What made you decide that its time to lose weight?

Leeanne1974

I just literally decided on Boxing day 2011 that i would start making small changes. I started off by buying wholemeal bread and diet coke instead of the full sugar stuff.
Just little changes for a couple of weeks then the 2nd week of Jan i thought "im gonna do it this time" and just began a diet. Its working better than anything else i have tried for years. 24.5lbs in 9 weeks (lost 5lbs in the week before i joined here).
I lost my father to a blot clot in his heart when he was just 55. Just 2 yrs and 3 days previously to that i had lost my mum to breast cancer. I knew i had to do something to do the best I could to try not to leave my son as early as my parents left me. Neither of my parents were vastly over weight but i knew that the odds were stacking against me massively (no pun intended).

JamieDeBree

I was fit all through high school/college - worked at a gym, actually. Then I got a desk job, the weight crept up, and six months before my wedding my now-husband and I did Atkins to get back in shape. And it worked great. Then life happened, and every time I saw my mother-in-law she'd tell me how I needed to eat, and was "too skinny". I wasn't...I was a healthy weight at 135lbs with good muscle tone, but comments like that still dig. I started giving in to laziness at night, telling myself one piece of cheesecake wouldn't hurt (and it wouldn't have, except it was several nights in a row) - all that stuff that happens when we get complacent. I'd tell friends I needed to lose a few pounds, to which they'd respond, "You look great! You wear it well! No worries!"

I believed them because I wanted to. I knew I was overweight, but I told myself it wasn't *that* bad...

Then the local paper did an article on me last summer, and when I saw the photo they posted with it...I about went ballistic. I actually panicked. I whined and complained - it wasn't my finest moment. That person wasn't me. I had a total disconnect and realized that my perception of myself was completely off - I'd been wearing serious blinders. And all those people telling me I looked fine and "wore my weight well"? Lies. Not that it's anyone's responsibility to tell me when I'm fat, but I did feel a bit betrayed that they just told me the "politically correct" thing instead of the truth.

I stripped down, took a good hard look in the mirror, and decided things had to change, somehow, someway. Not just because I looked bad, but because I knew I wasn't healthy. It's taken me awhile to find the right combination of exercises and nutrition, but I'm finally losing, and I'm determined not to go back again. I *will* get back down to a firm 135, and my MIL can just deal with it.

PamelaB43

Let's see.. when ymy belly started to go over your pants and I had to keep going up a size in clothes.. Yeah That pretty much did it for me. I am also so tired of going up and down in weight but I know what the problem is as we all do I ate too much and am an emotional eater. I ate when I was bored or even when I was not hungry. I got tired of going up and down and now the madness" I hope stops for good. I like that now I am able to get into smaller sizes, and so that I dont fail I am now getting rid of all of the bigger clothes I can no longer fit in. That way I won't have the excuse when I am lazy or whatever " Oh I have those pair of "comfy sweats" That is just setting myself up for failure. OH and as my mom says when you look in the mirror NUDE:noway: that is the truth staring you in the face:noway: So there is no escaping the truth when it is right in front of you. I wanna look in the mirror and be content and I feel if you feel good about yourself on the outside it does help you with your inside and it changes your life!

graelwyn

Finding out my bf weighed not much more than I did, and getting on the scales after a year + of not going near them and eating what I liked, with little exercise. Granted, I only hit 142 Ibs and I am over 5'9 tall, but I wanted to be lower and felt too heavy for a woman.