Your wtf i need to get in shape moment.

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  • clairyfairy247
    clairyfairy247 Posts: 425 Member
    Couldn't zip my nice dress for my birthday up :/
  • kmuree
    kmuree Posts: 283 Member
    The moment I read the scale at 197.8lbs. :noway: My highest ever. I was determined to NEVER make it to 200, so here I am! :bigsmile:
  • jennaworksout
    jennaworksout Posts: 1,739 Member
    I saw a picture of myself and was mortified...and thought enough is enough! Heart problems run in my family, saw my grandmother die from it, my mother is overweight and thought thats not going to be me...I want a healthy heart and a long life so that was my moment...also a relative said I was looking chubby , that did it too..
  • pittskaa
    pittskaa Posts: 319 Member
    promised myself I would never weight more than 200 pounds last summer, now around 15 lbs past that.

    also looking at pictures of me and my skinny boyfriend, my chubby face just keeps getting chubbier and chubbier!
  • kale_powered
    kale_powered Posts: 21 Member
    I almost had that WTF moment when I realized I was closer to 200 lbs than to what was considered my "healthy" weight and my size 14 pants were really tight. But I still didn't care enough, the real WTF moment came when after a few months of being vegan, I'd lost almost 15 pounds just from what I ate, and figured I'd might as well work out and actually watch what I was eating and finish what was already started.
  • SuperAmie
    SuperAmie Posts: 307 Member
    Pretty much when my Mom bought me a pair of jeans for Christmas, I looked at the size and said "Mom these are huge!!" When I put them on they hardly fit.I was spilling out the top ICK... THAT was the breaking point! I sulked for two months then kicked myself in the *kitten* :)
  • kmillar1224
    kmillar1224 Posts: 91 Member
    The moment that I was letting my insecurities surrounding my body was wrecking my relationship. Working hard on fixing that!!
  • the_hotness
    the_hotness Posts: 7 Member
    When I realized that other women were beginning to feel comfortable around me because I was no longer a threat. I'm cute, but I am (was) the fat wingman.

    When I'm at my peak, my female friends either step their game up, or bow out totally.

    Yeah, I said it. :huh:

    :laugh: :laugh:
  • KHoiriis
    KHoiriis Posts: 33 Member
    Mt WTF moment(s)... I had just turned 29 and I was enormous. Well over 300 lbs. A friend asked me to go to OA with her. I did and it was successful, I lost 1/2 of my body weight in 9 months, kept it off for 2 years. Then the weight started creeping back up, went back to OA and lost that weight again 20-30 lbs. Kept it off for awhile. Now I own my own business and the weight is coming back with a horrible vengeance. I have a closet full of cute clothes I can not wear, I have terrific pictures of me when the weight was down... I want to be there again. I never did do exercise through any of that though, and thats where the change is this time.
  • Faintgreeneyes
    Faintgreeneyes Posts: 729 Member
    My WTF moment- was that I had been training for and completed a 9k run, and thought that I was looking great- until I saw pictures of myself and I still looked awful. Even with all the running I was doing, I still wasn't losing weight. So I got on MFP and set a goal for myself.

    I finally made my goal weight- but currently struggle with my self image and still feeling like I am a bigger girl.
  • YokoJ
    YokoJ Posts: 253
    Was at the beach and was playing ultimate frisbee and could feel my booty and thighs shake everytime I ran.
  • stonegirldancing
    stonegirldancing Posts: 37 Member
    When I realized I was 17lbs away from my highest weight and 58lbs over my lowest weight. Knew I had to get back on track and find a healthy medium.

    PS: 155 wasn't my starting weight, it was 168.
  • leonalynn
    leonalynn Posts: 8
    I was a size 4 easily. Then my mother died. Then the man that I was head over heals dumped me. I flung myself into a huge depression and started to grow a root on the couch. I wouldn't go anywhere for days at a time. Stopped my normal activities. Turned 40 and the weight was just creeping up. I ignored it for awhile, but one of my favorite activities was clothes shopping and nothing was cute on me anymore. All of a sudden I was in a size 16! Mortified, I still did nothing...until I wanted to try to have a baby and my body was/is not in any condition, so I finally decided to join a bootcamp. The weight is not coming off as quickly as I would like...9 pounds in 4 or 5 months...ugh.

