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

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

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.

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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

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

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.....

Gout. Boy, that sucked.

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.

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.

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

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.

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).