The moment that made you SERIOUS about losing weight?
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It was a number of things for me too... I lost 30 pounds right after I left college and got down to 130ish, which was in the high end of the "healthy" BMI range for my height. I was happy about it and was okay with my body, then I got married and moved from an extremely small town to New York City, where I had no support system or method for living, and I packed almost all the weight back on within two short years. I'm now 5 pounds away from the heaviest I've ever been in my life, and my work blazers are so tight across my back that I have to leave them all open. I tried to do yoga recently, but have such an intertube around my midsection that I couldn't actually complete the triangle pose, which I used to do very easily. When I laugh, I can feel my belly jiggle. When I brush my teeth, there's just way too many wobbly bits wobbling around, and I'm tired of it. I'm just tired of being fat and tired and icky looking.
Also, there's a lot of instability in my life currently, and I want to give myself something dependable; the gift of health and changed habits and a happier self image. I want to make sure that no matter what changes come my way in the next few months, I am prepared to face it as the best version of myself. I have about 40 pounds to lose, and I'm gonna start losing it today!0 -
Two things.
1 - The time I almost dropped my daughter while trying to heft her up into the truck into her car seat.
2 - When I realized that unless it was Lane Bryant (ugh) I could no longer shop at the mall because no one carries my size.0 -
A couple things:
1. Seeing a picture of myself from a recent party... granted, it was an unflattering angle, but it really made me feel horrified at how I let myself go.
2. Going to Marshall's to look for some new pants and skirts, and the only ones that would fit were size 16! I've never been this big before and I don't like it one bit. So, I bought the size 16 pants, and then went next door to the gym. These pants will be a good gauge of how big I WAS.0 -
My dad had his second heart attack before the age of 60 — and that scared me. I didn't want to end up like him, with heart conditions so young. I knew I had to make a change.0
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The first time I started trying to lose weight, my grandpa had a heart attack. He's been overweight for as long as I can remember, and he's not the healthiest.
I started losing but then I hit a plateau and couldn't get over it, so I gave up.
More recently I saw this picture taken of me, and I realized how bad I looked. It made me think of all the reasons I wanted to lose weight in the first place.0 -
I had my third and fourth child 14 months apart. I had barely lost my baby weight from #2, or #3 when I got pregnant with #4. The entire time I was pregnant with #4, I couldn't wait to have her and start losing weight. Everytime I looked in the mirror I would cringe. My baby is 3 months old and I have lost the initial weight from having a baby plus 12 lbs since I started really trying. I am so much happier now. I am happy that I have found a program that is free, but also shows results. I love all 4 of my children with all my heart, but they really did a number on my body.0
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When at the ripe old age of 34 I couldn't walk up and down stairs. My knees would kill me!! Lost 40lb and I could run up stairs two at a time. Sadly the pain is catching up again but hoping to lose another 30lb and tone my leg muscles to help support my knees.0
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A health scare.
My blood pressure was 190/ 115.
Other blood work showed I would have also been put on cholesterol meds, and diabetes meds.
My dr. worked with me to see if I could get the numbers to improve before going on the other medications - and it did.
He did put me on blood pressure medication that day, and while I am on the lowest dose available, I still have not yet been able to go off of it. But, with it, my blood pressure is great. I still hope that as I lose the other half of this weight, I ultimately will be able to go off of the medication. If I can't, at least I know I did everything I could, and the rest is just unfortunate genetics.
I find it harder to stay 'motivated' now than it was the first six month. The health crisis is past, and I no longer 'hate' the way I look. There have been a couple of times where I way over did it with the wrong food/ quantities and it was a harsh reminder that it would be very easy to fall back into dangerously bad habits.
Right now, I still focus on losing 'weight' and being healthy. My main goal isn't a number on the scale, but to get my waist size below 30 inches. That is when I can say I am healthy. (And will continue to live a healthy lifestyle of eating well, and getting exercise to stay fit.)0 -
The day i saw 222 on the scale. I was like, "Whoa! You are fcuking fat!".0
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I've always been heavy, but I've always been active. I was always the fat kid that refused to quit and refused to give up... unless it meant getting serious about losing weight.