    Anyhow, I can look back and see that the depression was a key cause of my severe weight gain. Not in my depression mode anymore, but the weight that I have now sometimes puts me back there again, but I just have to fight through it.
  • When I got on the scale and weighed more then I did when I gave birth to my children. I am no pregnant, I have no reason to weigh that much. Plus I want to lose the weight before we decide to start trying for another child. I don't want my OB file to have OBESE wrote across the top in big red letters this time.

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  • KDCrocker
    KDCrocker Posts: 12 Member
    My WTF moment was the birth of my sweet baby girl. I was married last year (and never found the motivation to get in shape before the wedding), and thought I'd have a few months to get my butt in gear before we would get pregnant. Nope, 2 weeks later I was pregnant. I didn't really let things get out of control when I was pregnant, but I knew I didn't start out in the best of health. The real eye opener was when my little girl came a full month early. She spent almost 2 weeks in NICU, and it was the hardest 2 weeks of my life. Not a second went by that I didn't wonder if my weight/generally poor health had something to do with her coming early (even though the docs assured me they found no cause, she was just ready to come out). She is now a happy, healthy 5 month old, but I am determined to get and stay healthy for her. I want to be a mom she is proud of and be a healthy example for her. And if we decide to have another baby someday, I never want to wonder again if my health is hurting my baby.
  • nailtechbec
    nailtechbec Posts: 93 Member
    I bought my wedding dress as soon as my fiancé proposed, it was a bit tight and I knew I'd have to lose about 7lbs or so... Then I had my son, we get married in ten months and I'm now about 28lbs from fitting in the dress !!!
  • JammerJ19
    JammerJ19 Posts: 2
    My first should have decades ago! In fifth grade I was asked if I knew what cellulite was... In High School (at my heaviest) my best friend's grandfather teased me incessantly for hours at a dinner, to the point I locked myself in the bathroom for hours until it was time to leave! A few years ago, my sister wanted to go horse back riding as part of her bachelorette party but I couldn't go because I was to heavy so no one went. Just this past October I agonized over booking a flight on Southwest because I knew they were going to make me buy an another seat and I flat out couldn't afford it. I went so far as to measure my a**! Needless to say, I crammed myself into a seat on Jet Blue! I am now approaching the size I wore in High School and was just heckeled at a concert and it crushed me. But my ultimate WTF moment was finding out my father had his first heart attack on my 7th birthday while he was picking up my bike. Enough is enough.
  • beauty2323
    beauty2323 Posts: 70 Member
    Pants size went up and up and up. My stomach got big. ( most of my weight is on my legs, never had a stomach problem)
    Seeing pictures of myself.
    My mother constantly telling me I'm gaining weight.
    Having a miscarriage.
    :frown:

    (As you can see it took a lot of WTF moments to finally get my *kitten* moving!!!_


    But now I'm a work in progress! :happy:
  • Emmalindley
    Emmalindley Posts: 13 Member
    I had a hen do recently and had to dress up in fancy dress - despite having months to get in shape for it I didnt lose even 1 pound. The hen do was last weekend and I just had to get through it in 2 different costumes being the fat girl.

    Now Ive got 8 weeks to the wedding and I am so determined to look nice in a dress and for the other people who I met on the hen do to think WOW shes lost weight!!!
  • Dionysus35
    Dionysus35 Posts: 74
    About 3 years ago, I had a doctor's visit where she bluntly said, "You're overweight and unhealthy. If you don't change your habits now, you'll be dead in ten years." Word for word, she just laid it out there. Then she mocked my posture as I was sitting on the exam table. That was my "Come to Jesus" moment.

