Why did you come to the conclusion to lose weight?
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Got out of the military, moved less, ate more, grew a beard. Everything seemed fine until I decided my beard wasn't growing like I had hoped so I shaved it. I was hiding so much extra face and neck under there! Either had to grow it back or lose the weight... I think I chose the better option.7
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Total vanity. After a recent ugly divorce, didn't want to be the person that "let myself go", much better to live by the motto "looking good is my best revenge".
I rationalized the first 10 extra pounds as that "10 pounds per decade" excuse, but after the next 10, and new jeans, that was the end of that.7 -
My dog likes to curl up next to me in bed at night (in the winter). One day she decided I was softer than the bed.
Well, probably my room was just extra cold that night, but it was the proverbial straw meeting the proverbial camel. I joined MFP the next morning.5 -
At a certain point the realisation hits that its not baby weight anymore, its cake...14
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Plain and simple: I just got tired of feeling fat all the time. My back is in constant agony...it's hard carrying around 220 pounds!!!1
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1bellringer1 wrote: »I gained almost 40 lbs after being on Prednisone for almost 4 months for a lung infection last year. I ate every thing I could get my hands on. Every couple of weeks at the Dr I would step on the scale and it was up 5 lbs every time. Everyone kept saying don't worry, you will lose it when you get back healthy again but I was dragging my feet about dieting. Then my boss took a picture of me at work this last Thanksgiving and that was the first time I had seen myself in a picture since I had gained it. Internally I was like 'OH MY FREAKING GOD"!!! I was fat. There was no 2 ways about it. I had never weighed more than 155 lbs and now was almost 200. My only child graduates in May and I plan on being back down below 160 for that because it will be lots of picture taking and I can't avoid the camera for that!
This is my story too. My little girl graduates in May. She asked me to be in some of her senior shots. I hated how I looked in them even though she loves them. I swore I would lose the weight so that I won't dodge the camera on graduation day.1 -
Well mine started off with an ex-boyfriend breaking up with me because we had different lifestyles (he ate healthy and had lost over 150 pounds and I did not share in that lifestyle or style of thought at the time.) But he told me the main reason we couldn't be together was because he was a runner and wanted a partner that would be able to run with him in competitions. With my weight and weak ankles (old injury from falling off a horse) I was never going to be that girl for him. So after the split, I was depressed, and I decided that I would prove him wrong. I started using couch to 5k (thought I was going to die in those first days) and shortly thereafter I started using MFP. Once I lost 10 pounds, I was addicted to my clothes not fitting, the comments on how good I looked, and running. Soon the drive to prove him wrong was gone and I was doing it for me. (As of today, I am down 54 pounds from when I started running and 68 pounds down from my heaviest.)
P.S. In my first year alone of running I have done 10 5k's, 1 4miler and 1 8k. This next year I'm already signed up for 5 5k's two of which are intense mud runs. They say the best revenge is having a good life, and that's exactly what I'm doing.
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Every time I get a comment how far along I am
and all the pictures I had bigger than my husband...ugh can't be happening. I want to be a good sample for my kids too. I HAVE to. 2 -
Awesome Pharmacygirl26!! That is the kind of motivation I am looking for myself. Mostly just get up and do it.0
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i was just... ready. like with any major life change (stopping smoking, quitting another addiction, etc) you don't do it until you are TRULY ready. maybe theres an a-ha moment, but i think for many... it's literally just one day they decide they are ready. Last year i quite smoking with the same feeling. haven't had one (or wanted one) since. This feels the same. For that reason, and that reason alone, I can tell this will stick. I'm going on 3 weeks now and i FEEL AMAZING. I LOVE exercising, from walking to zumba to the gym. If i don't work out in the morning, i feel CRAZY restless and can't focus on my work during the day. i love planning what I'm going to eat (and i eat what i want, just in moderation and I keep to my calories) . I still have to work on scheduling my days better, this is a new routine and I haven't perfected my schedule yet, but I can tell... this is it. And I'm STOKED about it EVERY.DAY.
