When did you decide to get serious about getting fit?

damionruns
damionruns Posts: 38 Member
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When did you decided to get healthy? What was that seminal moment for you?
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  • glin23
    glin23 Posts: 460 Member
    When it took the nurse 3 tries to get a decent blood pressure reading which was still over 140. I was 24 at the time.
  • lucystacy71
    lucystacy71 Posts: 290 Member
    My moment was when I went into kidney failure and was told I had to lose weight in order to be eligible for a kidney transplant. I decided that not only was I going to lose weight, but I was going to do my best to improve my overall health. I want a new kidney and a new life.
  • Basia_and4345
    Basia_and4345 Posts: 61 Member
    When I was looking for a dress for my Oldest daughters wedding.
  • RVfrog
    RVfrog Posts: 213 Member
    Just being told I have Diabetes....that is a wake up call.
  • dp1228
    dp1228 Posts: 439 Member
    When I started to feel a strange tightness in my chest from just walking. I was only 22 years old.... I had never felt any real issues from my obesity until that moment and it scared teh *kitten* out of me. Joined MFP that same week.
  • TheBitSlinger
    TheBitSlinger Posts: 621 Member
    When my doctor said, "Losing weight is not a priority for you." It severely pissed me off, but once I calmed down and stopped strangling him, I thought about it and had to agree. I then realized overeating was an addiction for me and started treating it that way. I've been clean and sober since May 22, 2013.
  • AlongCame_Molly
    AlongCame_Molly Posts: 2,835 Member
    I became serious about WEIGHT LOSS in February of last year. I joined MFP, cracked down on my eating and lost all my baby and honeymoon weight. Three months ago I became serious about FITNESS and joined a gym and started lifting heavy weights.

    I love my new lifestyle and I will never go back to the miserable old one!
  • kylamaries
    kylamaries Posts: 291
    I was at a birthday party hiding behind one of my signature baggy shirts and envying how tiny a gal my age looked. I decided one day I'd look like that too and the next day I began exercising and making simple switches in my diet. Envy isn't a beautiful trait, but it sure helped me become a more beautiful me!
  • sevsmom
    sevsmom Posts: 1,172 Member
    When I got tired of thinking that I "couldn't" be fit. I have a family history of heart disease and type 2 diabetes. I have coworkers my age who have been on maintenance meds for BP, Chol, etc, for YEARS. I want to delay the need for maintenance medication as long as I possibly can. Healthy eating & physical activity are KEY to making that goal.
  • Vailara
    Vailara Posts: 2,466 Member
    I think what really got me going was a period of good health, when I felt better able to "risk" exercise. I have heart disease and since my diagnosis, I've been nervous of pushing myself too much. It's difficult finding that balance. A couple of winters ago I had a quite a good winter health-wise, and I felt as if I could test out exercise a bit more.

    Once I started moving more, I decided that getting fit would be easier if I weighed less. I'd been very wary of dieting because it so often doesn't work, but I'd got to a point where I thought I really could keep it up for a life. I didn't even aim to lose as much as I have done - just enough to make the exercise easier and less of a strain on my joints.
  • LittleMissDover
    LittleMissDover Posts: 820 Member
    When everything else in my life fell into place and I was happy with everything but my weight.
  • rbn_held
    rbn_held Posts: 689 Member
    When everything I owned was too tight. I would try to find something to wear when my boyfriend and I would go out and I would always end up in tears because nothing fit. Even our relationship suffered because I didn't want him touching me. I felt miserable and new it was time to get serious.
  • NewMnky1
    NewMnky1 Posts: 264
    When the Dr. said the bloodwork indicator for risk of heart attack came back extremely high, in that instant it all changed for me!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Last September/October when my doctor pretty much told me I was digging my own grave with the things that I was doing and the things I wasn't doing. So I stopped doing the things that I was doing and started doing the things that I wasn't doing.

