What was your trigger to lose weight?

JWoodyard07

My mother passed away in February from a couple of ailments, one being due to obesity. Fast forward to vacation, saw picks, and realized that I could have the same fate as her one day, leaving my kids without a mother. Signed up late July and have lost 22 pounds and have gotten below the 200 pound mark. Hoping to at least get to 141, my normal weight range!

georgia98_98

2 kids & the fact that I have a beautiful 6 yr. old QH mare that I WILL NOT ride cause I weighed over 250 pds. & was not going to do that to my big baby (horse)... Plus I hate NOT wanting 2 take pics w/ my kids cause of the weigh I look... Knowing my kids wouldn't have pics. of me n there life...

hrwinston

Stepping on the scale and seeing 201 lbs. I'm 5' 3". Five more pounds I would've weighed the same as I did the day I gave birth to my son 13 years ago.

Lissa_1234

A couple of things.

I look terrible in clothes and I have gained some more weight. I refuse to buy a bigger size.

My children. I want to be a good eating influence on them, an influence that my parents were not. I don't want them to grow up learning unhealthy lifestyle and eating habits from their mommy.

Now, the most important trigger, what has really motivated me. My health, I went for my check-up first of all, I weighed 272 lbs. I almost died, that's how much I weighed after I had my son (first child). Next, when they took my blood pressure, the adorable small nurse asked me if I normally have high blood pressure. I told her that I didn't. She told me my blood pressure was 146/86, I was horrified. Of course they re-took it halfway through the appointment and it was lower, like 130/80, but that's still not good. I am also having some uterus issues that may be attributed to being obese.

I left the doctors that day and promised myself I would make a full effort at becoming healthy, I mean I have gained an entire small person since graduating high school 5.5. years ago. I just joined MFP 2 days ago, but it's nice to report that in the month between doctors appointments (before joining here) I lost a little over 4 lbs.

tam120

February 2011 my daughter brought home her second baby boy, I took the older one home and she took pics of all of us, me holding the newborn with the oldest next to me and she tagged me on facebook. I was HORRIFIED. :noway: I'm not stupid, I know I was fat but seeing it in pictures makes a whole lot of difference. :grumble: I thought about WLS but when I took the assessment online I realized that alcohol might be a major part of the reason I was so fat. :embarassed: Then I got a letter from the clinic telling me the same thing and I was too high risk to even be considered. :drinker: I'm about to do Insanity for 60 days beginning after Christmas and I don't think wine fits in the program. :sad:

og8997889

It was last New Year's when I decided to lose weight. I was 318 pounds and couldn't even look in a mirror. One day I was in a store buying food and a child came up to me and poked my belly and asked me when my baby was going to come. The worst part of that experience was that I was a guy lol. Anyways after 2-3 months of taking useless diet pills and ab monster machines and all that crap I was reading online and came across a program called Truth About Abs. I still remember the site where I read the review at http://boyels.com . After reading that I started following it of course, I couldn't help it; it was so compelling and addicting. I must say it was probably the best choice in my whole life. 8 months late I'm 212 pounds with a visible 4 pack of abs (working on the 6 pack lol). I still use the program today and I tell you the main thing is to never give up and always push yours further then the day before because while others sleep, we are running.