What Convinced You To Change?

I asked someone for help and they said yeah ok, your not serious. That pissed me off, but i saw i didn't seem to serious to me either. I am vested in loving me and getting healthy. I want to live an active and healthy life with no regrets

What convinced me to change is that a doctor told me that I was overweight and he asked me what I was going to do about it. I told the doctor that I should eat healthier and exercise more. He told me that nutritional eating and exercising more would be a great start. I had 1 visit for 3 months with a dietitian, but before I started seeing a dietitian I managed to lose 2 pounds on my own. I'm happy to say that since I've started this journey in the end of November 2012 that I have lost 8 and a half pounds. I think it's important to follow what your doctor suggests because my father was a diabetic and he never listened to his doctor; he never lost the weight that the doctor wanted him to lose.

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.

I've always been a big girl. I remember being able to fit my mom's size 10 jeans when I was in 6th grade. Then when I got to high school, I ballooned up and starved myself down to a size 12. That's the smallest I remember ever being. Since then I've fluctuated between a size 14 and a 16. I always wanted to be thin but never did anything to change.

Even being on high blood pressure medication since 22, experiencing foot problems due to being too heavy, having several family members with Type 2 diabetes, and getting gestational diabetes during pregnancy didn't scare me enough to change my eating habits. I would eat whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. I'm sure there were days when I ate 3,000 calories easily. On my way home from work, I'd stop at the store and pick up a candy bar and a big bag of greasy Hawaiian chips, eat it all, and hide the trash. Or I'd pick up some fries and burgers from the McDonald's drive thru and eat it all before I'd get home, then eat a regular dinner with the rest of my family. Then I'd eat some more after dinner, too, usually more chocolate.

Then one day shortly after Christmas, something inside me just changed. I realized that if I really want to be healthy, I have to work for it. It's not just going to magically happen. So instead of sitting around stuffing my face wishing I could wear cuter clothes and be more active, I just decided to do it. Enough of this feeling sorry for myself. If I want to change, I have to work for it.

I've been logging my food on MFP and exercising regularly since January and have lost almost 30 pounds. I have about 40 more to go, which would put me at 155. I haven't weighed 155 since my freshman year of high school. I'm excited!

Good luck to us all on this journey.

We have been trying to have a baby for over 2 years now. My periods have always been irregular, and I have always been overweight in some degree. I gained about 80lbs in the last 18 months. A lot of it was depression. I woke up one day in January and decided I would do something for good. I made doctor appointments to make sure I was starting with a heathy base. The doctor was very discouraging. She spoke to me as if I were an idiot, and talked to me with the assumption that of course I was extremely unhealthy, she assured me that I was most likely diabetic and dismissed my questions about nutrition stating that she could not possibly believe I could eat too few calories. This hurt my feelings as she knew nothing about me, i begain to think that possibly i was fat and wiuld be fat forever so what was the point. But i decided that i wouldnt let her discourage me. Yes, I am extremely over weight, but I also did not sit around eating fast food and junk. I think it was very unprofessional of her to talk to me as if I were already doomed and there was no point helping me especially with out having any test results to back up her assumptions. Once the results were in she seemed a bit surprised. I am completely fine in every regard. I decided I would seek someone else's help and guidance, someone who might trust what I say and believe in me. I started trying to do research online. I started being more strict with calories, and excercized more. A few weeks into that I watched the documentary 'Fat Sick and Nearly Dead'. I was inspired by their journey to try a juice detox as the base foundation of my life change. I am on day 7 of my 30 day juice fast. I turned 34 on march 12th, and so far I have lost 13lbs. My current weight is 287lbs, weight is 140lbs, that means I have 147lbs to go, but my main goal is to become healthy enough to remind my body that it can safely carry a child.
I believe it is important to be honest with yourself and those around you. Life changes are difficult, and sometimes they don't go as swiftly r smoothly as you thought or hoped they might. When you all down you need to get back up. Sometimes you can hop back up on two feet by yourself, and sometimes you might need someone to lend a helping hand. Surround yourself with people who support and believe in you. And make sure you believe in you.

