shocker!!! when did it happen to you?
 

so this morning i stepped on the scale after about 3 weeks. i just shocked myself . i weigh 188 ,this is the most i have EVER weighed. im freaking out! what did you guys do when you hit that weight that was just a slap in the face of reality?

for me it was when i was at a party with a bunch of my friends the summer after my freshman year of college...we were all drinking and hanging out in the backyard, and a guy friend of mine had his arm around me. another friend said pointed this out and joking asked if we were going out. my friend (the one with his arm around me) laughed and said no - but he did like his girls fat. :( i'm sure he was not totally serious and had definitely had a lot to drink, but it was for sure my wakeup call!!

I knew I had to lose weight for quite a long time. My husband (then boyfriend) always told me that he thought I was beautiful as I was, but did admit he was concerned for my future health. He always made it a point to tell me that I didn't need to lose weight for him.
I knew that I was unhappy with the way that I looked. I was embarrassed going out with friends because I was always out of breath, I was always sweating and my ankles were constantly giving out on me. I realized that I wore the biggest size in the plus size department. I kept making excuses like, "Maybe I was meant to be heavy" and "I like myself the way that I am", etc. etc.
Then, one day my husband and I went to Boscov's (a department store) to look around. I decided to hop on the scale, just to see what I weighed. The scale said 286.5 pounds. I knew that was how much I weighed. I weighed 286 pounds for a long time. But, for one reason or another, it hit me right there in the department store. I was less than 20 pounds away from 300 pounds. I made the decision at that moment that it was time for me to lose some weight.
I never dreamed I would lose over 100 pounds! I figured, 40 at the most. Then I decided, after losing 10 pounds, that I could definately lose 10 pounds 10 times!! 9 months later, I reached my goal weight of 170 pounds. A month after that I hit 160.
The journey was hard, but definately worth it!! :)

Free - Hon, I am sorry. I know how you feel, everyone on here knows. All you have to do is get back on the bike and keep petal'in your way towards your goal! You CAN do it!!! If ya need someone to talk to, feel free to message me. :)

Cemetary - Wow, that's amazing! Such an inspiration!!! :cp:

For me,I was just tired of being heavy. I didn't know it then, but i think i went through some depression between having my two boys. I was sick quite a bit during that time and was on a TON of different medications for different health issues, i have since gone off of the meds. Looking back, I really feel i was going through some depression..i was a SAHM at the time.

Anyway, present day wake up call. I've struggled with weight my entire life.. all of the women in my family are overweight..seriously! Mom, grandma, aunts, cousins, etc.. I didn't want to be that way. I wasn't happy with myself. I started a new career a year and a half ago. Before I started my new job, my blood pressure issues came back.. omg it was BAD! I needed to lose weight or i'd be on meds my entire life! I am wayyyyy too young to be on meds.. Since the age of 19, i've had to be off & on meds for my blood pressure. I make the committment and have stuck with it...this time! After years and MANY attempts, this is the time to do it!

I am sooo much happier, I am not as winded as easily, I can wear nice clothes that fit properly.. Overall, I feel great!! I am almost off of my meds also.. I have cut wayyyyy back.. Almost there! That's another one of my goals..to get off of meds!

A few weeks ago.. when not even my fat pants would fit.

I started last September, when I weighed myself after flat-out admitting to myself that I wasn't going to worry about it over the summer, and realized that I was two pounds shy of 200 lbs. That was my ****-no number. I had always promised myself I'd never break 200 lbs. I saw the scale reading 198, and freaked.

I immediately just started cutting calories (where I could) and trying to walk more. I bought some DVDs - WATP is my friend - and got to work.

Oh yeah, that was another thing. I was ALWAYS sick and always exhausted. I used to fall asleep at work. I would fall asleep at like 8pm, with NO phsycial activity. I could sleep until 3pm on the weekend. I always had a sinus infection, cold, bronchitis, etc. etc.
Since I've lost the weight, I've only had one sinus infection. No colds, no bronchitis, no nothing.
AND I have energy!! I can stay up past midnight, if need be, and get up to go to work at 6:30am!
I love it!

