What was the reason you decided to lose weight?

majik0516

1. I got sick of feeling tired all the time.
2. I hate the way I look in my clothes, tired of crying in the fitting room when the size I thought I was don't fit and I need to get a bigger size.
3. I feel like a failure when my 4yr old daughter tells me "mommy, I love you even though your fat"
4. I want to be able to do things with her without getting out of breath or wondering how hard will it be for me to get up off the floor when we are done playing.

I am thankful for MFP and its members for being so supportive and I know I will be able to do it this time. Thank you all!! :drinker:

numindan

After a nasty car accident (too many years ago to continue accepting the blame for my current state) I ended up with a bazillion broken bones and a head injury. I can't became part of my mantra and in no time I went from a competitive dancer & rugby player to sloth. I was no where near the person my husband had married.

In 2010, I got a medical diagnosis that, while related to my original head injury in the car accident, wasn't impacted by my weight. What I realized at that time was that I was still traumatized by the accident and allowing it to control my life. So I decided to take back as much control as I could. Which meant losing 65 lbs between Jan/Feb 2010 and April 2011. I went from obese to overweight and started maintaining at this new weight at that time. After managing to keep it off for 6 months, I started back on the weightloss wagon this winter (Jan/Feb 2012).

NOTE: I do see the irony in getting injured on the pitch and picking myself up to play again and again whilst allowing a car accident a few years later become my excuse for not trying...

msjta

I vow not to be 50 and fat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's the bottom line

mrshoneybear1014

I've had several breaking points really haha.

2006 I broke up with my bf of 3 years and I wanted to lose weight to attract the opposite sex more. Lost 30lbs. (I had about 145lbs to lose at that stage)

2008 I met my now husband and he made me want to be a better person so I lost about 15-20lbs. (Now have about 125lbs to lose)

2011 I lost about 30-40lbs in contemplation of my wedding. Gained it all back plus 5lbs when my grandma died and my father in law died all within a month of each other and during my wedding month.

2012 End of February - I am now on a path to lose weight because we want to start trying for kids in a year and a half from now. I keep thinking about it and how much I want to have kids and how much he does too. We talk about our future kids all the time as if they actually exist. I don't want to be so overweight during my pregnancy and I also don't want to teach my children bad habits. I've lost another 6lbs and now I have 107lbs to lose to get to my goal for next May 2013 and 131lbs to my overall goal weight.

mrshoneybear1014

Hot pants.

Hell ya I want to wear that some day!

jen88ve

For me it was getting diagnosed with colitis... then I actually paid attention to what I ate and how much it hurt my body to eat those kinds of things.

Second it was not being able to wear a two piece in front of all my friends, I was always the one that was wearing a one piece (so automatically that's the "fat" girl because she can't wear a two piece) and I wouldn't ever want to go out in the summer and go to the pool or go on my friends boat because I was too embarrassed to be seen. So in a couple of months I am going to vegas and I would love to bring pictures back of me rocking a two piece!

Candi8099

CONGRATULATIONS ON 19 POUNDS! That is really great!!!
(Great topic as well!!)

I have two main reasons (other than being healthy for my children & I):

1. I divorced a couple years ago & I have met someone younger who is SMOKIN' hot.....he looks PHENOMENAL in his affliction board shorts that I bought him & I would LOVE to stand by his side in a sinful bathing suit. (If there is anyone out there that has had a cesarean & has been successful with tightening up their tummy please feel free to add me because I know that will be tough to do & could use some inspiration, ideas, etc).

2. We have been together for 3 years now & we would like to have children some day. Only problem....I had a tubal ligation when my daughter was born so I made the decision to first quit smoking; that was Nov 2011. Now that I have gotten that under my belt I decided that I really should bring my BMI down to a healthy normal number to have better chances at a successful tubal reversal surgery. (which is scheduled for June 2012).

randilynn113

The reason I decided a year and a half ago was that I knew my summer clothes weren't going to fit. Then I got a different job, moved and put it off and put it off. My sister posted some pictures of our family Christmas on Facebook and tagged me in the ones I was in - I was embarrassed! I untagged right away. I didn't realize that when I'm sitting, I have gotten to the point where I look like there is an inner tube of fat around my waist. Yuck.

So I took some time and thought about it... looking at my 15 year old daughter wearingh a size 3 and thinking, wow, in high school I was the exact same height and weight as she is right now... what happened?? I realized I needed to do something ASAP!

I ordered Turbo Fire and started logging in here. It is good to have the motivation and inspiration on here - I feel like I"m not doing this alone!!

My goal is that by my birthday in August, I will have a very noticeable change in my body

Misslisat

How are you doing with your treatment of pseudotumor cerebri? I was just diagnosed last week. The headaches were horrible (brought tears to my eyes), sore neck, and visual impairment. My neurologist also told me to lose weight.