Reasons for starting the weight loss journey

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  • IllustratedxGirl
    IllustratedxGirl Posts: 240 Member
    Tired of losing and gaining 20-40 lbs over and over and over. Can't tell you how many times I've lost 20 lbs. Hoping this time will be the last time!

    I get so into things (including diet and exercise) that I become obsessive. It leads to whatever I'm doing consuming my life until I'm exhausted and burnt out, which the leads to me doing the exact opposite and gaining all of the weight back. I'm trying to take it slow and not get too obsessive about it.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    I started the weight loss journey at midnight of January 1, 2000. As a youngster some decades before, I contemplated the year 2000 and decided that I would not live that long. It seems that I spent the next several dozen years perfectly willing to die of any reason because some reason was going to kill me by 2000. As December 31, 1999 drew to a close, I weighed far north of 300 lb and wore pants with a waist size of 56 inches. While smooching with my wife at the stroke of midnight I experienced this thought: "I'm alive. I have the genetics to live to 100. I will live like I intend to." It's possible that half my total weight loss occurred in the year 2000 as my worst eating habits were eliminated. I do not know what I weighed on January 1, 2000. I do know that in that year I lost a lot of weight and 10 inches in my pants. Myfitnesspal, has taught me how to lose more. With 66 lb off this year, I've only reduced 6 inches from my pants.
  • themakeupbelle
    themakeupbelle Posts: 26 Member
    Hated how I looked trying to stop any health issues that will come in the future
  • 1shedev
    1shedev Posts: 144 Member
    borderline obesity
  • Amazon_Who
    Amazon_Who Posts: 1,092 Member
    I lost 25 years ago to get down to 270 and hovered within 5 pounds of that. Despite health issues I just couldn't get motived enough to do more than maintain that loss. Early this year I started suffering from excruciating sciatica. I have a bad disc in my lower and my doctor said losing weight was essential.

    I had a Reshape gastric balloon "installed" April 28th and have made it my job to make it successful. I am down 33 pounds so far.
  • SingingSingleTracker
    SingingSingleTracker Posts: 1,866 Member
    IllustratedxGirl wrote: »
    Tired of losing and gaining 20-40 lbs over and over and over. Can't tell you how many times I've lost 20 lbs. Hoping this time will be the last time!

    I get so into things (including diet and exercise) that I become obsessive. It leads to whatever I'm doing consuming my life until I'm exhausted and burnt out, which the leads to me doing the exact opposite and gaining all of the weight back. I'm trying to take it slow and not get too obsessive about it.

    All the best at "normalizing" a lifestyle change that you can endure in your daily routine that avoids burn out, and exhaustion.
  • fatgiraffe2
    fatgiraffe2 Posts: 73 Member
    My main reason was because I had a wardrobe full of clothes that don't fit anymore and I missed wearing my favourite outfits. Seeing it all there reminded me of the size I was when I met my partner. Although I don't want to be that weight again because I didn't look healthy, it made me realise how much I'd gained. Now I'd like to be somewhere in the middle of then and now, so far so good :)

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