What made you decide to start losing weight?

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  • lucful
    lucful Posts: 18 Member
    I was tired of feeling tired. Now I get up early and run three miles then work an 8 hr day, get home cook and play with my kids, brush teeth read stories and still have energy left for the hubby:wink:
    I hear ya on the "tired of being tired". Also, wow, I haven't a family with kids and all yet but I admire your commitment and spirit. Hope I can be like that too later :)
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  • GeordieGirl80s
    GeordieGirl80s Posts: 120 Member
    Have always wanted to lose weight (well, since I was about 17) and it just never happened properly. I'd lose a bit and then regain it plus a couple more lbs. Then last year I was house-bound for 9 months and gained another stone on top of the 6 stone I was already overweight by. Now I just want to shift it all and be slimmer, fitter and stronger.
  • tjw00
    tjw00 Posts: 18 Member
    Couldn't fit the gym towel around my waist at my health club anymore. I could say I wanted to live longer, wanted to be healthy enough to play ball with my son, wanted to live to see my grandchildren... but to be honest, it was the towel. The towel really p*ssed me off.
  • MelonJMusic
    MelonJMusic Posts: 121 Member
    My boyfriend had an affair with a girl who is as skinny as a stick insect. totally destroyed my confidence and now i'm doing my damndest to lose all this weight in an attempt to stop it happening again

    Oh honey, there was something deeper under the surface and probably had very little to do with your weight. Don't lose weight for anyone but you.

    ^ THAT. Dump the pig and move on to look hott for someone who deserves it and appreciates you no matter how you look!



    Anywho, I was tired of seeing each picture taken of me looking fatter and fatter. I put it off for too long and I snapped back into reality.
  • fairyface87
    fairyface87 Posts: 52 Member
    Initially I lost weight after seeing the photos from a party...my best friend has an 'alfresco bath' in her garden, wasn't loving being the fattest girl in the tub! And I was about to go traveling...
    This time around (2 years later) I'm fed up of feeling like s**t and am freshly out of a long term relationship. As much as I'd love to look banging in a bikini, I'm mostly concerned about my mental health. The rest will follow, right?! :D
  • PrettyPearl88
    PrettyPearl88 Posts: 368 Member
    Honestly, what made me decide to finally start losing the weight is realizing that I actually COULD do it. I had tried many times before, but I always had an extreme "all or nothing" kind of attitude to doing anything. So I would go all hard-core and work way too hard and then I'd fail because it's impossible to keep that up. I thought going extreme was the only way to lose weight and I just couldn't keep it up for more than like a week or two at most, so I gave up. I had almost settled for just always being the self-conscious, lonely, invisible fat girl.

    Then one summer, I was working as a summer camp counselor for my city's day camp for kids. I was outside playing games and sports with those kids all day. By the end of the summer, I had lost 10 lbs without even trying or changing my eating habits. I realized that then that I COULD do it! That my dream wasn't an impossible dream and that it wouldn't be nearly as hard or extreme as I thought! So from that point on, I started actually TRYING. I progressed really slowly though so it took 3 years, but I finally lost 50 lbs and reached my dream weight! Now I'm working on toning, building a little bit of strength and muscle, losing body fat, and losing those last few pounds I want off. But I never thought I could do it. I never thought I'd be at where I am today. I'm a completely new person living a new life that sometimes feels like it's all a dream...but it's real! And all because I finally believed in myself!
  • ednaemerson
    ednaemerson Posts: 63 Member
    11 months ago today, my husband and I were talking about all the traveling we want to do now that our kids are grown, gone and off the payroll. It hit me that there was no way I could enjoy any of it at my current weight of 295 lbs. If I couldn't even walk across the grocery store parking lot without being short of breath, how was I going to handle the rigors of travel? So, I made a change that day and the next and the next. 336 days and 106 lbs later, I'm not yet at my goal, but I can walk 10+ miles a day on a trip and handle it with ease. I will get to my goal (in 44 more lbs), but I've already gotten the big prize. I've gained the confidence and health to do whatever I choose without regards to my weight.

    Congrats to you! this was truly inspiring to me!
  • steverup
    steverup Posts: 13 Member
    I've been overweight since i was in 7th grade (55 now).. tire of being fat and my doc told me yesterday that I will die if i don't do something.. so here we go again... I'm going to really try as it get harder and harder to be successful the older i get. .. good luck to you all!
  • Tanya949
    Tanya949 Posts: 604 Member
    I've always been self concious about my weight and would shy away from people because of it, but the reason I decided I had to lose weight was my health. I had high blood pressure, high cholesterol, my back, knees, feet and hips ached and I found my active job very tough to do. I was always tired and felt like crap. Now I have lost 40 lbs (40-60 to go) feel STRONG and fantastic! I am running too!!! I feel better, healthier, and people are complimenting my smaller size which is giving me more confidence around people.
  • meganjcallaghan
    meganjcallaghan Posts: 949 Member
    had to lose the weight to be a candidate to give my dad a kidney....pretty sure mine is the only one on offer so didn't really have a choice.

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