    I'm so glad she was willing to say that. I was 32 and weighed 256 pounds. 3 years on, I'm 191 and in the best shape of my life. Kuddos to her.
  • When I stepped on the scale, I saw 160 pounds and I flipped out. I rounded up to 200 pounds in my head for some reason. I knew I needed to change for real this time. :)
  • Exna
    Exna Posts: 96 Member
    My husband and I started trying to have a baby last year and I guess I wanted to be very fit and healthy before-hand, so that I can keep it up during and after pregnancy.... a healthy start for the baby and lots easier for me to get back into shape.
    16 weeks pregnanct and this lifestyle has made everything a lot easier! :flowerforyou:
  • Angelsrose12
    Angelsrose12 Posts: 37 Member
    I was super successful with Weight Watchers pre points plus, then my dad killed himself. I was distraught and gained back all of the weight. I slowly took off some of the weight with the points plus system a year later, but struggled so much with it I gave up. Then I stepped on a scale after a vacation with loads of walking, expecting to have lost weight and was over what I was pre-Weight Watchers. I couldn't take it anymore and decided I needed to try something new.
  • cm1458
    cm1458 Posts: 742 Member
    I was 263lbs and I went to an amusement park with my family. I got on one o the roller coasters and the lap-safety-belt wouldn't reach around me to fasten.. I had to get up and leave while everyone else watched. I was so humiliated.
    Later that day one of the men (looked to be late 20s or 30) who rode it when I had to get off and leave made cow noises at me. Teenagers did things like that to me at school constantly, but it hurt a lot more coming from a grown man.
    That day really changed my life. I'm so glad it did. :smile:
  • bushs99
    bushs99 Posts: 37 Member
    My WFT moment was when I sat down to look at the pictures from my daughters wedding June 2011 and then our Hawaii trip which was a month later. I looked horrible in those pictures and it didn't matter what we went through to look nice or relax. I looked horrible.

    I finally said I've has enough and talked to my friend who'd been telling me about My Fitness Pal. I've been on ever since. To bad I didn't listen to her when she first told me about it, guess I wasn't ready.

    I still need to lose another 40lbs, but its amazing how good I feel now and how much I've accomplished since I started in August 2011.
  • deja_blu
    deja_blu Posts: 359 Member
    When I realized that other women were beginning to feel comfortable around me because I was no longer a threat. I'm cute, but I am (was) the fat wingman.

    When I'm at my peak, my female friends either step their game up, or bow out totally.

    Yeah, I said it. :huh:

    :laugh: :laugh:

    LMAOOOOOOOOOO. What she said!
  • misao1994
    misao1994 Posts: 78
    I decided to just measure my waist for kicks and realized I had added 5 inches onto my waist(always the smallest part of my body) and then weighed myself. At my smallest I was 155lbs with a 25in waist. It was not cool! And so I was done. And I've been done ever since.
  • kympow
    kympow Posts: 145 Member
    When I was put on insulin....in January, made lifestyle changed in March...was off the insulin in March ;) Since then I have tried my hardest to do what I need to....

    My top weight was a little over 300 pounds... I am now almost 40 pounds lighter and my thyroid meds are lower, no more insulin, oral diabetes pills, stopped a blood pressure medicne...

    I feel so much better and am mad I let my body get this way in the 1st place...Never should have gotten past 150... My children are happy with my loss so far....my children check calories now as well, in a healthy way...
  • bazzawood30
    bazzawood30 Posts: 45 Member
    Did not want to be a fat dad, I saw other dads filling out did not want to go the same way. 202lbs down to 170lbs.
  • Rockmyskinnyjeans
    Rockmyskinnyjeans Posts: 431 Member
    I had a few of them. . .

    1. My jean size (clothes size, in general) kept creeping up and up and I wouldn't buy past a size 10. I was busting the heck out of them when I realized "OMG I must fix this now". Technically, I would say I was a 12 in denial.

    2. I saw my weight on the scale and about died on the spot.

    3. I managed to hide from the camera for most of a 1-1 1/2 year period, but then an old friend came to visit. A picture was taken of me at 180.6 lbs (I was weighed for the Biggest Loser Challenge I was doing the day the pic was taken) and she posted it on Facebook. I wanted to curl up in a ball and die... and then I joined MFP the very next day and changed my eating habits. My whole perspective changed from that point on. I am now back in a size 6, and the occasional 8.