question: how old...

skyytlz
skyytlz Posts: 30 Member
in Success Stories
so for fun and just to get to know everyone, whether you've reached your goal or not, how old were you when you finally decided enough was enough and get fit/more fit
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  • djbrink21
    djbrink21 Posts: 97 Member
    30 (that's at least the current answer :) )

    Really though I think it had more to do with the birth of my twins this year in Feb.
  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    @31
  • CipherZero
    CipherZero Posts: 1,418 Member
    I'll shorten the long story to this short form.

    Took me until age 45 to figure out I shouldn't be wheezing like a beached pilot whale after going up three flights of stairs.
    Started walking, eating less, and dropped forty pounds.
    Starting lifting and made novice strength gains at best.
    Dropped 73 lbs in 18 months, hitting my goal weight in November 2013.
    Survived a heart tumor.
    Gained all of four pounds.
    Restarted lifting and cardio.
    Broke all my PRs.

    I'm 47 now,
  • 2loosegoose
    2loosegoose Posts: 17 Member
    25, 28, 31 35, and finally 41 - this is the last time!!!
  • ABabilonia
    ABabilonia Posts: 622 Member
    @32 I've been battling for a while now
  • StarFall90
    StarFall90 Posts: 133 Member
    This year, 11 days before my 24th birthday.
  • Snip8241
    Snip8241 Posts: 767 Member
    49, then 57.
  • rgdelacruz43
    rgdelacruz43 Posts: 35 Member
    20 :)!
  • CindyMarcuzAdams
    CindyMarcuzAdams Posts: 4,007 Member
    The age I am now 52. I lost 140lbs at 40 and gained 39 back. It was that 39 that finally woke me up.

    Here I am, 52 is going to be the age I got my life back again.
  • PunkyRachel
    PunkyRachel Posts: 1,959 Member
    27, and no children yet (got married at 19 and we tried unsuccessfully for years) due to me being overweight, my poor health, and fertility issues (PCOS). I'm almost 30 now and I am the healthiest I've been my entire adult life and have the doctors okay to try again for a baby :-)
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I hit my heaviest weight in 2008 around my 32nd birthday and that's when I decided things had to change.

    Now I am 37 and down by 134 lb (my ticker reflects loss since joining MFP)
  • gcbma
    gcbma Posts: 112 Member
    25, when I was told I had diabetes.
  • lolly2414
    lolly2414 Posts: 186 Member
    This is my second time needing to lose weight and get fit. The first time I was 27. Now after having 3 kids I'm trying to do it again at 34.
  • LeonXC
    LeonXC Posts: 68
    I was 28 when I decided enough is enough!! Sadly, that was thirty years ago.
  • dhall2011
    dhall2011 Posts: 209
    27. It is recent but I passed my 10 pound curse so I believe this is the final time I am starting from scratch.
  • Fsunami
    Fsunami Posts: 241 Member
    44. 3 months ago.

    Decided to live rather than die.
  • BrokenBelles
    BrokenBelles Posts: 19 Member
    17, 23, 26, now again at 33.
  • bpp23
    bpp23 Posts: 170 Member
    2 months before my 47th bday..This year..
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    32, and I'll be 33 next month
  • Madame_Goldbricker
    Madame_Goldbricker Posts: 1,625 Member
    35 - Signed up lost a stone.

    Went on holiday & rediscovered the stone.

    Came back hung around kicking my heels for 3mths (ish).

    Xmas climbed back on the donkey. Still hanging on....
  • zichab
    zichab Posts: 1,494 Member
    59 and I have not looked back since!! It is NEVER too late! :wink:
  • just4nessa
    just4nessa Posts: 459 Member
    Hmmm...my decision was made exactly 2 months and six days after my twelfth 29th birthday. Been maintaining my goal weight (within 5 lbs) for 461 days.
  • spirit095
    spirit095 Posts: 1,017 Member
    I'm not quite at my goal yet, since I'm terrible at deciding lol. I started to get actively healthier last year. I'm 26 right now.
  • JasmineJYJ
    JasmineJYJ Posts: 44
    We'll just decided that today! Enough is enough I haven't been overweight for really long about 3 years now and today I just happened to glance at myself in the mirror and I can't recognize me! Oh and I'm 18 :)
  • polkadottedribbon
    polkadottedribbon Posts: 23
    23. I hope.
  • lindainprogress
    lindainprogress Posts: 129 Member
    48, when I realized I was nearly 50 and if i made it this far i may make it even longer so i better straighten up
  • __hannah_
    __hannah_ Posts: 787 Member
    23
  • cincysweetheart
    cincysweetheart Posts: 892 Member
    Age 35-- 4 months ago. I don't have any scary stories about health problems or tear-filled moments of getting on a scale or looking at a picture of myself. I just decided. Other recent life events had helped me to realize that I'm capable of doing horrifically painful and hard things and to keep doing it for years on end. I finally just decided to channel that into weight loss.
  • Chanchka
    Chanchka Posts: 359 Member
    30. Two weeks ago... and going strong!
  • Chevy_Quest
    Chevy_Quest Posts: 2,012 Member
    A Few years ago - Late 40's

    Unfortunately tried to "starve" myself by eating 1200-1400 calories per day and yo-yo'ed for three years.
    Finally "got" - Slow and steady - understood BMR and TDEE - bought a digital scale
    I have been losing steadily since March 2014

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