Your defining moment.....

[fancypantstomatch]

What was the moment that you realized you HAD to lose weight, there was no ignoring it anymore?

Mine was when I went home to visit my mom and she had lost 75 lbs. We were in her friends car (I was in the back seat) and she leaned back and asked me if I wanted a seat belt extender. I wanted to die and disappear. It was humiliating. I was about 290lbs at that time. As soon as I came home I got on Atkins, and so far I've lost 30 lbs!

What's your story?

[jroche5998]

I didn't really have a defining moment. A guy at work lost about 60 lbs in 3 months, and I was talking to him about it because I had done it once before. He motivated me and one day I just decided to start. Three days later and I had my blood work done, my BP in the docs office became the clincher.

I may not be a shining example of how to totally stay on plan, but I will never, ever be that big again.

[Dawn]

Mine was just a serious of events that led to the realization if I didn't do it I would die. I was getting winded easily, needed to take naps during the afternoon, couldn't play with my kids anymore, and felt ugly and disgusting. I was just plain tired of it all and decided that's it. I don't want to sit on the sidelines and watch life go by... especially when my Dh bought a motorcycle and was going cruisin on the weekends and I couldn't go because I was too big for the bike.

Dawn

[Isabeau]

Mine, along with things like Dawn mentioned, was one night when I realized I couldn't get comfortable in bed because of my weight. Bad, very bad.

[chickaDee59]

Long story short (as possible lol) I have been in hiding for quite some time. I am careful about events I attend etc.. I am not afraid to attend local events because this is not my home town. My Daughter was chosen to represent her class at a closing ceremony for collecting funds for our County American Red Cross to support the survivors of the tsunami disaster in the areas surrounding the Indian Ocean. The event was being held in the next city over. Not my home town, but where I resided for many years after I moved out of my parents home. I attended the event, so I would not disappoint my Daughter. While I was at the event a guy (whom I use to have a relationship with and is one of my neighbors down the road) video taped me in the audience. I was so upset! I felt violated! Then and there I vowed that I would get this weight off, so I would not live in shame anymore!!!

[ztachick]

well i had always felt self conscience about my weight- ive always had a big butt and wide hips, so even when i was thinner, i felt big, and if i didnt get invited to something i thought it was cuz of my weight,
but then one day i got onto the scale and it said 262 and i thought wow, im gonna weigh 300lbs soon if i dont do somethign, so i did....

[softnred]

For many years I've been involved in various BBW groups and clubs, so to be honest, I was comfortable with my body. But I'd slowly worked my way to a size 26, and one day I saw the backs of my thighs in the mirror. EGAD!!!! They were much bigger than usual. It was time for me to lose weight....

~JoAnne

[MontanaRebel]

My defining moment came when after having a heart attack on Aug 1st of last year and going all these months without doing a thing to improve my health issues that I was on a course to being a passenger on that LONG BLACK TRAIN!!!

[RunAwayMichelle]

My defining moment was PAIN. I was heading out the door to go for a walk when for no reason my back with out. After a week of pain so bad I could not get into bed to sleep I found ha.

[cleochatra]

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You are all so special! :hug

[chickaDee59]

Thanks Cleo!! Same to you! :hug

[fancypantstomatch]

Thanks Cleo!! Same to you! :hug

Ditto, Cleo is great and I love her to bits! :hug

[cruiser gal]

My defining moment was when my mother-in-law, asked me to give her my hand-me-down clothes, as she said we were the same size. Well that was enough for me to join this WOE and prove her wrong!!! :raving

[yankee]

No one defining moment for me I guess. My kids are teenagers and one day I realized that I'd never see them grown, married, with children, etc if I didn't take care of myself. I have arthritis in my neck, back, hips, knees, you name it as well as some nerve damage to my left leg. Every day is painful and the weight makes it that much worse. I want all the years of living, with as little pain as possible, that I can get!!!

[maribelle]

There were lots of little things...being 29 and having to use a cane to walk, not being able to get up stairs without stopping every few steps, chest pains, knee pain, and my son asking me why God made me fat and him skinny, and him saying he wanted to be fat so I wouldn't feel so bad, other little kids saying I was so very fat, not feeling attractive for my husband, and most of all, hearing that with PCOS if you stick to a low carb diet and lose weight, often it greatly increases the chance to have more children.