At age 34, we had just gone and had family pictures done and I went and volunteered for Watch D.O.G.S. at my daughter's school. Looking at the pics, I realized how tiny my kids looked compared to me. I mean, I was enormous (~300lbs). I felt like King Kong holding Fay when I held my little blonde headed daughter up. And then... I watched the documentary "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead" after that... I had hope. This guy could do it by drinking juice. Naturally, we tried the juice thing along with it.. and it got us started. I watched "Forks over Knives" shortly after that. I started learning about what unhealthy eating really does to your body and how eating better can actually fix it. (Mind you I didn't go to the Vegan extreme yet) However, between the two of them, my wife and I saw how eating more natural foods that had natural fibers in them would fill us up for fewer calories. That started it. We still eat meat and all, but fruits, vegetables, beans, and legumes make up a large portion of our diet now.0 -
Two different doctors said to me about different ailments- "This is often caused by excess weight." One of them said, "You are on the verge of morbid obesity."
I want to be here to watch my grandson grow up!0 -
It's a tie between
a) When the doctor asked me if I wanted to live long enough to see my daughter's wedding
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b)The moment when my (ex) wife served me with papers.
A one-two punch, for sure.0 -
After several sets of horrible vacation pictures I decided that my weight was the issue... and not the camera! Hopefully one day I will get to travel to Italy again and replace all the pictures that I look fat in!0
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Went to the doctors for Yearly (ok it had been a few years) check up. When they did blood work said that I was pre-diabetic and had high cholesterol. Decided I didn't want to be on meds for the rest of my life.0
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The day I gave birth...I weighed 298 lbs...........
Yea. Just no. Never again.0 -
My "ah-ha" moment was when I finally woke up from a bout of depression, and stepped on the scale weighing 197lb. I wanted the easy way out, and wanted my doctor to perscribe me medicaiton to help lose weight. I had TRIED to do it myself before and it never worked. So, I made an appt, and he told me in that room, "when are you going to realize that you're just going to be a heavy girl". I hung my head in shame and thought maybe he was right. I left in tears, and thought, "fine, then I'll just gain so much weight that I can have gastric bypass". I woke up the next morning more determined then ever. I didn't want to be the fat girl anymore. I was 25, and single. I couldn't get a guy to notice me, and I was tired of living my life the way it was, so i made a change. One day at a time. A year later, I'm engaged, I'm 75 pounds lighter, and I want to go look my doctor (That has been my doctor since I was 11...) and tell him, "and you said I was ALWAYS going to be the heavy girl?" tell me I can't and I'll show you I can.0
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I got pretty large at one point, but since I was able to draw in a skinny/cute g/f at the time it didn't really bother me. (Great personality I guess heh) but what got to me was a series of things.
1. I read an article in Men's Health around 2002 that is still floating around the net. Anyway, the article's author's father died due to a heart attack, and he wrote the article from the point of view of a man who wanted to be there for his children.
2. In late 2005 I was shopping in Sam's club and decided to check out the blood pressure/heart rate monitor. I had extremely high blood pressure, and had a couple of instances where my eyesight was starting to get blurry. I figured I was very close to developing some sort of diabetes.
When #2 came around, I thought about the article I read in #1. It was at that point that I got serious. Went from 220lbs to 175lbs over the course of 6 months.0 -
My wakeup call was yesterday when my husband saw pictures of Josie from Big Brother in her before pics in the daily mail. He said I look exactly like her with the celulite and all. I was devastated. I still am.:sad:0
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I work in an elderly hospital ward. There are larger, older ladies there who we give personal care to. The rolls, the saggy skin, the"elephant legs" the comments that get made about these ladies. We have to get bariatric equipment in for the "fat" ones. I don't want to be one of those ladies that the ward talk about. Obv not in a nasty way as we are professionals but I just don't want to be one of "those" ladies.
I want to be healthy and happy in my skin, wear clothes I like rather than cover me up the most.0 -
Mine is a little embarrassing.. but here goes...
After my back surgery I had gained about 40 lbs due to the Lyrica I had been on two years for the pain in my back. My husband kept telling me how unattractive I was and how little sex appeal I had.
We separated and divorced, and recently I was with a guy whom I really like a lot and am really attracted to... and once I was unclothed he got.... um.... unaroused.