Yepper. I just couldn't face my weight. I thought that there was nothing I could do, no diets worked/would work ever, ect. ect. I thought that I was just always destined to be the fat girl and tried to accept regularly shopping at Lane Bryant but being oh so ashamed of myself.

When I first losing weight I told myself that I would be happy with ANY weight loss at all. I originally aimed for a 140lb goal weight, just figuring that that was a pie in the sky dream.

I found that once I lost 10lbs, I could lose 20 and then I could lose 30. But I would never have dreamt that I could lose 123lbs.

You have to give it time, but have faith in yourself and the courage and strength to persevere and you will succeed. I have no doubt. If I can do it, anyone can. ;)

My high weight was 216. I remember starting to get heartburn caused by being overweight. I started getting breathless just walking. I had severe insomnia and it was putting my job in jeopardy. I was extremely depressed and drinking all of the time. I had to buy a pair of size 18 jeans. I couldn't shop in my favorite stores any more. It sucked.

So I finally made a lifestyle change instead of doing a fad diet. And it worked!

Getting weighed at the doctor's a year or so ago. I knew I had gained, but didn't realize how much.

Sorry if this is TMI but when my hubby and I were first in our first place and we had mirrored doors on our closets and I looked over during an intimate moment and saw my mom's *** in the reflection!?!?! It was upsetting. A lot. I have my mom's ***... when did that happen? *LOL*

The last time I weighed myself, it said 220. I didn't think that was such a HUGE deal. Everyone has always said I carry my weight well, and you can't even tell that I weigh that much. Well, I was clearly disillusioned. I have thought for the last 4 years that I was 220. I don't really look at clothing sizes, I just grab whatever looks right, and return the ones I'm wrong about.

Well. I decided to join a gym so that I could start to get in to some better shape, I was weighed, and I found out I was 279. That killed. I cried. It really sucked.

So here I am. It's hard, but at least it's better than being completely disillusioned about what I'm about.

Thanks to all of the ladies that have shared their stories. I have 100+ pounds to lose, and it really motivates me to see that there are others who have broken the 100+ pound marker!

geez im horrible i sat here and read all these posts and then went and made myself a baked potato with a million pounds of cheese. im hopeless. :(

When I started shopping for relaxed/loose 33" waist jeans... for someone who, even when not in shape, has always been a 30" or 32". It was early warning/wake-up call. Now, I'm aspiring to fit in some regular/slim 28" ;)

[QUOTE=martiniforme;1526591]Everyone has always said I carry my weight well, and you can't even tell that I weigh that much.[QUOTE]

People always told me the same thing!!!

I know that losing over 100 lbs. seems almost impossible, but you wouldn't believe how easy it is once you have your mind set on doing it!!:D

When I had to go buy new work pants in a size 16 because the 14s were killing me they were so tight.

Hehe I've been told I carry my weight really well too.

As a bit of history, this is my second trip at 3FC.. last year, I went from 210 to 185 and then quit.

Well, I never really thought I put that weight back on... I mean, I knew I gained back a little, but I thought I really was maintaining. Then, one day when I was jeans shopping with my mother, I realized I could not fit into any size 14 jeans. I started crying in the dressing room... then promptly went back to VA, tried to work out for a week, then quit.

My moment of truth? I had a day off, and I started binging on "low-fat" chips right after boyfriend left for work. All of a sudden I stopped and said "What the **** am I doing?" I promptly put down the chips and got on the scale.... and had a heart attack. 200 lbs... not only was that higher than my STARTING weight the year before, but it was only 20 pounds away from my all-time highest weight (240 at age 16). Right then, I knew I just could not stand being overweight anymore.. and here I am!

When i couldn't fit in any of my clothes anymore.

I've been told many times that I carry my weight well also. People tell me I don't even look like I weigh 200. I've been told I weigh between 160-180. hah. Not true. I only share my real weight with people that I am close to. lol.

I guess, I am just tired of the stares, tired of being unhealthy, tired of my granny telling me I need to lose weight, and I want to look and feel great! I have been overweight since I was about 8 years old, and I think it's about time that I teach myself the proper way to eat, and to live.

I've wanted to lose weight for awhile, my original goal was 10 pounds by Christmas, but I had a few hiccups along the way. I think the first wake-up call was realizing I hadn't lost any weight since March in September and recently, having to have my gall bladder out...

