What was your trigger to lose weight?

Heidiwarwick

Hi everyone.
My trigger was when we visited my mother in law and she got the family photos out...I had forgotten how I had used to look. The diet started that day.
That was on 15th May this year. I have lost 24 pounds and now weigh between 95 and 96 pounds (I'm short). I am 38 and generally feel happy again with my size.

How about you?

Sidesteal

How about you?

Someone called me fat.

Rae6503

Giving birth. :happy:

dcmat

Giving birth.

...fed up being a bloke who looked like he was about to give birth.

Really - ballooned after being off the bike for 4 1/2 monthsa following a knee op as I was still eating the same number of cals, if not more

lik_11

31st bday. Looked preggers in pics. I wasn't. ew.

Helloitsdan

I met a guy who was younger than me who looked way older then me...he was buying the same food at Giant.
Banquet microwave meals.
I was almost at 170lbs.
My perfect weight is between 130 and 140.
I went back and changed my food for avocados and whole foods.
That was 213 days ago.

janf15

Hypertension, lipid panel off, and borderline diabetic.

RainbowDream83

Hoping to have a baby, and having PCOS.

jhardenbergh

A couple things, started to have issues with my knees and my wife and I wanna have a kid, so I wanted to be able to be in good shape for the kid as well as it's safer and easier to have the kid at a smaller size than we were. Oh yeah, I was a diabetic and didn't know it too. It was the *kitten*'s gonna hit the fan moment.

LethaSue

Feeling like I couldn't breath. Then being told by my Dr. I might have something I never have even heard about (Pickwicken). Many times caused by being obese. It's when there is so much weight on your chest, it signals your brain to stop responding to natural breathing.

tyresank

When all of my slacks would not button and I had to go buy 'fat' pants the kind with no button nor zipper to make do... I am an apple and most of the wieght goes to my middle, so it's impossible to buy womens clothes when you are shapped like this. In fact I had to get men's jeans just to make do for a trip to a mfg plant recently, because all women's clothes are too small in the wait and way to big in the but and thighs.. such a pain. But I estimate 10 lbs to go and I can get most of my slacks back on, maybe not perfectly loose in the waist but enough to manage.

cheshirechic

Having to buy the largest size in work pants that I've ever had to in my life. Getting engaged.

Now, I'm a smaller size than I was in high school, and am MUCH healthier.

candlelady

My youngest son will start high school in 2012. The whole "I've just had a baby" excuse may be a bit hard to pull off

blink1021

Looked at pictures from when I was in college and when my husband and I were first married. Then I looked at pictures when my son was born and I was disgusted. Couldn't believe I let it get so bad and that my husband never said anything. Another was a comment my husband made about how there are hardly any pictures of me from when my son was born and I hated the fact that I avoided pictures because of my weight.

flagator11

December 2009 - I had let myself go for a while, didn't know how much, but I knew my waistline was ever expanding. After Christmas, I said "Screw it, I'm fat and always will be." I spent all my Christmas money on new, larger clothes, and was ready to embrace it.

Fast forward about a month later. I was putting my coat on at the end of my work day, and I caught a reflection of myself in the window in my office. I couldn't believe how big I was. I looked at myself and said, "Oh my goodness, look at how fat you are." I was in a cycle where I would come home from work each day (I work a typical desk job) and just fall asleep. When I woke up, I'd basically pig out until it was time to go to bed for the night. I weighed myself, and I was up to 240 pounds. I am 5'10" tall.

So, I decided that Super Bowl Sunday in Feb 2010 would be my last pig out day. I started daily exercise (mostly walking and elliptical) in that time period after work where I used to sleep. I began to feel a lot better, and pounds started coming off. When I discovered MFP in May 2011, I was down to 202 pounds. Today, I concentrate more on toning my body. I am currently at 197 pounds, with my ultimate goal being 185.