That did it for me.0 -
My ah ha moment, was when the scale said 226 and I couldn't fit in my "fat" pants anymore. I wasn't able to paint my own toes without not being able to breath and couldn't hardly walk to my car after work without getting winded. I saw myself in pictures and was ashamed at how big I had gotten. I saw my sister who lost her life at 32 and I was on a fast pace at being her size. I had gained 60 lbs in a year and it was nothing's fault but mine. I didn't have a condition or an injury.
I was always thin growing up. The kids used to call me the flying nun when I was little, because I was so skinny. As a young adult I was always thin. My weight came on slowly, you don't really notice it then one day you look in the mirror and it's like... OMG where did this come from?0 -
My pregnancy. Literally, even though i was planning the wedding and everything else, when i found out I was pregnant in May of 2011, i said "no more". I don't want to die young like my mom (she was 57) or my grandma (84). I also want to set a good example for my son. I went from 243 down to my current weight of 181.2, and am hoping to be 125!!!!!!0
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I was always super slim and could eat whatever I wanted etc. and I had become pretty sedentary and developed pretty mediocre eating habits. I had slowly put on 10-15 pounds and meanwhile I was really sniping at my husband that he needed to lose weight-eat better and exercise etc. I realized I needed to set a better example for him and my girls. I was very gratified that with MPF my weight came off very quickly and when I exercise I feel so much better....0
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I've been lingering in size 18 in Misses for a while, and once it was determined that I needed 20W's, that was ENOUGH for me.0
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I was accepted onto a sports coaching course last month and 2 weeks ago our task was to 'coach' the rest of a class for 5 minutes, just to get a feel for the course. Well, the lecturer decided to film us all with a view to e-mailing us the results soon after. I felt my session went well, the content was good, and I was clear & concise. Then I got the e-mail, my head soon dropped, and I honestly felt shockingly bad. Until then I'd always shrugged it off, or felt that I could carry it, being fairly well built. **** that I thought, and here I am!0
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There was no "OMG" moment when this journey first began in Oct. 2010. I left my ex-husband, and when I went to try on pants a few weeks later, the chick in Torrid was looking at me like I was crazy for pulling 20 when I was in a 16. I got down to a 10/12 and maintained that for almost a year before life slapped me. In May, I felt the weight coming back. Last week, I went to try on pants, and I was in a 16 again. That was it! I never exercised last time. I was working so much in a high activity job, so I never bothered. I didn't watch what I ate. I just didn't eat. So much was happening in my life that I couldn't worry about that. Last Tuesday, I started paying attention. I'm adding everything I eat and all of my exercise into the diaries, and I'm changing my lifestyle. I haven't eaten fast food or had soft drinks in two years. THAT was a choice I made before that stuck. I weighed in yesterday, and I'm 4 lbs down! I know it will not stay at that pace, but it was an awesome motivator. Feel free to add me as a friend. Good luck!!0
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Wow! good for you!
my moment was Cedar point....I had to take my son....and i didn't want to be "the fat mom" that couldn't fit on the rides with him. I was too big to give him piggy back rides...his legs couldn't fit around my fat back rolls....no way. I was not going to miss out on those wonderful mom moments of life because i coudln't put the fork down.0 -
I took my daughter for her swimming lesson and struggled to bend over whilst seated poolside, to place plastic covers on my shoes because my boobs and tummy were in the way!! At that moment, I knew I had to do something about my excess weight to become a fit and healthy mum for the sake of my children.0
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This is the first time I have tried posting a pic, but this is what knocked me into gear.
My hubby got me a ticket to go to American Idol on Tour- a VIP ticket, so I got to meet everyone and have pics taken. When I looked at the photos, I was disgusted. One of the sad photos here:
I was supposed to have these as good memories, but I was grossed out by them. My gigantic arms, and huge hips/thighs...
That is when I got seriously serious.
(How do I post a pic???) HA! I GOT IT!0 -
When I started to have to hold my breath to bend over and tie my work shoes... That was enough for me.
I am down almost 30 lbs and no longer have to hold my breath but I am no where near my goal of 130. I have 55 lbs to go and I will get there!0
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