    Weight loss has been a nice perk, but really the improved blood work and my increased level of fitness is where it's at. Nine months ago, if you would have told me I'd be 40 Lbs lighter and training for 10Ks and obstacle course runs, and hitting the weight room with viciousness, and planning for triathlons next year I would have seriously laughed in your face.
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    Tomorrow.
  • BluejayNY
    BluejayNY Posts: 301 Member
    When my doctor suggested I get tested for diabetes and pointed out I had gained 10 lbs the year before and almost 20 in that current year. Oddly, I seem to not have realized how big I had gotten until that moment. I walked out of there and remember seeing my reflection in a window and being like "OMG...I AM fat"
  • toaster6
    toaster6 Posts: 703 Member
    When my grandmother died. Doctors might have been able to save her if it hadn't been for all the damage being overweight had done to her body.
  • AndiGirl70
    AndiGirl70 Posts: 542 Member
    Heart disease and cancer run in my family. My father died at age 44. I turned 43 in May and I am built just like the man I so dearly loved. I've gained/lost weight my whole life. Looking at my four children one day and realizing they could lose me like I lost my Dad was the wake up call I needed. I became serious and more focused this past April and the scale has been on a steady downward spiral since then. Because I'm taking control I hope to beat the family odds and live a long, healthy, & fit life.
  • HollisGrant
    HollisGrant Posts: 2,022 Member
    When I renewed my driver's license this March and saw my photo.... absolutely awful. I looked like a dumpy old man instead of a woman. That was the end of accepting my fathood. No more.
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    Jan. 12, 2010. My dad had just turned 55, and I realized that he was my age when his mother died of a preventable disease. I was obese at the time, and that was the day I decided I'd had enough of being lazy and settling for less than mediocrity. My mind, my body, my life ... nothing about me today bears even a remote resemblance to who I was then.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    The first time was in my early 20's after I had given birth. Then just before turning 30 I noticed I'd been slacking and I got serious again. Then around age 39 the same thing happened. Then I remarried and got comfortable and just before age 50 I again said "Enough!" and got back on track. Trying very, very hard to not have to say that again in 7 years, but there does seem to be a pattern here.
  • blbasham
    blbasham Posts: 11
    When I went shopping with my sister and had to buy maternity pants just to get something that fit right. I was mortified. But my sis has always been great and told me to get them if they fit and made me feel good. I got them..but knew i never wanted to do that again! I knew it was time for a change!
  • farmer50340
    farmer50340 Posts: 28 Member
    May of last year. We were planning a family vacation to Disney World for September, and my daughter wanted to go swimming. She loves being in the water as much as I did when I was her age. I was over 300 pounds at the time. I promised her that if I lost 20 pounds, we could go swimming. From June 1 through September 20, I lost 40 pounds. Proud to say that we went swimming at Disney World.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I was drunk, and saw pictures of a Warrior Dash. I wanted to do it. Amazingly, I remembered the next day and once my hangover was gone, I started training for it. Haven't looked back since.
  • wmbrett
    wmbrett Posts: 31 Member
    When I hit a BMI that classified me as "Obese." I kept avoiding photos since I did not like my double chin, and looking at photos of my 25th reunion of my old friends - realizing we had all gained weight and very few were in good shape. Over the last 6-7 years, I kept inching up from size 35 and upto size 38 - and just kept getting angry with myself (coincided with my discovering microbrews and having kids). Now I'm a size 34 and just entered the "normal" range for my height.
  • ldnmaggie
    ldnmaggie Posts: 222 Member
    When i was embarssed to even get undressed infront of my boyfriend! And creeping upto a tight size uk 16, seeing all the pretty slim girls wearing what they want and theirs me stuck in baggy tshirts and leggings. Also seeing my BMI as OBESE. No one ever wants to be called obese

    Something had to change. and FAST.
  • tuckersmom72
    tuckersmom72 Posts: 8 Member
    When I kept saying to myself "I'm still young, I have plenty of time to lose weight" and then I woke up and I was 40. I didn't realize that all along if I would have just ate smaller portions, drank lots of water and walked a bunch that it would work, but it has and I feel great.
  • soni_me
    soni_me Posts: 95 Member
    When the dr. said, "if you don't lose weight, we will definitely put you on blood pressure meds. Losing weight may make that unnecessary." I was at the highest weight that I'd ever been. That was December 2012 and I haven't looked back!
  • hkmurphy83
    hkmurphy83 Posts: 262 Member
    Several different moments for me.
    1) My dr put me on BP medication at the age of 28.
    2) All of my size 18s were bursting at the seems, but I didn't want to get size 20s.
    AND
    3) I moved to a new state, got a new driver's license, and cried when I saw my picture. I joined MFP a week later.
  • CarlaRG
    CarlaRG Posts: 264
    When I saw a video of myself. I knew I was heavy but that just broke me. I lost 35 pounds but then had a family tragedy that sent me into a depression and I gained almost all of it back. So my second course of this journey started almost a year ago now.

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