Sorry so long...I've always been wordy. lol

Saruman_w

Being single forever, and extremely low self-esteem and the realization that if I continued at that rate I'd only get larger and I did not like that one bit.

Suziq2you

A friend posted a 90 day challenge on Facebook. I lost 26 pounds, won the challenge and kept on going. I have about 20 pounds to go, give or take a couple.

lin7604

for me it was getting a view of myself sideways in a mirror. I knew i had put on weight in the last 6 months but sheesh.... then it was one visit at my mom and she bluntly said " oh looks like someone is getting quite the pot"! ya, THANKS MOM!!!!! she admitted right then that i had put on weight...... well good kick in the a**... That day i went home and started exercising and have done so daily since.. this was about 2 moths ago.

Mardill

My doctor told me my blood sugar levels show that I am pre-diabetic! I started eating more consciously right away & started mfp1 week later for accountability. I love the food charts and having pals that understand the process we all must go through. I am looking forward to my 1st weigh-in on Tuesday.

nurse_chris

For me it was February 2011. A girl in one of my classes told me i would be very good looking if i wasn't fat. At first I laughed as this girl was bigger then i was, but when i was driving home, i realized i was wearing size 40 pants and haven't gone to the beach in years because i was embarrassed to take my shirt off.

tausha_k

I was going to a cousins wedding, I needed to get a dress. I shopped at alot of stores and nothing looked good, realizing I was fat. I came home from the store crying and feeling bad. I ended up wearing a $12 bathing suit cover up (looked like a stapeless dress). And I looked 8 months pregnant!!

Pookylou

Work trousers for me too, I'm in my biggest size and they were getting bloody tight. The prospect of having to request an even bigger size terrified mr, I've been unhappy with my weight/health for some time, but that was the nail in the coffin!

LivLovLrn

being well enough TO exercise again. Feels good to move!

dolphin8075

On Oct. 1st of this year my family was at a bbq & my hubby took a picture of me, posting it to face book. Although
that would be the norm for us, when I seen it later I was mortified in so many ways. I couldn't believe my belly had gotten so huge.
So, I started working out & changed the way I eat. I am now down 17 pounds, working out daily. My belly is way smaller now but of course since I decided to make a full life style change I have a ways to go.

yeseneah

After having two kids, I had totally let myself go...gained about 60pounds in a a matter of 4 years. After having my last child I vowed I would get back to where I was. The comments: "I'll believe it when I see it" and " There's no way you can do it". Helped too;)

jam1010

I am getting tired whenever people who know me always say, "you are get fatter now". Now I must say, does people were telling me and noticed that I slimmed down after few months sticking in here.
And since my husband is away for almost more than a year now, will get home next year to have a few months vacation, Well, just trying to impress him and prove to him that I can still lose weight.

GaiaGirl1992

Being single forever, and extremely low self-esteem and the realization that if I continued at that rate I'd only get larger and I did not like that one bit.

^this^
plus I just wasn't happy with myself. I couldn't breathe going up stairs or hills, which is what my college mostly is. My belly looked huge, and I hit 220 lbs, my highest weight EVER after my first year of college. I started in July at 212 lbs, and now between 200-199.

littlelaura

My trigger was my diabetes Dr threatening to quit because I was not improviing or losing weight to control my glucose.

surfrgrl1

Someone on MFP has a ticker that reads: I wish I weighed now what I weighed back when I thought I was fat.

I was closing in on my 50th birthday. Remembered back to when I was 39 and had made a decision I was not going to be fat when I turned 40. Lost about 20 pounds at that time and felt and looked really good. I've gained and lost over the past decade. Started MFP in August of this year and am down 17 pounds. I am now back down to where I started when I was 39 --- when I felt like a blimp. I'm proud of my accomplishments, and have about 15 - 20 more to go.

littlewrists

Being told I was fat, relentlessly.

honor82

I have a doctors appointment on Jan. 16th to get blood work done. I'm hoping I won't be put on cholesterol meds.