Whats the one thing that set you off to want to lose weight?

astylla

I had to go to the doctor about 2 weeks ago because that nasty flu stuff had gotten me good. Of course they had to weigh me - No big deal it was after the holidays and I knew I ate a little too much..so I figured maybe a few extra pounds..then the number was staring me in the face..297 ( with clothes but no shoes on). NO ! I refused to go over 300 lbs.,this had to stop now.

The next few days I started reading on here and started logging my food and last week we joined a gym and I haven't looked back since. It was my moment and it's my life to take control of.

JOYOUS62

Last Christmas, I won a competition the prize being £1000 worth of dresses from a local boutique, being a boutique, the sizes seem small and NONE of the dresses fit, a waste of beautiful dresses hanging in a wardrobe doing nothing. If I cant lose weight, the said dresses will be going on EBay. One of the dresses was £495

fatjavotte

I realised that I am not fit or strong enough to protect my children. I want to be able to carry the three of them and run. I want to be able to swim in strong current (we live near a river).
And as far as my looks are concerned, I want to be slim and pretty now, not when I am an old lady!

kirstie3281

When I got on the scale and weighed the same as I had weighed 9 months pregnant with both of my children...but I wasn't pregnant.

^^
Yep.

tiffanyheth

Seeing how overweight and out of shape and grossly ill my older sister (35 years old) and mom (51 years old) both are. No energy. No will to change. It stopped me in my tracks. I knew that if I didn't change everything, I would be just like them.

SportyLadyPhotographer

people shouting fatty at me just had enough and turned my life around so happy I did and those people mean nothing to me now

Sambytheway82

Seen a picture of me at my biggest an the teasing of family an friends

FinallyDoingMe

for me it was hearing the words "massive heart attack" from my Cardiologist - the proverbial lightbulb came on and it clicked right then.

taylorwaylor

When my dad called me fat.... It was a little eye opening... But what rreally set me off was when i woke up one morning and made a bagel with peanut butter and chocolate chips.... and then i had like 2 or 3 more of those!! Then for lunch.. i had birthday cake remix from cold stone..... and then i went back and bought a cake batter ice cream shake from coldstone again.. before i even left the first time!

Maidofmer

On july 8, 2010 at 1:11 pm, at 260 lbs I gave birth to my daughter Pandora. Before I got pregnant, I weighed 204, my grade school weight, and the lowest since age 12. Yea, been in the 200's since I was 12.

In the first year, I lost about 17 pounds, and my daughter weighed 7 of those pounds. Not a good year. Battles with depression, post pardum, and the fact that after i worked my @$$ off, litterly, I had to do it again, which I think was the really depressing thing. My sister in law had her daughter 6 weeks after mine, and at my daughters party, everyone but me was swimming. Two of my sister in laws were in bikini's, yes, one was the one that had a baby 6 weeks after mine, and the other was in this knock out dress. I went to add some pictures to our photo album, and seen that from 3 months to now I'm MIA. I started to cry and feel so guilty that I missed most of her first year and her second cause I was too embarresed to be seen. You can see my hair, a tattoo, and a shoe I believe. I thought how am I supposed to tell her when she's older and asks where I am?

I had lost about 45 lbs by joining a gym and trying to eat right. I started working at a fast food place and my work hours and gym clashed so I stopped going. I also started eating at my work place and gained all the weight back. Now, my baby is 2 1/2, her birthday is in july, same as my husbands, and our anniversary is in august.

Can we say wake up call? I was looking up exercise tips online, and seen a video from Good Morning America about a woman that used a free site called My Fitness Pal and lost more than 100 lbs. I gave it a shot.

Otter1422

Got denied for life insurance, blood test was sky high for A1C test, diagnosed with diabetes. Thought hell these guys are not even willing to take my money and gamble I am going to live for 10-20 years. Yikes!!

bellesouth18

Watching my mother nearly die from cardiac issues this time last year. She was 84 then and almost 86 now. I had a conversation with myself while watching her in the cardiac ICU. It went something like this, "I look like you more and more every day. I have had a lot of the same issues you've had over the years, too. I've managed to dodge your diabetes, but that's the only thing I haven't gotten. This one is really scaring me. I'm going to be just like you soon if I don't make some changes. Besides, daddy had some cardiac problems, too. Genetically, I'm so screwed."

IronKitty

Its not one thing, its a multitude of things hitting at once.
First, seeing pictures of myself and not recognizing who I was. Second, finally weighing myself and being TWENTY lbs heavier than I thought (I was clearly in denial). Third, pole dancing for over a year and still not being able to invert. Fourth, not wanting pictures taken of myself doing awesome pole tricks cause I didn't like what i would see. Fifth, my life is all over the place and I need to take control of one thing to improve myself. Sixth, just being so damn tired of my weight affecting me everyday either emotionally or physically.

SeekingOne54

I work at an inpatient hospice facility. Last summer we had a 62 yr. old man with ALS come to us to live out his final days. One morning I was feeding him breakfast and I happened to mention how I was thinking about "maybe" losing some weight. He said to me, "Deb, if I could get rid of this ALS with diet and exercise, I'd do it in a heartbeat." That hit me like a ton of bricks and the next day I joined MFP. No more excuses. While none of us know whether we'll get a disease like ALS, cancer, etc. we can do our best to live healthy lives eating correctly and exercising (which can control or reverse some health conditions without meds).

Greg died a few days after Christmas, but his words encourage and inspire me everyday. He made a difference in my life and I pray I can do the same for others.

Take care all.

cdightman

I played football at 185 back in the dark ages (1980's). I've gained weight since then. I've always known I should lose weight. For the same reasons others here have noted (looked like a whale in pics, breathing hard after taking 15 steps, etc...but none of that really seemed to do the trick).

I was a bit sick a while back (I never get colds) and a co-worker told me if I didn't go to a doctor she wouldn't talk to me anymore. I had an ear infection in both ears...no big deal really....but they made me get on a scale. The number I saw there was unbelievable...about 70 lbs more than I ever believed it could be. That did it for me...right there.

I went home, bought a scale and started logging my calorie intake each day. I give myself a "cheat" day every three weeks but eat under 1800 calories every other day. I walk a few miles each week while my daughter has soccer practice and that's helped tremendously. I weigh myself once a week and it's great to see the pounds falling away. Having that scale has been a godsend.

Love reading these forums too...full of little motivational tidbits all the time.

hubtech

Stepping on the scale and hitting it's upper limit. Didn't want to have to buy a super duty version - enough was enough. I had to make changes. Started down the road to gastric surgery but found an alternative that has worked for me.

Anyone can add me for mutual support.

efirkey

For me it was a changing room mirror in the LL Bean Store. I didn't realize just how big I had become and I didn't like what I saw.

deb62pink

Mine was 2 things, my doctor wanted to put me on pills for cholesterol and blood pressure, and she said I was border diabetic. I didn't want to go on pills so asked her to give me some time, she gave me 5 months to make and improvement, so i lost 6Kgs and started exercising and that was enough to bring all my levels down so she said ok, your safe for now. I also went to Darwin with hubby for 6 days and it's very hot and humid there, and walking to see the falls and sights was very hard, we are going to travel around Australia in a few months, for a few years and I wanted to be fit enough to do the things we want to do. That was 2 1/2 years and 24Kgs ago, I'm the fittest I've ever been and have been able to keep it off, I'd still like to lose another 5Kgs but that's really only for looks, I'm fit enough and happy enough and healthy enough at my current weight, so I don't stress too much about losing the last 5.....

wish21

1. Im young!!
2. I KNOW I DESERVE BETTER, thats why I am doing what I am doing
3. I want to be married eventually and have a family. I dont want to be self conscious and having extra baggage when I meet my special guy.

mattyb1971

Gout. Boy, that sucked.

stellabobella79

For me it was a series if small things. First...my clothes didn't fit. I put on my cute summertime shorts and they were painted on. My cellulite was oozing out in bulges. Ugh my dryer shrank my shorts.

Then during changing in front if my husband his reaction to seeing me went from, "Dayum! How did I get a hot girl like you?" to, "I love you no matter what." It was subtle but I noticed it.

Then the clincher was saying in front if my friends, "I think I want to lose a little weight," and they didn't do the girl thing where you say, "What? You? No way you look great." Instead they gave md diet and exercise tips.

I knew I was gaining but I thought I was hiding but from everyone. Turns out, I was only tricking myself and weight was getting out if control.

missmegan831

When my doctor told me the side effects of type II diabetes, I got so scared that I wouldnt be healthy and here for my kids.

Pink_turnip

my fat clothes don't fit anymore. I tried to put some jeans on and realized that none of them fit. I'm stuck wearing skirts and leggings and yoga pants for a bit here.

krissyphard

I would have to say, My weight was making me sick and my daughter said to me, "mommy you sleep to much and your always sick." It made her sad and i thought to myself that I could do something about this. Im worth being healthy and my children deserve for me to do the best I can to stay as long as I can to be in this world with them.

Front_Runner

For me it was a series if small things. First...my clothes didn't fit. I put on my cute summertime shorts and they were painted on. My cellulite was oozing out in bulges. Ugh my dryer shrank my shorts.

Then during changing in front if my husband his reaction to seeing me went from, "Dayum! How did I get a hot girl like you?" to, "I love you no matter what." It was subtle but I noticed it.

Then the clincher was saying in front if my friends, "I think I want to lose a little weight," and they didn't do the girl thing where you say, "What? You? No way you look great." Instead they gave md diet and exercise tips.

I knew I was gaining but I thought I was hiding but from everyone. Turns out, I was only tricking myself and weight was getting out if control.

I can SO relate to those things! There were other things, too... life goals for me, but ^^ was totally true, too!

brismum10

there is afew reasons i finally decided to do this most importantly for my health i am an insulin deoendent diabetic and most of my family have died fromoir had limbs removed due to damage. i have a 2 year old daughter who i want to b around for. i want morr energy to run around and to see her grow up. i met a guy who loves me the way i am but i weighmore than him and hes a big rugby player. hitting over 14o. kgs and my legd swelling and been sore cos i weigh.so much and to mayb fall pregnant again one day

smantha32

bump

ahviendha

i had just turned 22, and was so unhappy i didn't want to go out and celebrate.

i decided i was too damned young to be so unhappy and fat.

peachfigs

My mother developing type 2 diabetes. Heart attacks in the family. My favourite dresses not zipping up anymore...

montana_girl

When I stepped on the scale and saw I weighed 252 pounds. I realized I was closer to weighing 300 pounds than 200, and for some reason that scared the heck out of me. I started my weight loss journey that very day (April 14th, 2004).