on the Go (FAST FOOD) not making time to workout slowly i started to gain and one day i got on the scale and i weighted 163!!! I could have cried but I said nop not again so i started workout super hard again and lost 3 lbs before i heard about MFP and now have lost 7lbs with it so 10lbs loss total. I dont want to gt back to the pre baby weight 184. i feel so confident now that i am losing weight again and I am a single mom so i have a lot to show for! My son is my motivations. i am 21 and a mother but i dont have to use the excuse that i had a baby to be fat i wanna be proud that had a baby and was able to bounce back and wear a bikini!
Angela

Oh my, I do love this thread. Thanks for posting it.

My rock bottom was not having any clothes left that I could comfortably fit into and I knew I looked like I had been poured into the ones I was wearing. The other thing was that I attended a basketball game at the University, and I was beginning to wonder if I could fit into the seat. How embarrasing!!! Thus, time to do something had arrived. Rejoined Weight Watchers at 259 on 8/05/10 and have been very nonchalant about following their true guidelines, happy to take whatever I got each week. I have not missed hardly one week of meetings, yet because of my own lacadayical attitude, have lost only 33 lbs in that time period.

Three weeks ago, a very nice young man opened a personal training business in my back door, so to speak. I talked to him and signed up - since booking the dream vacation of a lifetime to fly to Hawaii for a week Nov. 6 of this year, I am not very strict with myself and ready to take my BMI down from morbidly obese as fast as possible. Since losing 33 lbs. it has gone down from 45.9 to 40.0, so thank God I am on my way!

I didn't really have a rock bottom. I knew I'd stopped exercising regularly and had been gaining weight. I've been thin most of my life so when I put on weight I just don't feel like me anymore. So I did the cliche thing and waited till Jan 1 and made a resolution to started exercising again.

For over a year all my clothes were snug. I kept covering myself up, buying spanx, and living in the world of denial...saying I will lose weight....it will come off...blah blah blah...tomorrow I'll do this and that....etc. Excuse after excuse...

It wasn't until I jumped on the scale and saw the NUMBER that I realized just how big I was getting. I weighed pretty much the same weight as my fiance! Granted he was underweight at the time but still...I weighed the same amount as a 6 foot man! I was so disgusted with myself.

When I realized I'd been in the same funk for three years since my husbands affair.

He realized how depressed and low I'd become and signed me up to a gym and joined MFP not long after. I still have my issues to work through in regards to how I feel about myself, but at least I know my weight is something I can control and manage. And that helps.

When I lost my job, my wife, my mom died, I was fat, and it almost cost me my life. that's when I realized that there are some things that you can't control, but I could control my weight and it was making me miserable. so I started slow, taking walks while I tried to sort my life out.

The photo on the left, taken in December 2009, was my rock bottom. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this picture. I knew at that moment I had to do something before it got more out of control. My daughter had just turned 2 years old at the time and I couldn't continue blaming it on baby weight. Enough was enough!!! January 1, 2010 was the start of my journey and I'm still sticking with it!