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What was your wakeup call?

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  • jltheis7
    jltheis7 Posts: 496 Member
    Couldn't climb the stairs without panting for breath, when I go up stairs I won't want to come down, and when I go out and come back in I don't go up until am ready for bed, with lots of back aches and swollen feet and had two shape pains in my chest, slowly I couldn't fit into my cloths, even the new ones I got this summer while I was in the USA , I just knew it was time to take hold of my life, it's not easy but am taking it one day at a time.

    You deserve a pain free life that doesn't limit you. Change just one small thing and see if you feel better. Experience that for awhile and then change one more thing and enjoy that too. Open yourself up to what you can do!
  • kmsnyg
    kmsnyg Posts: 100 Member
    I had two big things:

    1). I couldn't fit well into my seat at a football game, my hips were so wide I bruised myself trying to fit into the seat.

    2). I started to have knee pain in one of my knees that I had injured as a kid. Turns out I have pretty bad arthritis in that knee, and I'm only 37. I don't want to need a knee replacement, I'm too young.
  • jltheis7
    jltheis7 Posts: 496 Member
    I had two big things:

    1). I couldn't fit well into my seat at a football game, my hips were so wide I bruised myself trying to fit into the seat.

    2). I started to have knee pain in one of my knees that I had injured as a kid. Turns out I have pretty bad arthritis in that knee, and I'm only 37. I don't want to need a knee replacement, I'm too young.

    Sorry it took so long to reply. So you had a in your face aha moment and a slower wake up wake up moment. I hope you are successful at losing and avoiding/putting off knee replacement. I do know several people who had it done in their 50s and 60s and it made a tremendous difference in their lives.

    I took time to read through my weightloss journals; I find myself facing some of the same stressful issues that led to my horrible breakdown that was my wakeup call. I also reread everyone's posts here. I don't know why but it helps to know I am not the only one. So thanks again everyone for opening up and sharing what brought you here.

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