The ah-ha moment

welchbriauna

when did you feel enough was enough? I seem to feel this everyday but never follow through my love of eating takes over. How did you start your life change?

ronrhoda

One day at a time! Log everything you eat and drink! It will surprise you! Make goals, follow through and be positive & determined. I tell you when you lose a size top and bottom, it's a motivator!!!! Exercise, even if it's walking only a little to start! You CAN DO THIS!!

vixtris

I thought to myself one day that i hate being this way and from that day on i got up off my fat *kitten*, worked out, and ate better.

slees21

Heart attack. Had started eating better and working out prior to heart attack. Then about a month later started my normal yo yo to a 25 pound weight gain. Found this place after 11 pound gain and am now more focused.

professionalHobbyist

When I realized the Big and Tall section is not where the cool kids hang.

I started walking and eliminated the worst of the high sugar high fat calorie bombs I was eating and it started working!

I did get good medical and nutritional advice and training to have a fact based strategy.

It worked!

sars388

Couldn't get life insurance for our new mortgage due to my high BMI and thought what the hell are you doing,sort yourself out.

marbixd

I'd realised that I hated my appearance and I couldn't handle comments about it..and of course I did it for my health..I couldn't run,use the stairs etc..Just imagine that day when you can finally say ''I did it''!It will become a habit!Keep it up

getinripd

welchbriauna wrote: »

when did you feel enough was enough? I seem to feel this everyday but never follow through my love of eating takes over. How did you start your life change?

I changed my life by forgiving myself every time I screw up. I give myself permission to get it wrong now and it doesn't matter if I screw up. I no longer motivate myself with negativity. Giving in to food, oh yeah, all the time haha! So what. Getting it wrong, so what. Being overweight, so what. It doesn't matter. Happiness matters. Friends and family matter. Love matters. Side effect of all of this is I eat well most of the time and I exercise maybe 2 to 4 days a week Its no big deal, its just what I do now. Some weeks I don't go to the gym. Took a year to change attitude and its slow but certainly move one for me was to forgive myself. You cant change too much if you are unhappy. Love yourself instead baby! Add me and all the people on my friends list. All very positive people, mainly in the UK. Lets do this! Couple of lb this week maybe? C'mon lets rock this s***! Look forward to seeing that beautiful smile on my feed every day.

kspoon5

When I was in a store pushing an empty cart and had a major heart flutter - it took my breath - I thought I was going to pass out and my family was on the other side of the store. It was actually amazing how much went through my mind in about 20 seconds! My BP has been up (140/100) for a few years and I have struggled with my weight/migraines/BP since the birth of my 2 child ( I have 3)
The true struggle for me is mental. I truly have in my head "I will never look as I did when I was younger and playing sports so why try?!" It really took having these major health concerns finally push me in the right direction. Today is day 40 of logging for me and I am down 8lbs of my 40 ish lb goal.

pawoodhull

I went an ANOTHER vacation and got to watch the husband do things I was either to big to fit into or beyond my mobility level to do. I weighed 386 pounds and decided on the way home from that vacation that I was done living like I was 100 years old because my mobility was shot. Bariatric surgery 4 years ago got me started. Following the food plan, counting my calories, being active in one form or another daily and I've lost 164 pounds so far. Now I can go anywhere and do just about anything. I still want to lose another 30 or so to get below 200 pounds, but logging on here every day is invaluable to keeping me on track.

opalle

I faced the scale after struggling to put on a pair of capris from last summer that were suppose to be my "temporary"size and saw I had put on almost 20 more lbs since then. No more excuses, I had to make changes.

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Bshmerlie

I'm tired of shopping in the fat section. I was skinny once and I want that body back. There are a lot of cute clothes in the regular size clothes and I want to fit in them. So I'm gonna keep working at it until I reach my goal.

Myflwr55

I am still struggling with it, for me it is really only week 2... my weight has been steady for the past few years, give or take, but I am tired of it... I want to be below 200... I don't want my children's friends to snicker, I want to be active, I want to be proud and feel good about myself again. I have never been a stick, nor was I ever overly huge, but I am uncomfortable and if I do not make changes, I will only get larger, less healthy and deeper into my downward spiral of depression. I have now hit my 40's and really have no excuses. I want to be a good example for my children, who are extremely active and healthy, this is a lifestyle ...

laddyboy

I already was on high blood pressure medication and had obstructive sleep apnea...then my Dr. said my EKG was "fairly normal". That was it!!!...my dad died of a heart attack at age 50. I was 43 at the time and didn't want to go down the same road. I'm 49 now and much happier and healthier. God is Good!!!

mbaker566

I saw a number on a scale I told myself I would never get too.

Elle_Bronwyn15

The birth of my son. I want to live long enough to watch him grow up and to be a good role model for health.

chelsy0587

I started by being honest, tracking every single piece of food or ounce of drink. I started at a gym and they took my body fat % and I was totally ashamed.

I have a son that is 3 years old and I want more kids... I want him to enjoy healthy foods, to know that treats are nice but protein and veggies are what fuels his body... I want to learn to make healthy meals that he loves and begs for more veggies!

