Why did you come to the conclusion to lose weight?

It's a lot of things for me. Clothes shopping is the worst. I work in a meat department so I work with men. Hearing them talk about women the way they do takes its toll on your confidence. I'm not small by any means. 5'4" and 220 lbs so hearing them talk about people wearing like a size 6 jeans being chubby or thick is hard. Not being able to play with my two year old son without losing my breath. But mostly not being able to be happy with myself the way I am.

ImaSongbird wrote: »

hannahbethbing wrote: »

I went to a fancy-schmancy gala event for an apartment association-- complete with red carpet-- and when I got the pictures back, I was mortified. I knew I was heavier, but my first thought was, "WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME I LOOKED LIKE THAT?!". Ha!

Because you didn't. The camera is a cruel foe who distorts our appearance. You probably looked much nicer than the camera said you did (weight gain notwithstanding).

Oh, I like you. Keep whispering those sweet nothings.

I had a rather nasty gallbladder infection January 2014 (i had had gallstones for 6 years before hand that didn't bother me too much) which led me to eating a low fat diet, the benefit of that was i lost 3 stone, sorry not sure how many pounds that is, in a year. I finally had my gallbladder removed on the 12th January this year but before the operation i was worried that i would go back to my old eating habits and put on all the weight that i had lost so i joined MFP and on the 2nd January i started logging what i ate, i chose the second as i didn't want to see it as New Years Resolution. I have also managed to talk my partner into doing this as well as we are both very over weight (I weigh 15 stone 11lb now but i was 19 stone, if not slightly more, at my highest weight), so far he has lost 7lb and i have lost 8lb since we started this lifestyle change.

I didn't have an ah ha moment in the slightest, I've always known I'm overweight, always wanted to lose weight and always thought one day I'm going to be thin but I did absolutely nothing about it. My cousin is really into fitness and bodybuilding, so I told him next time you go to the gym I'm coming with you, so he came to stay over for three nights and we went. Simple as. Those few days he was staying we woke up at 6am and went straight to the gym. People say they hate the gym when they first go and yes I'm not going to lie I did get the odd stare or two in the weights section (that gym didn't have many women go there) but I sucked it up and went 5x a week, changed my diet and three weeks later I'd gone from 208.5 lbs to 198.6 lbs. I was hooked.

Mother grabbing my leg and saying "you need to do something about this".

I weighed 50 kilos lolllll

I kind of had two moments. The first was just generally regarding fitness. That happened after a conversation with my brother. He's 2 years older than I but we're so similar people have thought we are twins all our lives. Anyway, the conversation was about his latest physical and the fact that he had been put on medication for both high cholesterol and high blood pressure. He was 42 at the time and we were both 70+ lbs overweight. That got me thinking about not wanting to go down that road any sooner than I absolutely had too. Fortunately, that conversation coincided with some friends and my wife convincing me to try cycling. I did and got completely hooked.

Fast forward about 4 years and now I'm an avid cyclist and bike racer, I'm physically in much, much better shape, and I've lost around 30 lbs just from riding the bike. So last July I decided to take the cycling up another level and started working with a coach. That led directly to my second "ah-ha" moment, regarding my weight specifically. I decided that if I was serious enough to need a coach then I needed to be serious about the extra weight too. I'd been a MFP member for a while but started logging the day after my first meeting with my coach and I haven't looked back. I'm down over 30 lbs from last July, I'm about 17 from my goal weight, I feel much better, I'm faster on the bike (especially when the road points up), I look better than I have in years, I'm wearing size 30 and 32 jeans and medium shirts comfortably for the first time since probably my teen years, and I'm not the "The Fat Guy" on group rides any more.

I'm hooked and don't intend to ever go back.

I dont care about big im big but healthy big i never been on medication or anything or bed bound always have never been skinny i was pushing 270 pounds all the way though school.

But maybe me do it. Is just wanting to put up a big 2 fingers up ans say up yours. Clothing shops. Not selling my size. Only online. And make me pay 3× more for the clothes coz im fat.and even then the clothes are never what you really wanted. Well up yours not paying your prices you money grabbing greedy psychopaths..

So here i am. Losing weight just to get clothes i want

It was 4th of July last year and I was going to a party. I had these denim shorts I loved and when I went to put them on I could barely get them to button AND THEN THEY RIPPED after I took a few steps! I took a hard long look in the mirror and then got on the scale and saw the highest number I had ever seen before. That day I downloaded couch to 5k and joined MFP with the encouragement of my best friend. Fell off the wagon once and put on 10 pounds of the 20 I lost but am back and 22 pounds lost as of today. Add me if you'd like I'm on here every couple of hours!

i just woke up one day and decided it was time. I guess I just got sick and tired of always being sick and tired!

Two (unplanned, but still devastating) miscarriages and a declaration by two doctors that I was maybe a few % points of body fat away from diabetes, so to speak.

I got tired of feeling tired, of feeling sore (not for the right reasons) and being sad.

Now my cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar is way down, I'm out of the danger zone and I'm working on slimming down to a healthier weight.