What was your breaking point?

This might get moved to the lounge (it seems like i never post stuff in the right place), but what was your breaking point that made you start a weight loss/gain journey?  Everyone seems to have a different point where they just say "enough is enough".  What was yours?

Mine was when I was 16 (and unfortunately again when I was 19) when the scale said 252.5 lbs.  I realized that I was officially closer to 300 than 200 and that scared the crap out of me.  My parents always taught me to love myself and the word "fat" was off limits in my house, but I had to admit that something was wrong with me and needed to find a way to end my self destruction.

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For myself, I did not gain weight until my thirty's and i guess it just kept creeping up over the years. I have never really liked what i see when i look in the mirror, not to mention the weight. I have four sisters, all tall, and all thin. I am almost 6' myself, but my breaking point was a photo that was taken with my sisters and me looking like the odd ball.

I am also single, and although i am not doing this for a man, I know that if i dont take care of me and love myself, then nobody else will either. I have the most wonderful granddaughter and another on the way, so i want to be around for a very long time

I just started this journey in late October and have lost 14 lbs so far. I cut out cokes (addiction of drinking about eight a day for as long as i can remember) but no more, i have kicked that habit! I eat out maybe once a week, and i just started eating healthier. I got off topic didnt I, sorry.

This is somthing that i can control and so far im doing pretty good..

I hit my breaking point at 163 lbs.  Even though I'm large framed, I'm still a short person (5' 2")!  I've always weighed more than most people my height, even at my best (30 years old, 128 lbs, 12% body fat, very athletic).  20 years later, at age 50, post-meno and pretty sedentary, 163 was just HORRIBLE.  Even though I felt fine and had no health issues, I looked awful and I just didn't want to live the rest of my life hating what I saw in the mirror.

Over the past nine months, I lost 25 lbs, but gained back 5 lbs between a honeymoon cruise and the holidays, but I'm back on track with about another 10-15 lbs to go. I've been doing this very slowly, but I AM doing it. All that weight didn't come on in one day, it sure as heck won't come off fast either.

As much as I would like to have the body I had when I was 30, it's never going to happen.  I will be content with my almost 51 year old body, whatever it looks like when I approach the 130 mark.

At 16 and 5'7'', getting on the scale to see it read 145. Sick. Though I never had rolls or love handles, and always had good muscle tone and definition, it was too too much for me.

I reached my breaking point last year in September when I was 14. At 5'5" and 134 lb. Because I'm a pear shape, my hips were huge and I hated what I saw in the mirror. Every day, I struggled with choosing what clothes to wear at school because I didn't want anyone to see my huge butt/legs/hips. The whole weight thing made me so unhappy, so I finally decided to change instead of just wishing for a good body to magically appear.

A visit to the doctor and a call saying "Your cholesterol is very high" caught my attention.  Also not being able to wear a goodlooking dress I had bought for a special occasion.  Had to settle on something that I didn't like as well and those pictures will be with me forever!  But NOT NEXT TIME!

my breaking point was when I hit 169.  At 5'7", that isn't bad, i know, but I knew if I let it, I would keep going up and up.  I didn't want to be like my mom, who doesn't care about her health, and I want to beat the general health problems that run in my family.  I'm at 155 and I feel great, and look good, but I just want to tone up and drop a few more lbs and take care of myself.  If I never get above the weight I'm at now, I could be happy, but I'd like to get down to 145 to show off my costumes better : )

My breaking point was pretty recently. I realized that when I sat down my fat went over my jeans. It was also becoming difficult for me to get into jeans that last year were a little bit big for me. Then I stepped on the scale and was shocked to see that in 6 months I had gained 12 pounds. Now I definitely feel like I am on the right track with this website!