What was your final straw?

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  • Princess_Sameen
    Princess_Sameen Posts: 284 Member
    I horse ride and someone too a picture of me riding I looked huge! but too make it worse my backside was about two inches smaller than my horses...or possibly the same!! He is a big heavyweight horse that weighs over a tonne!
    so when I realised I mirrored my horse was time to say goodbye by *kitten*!! :laugh:
  • szyja
    szyja Posts: 42
    Mine was when I went out to buy new clothing for work...to find myself in a size 16!!!! :sad: I used to be a size 5 in my 20's and most people thought of me as anorexic! Wow...what a wake up call. I am now into a size 8 to 10 (depending on the clothing) and trying to get myself into a six! the other straw for me was not being able to walk up the basement stairs without stopping for air on the way up! I was sooooo out of shape. Now, an hour long combat class with an hour of weightlifting afterward is like nothing! In fact, I'm hoping to be a combat instructor someday! I'm so happy that we can choose to change our size and fitness level! :wink:
  • cheshirequeen
    cheshirequeen Posts: 1,324 Member
    i saw our christmas pic. i looked at it and was horrified.
  • Barbqn
    Barbqn Posts: 10
    When my daughter's boyfriend commented that I wear a lot of dresses. I thought to myself, " It's because I'm too big to fit in any of my pants.
    So in search of a calorie counting app for my phone, I found this site and sign up. I've lost 3 lbs since Tuesday. 29 to go. :wink:
  • saxmaniac
    saxmaniac Posts: 1,133 Member
    A profound mental shift.

    I used to think that dieting and exercise was vain, shallow, and for self-centered people looking to get laid. Which itself was vain, shallow, and self-centered, and outright evil if you were married. After all, it's our ideas and minds that matter, not our bodies, right? Even when I did it in the past and was successful, I felt guilty about liking it.

    Yeah, all of that was bull****.
  • Christina_3192
    Christina_3192 Posts: 133 Member
    My final straw for me was kind of a set of events. I was in denial about gaining weight for almost two years.
    It started when I'd go out with my gal pals and would cringe looking at the pictures. I couldn't put on any of my clothes with out feeling self conscious.
    I looked at pre college photos of me and wanted to cry.
    And the straw that broke the camels back was when I stepped on the scale in January and it said 165, I went to college weighing 125.

    I decided that enough was enough. So it's been almost 6 months, down 20 pounds, 20 more to go :)
    I feel awesome so far, and am excited to get to my goal. I think it will take another 2-6 months. Slow and steady is fine for me :3
  • traceyjayne64
    traceyjayne64 Posts: 262
    When being intimate with my husband my stomach (under my bust) was so big and obviously pushing on my lungs so much that i couldn't breath and had to ask him to get off me :cry:
  • marci423
    marci423 Posts: 130 Member
    It should have been my mom's first stroke that "got" me, but it wasn't until a few months later after her 2nd on that I took a look at myself and decided something had to give...............slowly I started changing the way I was eating, then I started walking.......the first time I walked at the park I could barely make it around the track... 0.8 miles......... but, it has hills ........... I went back that night, determined.....I walked it 2 times and it's been on since then :o) I lost 50lbs in 5 months watching my serving size, cutting out breads and added sugars......... and WALKING......

    hit a plateau........... and now the scales are finally moving again :o) almost there......
  • patty43ck
    patty43ck Posts: 248 Member
    A near collapse of my marriage:

    I was overweight and so depressed about it and not doing anything about it. I wouldn't let my husband touch me or see me naked because I was so ashamed. I shut him and almost everyone else out and lost myself in books. That is all I did....read!! Until one day I discovered he was having an affair with an old high school sweetheart. I was shocked and devastated but realized I still loved my husband and wanted to save our marriage. It took me a long time but after counseling and finally coming to realize that it was me I needed to work on to make myself happy and that nobody else could provide that for me, we came together again. He felt that I wasn't attracted to him anymore and was lonely. Although I know that was no excuse and I am not blaming myself, there are always two sides and I wasn't fulfilling my role in the marriage. We are still together and our marriage is stronger than it ever has been. I feel more confident and secure that I am fighting to make this change for me and have learned to love myself no matter what size I am.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    I was trying on dresses for 3 upcoming weddings that I had to attend and nothing was fitting right. I was miserable trying to find something I liked that actually fit me. When my sister scheduled her own wedding on a beach in Aruba I finally decided I had to lose the weight if I was going to be comfortable at any of these weddings.
  • Leslie85
    Leslie85 Posts: 265 Member
    I ripped the leg out of a pair of jeans when I was putting them on...they had always fit before....
  • Jessie43082
    Jessie43082 Posts: 171 Member
    I went shopping for my birthday last year. Nothing fit. I ended up with 3X tops and maybe 22 pants. This year when I went birthday shopping I bought size 6 and size 8 and medium and large tops!
  • logicman69
    logicman69 Posts: 1,034 Member
    Seeing a photo of me in florida and not recognizing myself. It scared me to see me like that.
  • stylistchik
    stylistchik Posts: 1,436 Member
    I was told by my coach that my "back fat" needed to go. :grumble:
  • k9runner1963
    k9runner1963 Posts: 108 Member
    Seeing a picture of me looking like I am 8 months pregnant. I'm NOT. Started my journey in January with a Biggest Looser contest at work and now I am 32 pounds lighter and still going! The contest ended four or five weeks ago, I came in second.
  • cwatson1214
    cwatson1214 Posts: 88 Member
    When the Dr. said if you don't lose weight you are going to start on a diabetic pill. My sugar is cause i am overweight.

