what made you finally realize, today's the day

My boyfriend and I broke up. I realized, on top of other issues in the relationship, that I need to see myself as a priority as I have everyone else. My health and happiness is just as important as anyone elses. It's been over 2 months and I've never looked back since .

I guess for me...it was going to the doctor. When I was younger, I never worried about weight. It wasnt until I reached my 30's. I started working out 5 times a week..and lost alot of weight..(gained weight due to a bad marriage). I then learned I had PCOS...not the greatest thing for someone who wants to lose weight. I finally got down to 150..but always wondered why I couldnt lose more.

Fast forward to April..I have a friend who suggessted a new doctor. I went to her..she looked at me and asked why do I weigh so much..and of course..my reply was I have PCOS..We did another blood test and found out I was also hypothyroid..talk about double whammy. She said I will never lose weight as long as the thyroid is out of whack.

I started taking metformin and armour thyroid. I went back for a checkup in early June..and found out I lost 13 pounds...this was AMAZING!. She gave me all these high fives..great support from my doc. She then said this.."look what happens when you dont try..just think what could happen if you did..." So I set up a meeting with the nutritionist..and have been sticking with working out and eating right for about 14 days.

I have so far lost 4 pounds in those 2 weeks...I just want to keep going. Its not so bad eating right...

What made me really realize that I needed to change, was a year after my wife had our son, she weighed LESS, than she did BEFORE she got pregnant. So she lost her baby weight and then some. What had I done? Nothing. I wasn't the one who carried the baby, had to eat extra for the baby, had the stress of being pregnant, etc.. yet I still weighed the same. I had no excuses. I have always been active in sports and activities. I just always ate whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. I started this site exactly 1 month ago, and it is definitely keeping my food intake in check..

when the scale read 201 and i crapped my pants.

I was laying on the couch one day n my 2 year old son pulled my shirt n started slappin my stomach... it jiggled.. he laughed... I was done. I have ALWAYS had weight problems (due to hypothyroidism) since i was in the 5th grade.... always felt huge & ugly. I want to be able to show my son what self esteem is really about. )

Nothing really. My one friend and high school used to talk as teenage girls do, in the vein of "I look so fat in this" "ugh, I look fatter". She found the MFP iPhone app - and I signed up online because the BlackBerry app wasn't out yet. I figured I'd just try it (at first I had no real goal) but once I realized that I wasn't destined to weigh 185lbs forever...I really started taking it seriously. And now here I am, 24 lbs later and still trucking.

I moved to the U.S. from Colombia and when I got tickets to visit a few years later, I decided that my family and old friends would NOT see me looking like that.

For me I finally made the realization that not only did I need to lose weight but I need a lifestyle change with exercise and especially eating habits. I had been doing zumba faithfully for over a year, biked long distances in good weather, walked almost ever day and certainly was in better aerobic shape but never lost a pound. I have found it has to be a combination of exercise and diet for me. As a female approaching 49 it was now or never. My health is good and I certainly don't want that day to come when I regret not doing things I enjoy because I am not physically able.
I would get depressed every time I went clothes shopping because nothing looked good or fit right. Since April I have lost 20#. For me this is a major accomplishment because I have never had to diet, never tried to diet and made the commitment that those few extra pounds that come on over the years needs to come to a stop. MFP has made me accountable for everything I choose to eat and drink. It has been an amazing discovery for my life. :flowerforyou:

I realized when i had to get bigger clothes and when i looked in the mirror it was like someone else was staring back at me. i have tried the diet pills and at 150 i thought i was obese!!! Now i weigh like 194 and it's the heaviest i have ever been!! When i stopped the diet pills i got hungry again and i put on all that extra weight. Now i joined the gym with my sister and we have been going 6 days a week and i've lost 7 pounds already. I would just like to run with my son who is 8 and not be out of breath every second i do!lol

In 2008, not that long ago, I was buying size 5 and 7 jeans (I hate womens clothing for being random...by the way) and fitting into them very comfortably. I weighed about 120....give or take. I put on a bathing suit, I was confident. When I went dancing with friend, I wasn't worried how I looked because I knew I was thin, tones, and healthy. :flowerforyou:

Then I got ill. 3 1/2 years later, numbers of doctors and even more hormones, I was a size 12 and 160 pounds I hated my doctor telling me every time I saw him or her that I needed to be careful.

I looked at myself in the mirror in the beginning of January and said I'm done being depressed, I'm done with doctors being stupid, I'm done with not BEING MYSELF. I haven't lost a whole lot of weight so far, but....

I've lost inches.
My clothing fits me better.
I took myself off all the meds that made me depressed.
I'm back on the road to healthy!

In highschool I could eat like I had hollow legs and not gain weight, wearing size 3-5 jeans (had to get wranglers because I had no butt lol). College and highschool both I was fairly active, walking a lot and working out and then real life happened. Once I graduated and had a desk job, and the amount of physical activity I had plummeted but the amount I was eating didn't; in fact it slightly increased!

Over the course of two years I'd gained almost 40 lbs and the first lightbulb came on when I was a month out from having to do a fitness test and was above the weight limit to get max points for BMI. I ate "healthier" to lose those few lbs I needed but went right back to what I'd been doing after the fitness test was over. The real, blinding light came after my job relocated me to another state and one of the folks I supervised showed me MFP that she was going to use to help her lose weight.

Being ever curious I created an account and logged that day's breakfast and lunch and was completely shocked out of my mind how many calories that was and it was then that I knew exactly how I'd gained weight. That was Jan of 2010 and I've since gotten back down from a size 12 to a size 5 and got to maintenance and toning. I had stopped using MFP religiously for about a month and had gained back 5 lbs so I'm back in the saddle to get back down to maintenance. I've come to realize that MFP is a forever friend that I should never turn my back on if I want to continue to succeed!

The scale is 10 pounds away from when I delivered my son......... 8 years ago.