When Was Your First Time?

When I started to sweat getting up the five flights of stairs at uni and when stepping on the scales this year i realised i was the heaviest I had ever been. That really shocked me to do something about it. Now i can make it up all the stairs, no elevator for me!

Seeing pics of me..................plus being winded just going up stairs, are a couple of the things that made me have that ahah moment. Plus I promised my dying Daddy that I would take care of my weight (he just died 01/02/12) and I don't break my promises to my Daddy.

When I struggled to get almost every shirt in my closet on. I feel so stupid admitting it now but I was so confused at first and then I realized....you let yourself gain to much weight dummy

When my wedding pics came back. I looked so disgustingly fat. I was at 368 pounds. But I never realized how fat I was until I saw those pics. It makes me sad because that was my wedding day. I should love showing off those pics but I hated to even put them on Facebook. I have lost 90 pounds now and I have still have more to lose but I told hubby once I reach my goal, we should renew our vows and have pictures taken again. It won't be like the actual wedding but still... good enough! lol

I felt horrible in all of my clothes. I had to adjust my shirts all the time pull my pant up and so on. So then I finally relized how much I hated how I looked an felt. I stepped on the scale and seen the large number of 225 pounds (revealing to me that I had gained 60 pounds). I knew in that moment that I had to do something and so I did... and here I am a year later and 50 pounds lighter

i realised that not only did my 'skinny' jeans not fit.. they wouldnt do up, they wouldnt even go past my *kitten*... ouch

Oh yeah...that happened to me too, but it wasn't my skinny jeans....my fat jeans had become my skinny jeans. I didn't realize that until I started losing weight and tried on a pair and couldn't get into them. I really avoided all of the things that would have broken my delusion that I wasn't as fat as I really was. I didn't wear jeans, shorts, trousers, and I wore tons of shapewear and concentrated on making sure that my makeup and hair looked good so that I didn't have to focus on my body.

yep - my 'skinny' jeans at the moment were my fat jeans a couple of months ago. oh well, getting back there!

When I ended up in the hospital. I was 214 lbs. Very high Blood pressure, high cholesterol, and a size 38 waist going into a 40 jean size. It hit me like a brick. Everything changed from that day forward. I am down to 165 and run 15 to 20 miles per week. I feel great,and I am 51 years young.

When my friends and family started appreciating me in the "big version" of me. (I was thinking "So I am really fat now? that people will just say It's okay, you're still pretty but chubby." And when I went to the hospital to check if I have a migraine really, or anything serious.. the nurse called me and check my weight and told me in no-hush tone where verybody heard.


Later then was the photos... *sigh*

Trying to fit in my winter clothes. Had gained it all during spring though the fall. I'd been the same jean size since high school so it was a shocker!

**Sigh** I am at this point now. Earlier, I went from the plus-size store to the largest normal sized clothes (yay!) and now I'm not only in the plus-size again, but larger than before. I find myself "sucking it in" when my husband walks by, and I look pregnant if I'm not sucking it in, which you can't do 24/7. And summer is here. Ugh, why did I do this to myself!?!? But today is another day, and I'm ready for the journey to have a happy ending. This time next year I am going to look HOT HOT HOT and no sucking it in.

Good luck to us all!!!!!!!!!

Wow! Everybodys "Wake up moments" have me thinking.

1) only 10% of my closet fit (The stretchy stuff)
2) I would get car sick really bad (Everything was too tight and made me nauseated while sitting in motion)
3) I didn't like being touched or cuddled (Not like me AT ALL!)
4) Even in the "Good angle" pictures I looked fat and close to the same size as my husband
5) I didn't run anymore and the one time I tried I averaged 12 minute miles (now i do that same distances in 9-9:30 minute miles)
6) It was not as easy to hike. Having to hop over rocks or trees and such was very difficult.
7) I started saying to my husband while riding bikes "You go on ahead, I'll catch up". Thats not in may nature, I'm a "try and catch me" , competitive kinda girl.
8) It wasnt just one area of my body I didn't like anymore. It was everything. My face, arms, waist,thighs, legs, ankles and even my toes.


Thank goodness I was finally able to straighten myself out! I have only lost 20 out of 40-45 lbs but I am already racing, down 2 sizes, can see my muscles and happy as a clam!


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I always knew I was bigger, but the last time my weight got me in trouble, I almost lost my job. it was shortly after that (and from the encouragement of a fellow co-worker) that I decided enough was enough and I made my move. BEST DECISION I EVER MADE!

Every time I had to buy bigger pants I said, "This is just for now. I'm going to fit in my old pants soon." Before I knew it, I'm back at the store buying bigger pants again. Enough is enough! I finally stepped on the scale and am heavier than I thought I was. :-/

I knew for a long time, but it wasn't until the scale crept to 90 kilos that I really understood that I wasn't "a bit chubby" I was fat.

I have a one-strap backpack, and my man-boob came over the strap. HUGE wakeup.