Why did you come to the conclusion to lose weight?
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Pretty simple...I gained weight in pregnancy. I don't like being bigger. I lost all the weight after my first two babies and I'm on my way to doing that after my third.1
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Couple of things but the biggest reason is I want to be a healthy role model for my nieces.0
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I didn't fit into my clothes anymore. I had 1 pair of jeans that I could wear & 2 pairs of dress pants that would zip, but I looked like a stuffed sausage. I was wearing dresses all the time because I was so uncomfortable in my pants. I refused to buy a larger size, so my only option was to drop the weight.
I also didn't fit into my ski pants anymore and was huffing and puffing while putting on the gear, never mind actually skiing. I love skiing. This was unacceptable.2 -
I went to the doctor and ended up in the hospital for about four days. The dr came into my room on a Saturday morning and told me that the results of my nuclear stress test came back abnormal and that I might not be getting proper blood flow to the lower part of my heart. Thirty minutes after that, my daughter brought my 18 month old granddaughter to see me. When she looked up at me and said "Hey Papa!", I knew I had to do something to make sure I was around to watch her grow up. As it turns out, I don't have any major issues, but my cardiologist told me I HAD to lose weight. He said consider it a wake up call. That is what started my motivation and drive to make a positive, permanent change to be healthy.8
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I thought the scale was broken. But truth is I really was gaining weight. The tape measure wasn't lying. Was disgusted with myself as I counsel people daily on how to eat properly.1
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I had weighed in at 180 for a very, very long time, and for some reason my thought was always "at least I'm not 200 pounds" (no offense intended to those who are or were 200 pounds, I was in middle school at this point and I have no idea what my rationalization was that 180 was perfectly fine but 200 was not).
In school you have to get your weight recorded twice a year as part of your fitness exams. I stepped on the scale and it read 203. That was the day I started changing for the better.1 -
Gaining about 10lbs in the past year and going up a pant size made me realize I had to change my habits. I'm now working to lose about 17lbs (and a pant size) and adopt a permanently healthy lifestyle.1
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I got to the point that I got out of breath just walking across the floor in my own home. That scared the heck out of me. I realized that I either loose the weight or die. I want to live a happy life with my family and be able to do more. I'm tired of being ashamed to go to ball games or wrestling events at our local high school with my husband. When he asks me to go, I usually turn him down and he goes alone. It was time to do something about it and I have. I am down 12.2 lbs and already feel a lot better! I have a lot more to go, but I am determined to do it this time!8
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I was going to turn 46 soon and kinda had a midlife crisis.2
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I have put off losing weight for a while. I was "too busy" to exercise. I gained 12 additional pounds when I helped my daughter move from Pennsylvania to California and we ate restaurant meals traveling and eating too well. Now it is time! I had a knee injury a long time ago and the extra weight has caused me more knee pain than I need! I also have moved and am looking for a new job. Need to look better for interviews.
Thanks to MyFitnessPal and all of you new companions on this journey, I am off to a good start.
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I was going to be turning 29 in a couple weeks and stepped on the scale and was then over 320 lbs. Right there I decided there was no way in hell I'd be entering my 30s like that.0
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I've never ever been slim. I'm 5"4 and always been around 170lbs I guess. The weight has been creeping up slowly for past 4 years since I met my now husband and I was about 190lbs. We decided to try for a baby and doctors told me I'd have trouble conceiving because of my weight. I rejoined the gym. I had always been reasonably for but was eating and drinking the calories I'd burnt. Anyway I got pregnant immediately which was great. But during appointments it quickly became clear I was a high risk pregnancy. This was news to me. I knew I wasn't stick then, but I always wasn't 400lbs and I always thought I carried it well1
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That should say reasonably fit!0
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IT happened the end of July, the moment I decided my life needed change because of so many things. Hopefully, I will keep the weight off for good.
There was no moment of me realizing how big I was/am. This, I already knew. I accepted tolerated it. My main issue with my appearance has never been my weight, but that I will never be seen as feminine by anyone. Male or female. My own grandmother called me a handsome woman... Handsome.
Anywho as July was ending, I just decided to try to be the best me I can be. I just decided to try to do away with the 'I quit on life. I'll never have or be what I want in life, so why try?' Mentality.
I decided I didn't want to deal with preventable debilitating health problems if I didn't have to. And since I've never heard of an average height, 300+ lb woman living a long, independent healthy life... I decided to lose weight.9 -
Walking past a mirror and noticing how small my head looked in comparison to my chest. Shook me up a bit and also I had to go up no more than 15 steps to talk to the managers at work and when I got to the top I couldn't talk to them because I was out of breath
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I am tired of being the biggest one in the room.
I also have three Masters degrees, and I believe that no one perceives me as being smart, effective, or capable at work. I am done with people thinking they are better than me because they are a size 5.13 -
Realizing at 32 that I was only a decade younger than my dad was when he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. I didn't want that to happen to me, but it was seemingly possible on my old path.0
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I have always struggled with my weight and trying to be healthier... I lost 40lbs 7 years ago and gained it back plus another 20. Now I am the "fat friend" and I just feel gross. I am single and don't want to be the rest of my life because of my weight (I know, it is what is on the inside that counts). So now I am doing it to be happy, to be able to feel better, look better, and just generally be happy.0
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Mine was because my last check up I weighed in at about 2 lb over the "healthy" weight for my BMI and a friend of mine had joined Weight Watchers around the same time. It was convenient to join her in it. I'm glad I did (although I miss not caring... I also miss having a weight loss buddy now that she's pregnant).0
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When you realize that your Jabba the Hutt impression is pretty much dead on.....5
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stepped over the line between overweight and obese, and thought "hell no!" Also feeling like an old fart at age 30. And complete lack of knowledge of meal planning. And being tired all the time. And generally wanting a sense of control back in my life.4
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I've been uncomfortable in my own skin for a while. It took looking at Christmas pictures before I decided to try and shed my pregnancy weight. I look(ed) like a fat middle school boy. I'm hoping to be down to 145, my pre-pregnancy weight by summer. But 120 is my end goal.1
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Mid life crisis.. Yikes I turned 40, then 41, then 42, then 43, then 44, then 45 then 46.
BAM I had an extra 15 pounds to go with those years!1 -
I was at work eating lunch mindlessly at my desk like every day. I was eating Indian food, shoveling it in, not even really tasting it, working. I remember that I actually thought I was eating healthy that day. A co worker walked by with her Indian food and noted that she loved it too, but felt bad because it was so fattening. I was flabbergasted. I couldn't understand how veggies and sauces could be fattening or too salty, etc. I mean I really truly thought it was healthy. So I Google'd it and for the first time ever took a look at the amount of calories I was consuming. As I read I could feel my a** hitting the sides of my chair and thought... my God, when did I grow side-*kitten*? Right there and then I snapped and knew I had to make a drastic change to the way I was doing things. I threw the rest of my lunch away. The very next day I got up, stretched, made myself a Nutribullet for lunch and had a black coffee for the first time ever (used to be large ice, extra cream). That was a couple of years and close to 80 lbs ago. I never looked back.11
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Window shopping and wishing the big lady would get out of my way so I could see. It was my own reflection in the window....ugh.... wakeup call or what!!10
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Budding manteets.
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Lol @ mojo0
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I worked in a prison. Easily ignored the fat jokes from inmates because their opinions are pretty useless, but by the time I had to order bigger uniform pants twice and then having my belt literally exploded off me in control one day like a subway commercial, I couldn't ignore it anymore and decided it was time to change.3
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I knew I was overweight, but didn't realize just how bad it had gotten until my boyfriend bought me a new phone. I was laying down, and he was playing with the phone and took a picture of me laying there. When I saw the picture I was horrified. I didn't realize how big I had gotten until then. Seeing my fat how others are seeing it made me sick. That was my wake up call.2
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