I had just finished with Highschool and I was in a size 22 which we estimated that I was 205-210 pounds. That's when I realized I was too big. I couldn't find any cute clothes and seeing smaller people made me cry. I was always picked on in highschool.

That's when it happened to me that I had to lose my weight and get it off. I actually didn't start losing weight til 2003/2004

Yes, people have always told my that I carry weight well, and that most of my weight comes from my height! That's great and all , but I still have to buy big pants.
I guess I just got to the point where I always felt sluggish and tired. When I exercise and give my body the food it needs, I feel so much better.
Also, I want to have babies and be noticably pregnant, not sorta fat-sorta pregnant!

I agree with you here. I had a big scare when my cousin almost couldn't fit into her wedding gown. I was wondering if when that time ever came if I would have that same delima but I'm not speaking that on myself. I too want to be noticably pregnant and not have people wondering if I am or if i'm not.

i think the wakeup call for me was when everyone else i know became weight obsessed. i never have been altho i have always been fat. so i bought a scale, and it said 298. that freaked me out. ive been working weight watchers for a year now and when i do it, it works, and when im bad it doesnt. but im determined to lose the weight. the wierd thing is that im tall (5'9") and i usually wear a 20/22 but i carry my weight evenly that no one believes that i weigh as miuch as i do.

I was between 250-260 in high school (2002). I think I was 26-28? I can't remember, and really don't want to. LOL. I started to change my lifestyle in Jan 2003. I started walking more, switched to diet drinks. Also, I didn't eat as much because my lactose intolerance was real bad. Seemed like everything I ate made me sick. In that year I dropped down to 200-220 something like that, I didn't really measure how much time it took. Today, I still haven't gained back that weight. Now, I am going for the goal this year, counting calories, exercising a lot more, and watching my emotional eating..which I have been doing good so far since I joined this amazing community! :)

That's the same with me. There was probably a long time where I didn't look at the scale and I know I had to be over 300lbs but I didn't want to look at the scale at all. I ended up buying a scale 6 months down the road from that and saw I was 298 I ended up freaking out. My family ended up going to Oahu for vacation and I felt so ashamed I couldn't fit in the seat belt, it wouldn't clasp. If only there was an Inch or two more, so I threw on a big sweatshirt folded my arms around my waist and leaned over to look at my grandma's magazine, I was so embarrassed.

Oh, not fitting into seatbelts was the WORST!!! I remember going to an amusement park with a big group of friends. Actually, it was the first time that I met my husband's (boyfriend at the time) friends. We all went to get on this older roller coaster and I could barely fit into the seat. Then, I couldn't get the seatbelt to buckle. I had to get off because I couldn't fit. That was the absolute worst!

I NEVER thought I would have allowed myself to weight over 200 lbs. Never in a million years. I guess it just goes to show how far in denial I was that I let myself get 35 lbs over that. Bah... :(

I broke my ankle (like, pins and plates and screws broke). I had been trying to lose weight by exercise alone up to this point and ignoring the food issue all together. I then found myself alone and incapacitated and got so frustrated that I couldn't move. I ordered $30 worth of chinese food and declared when it was gone that I had had enough. I spent the next 4 days on my couch living off of diet pepsi and cigarettes and mapped out how I was going to change my life. As odd and bizarre as it all sounds, it was a total spiritual fast and it revealed me to myself.

Sometimes the worst things that happen to us turn out to be the best.

i weighed around 180 for a long time, then during the summer after i left school, i had nothing to do and spent the whole time drinking and eating greasy food after and waking up and eaing more greasy food to make myself feel better from the hangover. By the time I was supposed to start university I weighed 200 pounds, and I couldn't fit in my size 16 (UK) jeans anymore. I decided to do something about it, but the combination of adjusting to uni life made me lose a few pounds and then gain them back and lose them again, so I was pretty much the same weight. then, just before i was about to go home for christmas, one of my guy mates was looking at my old pics on my computer, and he said i looked a lot younger in some that weren't that old. then he said, do you want me to tell you the truth? and i was like, yeah sure, and he said 'you look alot skinnier in these pics'. that was when it really hit me, as i had spent most of my life pretending other people didnt notice my weight. if this weight loss works, then i'll have his honesty to thank!!