I want to make him proud of how his mommy looks!

krissyrey

I was tired of being tired, and suffering from low self esteem. I had never been skinny in my life, and I accepted the challenge. I thank God everyday that I never gave up on me. I could not be happier right now. I still have some vanity weight that I want to lose .

cubcakegurl88

I had tried a year earlier and gave up because I wasn't seeing any progress. My friend that had started that year with me was already down 68 lbs.

I decided I was done with excuses and reasons not to, oh, and the guilt that came with it all. I knew I had caused this, it wasn't all genetics. It was a lifetime of poor judgment and emotional eating. So I faced the facts, let what I could go, and just started to research and make better decisions about what to put into my body and what to do on a daily basis.

Plus I was tired of feeling like I was just maintaining a life. I wasn't living. So now each day I try to do something that makes me feel as though I'm living.

Best decision of my life!

CassieR6

I loved reading all your responses. I am like the OP. I keep buying healthy stuff planning on working out but I always let it get the best of me! I am sick of it!

Ninkyou

When it was interfering with my plans to have another baby. Plus I was tired of feeling like crap just carrying the laundry up the stairs and walking short distances. There were several straws that broke the camel's back.

LunaMischief

A particular picture of me that was taken... I was wearing a shirt I once looked really good in. In that one picture, I looked like I was going to pop of of it like the Hulk at any moment, and made me realize how much I'd gained. It was that, as well as thinking to myself "I should not have stretch marks on my thighs, I'm only 24." (They were unsightly, deep purple ones)

A year in a half later, I fit that shirt much better now, and the stretch marks are gone

89nunu

One day I just decided its now or never... and before I knew it I was here. Had a couple of really bad weeks recently, so now its back to business!

rachel53223

I hear ya! Everyday -- But I take it day by day and make my Ah Ha moment happen -- earlier during the day the better.
I know I need to loose weight, I know I need to get healthier for so many reasons -- but just thinking about those "reasons/wishes" won`t make me change. So everyday I try to wake up and tell myself today needs to be good and I work on it throughout.
I`m hoping in a little while it will become easier (and I think it will) but until then.. the struggle continues, but I have to keep on going.
It really sucks to have your "life change" reset every night - but it has to be a conscious effort on my part to get moving on my goals.

Sam_Lam88

Honestly? I started taking medication for my anxiety and depression. I had always tried before but became unmotivated within a couple days. This time, it's been about a month and I'm down 14 lbs. Still have about 70 more to go, but it's a start!

TheVirgoddess

Being diagnosed with insulin resistance. Dropped 83 pounds, reversed my IR and have never been happier.

zofia388

I had been feeling like I had a gained a bit of weight lately, I saw pictures of me with a dress I wore the summer before and I looked like a sausage in it.

The "coup de grâce" was when I had to suit up for a case and I could not even lift the pants more than mid-tight. I felt incredibly disgusted at myself, and decided that enough was enough. I had promise myself I would to let myself go fat, and I owned that to myself.

That was the best decision of my life.

mday2107

When I realized I was going into my annual doctors visit/lady check-up HOPING she was going to tell me they found something wrong when they did a blood panel on me... I was HOPING my weight was due to something being wrong... How crazy is that? HOPING I had something wrong with me... Who does that...? Blood work was great, blood pressure- great, thyroid-perfect, diabetes-nope, vitamin levels-awesome, cholesterol-again, perfect... oh wait... Heart murmur... sure, lets have that looked at.... Nope my HEART BEATS PERFECT!! That was the slight murmur they were hearing.... ok upper GI for the heartburn.... NOPE, nothing wrong there, just a "hyperactive esophagus" nothing but some weight loss and lifestyle changes to help that......

WTF!!!! What do you mean I'm the reason I'm fat... What do you mean I did this to myself... if I lose some weight some of my other "health concerns" should clear themselves up.!.?..!.?. In those moments (three doctors visits in a matter of a week) I wanted to call them all *kitten* holes like they were playing some joke on me... Then... It clicked...

Oh, I did do this to my self. I AM the reason I'm overweight... and I CAN and WILL make a change. I CAN and WILL do this. I WILL NOT give up this time. because there is no one else and nothing else to blame.... but myself. There is no reason I cant wear the clothes I want, feel confident in my own skin... I just have to believe in myself.. and allow myself to make the changes necessary... All my life I have failed at literally almost everything I've ever tried to do... THIS.... This will not be one of those things. I WILL SUCCEED. I succeeded at getting to this weight... my choices did this... so why cant my choices change this...?

Its time to make a change and stop hoping its someone or something else's fault.

Since these revelations started (about a month ago) I'm already down a little over 2lbs... and I know I can be working harder at this... Every day is one step at a time. Like a previous poster said... I forgive myself on the days I don't do it so well, or don't really try that hard, or allow myself to say "not today". But every day is a new day. A brand new opportunity to make myself proud of ME. and prove that I can and I am doing this.