what made you realise you needed to change?

when rides at the theme park were getting snug to get in and out of ...it sucked !!

i'm a nursing student and when i see the consequences of diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease & the list goes on; i knew there was no way i could continue to let food control me. i now eat 2 live & not live 2 eat.

When my 5 year old daughter asked me if I had a baby in my tummy Sadly I did not it was all FAT! Not being able to be as active as I wanted to be with her and my husband. That would be the other thing!

When my best friend's 5 year old son turned to me at dinner one night and said "Miss Kristen...you're fat"

Kids have no filter - I knew I was fat, I wasn't in denial, but that was pretty humiliating.

Also, I'm going to have to go with the theme park rides thing. I am at Disney and Universal 1-2 times a week and I was within 5lbs of those bars not going down all the way. Scary.

My booty puts JLo's to shame!

Mine is kind of a vain and selfish reason.
I have always been over weight, but in the last almost 5 years after my daughter was born, i just never got rid of the baby weight.
I only gained 25 pounds with her, but I never got rid of that 25 pounds. I hate how I look and feel although, I have never had a great self esteem or ever really thought "Hey I look good". My real deciding factor came last summer.
My family and I were going to Florida to Disney world again, but after DW we were taking my son to see his Bio dad and his step mom. When they got married about 6 years ago, I was skinnier than her and was happy about that (mean I know), our body styles are kinda the same and we both stayed in the same weight range. But this last summer she had told me that she started running and using this website called Fatsecret and I should try it, because in the 3 months before we got there to visit she had lost 30 pounds! Ironiclly when I signed on to FS my first weigh in was the exact same as her first weigh in. But she beat me to it! I did NOT want to go there and be that much bigger than her! Not because of her, but because I wanted my ex husband to still in the back of his head think, wow she looks alot better than she used to!
anyway that did not happen! but over the past about 8 months with about 4 of those with me actually trying I have lost 15 pounds as of today.
I still have 22 to go to get to my goal, and honestly my real goal is more than that, but I wanted to start off with something attainable. My next reason for getting back on it this year; I turn 30 in june and I would love to be skinnier! I am so tired of being big! And starting off at 196 was scary for me, I cant believe I was that close to 200 pounds and I'm only 5'3!
Anyway, sorry this was so long!
Hope yall arent all asleep now!

Checking out my BMI and finding out I was overweight!!!!:noway: Thank god I am at average now!!!:drinker:

A couple of things... 1. It's almost summer & I have a few really cute shorts that DON'T FIT!! 2. I checked my BMI and realized that I was overweight... finally back in the "healthy" range now but I still want to lose about 25-ish more pounds. Another major thing is that I realized I've been watching my mom struggle with her weight for most of my life... I don't want to go through that... I want to make changes now, while I'm still young, and stay that way! Oh and I also want to look good for my husband... he says I am beautiful the way I am but I want to feel that way too.

i couldnt really blame my weight gain due to pregnancy nearly 2 years on!
I had lost my self esteem and hated going shopping for clothes! I was struggling at work, my job is very active and i was out of breath doing a few flights of stairs.
Im 30 this year and wanted to be at goal before sept, i would like to begin my 30s in style!!

When the 14s were getting tight. I refused to shop in plus sizes. (Funny how just a few years earlier, I had "refused" to wear double digits!). I checked my BMI and it was in the "Obese" category. Yikes. Lots of other little things, but those were the main two.

There were several not so subtle little hints.

The day I realized that my thighs had gotten so fat that I could no longer cross my legs above the knees and expect them to stay crossed once the muscles were relaxed.

The day I realized that I looked as though I was spilling out of the top of my jeans - even when I wasn't wearing any.

The day I stepped on the scale with my then half grown puppy in my arms to get his weight, and was so traumatized by the number that came up that I ran from the room.

The day I "put my knee" to one of my knit tops for the gazillionth time to stretch it so that (in my mind, at least) it wouldn't accentuate my spare tire, and it ripped. There was no putting it off anymore. I'd either have to lose the weight or put just about every item of clothing I owned into storage and go shopping for a new wardrobe in larger sizes.

Realizing I had to reach for the size 18's last time I thought I would buy a pair of jeans, I just continued to stuff my fat butt into the 16's I had. Muffin top be damned, I refuse to buy a bigger size.

My 4 year old daughter telling me I was fat really motivated me. I want her to grow up healthy and feeling good about herself. I know as a kid growing up and being the "chubby funny girl" did not make me feel good. Took a huge toll on my self esteem and at age 34, I am still trying to build myself up.

When my 9 y/o daughter's teacher asked if I could come in to her class and help out with a project. My daughter was insisting that she didn't want me to go. When I asked her why, she started crying and said that she didn't want the kids to make fun of me. I promised her that night that I would lose weight and get healthy. I have lost 17 lbs since January.

a bad break up that made me see that i need to make myself happy and stop settling because i neve thought i was worth a good person because of my weight.

Facebook. hahahaha Someone tagged some pictures of me at a family apple butter making get-together last October and OH MY GOSH.


One of them was this picture: