What was your AH HA! moment to get started?
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My wedding photos. I should want to display them proudly, instead they stay on a disk hidden under my sox0
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<===== The picture of me in my swimming costume on holiday - that finally did it for me. Just knew if I don't sort this weight out now I will just end up bigger and bigger.0
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Buying a Lumia which is Windows Phone and having "Download MyFitnessPal" thrown in my face every time I opened the app store - I eventually tried it. I guess Windows knew I was fat LOL.
But really, that's just why I downloaded MFP. I actually don't mind being big, but going to college I though I'd better lose some weight so I did. I lost about 2 stone from April to September and I've now gone from around 18 stone to 13. Thats 5 stones lost, or roughly 70lbs0 -
Loosing my mom so suddenly, at her funeral her sons/grandsons/son in law carried her coffin which was tiny and i recall thinking ''omg if i died my husband/sons/brother wouldnt be able to lift my coffin.
Later on in the day releasing a dove for her i couldnt wait to sit down as my back was killing me!!! its not like i can have a re-run of that is it.0 -
Feeling fat,uncomfortable and extremely unhappy because of it.0
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I went on a wonderful beach vacation with my fiance and family and never wanted to put on a swim suit... That was when I realized I really needed a change. So far so good!! I'm hoping by the wedding in 2014 I will be a much happier size0
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Three things in a week did it for me. Last August I had bought a new pair of pants that fit me perfectly (36" waist, I'm 6' 3"). I had forgotten all about them until the last week in January. I was going to wear them but couldn't fit into them, not even close. I decided to weigh myself and I was at 230 lbs. I've never weighed that much in my life, usually I'm around 215. At a doctor's visit on Jan 31st for a routine physical exam the doctor told me I would need to lose at least 20 lbs. and take high blood pressure meds. If I didn't do it he said, "YOU WILL HAVE A STROKE, it's just a matter of time." I decided that Super Bowl Sunday would be the last day I ate like an idiot. I started MFP on February 4th. My goal is to get down to at least 205 and quit taking the meds.0
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i recovered from a major debilitating injury, during which time i promised myself if i survived i would get back into running and really start to live my life for those of "us" with my condition who died. THEN, i had issues getting out of bed in the morning to get going. I made a comment to my husband that I was having trouble finding the motivation. He emailed an article about it NOT being motivation, it was a lack of follow-through. I read that article and something just CLICKED. I didn't want to be the one who didn't follow through.......... started getting my *kitten* up........... and here I am!0
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when I realized that the only pants I owned that fit me were my maternity ones!0
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A picture I saw of myself. I thought, "Wow, do I really look like that to other people?" I wish I knew where it was so that I could use it for inspiration whenever I feel like binge eating.
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I think of this now when i see older pictures but, my Ah ha moment came when i was having many tests for pain i was having , getting scared at what they were looking for and finding out nothing was wrong....it was me being so heavy that was causing my pain it turns out.0 -
Looking back at pictures taken months ago and realizing how much skinnier I looked, even though it was not that much more weight. ):0
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Regaining the 50 pounds I had lost some years back didn't do it. Adding 20 more didn't do it. Going to work at an emergency walk in clinic started to do it, but I just couldn't commit completely once I lost 18 pounds I just kinda gave up again.
The REAL AH HA moments came at my new job. 1) When I realized that I was out of breath every time I went up three flights of stairs to the surgical floor. 2) When I saw all the health problems my very heavy patients had that I do not want. and 3) When some of the people I was newly working with had a "Who can loose 10 pounds first?" contest. I secretly decided I would do it without telling anyone....and I couldn't :-( I decided the size 16 jeans that were too small, the breathlessness, the healthy coworkers, and my scale having me up another 7 again were ENOUGH! I was at 209 then and weighed in at 169.8 Friday! It's taken me some 7 months (aprox) to get here but I didn't do really good till I found MFP :-)
OH, and the pictures were depressing me too, just not enough on their own to get me up and loosing.0 -
I have nearly always been a bigger guy. I played football in my younger years and moreover I played the offensive line so size was part of the equation. I have always been most comfortable about 60 or even a little more pounds over what any chart would say was ideal for me. I am 6'3 and I carried my weight most of the time pretty well. However, in the summer of 09 a pretty major accident changed my way of life. I really settled in and became very sedentary. No more 25 or 30 mile bike rides just because I felt like it. No more significant hikes into the woods just because I enjoyed it. Pain just pretty much stopped me from living the life I used to live. That the was the start of watching all my blood levels go from borderline to full blown bad. Blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides as the start. But that wasn't enough. Every single time I had my A1C checked it would move up another .2 or .3. Now realize I was having blood work, and still do, about every 10 weeks or so. Anyway, for about a year I put off the diabetes meds as I just kept telling my doctor that I would get it under control. Finally readings were just to bad and my eyes started messing with me. I started the 'betes meds in September and went from glucose readings that was just a little bad to glucose readings that was very bad. That was while on the meds. My A1C still climbed another .4 in that same September to January.
So the punchline to the long story. The last day of January I was at the doctor and seen the last bump up in A1C as we sat and reviewed the higher readings on the glucose meter. We could not figure out in the office why I was having decent readings in October but about a week into November they just went south. The doctor started me on my second diabetic medication that day. Well, when I went home I really thought it over. It dawned on me that in October I was going for short walks of about 40 minutes. My Ah Ha moment happened that night and I decided that on Feb. 1 I would begin my quest to take off as much of the 120 pounds that I put on since the accident and that step one would be to get moving and get the diabetes under control.
