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  • cpw2109
    cpw2109 Posts: 43 Member
    68lbs is a great effort! Your toddler will thank you.

    Just this morning, I had to deal with a tantrum as I wouldn't let mine have my satsuma that I was taking to work. He loves his fruit!
  • ashafraz
    ashafraz Posts: 114 Member
    I was a "one day" kind of gal. One day I'll lose weight, but not today. One day I'll eat healthy, but not today. One day never came. That was until I started having severe pains and landed myself a week long stay in the hospital with complications because of my gallbladder. I ended up having my gallbladder removed and because of it can't digest fats the way that I could before. I changed the types of foods that I was eating simply because if I didn't, I got sick. It was mighty miserable. After a while though, I found that I wasn't eating healthy simply to avoid being sick, but because I was craving the healthier foods. I'm still having trouble now that my body has adjusted to the gallbladder free life and I can eat a few fattier foods and so now my mind knows I won't get sick. It's now a battle of the mind rather than of the body. I will win against this monster! I'm down 66 lbs and I still have another 54 to go until I get to my goal. I didn't have a grand moment of will-power like most of you to get me started, but I did have a week of a clear liquid diet to start me off and that's got to count for something! :)
  • elizabethmchenry9
    elizabethmchenry9 Posts: 28 Member
    My moment was when I went to an amusement park at the end of summer and couldn't go on some of the rides due to my size. Ugh so embarrassing and its definitely not fun to sit on the sidelines.
  • muziique
    muziique Posts: 82 Member
    edited December 2015
    My light bulb moment was when I started noticing swelling around my ankles because I was basically sitting all day long. Sitting at work, not working out and coming home to sit more to watch TV. It really scared me! I was living the true definition of a sedentary lifestyle 5 days a week and I hated that feeling. I was tired of not caring about my physical well-being and was scared enough to make the changes needed so that I wouldn't have a major health crisis later. The track I was on was headed that way. I couldn't take it anymore. So here I am now...32 lbs down since July and counting (and no issues with my ankles anymore, thankfully!). :-)

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