Why did you come to the conclusion to lose weight?
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I saw myself in a picture after I had been at my current position for a couple of years. I didn't realize how big I looked, the camera really does add ten or more pounds. I also have some health problems, I have a small benign tumor and the extra weight began to aggravate. My energy goes up and down. I am trying to get to the point where I am healthy, and don't have the extra problems brought on by the extra weight.2
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Going to snorkel in Maui for the 2nd time in six months, and this time the xl flotation band wouldn't fit around my waist. That was really the moment I knew I was getting very uncomfortable with this weight.2
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I have numerious health issues. The two biggest ones are asthema and allergirerise that led a bad case of pneumonia in 2008 that caused me to be hospitalized for 3 weeks and sugery to take part of my left lung is the first biggy the second one is 3 total knee replacements in a three year time frame to being morbidly obese lost 84 pounds and then regained 70 of it now loosing it again this time to keep it off.2
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My story is a little funny. I was sitting in my chilly office with a small jacket on. I leaned back to yawn and a button from my jacket popped off and flew accross the room. That was my AH HA moment. What was yours?
Mine was when I was told the liver enzymes rose to 92. Then in 2 weeks 115. (Max 42) and I cried thinking I'm going to die. I stopped zoloft immediately and began to ear different immediately. I retested and numbers dropped to 72. Unsure what caused that but then dr cAllee me w results and I cried and just continued to diet. U have lost 2 lbs a week. Total 6 in 3 weeks. From April 1 (unintentionally )lost total 8. From Jan 13 total.0 -
I was around my heaviest at the end of high school, and when I heard about the dreaded "freshman fifteen" it scared me so bad I actually ended up losing lol.2
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The doctor told me I was killing myself slowly !!2
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I had avoided the camera, thought my husband didn't take "good" pictures and otherwise deluded myself and refused to see reality. I don't know why the mirror doesn't work, but it just doesn't. Anyway, was a maid of honor for my best friend and had hundreds of pictures in multiple outfits from multiple people... I cried, I didn't look anything like how I thought/imagined I looked and it was the finally the aha I needed... I knew it wasn't just a bad picture or the camera adding ten anymore. I knew I was "overweight" but when had I become obese?! Vowed to lose 100 pounds, to start with, figure out where I should be more precisely after that. Down almost 70.8
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felt so bad about myself, wanted to leave my work which I did, felt disrespected in other areas of my life which now I feel better can say No more and just have more confidence and take care of myself now. I was getting taken for granted a lot before.3
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Was suffering pain in my hip for three years due to wear and tear and a broken fib/Tib from 25 years ago was also starting to hurt, was diagnosed with post traumatic osteo Arthritis and told nothing I could do except to wait until the pain was bad enough for surgery, I even asked if losing weight would help and was told no. When my son announced his wedding i decided I wanted to look good in the wedding photos and coincidentally was offered a gym membership in the same building as my office. Six months later and another two months until the wedding I am down nearly three stone and have no pain in my hip or ankle (although that has been replaced by other "good" pains.3
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I knew clothes were not fitting, but was sort of blind to exactly how much weight I had put on (combination of leaving vegetarian lifestyle and taking medications) I was never out of healthy bmi before...
When I got on the doctors scale, it was way more than I thought... And way more than I thought was okay. Then, bloodwork came back, my triglycerides were scary high... So high that the metrics for my cholesterol were thrown and they couldn't measure it.
I spent a couple weeks in denial, then woke up one morning, downloaded the mpf app, and have lost about half the weight I plan on losing. I will be out of the overweight bmi in approximately 2lbs.5 -
My initial aha moment was when my son who has ADHD ran away from me and almost got hit by a car. I was too overweight and unfit to catch him. I went on to lose 28lbs and became superfit.
Unfortunately I developed fibromyalgia 3 years ago and recently had a major flare which put me in hospital. Since then I have been too unwell to workout and fell into old eating habits. I have regained all my weight + 12lbs. My moment this time is I have just returned from a family holiday and didn't put my swimsuit on once as I felt so uncomfortable. This is not setting a good example to my twins who are 12. Plus I am sure my pain levels would be reduced if I weighed less.2 -
ilovecereal1982 wrote: »Whenever I burn popcorn....and then I make another bag...while still eating the previously burnt popcorn. I was like.....whaaaat am I doing! Also hit the age of 33 and decided I want to be one of those middle aged people that still get ID'ed
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i was fat, well not fat fat but chubby
one day i said to myself if u keep like this u will die young and fat
boom i changed my life
now ill die old and healthy and fit1 -
My sister-in-law went on a 1500cal diet and while she was cooking I saw what 150 gr of chicken looks like and I was like ''OMG I eat 4 times more meat a day than that.'' So I went on MFP and saw that I ate 2300 cal a day normally ( I`m 5'1'')5
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When I went to Florida last year and I couldn't get the bar on the roller coaster across my waist, I was very embarrassed and told myself that when I go back in December (this year) I won't have the same problem.2
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i was told that my knees are suffering due to my weight and if this goes on they need to be surgically replaced... i decided to reduce my weight rather than getting new sets of leg hinges... LOL4
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Doctor's orders. Pre-diabetic and needing to get activity level up and weight down a bit.1
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I was fat and sick and felt just ugly.
After an annual physical, the doc gave me some bad news: "You're fat, sick and ugly:...or something to that effect...
I just decided not to be that guy another day, so I got to work, lost over 100 pounds and am now working to just sharpen that health saw.2 -
My son was 3 and really overweight, having terrible asthma attacks. Needed to heal/cure him and my whole family. So that's exactly what we did!
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