For me it was a set of photos that a "friend" (and I use the term loosely in this case) took of me at a bar without my knowledge. Since I turned 21, right before the summer after my junior year of college, I had been going out with my guy friends, drinking Guinness (200 calories per pint, in case you were wondering!), and eating like a linebacker--cheeseburgers, wings, pizza, etc., every single night. So then we were out one night and this girl snapped the photos (to her credit, there were other people in them too) and then posted them on her web page. I was absolutely shocked by how I looked. I didn't even recognize myself. That was when I KNEW I had to do something. Since then I've lost about 30lbs. of fat and gained a few pounds of muscle :) . Next time, I'll be ready for that camera!

For me it was when my size 16 jeans really didn't fit anymore.. I had been depressed enough going up to a 16 but then when those started not to fit..I realized that I had to stop feeling sorry for myself and get my dupa in gear! I weighed myself and was shocked with the number..My grandmom had been overweight and had so many health problems and before she died she had said to me she didn't want me to end up like her..I didn't think I was headed in that direction until I saw the scale was over 200 lbs!

I don't know why, but I love this mental image. Maybe because it's very Hollywood/Bridget Jones-esqe, but also because it's totally something I can imagine myself doing! ;)

And you're so right. I think sometimes we need a rude slap in the face to sit up and pay attention. In a few ways, I'm almost glad I spent part of my life fat. I truly think in someways, it's made me a kinder, more compassionate person. And losing it will make me a wiser, happier, healthier, kind, compassionate, and CONFIDENT person!

It happened to me today! I got weighed at the gym... Holy Whoa! I realize why I don't weigh myself. But, on the upside of things, even though I've gained, my body fat % has gone 5%... and I don't think I look bigger... ugh! Talk about unrealistic expectations. I am the perfect example of what happens when you work out like a mad woman and totally neglect the food part... :(

the other thing is that when i lived with my (then) boyfriend in 2002 i started taking the pill. and we were dirt poor so there were a lot of pasta and butter nights. i gained 100 lbs in the year we were together.

i have never had the seatbelt on the airplane thing happen, but it did happen at an amusement park a few years ago. now in california a lot of theme parks have a seat at the entrance to the line so you can see if you will fit or not before you wait in the line.

Wow! I'm so with you on these girls, I believe I've had a lot of similar "moments." However, I had several big moments in the past year...

1. When I overheard a close friend--Who had always said I carried weight well, was just a "big girl"-- describing me as a fat girl, well this "Yeah, she's like big, you know? Well she's fat... [Laugh], yeah like that"

(I thought I was just chubby?)

2. Pictures from my birthday, a night that was amazing, I thought I looked equally amazing and I caught some candids (i.e. not posed pictures where I "hide" my body) and I was SHOCKED... Then I caught a picture of my backside and thought, Wow? This is what everyone sees..?

3. I'm the heaviest I've ever been, and being at the gym with girlfriends and relizing that I even outweigh my equal height friends by about 50-60 pounds.

4. That in the past year I've gone up in pant size, undewear size, bra size, and shoe size...

5. That I was dealing with the breakup of a 3-4 year relationship and other personal issues by becoming an emotional eater

6. When I broke down and cried in a Psych class while they were talking about how eating disorders related to self loathing


WHOA, I totally went crazytime on this post... But I mean long story short, I've had a terrible terrible 2006... So eager and needing to change!!!

When I saw some photos from our summer vacation - I looked so big and unsexy but lately it was when my 'fat' clothes became snug - there was no more denying that I was eating too much and moving too little. I want to feel fit and healthy and strong again instead of tired, flabby and gross. it's a day by day thing.

It wasn't necessarily the number on the scale that freaked me out, but more like a picture of me that I saw. I couldn't even recognize myself.

[QUOTE=theobviouschild;1529371]I don't know why, but I love this mental image. Maybe because it's very Hollywood/Bridget Jones-esqe, but also because it's totally something I can imagine myself doing!;)/QUOTE]

http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/ultim...dget_jones.jpg

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