I gained it one pound at a time. That's how I'm losing it. Lots of little NSV keep me going too! My clothes are starting to feel different. my legs are starting to physically feel different to the touch. Loving all of it!6 -
I moved out of state and lived in a hotel for while. Once I moved into my house and my household goods arrived, I stepped on the scale and there is was....the truth staring me right back in the face.1
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Lots of things, but one really big one. I want the perfect sized boobs! I had a mastectomy (breast cancer) last August and am going through the reconstruction process. I now have to decide on what size implants to get and because I'm overweight I'm totally freaked out that I'll get the wrong size. I don't want to go too big, lose the weight and look like a porn star. I also don't want to go too small and be disappointed with the outcome. I also want to get in the best shape of my life as a big **** you to cancer! (And to inspire other cancer survivors!)26
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My aha moment came in the summer of 2013. My husband and I were vacationing in the Poconos and had our portraits taken by one of their photographers. That night I was excited to pick up the photos -- until I actually saw them...I was so unhappy with the very overweight woman sitting on my husband's lap. I tipped the scales at close to 250 lbs. and was wearing a size 22 (but borderline 24) on my height of 5' 4". I made the decision shortly after that to do something about it. After much thinking, I asked one of the gym teachers to be my personal trainer. That was almost 18 months ago. I have dropped almost 30 lbs. down to 215. I still have at least another 30 to go, but have NO plans to go back. EVER.3
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eileensofianmushinfine wrote: »My aha moment came in the summer of 2013. My husband and I were vacationing in the Poconos and had our portraits taken by one of their photographers. That night I was excited to pick up the photos -- until I actually saw them...I was so unhappy with the very overweight woman sitting on my husband's lap. I tipped the scales at close to 250 lbs. and was wearing a size 22 (but borderline 24) on my height of 5' 4". I made the decision shortly after that to do something about it. After much thinking, I asked one of the gym teachers to be my personal trainer. That was almost 18 months ago. I have dropped almost 30 lbs. down to 215. I still have at least another 30 to go, but have NO plans to go
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I'm looking forward to being excited to take pictures once again. I typically prefer head shots nowadays and that's so not my personality. Cheers to being photo ready
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Happiness and comfort isn't always a good thing, i let myself get to my heaviest i've been since high school and i was having gallbladder problems and was told i could easily get diabetes type 2. That made me want to change things. Along with being in my mid 20s and I can't shop at my favorite stores.0
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1. When you have size 14 jeans with the tags still on them.
2. When you have a fat and skinny section in your closet and your fat section gets LARGER AND LARGER.
3. When you get up, walk or go up/downstairs and your knees hurt.
4. When you look at yourself in old pictures and you looked phat not fat.
5. When you are DONE and need to change!
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I had gone for my annual physical and the blood work came back excellent in all areas. However, my weight was 335. I just decided right then and there that enough was enough. I already knew most of the weight loss stuff from previous failed attempts. But, MFP is the key.
I asked the doc for an appetite suppressant so I could get a start. I only used it for 2 weeks and then didn't need it anymore. I'm down 35 lbs so far, my goal is to take off 50 more this year. I need to drop 115 altogether.
I don't want to have to go to the big and tall section for clothing anymore.4 -
mine is kinda funny i guess a lot of people tell me id look good if i exercised, also ive always wanted to lose weight. though i must say dieting is very difficult1
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I just realised that one day I hated my clothes, I felt uncomfortable constantly, I was not confident at all in my skin and my muscles were becoming weak. I had no definition! Now I am slowly dropping the weight, and toning up. It's agonizing how long this takes, but I am determined! After I started all this, I began dating someone amazing and he is very fit and healthy, so it'd be great if we could match! Good luck everyone! 1
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I am steadily putting weight on and am unsure why. Now I know that it was because I ate too much. This is the first time I ever tried to calorie count. It's working so far. 2 pounds the 1st week, maybe more.0
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For my wedding as I know I'll keep looking back at those pictures forever.
I was at my largest as I graduated and I hate looking back at my graduation pics.1 -
I used to run cross country for my school and county. I would run 4 miles a night and I was a size 6/8 (UK).
then I hurt my knee caused by being to flexible. my knees pop out and so do my hips.
I have never had to worry about weight as it always seemed to juts work. I worked in bars and ran around all day at work,
I have just got a new job and I sit at a desk all day. I noticed weight gain and I became a size 10/12 (mostly 12) (UK)
my aim is t be a size 8/10 (more likely just be consistently a 10) and just to be healthier i miss the physical activity0 -
dukslayer4051 wrote: »cuz im fat
That was the short version for me. I've carried around plenty of extra weight since forever.
