What made you decide to take back control?

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bekdavis
bekdavis Posts: 290 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
mine was the fact that I feel so damn heavy!!! I am a small 5 ft so any excess weight feels like a ton on me. I can feel that my small frame has a hard time with all of this weight. Rolling over in bed is not as easy as it use to be. My knees and joints hurt. My body needs to break free from this extra weight.
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  • MelleyJ
    MelleyJ Posts: 198
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    I am tired of going places and not taking pictures because I hate the way I look. I love photography, but hate pictures of me. I want to document my life and the events I enjoy with pictures so I can create the photobooks I enjoy making for others to look back on these wonderful memories with my husband and my dogs!
    We took pictures of my dog's graduation (okay, we don't have kids.. they ARE our kids!) from the advanced class for his Canine Good Citizenship test and I just hated it. I wanted to hide behind my cocker spaniel! I don't want that for my life anymore. I want to take pictures with my husband and look good and feel good about myself.
    Thanks for posting this topic! Makes you look back on why you really want ths and why you need to put one foot in front of the other and keep working for this!
  • AngieSWatson
    AngieSWatson Posts: 18
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    I agree my legs feel so heavy I feel like I am lifting weights every time I go up the subway steps. I pray for it to be over as quickly as possible. :noway:
  • Enigmatica
    Enigmatica Posts: 879 Member
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    Yeah, I felt heavy, my feet hurt, I was so embarrassed about my FATNESS that I freaked out if anyone tried to take a picture of me, etc. But the *hello* moment for me was when a guy in my office, just 3 weeks younger than me, had a stroke at work. I put down the Taco Bell and picked up a granola bar that very day. Went out and got good walking shoes and started moving even though it hurt. My dogs were happy to encourage me to walk morning and night. I dropped from 215 pounds to 125 in 18 months, and have stayed between 125-130 ever since. It's worth it!!!
  • ashlee954
    ashlee954 Posts: 1,112 Member
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    Well, my realization moment had two negatives involved! I was drinking 2 bottles of champagne every single night. Out of pure boredom! So, I gained 15 pounds AND had a drinking problem. I stopped this daily routine and switched to vodka on the weekends (and stressful evenings when I just need a drink!). :bigsmile:
  • MarieZap
    MarieZap Posts: 3
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    BekDavis...I feel exactly the same way!! I am about 5'4 and i am at 178. It seems like such a long way down to 120, but i feel all the weight and on me and i'm pretty tired of it. i am huffing and puffing after walking a flight of stairs!
  • 12skipafew99100
    12skipafew99100 Posts: 1,669 Member
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    For me it was the size of my stomach. It was harder to bend and move and in bed I could actually feel a difference in ease of breathing. Also my legs got achy. The line was drawn there. Even just getting 6 pounds of has helped but I want to feel freeness of body like I did when I was thin. I can just imagin how 47 pounds is goin to be. Will I feel like a kid again?
  • jen76love
    jen76love Posts: 16
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    Seeing old photos of yourself when you were thin!!
  • ziggythecat
    ziggythecat Posts: 62 Member
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    My medical insurance (like most of them now days) is requiring mandatory health screenings. When I went for mine back in November, I was really surprised at how far I'd let myself go. I knew I was big but good lord not that big. I'd passed a weight that I always told myself I'd never let myself get to. I realized that the whole "I know I'm fat but I'm not as bad as he is" mentality had to go. I'd been justifying my laziness and gluttony by comparing myself to bigger people, which is stupid. All that was doing was allowing me to inch closer and closer to the person I never wanted to be as big as.
  • bekdavis
    bekdavis Posts: 290 Member
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    i want to be able to paint my toe nails again with ease!!!!
  • Enigmatica
    Enigmatica Posts: 879 Member
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    For me it was the size of my stomach. It was harder to bend and move and in bed I could actually feel a difference in ease of breathing. Also my legs got achy. The line was drawn there. Even just getting 6 pounds of has helped but I want to feel freeness of body like I did when I was thin. I can just imagin how 47 pounds is goin to be. Will I feel like a kid again?

    It makes a HUGE difference!!! After losing so much weight (over 90 pounds) I got downright bouncy, lol! I love to race up the stairs, and will jog or sprint with the dogs just for the joy of it. I feel so much younger and healthier now (almost 49) than I did at 45 years old. People don't even recognize me from 4-5 years ago. You will be amazed what a difference that 40-50 pounds makes. Good luck!
  • revphillips
    revphillips Posts: 19 Member
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    I've been talking about doing something different in my life for a long time - but when I realized 30 was right around the corner I decided it had to be NOW! I knew I couldn't hope to lose weight by 30 if I didn't do something now, otherwise it was going to have to be something drastic, which I did not want to do.

