What was your 'moment'?

jdelisle
jdelisle Posts: 1,050 Member
edited September 2024 in Chit-Chat
Needing a little inspiration here and wondering what your 'moment' was... you know the moment where you decided that enough is enough and you needed to lose the pounds?

For me, it was looking at pictures from a holiday with my husband. When they came back I realized that I did not want to be the person that I was looking at anymore and the only person who could control that is me.

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  • NykkieC
    NykkieC Posts: 622 Member
    I was very in denial of how big I had gotten. I had taken some "progress" pictures and they looked horrible but I was still like "Oh, it's just a bad angle".
    My moment was when I asked my dad to be really honest, and if I had gained a ton of weight. He said yes. I had already been on here since January but it wasn't until my dad said that in March that I truly started changing.

    I'm nearly 20 pounds down now and I feel fantastic!
  • fishtetris
    fishtetris Posts: 39
    i was huge til april but decided enough is enough. Since i've lost 75 lbs and went from obese to a healthy weight. I've also done the p90x system recently and got the changes i wanted in muscle, and couldnt be happier for it.:bigsmile:
  • kelly_a
    kelly_a Posts: 2,010 Member
    mastering the yo-yo pattern for way too many, many years ( all of my 30's )....realizing that I have a choice to either live healthy or not and take care of ME. many health issues in my family, yeah some likely hereditary, but I am determined to beat the odds, AND.....not wanting to be among the US obesity statistic! :tongue:
  • Jovialation
    Jovialation Posts: 7,632 Member
    When I was complaining that my pants didnt fit to my boyfriend and he said (trying to make me feel better) "well at least youre not a size 14"
    and I was busting out of my size 12 jeans!

    Of course, he knows nothing of womens sizes and was just picking a size that seemed bigger than me...but I still was like "OH THATS IT"
  • akgrant
    akgrant Posts: 293 Member
    I think my moment was when my 6 year looked at my stomach and said "mommy, you have a BIG Belly"! I have to admit I was a little embarrassed! :laugh:

    Good luck with your weight lost! You can do this, just take it one day at a time and don't be too hard on yourself when you fall! We all do sometime! I ate at a buffet last week! :laugh:
  • Hannah_Banana
    Hannah_Banana Posts: 1,242 Member
    I started seeing stretch marks on my upper arms. I already had them on my tummy from my little bundle of joy, but on my ARMS?!

    I said hell no, and have never looked back. :bigsmile:
  • katie517
    katie517 Posts: 159
    When my husband told me that he is ready to start our family whenever I am. I know I have to get healthy now if I want to have a healthy pregnancy and baby. Plus, I know if I don’t become the thin girl I’ve wanted to be for so long before I have kids, it just isn’t going to happen after. I know myself too well. :blushing:
  • LJCannon
    LJCannon Posts: 3,636 Member
    March 17, 2009

    We had taken my parents to a Gaither Homecoming Concert in Oklahoma City. Mom was in a wheelchair because her legs get weak after walking very short distances and she has breathing problems. Looking at her I realized that with my shortness of breath, and the pain in my knees, back, and feet when I walked very much that in only a few years we would be needing TWO (!) wheelchairs if we went to any kind of concert or event. I was out of breath and clammy after walking from our seats to the concession stand. I had to sit down and rest before I could go back to our seats. And they had given us seats in the "Handicapped" section because of Mom's wheelchair!

    :grumble: :angry: :frown:
  • Cassaaaaandra
    Cassaaaaandra Posts: 184 Member
    My husband and I would like to have another baby. I was incredibly fit pre-pregnancy and I think it helped with a lot of the discomforts toward the end of my pregnancy. I gained 50 lbs during my pregnancy and when my little one turned 4 months I still carried an extra 20lbs. I'd like to have another healthy baby - and that starts with a healthy me. Plus I've noticed he pays a lot of attention to the foods I put in my mouth and that's extra motivation to be careful of what I eat because he's learning ALL THE TIME.
  • Sarandipity
    Sarandipity Posts: 1,560
    I developed an autoimmune disorder last summer that had me swollen and in pain for about 8 months. Once I got on medication and the swelling went down and I got on the scale and saw 300lbs that was it. I couldn't explain it away with water retnetion in the swelling or anything and I stopped wanting to make excuses. I didn't want to be that person anymore. I had been on the site for a while, but hadn't actually been serious about it until the end of Jan. I have lost 71lbs now in just over 8 months and I feel great! :bigsmile:
  • amymeenieminymo
    amymeenieminymo Posts: 2,394 Member
    My first moment was when I got home from being fitted for my maid of honor dress that January and wanted to cry. My best friend's wedding dress was like a 6, the other bridesmaid was like a 12 and mine was a 24! Granted these are formal dress sizes, in a regular dress I would be about a 12, but still, I was moritified! Then to add insult to injury, I was told my dress would be an extra $50 because of the size.

    My second moment (and one that kicked me into gear) was in April when I realized I had about six months to lose weight so I wouldn't look like a whale in the wedding.
  • tiffanygil
    tiffanygil Posts: 478 Member
    Pictures. i saw myself in a photo at my daughters 3rd birthday party. I wouldn't even look up in them and I was huge. It was time for a change
  • Veronica320
    Veronica320 Posts: 139
    I pulled up at the drive-thru at my bank (they have one of those cameras and you can see yourself and the interior of your car on the screen). My gut was huge:grumble: I wanted to cry. I decided right then that I needed to get it in gear!
  • paddlemom
    paddlemom Posts: 682 Member
    Pictures have never done it for me. It was more of an internal process.

    I was eating Poppycock one day and my dh reached in, uninvited, to grab a handful. I raged cause not only did he just help himself to MY poppycock, but he took a particularly succulent morsel that I had be 'saving'!!! That's when I realized that if I could get that over the top angry over SNACKFOOD - and it really was about the food, not some deeper anger I had with him at the time - I needed to step back. When I broke it down, I realized that I almost always had a similar gut reaction to sharing my food.

    Now not only have I lost 40lbs so far with MFP, but I have really been able to make foods a functional part of my life rather than be so emotionally tied to what I have/have not.
  • HeatherBurke
    HeatherBurke Posts: 147
    The thing that really made me snap and realize that I need to start doing something is when I was putting on a pair of my size 10 jeans that used to fit perfect FOREVER to meet my boyfriends sister for the first time and they wouldn't even button.. not even close.. I hadn't even realized I had gained that much weight until then. I still haven't really made the plunge to get down and dirty with kicking the pounds in the butt but I realize that they are there and am making the first steps at starting my journey at getting my jeans back!!
  • AwMyLoLo
    AwMyLoLo Posts: 1,571 Member
    These are all really great stories, so inspiring.

    My moment was when I realized I only had 6 months until my wedding and despite going to the gym 3 times a week, I was still gaining weight. It was a split second at work I though "I should start tracking my calories" and... tada! Google calorie calulator and here I am on MFP! I was eating waaaaaaay too many calories and didn't realize it. I thought I could eat as much I wanted because I worked out, and wasn't eating fast food and stuff. HA! I have learned so much more about exercise and nutrition since being on this site. I am so thankful for this site and everyone on it. :flowerforyou:
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