    That is exactly what got me there too. I always was chubby , ok FAT. But starting to feel unhealty was the last straw. I am not getting younger so I needed to fix it.
  • belle0226
    belle0226 Posts: 33 Member
    For me it was realizing I was (and still am) the heaviest I have ever been combined with hurting my knee (torn PCL). When I hurt my knee I was walking around the block. I realized I had to do something. So I am. The scary part was that noticing nothing fit and having to buy new clothes was not enough.
  • speediejane
    speediejane Posts: 496 Member
    buying clothes bigger and bigger- being covered up on hoilday in baggy clothes feeling bigger
  • Jesstruhan
    Jesstruhan Posts: 331 Member
    When even my 14's were getting tight, I refused to get one size bigger. I've been a 16 and close to an 18 in high school, and I lost that weight right around turning 17. I had been getting steadily bigger and smaller and bigger and smaller...14 was th largest after that weight loss and I REFUSED to get any bigger. I just didn't feel good, I didn't feel good about myself...oddly it was right around Thanksgiving last year. It was the least food I have ever eaten at any holiday season and I've been steadily sneaking down (with some set-backs, pleateaus and mental blocks in between) ever since. I just could not take it any more!
  • buffyblank
    buffyblank Posts: 5 Member
    When I got pants from my mom and sister that were to big for them, and alas to small for me :( They are now to big for me too!!!
  • NomiS6
    NomiS6 Posts: 67 Member
    Having to hold my breath to do my shoe laces up
  • Ames1026
    Ames1026 Posts: 38 Member
    My belly touching my lap when I sat. Having to shop for larger clothes. My kids poking me in belly cause they think it fun to jiggle.:cry:
  • kimnsc
    kimnsc Posts: 560 Member
    It was several things that pushed me to get healthy again.

    1.) My brother was admitted to the hospital on the verge of a diabetic coma, he was severely obese and wasn't aware until then that he was diabetic.
    2.) NONE of my clothes fit
    3.) The pain in my knees, hips and lower back couldn't be explained away for any other reason than I weighed WAY too much.
    4.) I actually stepped on the scales and cried
    2.) Several people in my husbands family made statements like "Well at least you have a pretty face" "You were so thin once". While those comments make them obnoxious they held a certain amount of truth.
  • emnk5308
    emnk5308 Posts: 736
    I honestly don't know.. I've been trying since I was 14 years old! I cried when the scale went over 200.. it was slowly going up. I didn't think I looked much different.. but when pants I had just worn did not fit I started to notice. I've tried SO many times.. I don't understand but something in my brain clicked this time and my head wont let me 'cheat' or anything! ..I think something clicked because I saw a picture of myself at a friends wedding.. .I looked HUGE! but also a few days after that I noticed my belt went a notch tighter! I wasn't even trying.. So I just went with it and I'm 10 lbs down. Something just snapped up there and I don't really understand it.. I know for sure that I'm tired of size 18 pants and being fat. =/
  • emnk5308
    emnk5308 Posts: 736
    I cried on the scale too =(
  • musicgirl99
    musicgirl99 Posts: 252 Member
    Similar to you, I went from a size 6 to a size 10 in about 6 months. When I hit my size 8 pants, I was a little depressed. When my size 10 pants were tight, I knew I had to change something. Then when I took pictures and compared them to my progress that I made last year, my mind was made up. I was not going to wallow in my self pity anymore. The pictures of me disgusted me and I was so angry with myself that I let myself lose all my hard earned progress from last year.

    Same here!
  • nhall423
    nhall423 Posts: 8 Member
    Seeing a picture of myself holding my niece and realizing how big I'd actually gotten, I'd been avoiding mirrors in general so that objective picture really threw me for a loop. I'd had to buy size 12 pants (I'm now a size 8) and they were starting to get tight. They did a Biggest Loser competition last year at work, and it was just the right time. I ended up coming in 2nd in the competition, lost 18 lbs and now working on losing another 20 or so and being healthy overall.
  • cwatson1214
    cwatson1214 Posts: 88 Member
    Seeing a picture of me looking like I am 8 months pregnant. I'm NOT. Started my journey in January with a Biggest Looser contest at work and now I am 32 pounds lighter and still going! The contest ended four or five weeks ago, I came in second.

    Congratulations. That is exactly what I started as well. So far I am winning!!!!!
  • prettyinpink117
    prettyinpink117 Posts: 29 Member
    We went to the State Fair and I had on an empire cut sundress... and someone asked me when I was due! Def not pregnant, just fat! :laugh:
  • aprilgrl27
    aprilgrl27 Posts: 176 Member
    Hmmm. Just a collection of items that were driving me crazy.
    Can't wear my heels anymore. I'm in too much pain because I am just too heavy.
    My bras are starting to get to tight.
    My shirts don't look good anymore.
    My jeans don't fit.
    But mostly, I had to buy a pair of capris with an elastic wasteband because nothing else even looked half decent. That was April 13th.

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