Oh my Gosh Am I fat???!!

haha ok I am but when, where, how, was the moment in your life when you said to yourself enough!?? I have been having problems focusing and really putting effort into my lifestyle and want to know and hear from you guys on that moment that occured in your life when you saw no turning back? please share!

I deceided this summer after some acid like comments from my Mom that I was going to get in shape - not for her, for me!! I decided that this was not how I want to look, not how I want my lifestyle to be and that 40 was a year away and I better get cracking!! :)  After one of my children were born, I saw a reflection of a chubby girl walking in the mall, and then I realized that girl was ME!!!  Sent me right to Weight Watchers where I was successful for a fairly long period of time!  That one just stands out because I was so startled that I didn't recognize myself!

i'm not really too heavy, i'm still within my height/age/weight range, but i started to see the pounds coming on and my parents are both heavy and i don't want to be like that. my dad, uncle and grandmother (on dad's side) have all had hips replaced, dad had both of his, and my uncle has diabetes. i just don't want to be heavy. that and when you look at our rafting pictures from last summer, i just get progressively heavier, and i don't feel good about that. and it didn't help that on one of the trips my boyfriend's ex girlfriend was there and she's a stick (but sadly proportioned, no boobs, no but, legs up to her neck). long story short, my uncle has told me i need to lose weight, i'm getting fat, for the last two years (both times at christmas) i never want to fight him on it (it's my life and i happen to be pretty ok with myself) because it's the holidays and family, but it just sucks. so i decided this year i'm losing weight, so that i'm truely happy, getting back into shape and running road races, something i used to do and love, and in part to show my uncle. it should shut him up if i lose weight, and if it doesn't, all h*ll is going to break lose at christmas dinner!

A lady behind me and my now ex-boyfriend in line at the grocery store asked if i was pregnant! I was mortified. That motivated me enough to start working out and trying to eat better. The real turning point for me though was six weeks ago when my boyfriend and i broke up. I was forced to look at my life and think about what i like and don't like and i decided what i didn't like was me! So i'm doing something about it.

My turning point came when my bridesmaid dress for my sisters wedding came in and I couldn't fit into it (I was the maid of honor).  I ended up having to have it altered dispite my best weight lost attempt.  But that got the ball rolling and I haven't stopped and now I'm down 66 pounds. 

My OB/GYN told me I was obese. I was so pissed that the first thing I did after leaving his office was joined the gym. :)

Hmmm... it would have to be the day that I looked down and noticed that my stomache stuck further out than my breasts. Haha. I do have small breasts (blah) but still...

*blushes* when a favorite sexual position became difficult to do because of the fat on my belly.

I've lost 18 lbs so far and soooo happy to be back to normal activity.

Mine was Christmas 2004.  I got a new digital camera and the kids had gotten a picture of me on the phone.  When I pulled that picture up on the computer my first thought was "I look like my mom!"  (Now, I really love my mom, I just don't want to be overweight like she is).  So, that was my wake up call.  (no pun intended)  I've lost 21 pounds since then, and have almost 10 to go.

I remember the moment: I was sitting on the bed sideways and I happened to catch a glance at my belly in the mirror. Holey-moley, how'd that happen? I have a shelf!!

Once I had my baby, I gained 50 lbs with him... He on the other hand weighed only 5 lbs 3 oz. I was like how the heck did I gain 50 lbs if he is soo little... LOL!! I needed to get it off!!! and I did. But still need to get more off... Was gaining wait prior to getting prego.

Ok, We all know the propaganda about how big is beautiful right? And its ok if you believe that..because I truly did.  I was entirely content to be a bbw (big beautiful woman) and I thought I could go on living like this forever.  Then one day I realized I couldnt find clothes in my size that I liked.  Another day I actually started checking myself out in the mirror, and became disgusted.  Then my daughter, whose teacher is now pregnant, asks me when I am going to have my baby....this one happened 3 months ago. Her idea was that since my belly was growing, there just had to be a baby in there.... It was more than enough to shove me out of denial, that I was fat.  I have been working ever since to work on this problem.  I am gaining some momentum on this monster now, and the more changes I see, the less disgusted I am while looking in the mirror.  And now Zoe says, "where's the baby going? Your belly stopped growing?!". BBW or no, Id much rather be a SBW!!!

I didn't really decide. I was a destressed when I saw 300 on the scale at my physical but not enough to do anything. When a new coworker was fasting, I told her she was crazy. When she said I should give up sweets for lent, I told I going to do it. That snowballed into watching my diet, then to calorie counting and then this. I walked 4 miles today. My usual physical activity is walking to my office from the car and back.