    It also helps (in a bad way) when I fly to see my family. They live 900 miles away, so flying is my only option. I've never had to ask for a seat belt extension, but some of the smaller commuter planes I fly on, I almost have to. I'm able to get the seat belt buckled, but it's humiliating. I watched someone else ask for a seat belt extension and thought to myself, "See, he can ask for one, it can't be all that bad." - UM - yes it can - just don't put yourself in a situation that you have to ask for one - THAT'S the better solution!
  • nancym221
    nancym221 Posts: 23
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    Diabetes!
  • AngChambers06
    AngChambers06 Posts: 126 Member
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    Getting tired doing small things and being out of breath

    Being a good role model to my softball players (I coach)

    Wanting my clothes to fit again, and feeling like I look good in them

    Wanting to feel attractive again
  • amehrkens
    amehrkens Posts: 162 Member
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    My kids! i want to be alive to watch the grow up, graduate, go to college, get married, and have families of their own. Like some of you I knew I was big but not "that big". I think part of it was denial. I never want to go back to where I was! I want to be able to enjoy life!
  • mamagooskie
    mamagooskie Posts: 2,964 Member
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    I hated being the fattest person in the room EVERYWHERE I went. At times I thought for sure I was the fattest person in my city!

    I wanted to go on rides at amusement parks but when a 25,000 lb ride can't hold me that's pretty sad!!

    I'd be out of breath rolling over in bed.

    I hated what I had become.
  • skynyrdchick
    skynyrdchick Posts: 68
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    Other then my clothes being to tight...LoL? My Daughter is always trying to take pictures of me and I get mad (which isn't her fault). I truly HATE the way I look and feel embarrassed and scared if I go out of the house, might run into someone I know. So I have decided this is crazy and need to do something sooner then later.
  • JenCM
    JenCM Posts: 195
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    My reasons are several-fold.
    I don't want to die young. I've watched cancer and illness take almost my entire family away from me and I don't want to be at a higher risk for those things anymore. I promised my Dad I'd get healthy and I'm going to.

    Also, I did and have gotten tired of not being able to do anything "normal". Before I lost what I have at this point, I got winded and tired...Taking a shower! I stopped being able to find clothes my size at Wal Mart, so I moved onto Lane Bryant and I even outgrew what they had in the store, so I had to start going to Catherines since they went to over a size 30. Can't lace my snowboots up past my ankles because my calves are so fat. I stopped going to movies because unless we went somewhere with armrests that moved, I could barely squeeze into a seat. I couldn't sit in a booth at an eating place anymore. I started to get scared about breaking chairs when I sat in one. Tons of simple things like that, that people at a normal weight never even consider.
    I just want to be able to live without the restriction of worrying about whether I can fit into something or if I'll break it or whatever.
  • leahs_faith
    leahs_faith Posts: 20
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    My reasons are also, several-fold.

    For one, My husband didn't marry a fat chick, why would he want to be married to one now?! I feel as though I've let him down to some extent. Yes, I know he truely loves me, weight and all, but I want to FEEL that he's proud to have me on his arm again...I want to see him puff his chest out like he did before I got pregnant and people would notice me. It made me feel good to see him so proud of me. He still does it, cause i'm one of those "pretty faced" fat girls, but it feels tainted by all my belly-fat and thunder-thighs.

    Second, My son asked me the other day when I was going to look like I did in those other pictures...(we were looking through my high-school scrapbook.) I told him that mama was older now and would never actually look that young again and he said "No mama, I mean that skinny. When are you gonna be that skinny again?" I teared up and tried not to let him see it, and I told him "You know what? Mama's gonna start right now on getting skinny sweetheart." I don't want to be an embarrasment for my only child. That would break my heart absolutely in two. Other than my husband, he is my whole world.

    Third, Honestly, i'm tired of being a fat-*kitten*. Really! I want to be able to play with my son and not get out of breath.....to go for a nice long walk with my family and our tea-cup chihuahua and make it more than a quarter mile before I feel like i'm going to collapse. I want to wear clothes that don't cost a fortune because there's so much extra material needed to make them! I want my clothes to be cute and stylish! I don't want the "belly overhang". I kid around all the time that I have so much extra belly fat that all I need is two tent poles and I could prop up my belly and it would resemble a fruit stand! HAHA! Also, i'm tired of having to make jokes to cover up the fact that i'm ashamed of myself and what I look like. I'm done with all of this....THATS why I decided to take back control!!!
  • Kkmama
    Kkmama Posts: 544 Member
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    I have battled being overweight since I was a child. I have successfully lost weight over the decades to have it find me again shortly after I stopped dieting. I was convinced that I was a weight loss failure. I even went to an obesity specialist to get him to "fix" me. I followed WW and he lowered my points so low I was starving and all that did was cause me stress and I managed to gain more weight!
    Fast forward to now and I have "end stage arthritis" which means that I qualify for knee replacement, but I am too young to have the surgery I was told... I was told that every pound I lose would me 4 less pounds of pressure on my knee. Great, I thought now I've got the motivation. Nope. It took my daughter talking to my husband and saying that I was fat! So today I am 10 lbs lighter, 50 more to go to make me in the healthy range for my height. And I have 40 lbs of pressure off my knee. I haven't felt any different but I know this a journey and not a destination.
    Also seeing pictures of myself this Christmas solidified my resolve. I didn't recognize myself.
    Because I am afraid of failing yet again I am taking it slowly and have broken the year into months. So far so good. I'll keep you posted.
  • darla48
    darla48 Posts: 25
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    For me it was...I was out groing my clothes, the way my body looked (mainly my belly) and a challenge at work to see who can lose the most weight (its a biggest loser challenge)

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