Hello .i AM new to this app and im really trying to lose some weight.i have a back injury so i am not sure how much i can do but i am trying.Seeing it on the app really makes me aware of the changes i have been making.Could use some friends along with my journey.

Almost had a mental breakdown in 2009, Stress and not taking care of myself for over 25 years put me on the path towards a healthier and fit lifestyle. I use to watch Biggest Loser eating devil dogs and potatoe chips crying until I went back to the gym and realized if I am sacrificing my family time to get to the gym I better figure out the eating part as well and fight through the deamons and proud to say haven't turned back yet, 118 lbs gone!!! So proud of all of you for also hitting your ahha moment,as a beachbody coach who inspires others towards a healthier lifestyle, not everyone reaches their ahha moment and wants it bad enough. As hard as it is, it is harder not to. We have chose to work through the hard days so we can have better days. cheers to all who are digging deep, kicking those deamons, and reaching out for support. Its the steps that got me where I am today.

I was tired of the physical pain of carrying the weight around. It seems a lot easier this go around because I am more concerned about how I feel versus how I look.

So many things... I hated the person staring back at me in the mirror. I was tired of my knees hurting if I did too much squatting or kneeling. I'm working on becoming an EMT (passed my national test, just waiting for my state card to come in the mail) and I need to be physically fit for that job - lots of lifting and carrying things, walking, sometimes running depending on the agency I get hired to. I'm also doing this for my mom. She has several chronic illnesses and even getting a cold can put her in the hospital and kill her. I need to be the best that I can be so I can help her when she needs it. I gained 50lbs in 2 years from depression and boredom snacking. I have everything in my life on track, but I didn't like how I looked. I would start diets and working out, but would slowly stop or get injured and be forced to stop, putting any weight that I had lost back on. The thing that really made me decide enough was enough was when my boyfriend and I did a walking tour of the Golden Gate Bridge, we had our picture taken. I hated it, I told him to throw it away because that's not a picture I want anybody to see ever again. I got a gym membership and started using my MFP account religiously.

I couldn't buy normal sized pants anymore. I've gone from a tight 18 to a 12. I'm still embarrassed to buy pants.

I've always wanted to lose weight. I've struggled for years since I was a child. I went down the whole E.D rode during high school. This time, I'm doing it the right way. To be healthy and happy with myself. I'm one to always put myself down. Now that I've been eating differently and working out... No negative comments about myself have been said. I started searching for some inspiration. I found divaslimsdown on YouTube and watched her whole journey. It amazed me. That's when I decided I was ready for change!!

I've never been happier.

Not sure to be honest, had a lot of opportunities in the past, Nan dying, Dad getting diabetes, Brother in law discovering he had a brain tumour in July 2011.

On the 2nd of Jan 2012 I went to the gym, which I joined in 2005 and never cancelled! Weighed myself 139 Kilograms converted to stones and pounds as not been bought up with kilos - 21 st 12 lbs. :noway:

Felt like giving up then but decided to give it a shot, double my efforts, I'd been to the gym in 2011 but only for 20 minutes at a time and didn't go in December.

I decided that no matter how tired or how much it hurt I would do twice as much as I'd ever done before on the cross trainer and I did it, I've been to the gym nearly every weekday since.

Seeing my brother in law fight so hard against cancer definitely was part of it but also the realisation that those people who have the great lives work hard at it.

Life is tough but if you work hard and smart you will hopefully get your rewards.

Next week I am running the Loughborough half marathon, which still seems unbelievable.

Yep same here.

living in florida, surrounded by fat people in speedos, i decided someone had to do something to break the monotony. the land whales are taking over.

After waiting tables for 10 years, I was in good shape, gaining little. After quitting that & becoming a SAHM & starting a food blog, I gained some weight the last 2 years. Someone on the Dave Ramsey's My Total Money Makeover forums recommended MFP for keeping track of the calories, etc. So, I checked it out & jumped right in! Now I've got a big goal to get this weight off but have the tools to make it possible w/ MFP. (I hated looking for clothes, only to find a bigger size to fit me better. Plus, I have grown a double chin...ewwww.)