Mine was when my dad, in England, asked how much I weighed..I knew I was 180lbs but had never converted it into "stones" UK mesurement..There are 14lbs in a stone..I did the math, and was horrified..I was teased for being fat when I reached 9 stone and my life was misreable..(126lbs)..to reach 13 stone was unbelievable..Where I come from that is when small kids point at you in the street..and then I realised my jeans were the ones we would hold up in the store and laugh at. I knew if I went home I would be a curiosoty and a laughing stock..I was devestated..my mates are all over weight..200, 300, and 1 bless her 400 lbs I honestly hadn't realised how big I was..I'm now 34lbs lighter still got a looong way to go..My dad,,lol..when I reached 126lbs at the age of 26 nicknamed me "Lard Ass"..Dont want him seeing me like this..

I saw myself in a full length mirror with my underwear. My stomach was being pressed downward against my flesh. I have a small, well defined face...no double chin or chubby cheeks...so that is all I ever payed attention to. Never looked at my body further south than my collar bone. That was a big mistake. Plus I had loads of expandable clothing. For every 20 pounds I gained...my clothes fit. Now I am always going to have a full length mirror and never by expandable clothing that aren't for workouts.

Hi, I think i had enough at x mas of last year got up x mas morning and weigh myself 215+ is what it said... I was losing it. I was rolled up into these jeans i knew i couldn't wear no more. And i just couldn't get over the fact that i was just FAT. I think i had enough when i Yo Yo back and forward with the weight for almost 11 years.

 I would look at all these nice jeans i had and then i was like. Oh~~ i look so good in them.. Awww~~ i worked so hard to get into these for this day.. Oh hell ~~dammit I am fat. I am fat again. I can't keep on going back and forward with the weight loss and the weight gain.

 Now 2 times i have went and gotten help. The best doctors and the best diets on the market.. I done did them all.. I can say. I gain it all back or half of it back over the years of yo-yoing back and forward. I even downloaded and printed Oprah's weight loss thing for 3 to 4 weeks and signed it in 2004.

I was like. Dammit to hell why can't i get this right. So then i sat down. I was on the bed. I had on my thinking cap and i had on my fat P.J's and i was like.. OK~~ no wonder the bed room is not hot.. I am a FAT PIG... I had to do something for me. I had to do something for my health.. I can't breath. I can't think. I can't do Shit.... So i planned my diet. I planned my work out plan. I called the doctor. And i got all set and ready to go the next day after the 1st of this year.

So far with all that planning and cussing myself. I have lost a lot of weight.. 28 pound. Knocked off the first 22 in the first month.. Now i am on slow pace.. Doctor told me it was muscle mass weight it will all level out. But i am working harder than ever.. Coming from a 40 wasit to a 35 wasit line is a long way. I am pushing for a 30... So i think X mas is when i had enough..

ALL OF THEM YEARS I HAD ENOUGH OF THE UP AND DOWN. NOW IT IS TIME TO STICK WITH THE PROGRAM AND GET IT DONE. I WANT TO OPEN THE DOOR AT THE FITTING ROOM  AND SAY. HONEY THESE DON'T FIT. THEY ARE TOO BIG... CAN YOU FIND ME A SIZE 14 IN THESE I DON'T NEED THESE 16'S.. That is my dream, and my focus. A size 14.. and 140 pounds..  I got into a 14 but it was too tight. But that is my main focus.. A size 14 but most of all the better health...

Sorry for the long post..

Good luck to you.. Lynn

My bestfriend is large, and has been since kindergarten, hahaha. But we'd always go clothes shopping with each other, and I'd go to the plus size stores with her, but the sales associates never even bothered being nice to me. But then one day, we went shopping together, and we went into Elle 14+ and the sales lady didnt ignore me! She asked what I was looking for! The worst part was that the clothes in the store fit me! I know it sounds shallow, but it really made me take a look (and a weigh in) to realize I was over 200lbs! I was so shocked and horrifide!

So this is my first "diet" but it appears to be working out for me! Hoping the sales ladies will ignore me again!

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these stories are right on the mark. I hope it works out for everyone!!!

yes I agree awesome stories, thank you for sharing, I haven't gotten that moment where you all have been but I am trying it might be for vanity maybe or something else but I know its all for my health thank you all!

I knew I was out of shape and overweight, but the big OMG day came when I weighed myself at work and found that I weighed more than I did the day before I gave birth to my daughter!!

that was it. threw out all the junk in the house and went cold turkey. luckily, sort of, it coincided with a need to remove suger from my daughter's diet. none of us are the sugar junkies we used to be. :)