What triggered your journey?

my little brother saying were poor because i eat everything...

My weight loss road has had many bumbs. I needed a way to track my eating and help me to get it under control. Accidentally, I came across this site, a few years ago. I lost over 30 lbs using this site back then, I FELL off the road! ,:sad: My TRIGGER was this Decedmber 2012, when I had my yearly physical, I had hit my largest weight EVER! However, my blood levels were good and I have no medical concerns. I have been blessed, I'm not on any medication! BUT I know, IF I don't make changes NOW, the possibilities are there. I am making these changes for my health. I plan to eat better and exercise regularly. Thanks for Listening! :smile

So many things triggered me to get serious about my weight loss...but the biggest one was going through a series of phone interviews for a job, only to be told I didn't fit the company image (once they saw me in person). OUCH! I've also been having some health issues and HATE having to take medication so rather than continue down that inevitable path of obesity-related illnesses I'm taking charge now!

Getting older and fell a few times. My center of gravity is way off due to belly fat and I'm ashamed at letting myself go like this! I want to be around to watch my grand nieces and nephews grow up!!!!

Not wanting to look like my mother... Sad isn't it. My mother is beautiful just obese. She was smaller in her younger days and even had a nice flat stomach after two kids something I never had. As a kid growing up I didn't see her that way. After having the two kids and getting comfortable in her marriage she put on weight. My mom has gone up and down. She lost weight 8 years ago for my wedding and looked great but didn't stick with it. I had a baby three years ago. I came down right away by breast feeding... Got the mirena and didn't see the weight pileing on. I was too busy with the kids, husand working two jobs and going to school to notice. One day my grandmother in-law asked if I was prego. I wasn't. I was fat. A bell went off and I started walking... A sign for Planet Fitness gym was coming... my cousin was like we should join. She also put me on mfp. I for the most part ate pretty well. The weight was coming off of me fast. I took several days for me to lose weight. Once the gym opened I started going every day. I began seeing changes. I did juicing for ten days to get myself out of a plateau... For every five pounds I lose I seem to some losing. I have lost 35 pounds and would love to lose 30 more to be in a healthy BMI.

Realizing that since USMC boot camp, 8 years ago, I have gained 80 lbs! Twenty since 8/12 due to back pain and the inherent sedentary lifestyle that accompanies chronic pain. Also, my 6 yr old said "Daddy, your fat!" Time to make a change. I want to be back at the 165 lbs I was in the Corp, not my current 240 lbs.

being rediagnosed and healthy 9 or so years ago then being rerediagnosed again last year as a diabetic. I am now down appox 60lbs and off all diabetic meds. If i get another normal reading in a couple of months I will be rererediagnosed a not diabetic again!. That was hard to type! LMAO

Well it started at the age of 10. But the current 'journey' started at the end of 2011, I was stressed with schoolwork cause it was the last year of high school, I had high ambitions and my family has crazy expectations of me. Other things went wrong, *kitten* happened and so I turned to weight loss as a stress reliever. My cousin decided to start losing weight, I was always the skinnier one and I somehow had to urge to be even skinnier. Everything spiralled after that and my eating disordered symptoms rose

That was just the beginning. A year later, I'm still in recovery. I gained in recovery so the weight loss didn't end up happening. Life is full of challenges, this just happens to be mine, and I'm going to fight it.

New Year's resolution.... and the image in the mirror...

for me, the journey begins with a sense of spirituality and a need to show greater respect for my body, plus desiring to improve my relationships.

I'm 24 and what triggered my journey was realizing that I had begun HATING myself. After age 17 I slowly started gaining weight and was in denial when I would have to buy bigger clothes every year. I'm currently 5'6" and around 270 lbs. (I plan on buying a scale this week, I didn't want one in my house because I didn't want to know how bad my weight has gotten) I get disgusted looking in the mirror, I have no confidence, and I feel bad for my husband for having to look at me everyday. I literally have started making changes just two days ago but I'm so committed. I want to enjoy my life again and I want to start a family and I know I need to be a healthy weight to do that. My goal is to lose 120 lbs.

I am sick and tired of running away from cameras and hate seeing my pictures.

I am off on holiday in May with my Mum, Sister and Sister's friend and they are all Skinny Minnies's!!
I didn't want to be the heffer in the photo's and wanted to wear nice clothes instead of big baggy jumpers!
It was that, and I also want to be healthier for my daughter xx

Vanity!! I have two siblings, younger. I grew up thin. They did not. I was always the thin one. Well, my sister had lost about 80/90 lbs on WW and was then about the same weight as me. Happy, very happy, for her. But I was kind of freaking out. I'm supposed to be the thin one. I'm always the thin one. So, I got very serious. She has now lost over 105 lbs total (still going. she's also a bit shorter than me, so in the end she will likely weigh less than me). We still weigh the same, now, but we're both losing weight and we're both looking fantastic.

Vanity!! Because, I was always the thin one.

I have been battling obesity all of my life. I would start and give up. I am ususally a person that puts her mind to something and I don't stop until I get what I want. Why is this such a struggle? Maybe I never wanted it bad enough. Now I do. I am 42 years old and recently lost my husband to lung cancer. I have three children 20, 18, and 17. I am all that they have. I need to do this for myself and for them.

After my husband died I went for a check up at the doctor's and he told me that I needed to take care of myself and that he thought that I may be too far gone and the only hope might be gastric bypass. That if I didn't take this weight off I would die within 5 years. That was really hard to swallow since I just had lost my husband in November 2012.

I am determined that I am not having gastric bypass. I have met with a nutritionist at my local hospital and I have signed up for a 12 week weight management program through the hospital that starts January 17th. I also have signed up for water aerobics at my local YMCA. I have good support system. If anyone is looking for support send me a friend request.

I wish everyone the best in there journey.

Nikki