I can tell you that my ticker says that I am down 7lbs but really I am down at least 18. My glucose readings have been wonderful and I am only taking half the medication I am supposed to. I have been getting about an average of a 50 minute walk in each day and I bought a Body Media reader. I then found this MFP site and I have got to say that looking at the numbers was a second AH HA moment.
That's it for me for now. I am sorry to make that so long but it is what it is and I could not think of how to say it other than the way I did.0 -
I am a nanny. There is another nanny for the family. And she's gorgeous! Really! And the children are all tiny! And the parents are both in shape. And I vacation with them. And when I'm with all of them I feel like this GIGANTIC WHALE. I was uncomfortable in the plane because I'm so large. The rides were uncomfortable to strap into. I didn't feel like Disney was the happiest place on earth because I felt so winded and disgusting when I was sweating like a pig. But, this time around, I'm going to FEEL great and HEALTHIER by the time we go to Disney in September
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A couple of things were my AH HA moments! I had lost my cousin to suicide in April 2012 and gained quite a bit of weight right afterwards. I had hit the highest weight I have EVER been in July 2012 and felt gross about myself. A week later I went to a bar to meet up with some old highschool classmates and saw a picture posted on facebook that was taken that night (picture on the left in my profile pic). I was huge and realized how unhappy I really was! A few weeks later I stumbled across MFP and setup a profile. I realized that I had to do something about me and that I couldn't let the death of my cousin run or ruin my life. I haven't had perfect days since I joined and some days I think I should be a lot further ahead than I am. Then I think about how far I have come both phyiscally and mentally and am glad that I am trying and suceeding, even slowly.0
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I had what I thought were Ah HA! moments in the past and they ultimately lead me no where.
This time, there was no Ah HA! moment. There was a simple 'I might as well give it a try'.
Funnily enough, I'm still at it.0 -
I'd been on blood pressure medication for 13 years.. and it maintained my pressure at an even 120/80.
But, a couple of years ago, for several quarterly Dr check-ups in a row, my blood pressure was sitting at 130/82 ish... regardless of me trying (or so I thought) to cut back on sodium.
On voicing my concern about this, my Dr said something along the lines if 'well, you are getting older, and often with age our bodies re-define what is NOW 'normal' and this may just be a level that is your new 'normal'... these things happen with aging'
Older! Aging!
He could not have used a better choice of words to finally motivate me to get my act together, as I fully intend (now) to age in as healthy a manner as possible! (so that I can spend a good long time aging .. am 56 now *S*).
The result? Last September my Dr took me off my blood pressure med., leaving me only on the diuretic now (I have had retention issues all my life). 6 months without it now, and he is confident I am doing fine and don't need to go back on it. woohoo!0 -
I knew I'd put on a lot of weight with my 2nd baby,but until she'd been born I didn't realise just how much! I felt massive and uncomfortable, and my thighs rubbed together. I wanted to look good with my gorgeous baby girl and not feel embarrassed to take my kids out.
So, I was back in the gym when she was 7 weeks old! Now she's 21 months and I'm 60lbs lighter and slimmer than I've been in the past 10 years!0 -
I will be 50 this year. I want to be healthy and active for many more decade so it was time to get at it.0
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When my Doctor told me that if I did not change my life I would not make it to 50. I was about to turn 46 at the time! He told me that it was not a question of "if" I was going to have a heart attack or stroke, but "when".!
Since then I have lost almost 90 lbs. I lift weights 2 - 3x per week, run 2 - 3 x per week and my JKD brown belt test is coming this fall.
It turns out that my AH HA! moment was the best thing that could have happened!0 -
I have had several AH HA! moments. The last one was my brother calling me Fatty McButter pants at Christmas time. That is the name we used to call overweight people when we were kids.(Cruel I know). We are now 46 & 42!:happy:0
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deciding to buy slip-on shoes because tying my shoes was such a workout that I would be literally panting and sweating after I got them both tied. Instead of buying slip-on shoes I re-bookmarked MFP and reinstalled the app on my phone and got started. That was 2 weeks ago, if even, and I'm 8lbs down already?? I didn't know I held so much water! I can't really do any better of a job tying my shoes yet but I know it will be easier one day!0
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Getting a printout from the doctor saying 191 pounds and refusing to let my husband see it purely because of the number that was on it. I don't want to feel so embarrassed by my weight that my husband has to be in the dark...0
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I think when I realised what was causing Depression. I have always been fat growing up and somehow eating logs of cheese and butter satisfied me.I dont want to blame anyone but myself for that BUT one way or other the reason was always home or relationships. I recently moved back to home and the emptiness is returning in form of "the depression". I couldnt believe it for a while but my A+ university degrees and exceptional professional life records still doesnt mean anything. So I think if this isnt my aha moment I dont know what will be. Am done feeling sorry for myself, being the victim and being the punch bag for others. I WILL set things right, one at a time and weight management is going to be the first thing.0
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WOW! Amazing0
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Realizing that this summer my baby boy is big enough to run around and be really active. Knowing that I want him to have positive role modles in his life and want him to play outside. So many kids these days sit in front of their (put any expensive electronical device here) and just waste away.0
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