What Convinced You To Change?

Stephanie,

I hated what I've seen in the mirror for many years but never did anything about it, well except for eat more. I never considered myself an emotionally eater, but I guess I proved myself wrong.

A friend, much younger and what appeared to be more out of shape than me, started posting on FB about working out and all she did for herself and her daughters. I thought if she could do it so could I. I was on vacation when she first started posting and decided that when I returned home I was going to check out the gym she went to. Its a great little privately owned gym and I worked with a Personal Trainer in a group setting. We have fun, we work hard and I am seeing results.

Like Coach Jake doesn't want to go into his 30s out of shape; I do not want to go into my 60s out of shape. I have 2-1/2 years to get in the best shape of my life ... ever. This time its real and I am seeing changes in my body and my eating habits. Its not a diet or anything like that .. its a lifestyle change. I know my yo-yo dieting days are behind me ... moving on and moving DOWN (in weight that is).

Its never too late to start over!

Blood test showing liver problem (I don't drink enough to have an alcohol related liver problem).
Was really worried that I had fatty liver syndrome or gall stones, that twinned with the fact I am approaching my 40th changed my attitude, this is my new lifestyle now.

Ps my last blood test was fine, and I feel much healthier.

A lot of self-loathing and then realizing that I had the power to change that. I've been wanting to lose weight for years but never committed to it, so I finally gave in and tried MFP to kick start this process.


I was tired of letting my body stop me from feeling confident, so I have a goal of trimming down over the summer and losing 20 lbs by the Osheaga music festival!


I'm only on my second day, but I'm hoping that I can do it. What got me down before is that if I failed one day I'd bemoan and give up, but I'm not letting it happen this time.

Well personally I hate the way I look and feel in clothes.
Before I had a baby I was very slim and was comfortable wearing anything however I want my confidence back and the only way I'll get it back is by working for it!
I was tired of sitting around wishing I would be slimmer while doing nothing about it so I decided you know what? I will lose weight and I will be more healthier for me and my daughter and even future children!

The simple answer: my boyfriend.

He was and is my inspiration and motivation to be the best version of myself that I possibly can be, physically and mentally.
I have struggled with my weight my whole life, and I did a lot of unhealthy things to try and lose weight. I always lied to myself and told myself I saw progress and I just complained about how I looked.

My boyfriend lost 70lbs before we began dating, and seeing his change and having his support has motivated me to want to look and feel my best, because this is the only body I have. And thinking about the future, knowing that I want to be the best role model possible for my children, inspired me too

When I stood on the scales and weighed at least 40lbs more than I told myself I was, then I decided it definitely needed to change!

I was sick of being fat. period.

My boyfriend of 3 years cheated on me while I was pregnant and claimed it was because I was fat. I know better now. But I lost the weight and left him.

Combination of the scale hitting 300, and upcoming 30th birthday

I was asleep. I put myself asleep. I gave up. Then, one day, years later, a specific combination of words, woke me. I didn't like what I saw and said something to the effect of, 'No more.'

I was awake now.

Well...I had re restarted the weight loss process last year when I final suffered my first real consequence of being morbidly obese and suffered a stress fracture. That put my off my feet for eight weeks. After that when I was just about ready to start back up the same foot became infected. Which knocked my back of my feet for a few more weeks. Then winter hit and I couldn't really do my primary form of exercise which was walking.

After losing all the ground I gained plus ten pounds, I have decided enough is enough. I am not celebrating another birthday hating the person I see in the mirror. I deserve better than this.

Hating my self , had an accident in 05 I have put on 100+ pounds depression I lost my home my car everything I valued even my job and I loved it. I had no choice but to move in with friends at there instances well that ship has sank , while I had money they LOVED me could not do enough for me I was bed bound for 3 years now that the money is gone Well that is neither here nor there , now I hobble around with a walker and I feel if I loose this weight maybe I'd move better.I must get on my own I hate my living arrangements I rather die alone if I fall then live like this because right now I am dead inside.

Bit of a similar tale, caught sight of big fat self in full length mirror whilst on holiday, then ran out of fatty belt holes so decided I did not want to into my 70's as a big fat git

So funny.

I was severely bulimic for a couple of years and lost a lot of weight because of it. When I began recovery I gained a lot of it back, as you do, and was once again overweight. I decided to lose the extra pounds the healthy way, learning to eat well and intuitively along the way, exercising in healthy doses, keeping my body fit, healthy and strong rather than malnourished, weak and dying.

I've changed immensely since starting this 'diet' and using MFP. I was actually in the middle of a relapse when I started using it and reading a lot of the posts on here really helped me see how much damage I was doing to my body by eating so little.

It's not about being thin for me, however nice it would be to have a perfect body, it's more about accepting myself no matter what I look like, loving myself because I AM worthy of self-respect. It's about kicking bulimia in the butt and having an awesome success story to tell in the future, because I plan on being an Eating Disorders Therapist, to help others like me. I want to be in session with another young girl going through what I did, crying about their ED, and tell them, truthfully and from the heart, that there is hope and they CAN and WILL beat it, because I did.

For me...I had always worked out and ate healthy. After 2 surgeries and a pregnancy I gained weight. I wasn't happy wioth the few extra lbs, but nothing I did would budge it.

I tried a famous diet (even though I knew better...you do stupid things when you are desperate) that ruined my metabolism...lost some, but rebounded.I worked with a very well know female bodybuilder and while I gained some muscle....she could not budge the fat off me.

I was resigned to be an ordinary looking frumpy middle aged Mom...figured that's just what it was for me. I ate healthy, have logged my food since the 80s, worked out, did martial arts. I was healthy, but just didn't have that "WOW" body.

I bought P90X as a last ditch effort. I just knew it wouldn't work, and set out to prove it wrong. After just a few weeks I knew this was something different. I had set a modest goal of losing 20lbs in a 6 month period. I lost 19lbs and almost about 10% bodyfat in my first round!! After that I knew I had found what I was looking for.:drinker:

I am now in my 8th round and still loving it...still getting amazing results....and have a better body than I could have imagined. :

I've always loved fitness, was sporty at school and after, once I had kids I struggled to find time for me. I wasn't devastated by my reflection but I knew it could be better.

My main motivation was my mother, it felt that overnight old age rained down on her, she went from being a sprightly fiercely independent lady to near loss of mobility through arthritis and brittle bones.

It's so traumatic seeing her like this so I decided for my children to invest in my old age and give myself the very best advantage I can.

I’ve managed to find me time…6am when everyone is still asleep lol, but I work out 5 mornings a week.

I’ve always ate well, my mother was an old fashioned cook all from scratch and I’m the same.

I hope these investments will pay off.

I'll report back in 35 years lol.