The long version was that I went in to the doctors last January because of what I thought was pneumonia (it wasn't). The BP readings I got at the doctors were quite high and when I told a friend about them, she bought me an Omron home blood pressure device and when I first started using it, I thought for sure that I was doing something wrong. The numbers I was getting were insanely high. My diastolic number was higher than what a normal, healthy systolic number should be. I was a walking heart attack.
Well, about mid-February, those BP numbers got into my head and I couldn't concentrate on anything except that. I left work early and went right to the emergency room. I wasn't feeling ill or having any kind of symptoms but I was going crazy with worry. The ER doctor diagnosed me with hypertension and put me on medication (as well as confirming that the Omron's number are pretty darn accurate). On a follow up visit with my doctor in late February, I was given the "you need to lose weight, exercise more" speech and it stuck. I had a baseline EKG, bloodwork, cardiogram, etc all done that day. The numbers were not pretty. I had to cut way down on sodium and while at first it seemed daunting, going to a low sodium diet is probably the reason I am able to sustain my journey. It really did set me up for a lifestyle I can maintain.
It'll be a year on March 1st. I don't even remember what led me to myfitnesspal. It could've been recommended by my doctor or maybe I Googled it but whatever got me on this site, it was a godsend. I laugh now when I think about what I had set as my original goal weight. I weighed 280lbs and my goal was 230lbs. Fifty pounds was a good, round number. At the time, you might as well have asked me to fly to the moon on a paper airplane. It seemed impossibly out of reach. Today, my weight was at 187lbs (goal adjusted to 175), my BP is normal (still on meds, though), the lab work numbers from last December came back fantastic and my fitness is leaps and bounds what it once was. I still have work to do but I am in a much better place today.
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I don't know what did it for me...nothing spectacular, just one day I woke up and decided I wanted to do it. I've been heavy for years. I used to carry my weight well because of my frame but it has caught up with me. I hurt now. I guess I am sick and tired of being sick and tired all the time.1
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For me it is injury and pain.
I have been pretty trim & in shape for most of life. Then 40 hits and so what I gained a few pounds and did not exercise for 2 yrs...I can jump in and do that Jillian Michael's tape. NOPE. Hurt my back.
I get some PT (physical therapy) no problem...however something is not right with my foot. I keep telling the PT that something is off. She says it is nothing. Gain a few more lbs and then into the next yr...my feet are screaming in pain. Something is REALLY wrong here!!!
Saw the 3rd podiatrist (yes 3, the first two really did not give a crap), and she sends me to a sports and injury PT place.
Well now that was a special moment in my life. They did a physical assessment on me in addition to my problems and I had NEGATIVE range of motion, my core was so weak that I was practically injuring myself WALKING. Yes, I was bad.
My new PT gave me the tools to help me fix myself (all those evil baby step exercises). In addition she gave me a lot of PAIN getting rid of scar tissue in my calves and feet. It was torture. She is also the one who figured out I had Morton's Neuroma. That was 2yrs ago.
I did well well after that for the first yr. I exercised and worked my butt off. Then I started slacking a bit and my feet are hurting and then I started gaining. You know, the usual.
So here I sit on the cusp of being 50 and I will NOT live my 50's a fat, unhealthy, inactive person.
One day at a time.
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2 things did it for me - the first was my back, already weakened from an injury, had started giving me more pain, more frequently. I attributed it to the extra weight putting pressure on the disc and the lack of exercise weakening my core and giving my back no support.
- It was easy to brush that off still though, until my 'fat jeans' suddenly were giving me muffin top, and were really uncomfortably tight to wear. I hadn't even put on my old favorite jeans in like 10 months, they had long ago become too tight. That was when I had enough. I'm now about 3 lbs from goal, back flare ups massively reduced, and back in the favorite jeans.0 -
My weight was starting to be detrimental, not only to my health, but also to my marriage. One day I sat up and thought "what the hell are you doing to yourself?". I convinced the wife that we need to go on an eating plan and she convinced me that we need to go to gym.5
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Pretty similar to yours. My jeans started to get a bit tight and I decided I couldn't afford to buy a whole new wardrobe.
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too much jiggle in my wiggle!1
Good luck!
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