what made you realize, " okay , I need to loose weight?"

One morning I woke up and said I am tired of being fat. I looked at pictures of myself and could not believe I was that big!!! I was in denial for so long!!! That was 30 pounds ago with about 20 more to go!!!

I looked in the mirror and i dont even look good from the neck up anymore lol. Walked into an interview out of breath bcuz i took the stairs in fear of elevators.....cant figure out why i didnt get the job. The list goes on!

I knew for years that I needed to lose weight. I just didn't want to. I had done low-fat during the 90's and I just never wanted to do a restrictive diet again. A friend told me about mfp and it was about 2 or 3 years before I actually started using it. It was so easy this time just counting calories that I wish I had done this sooner. I did have some pictures that really made me realize how big I actually was and that motivated me. Plus sending my youngest off to college gave me more time on my hands to focus on me when I had always been focused on my kids before.

I saw a picture of me and my neck and face merged into one and my favourite jeans didn't fit

It's a bunch of things over the last few weeks. I've been fluttering around, not very serious about reaching my weight loss goals, for a long time. In the last couple of weeks I am becoming more and more frustrated with how my clothes fit, how my face and body looks, and generally how BLAH I feel. I've also been getting bad headaches every day, which I attributed to stress, but yesterday I went into the pharmacy to buy a few things, and on a whim took my blood pressure and was SHOCKED at how high it is....it's no wonder my headaches are so bad. I'm afraid now and I realized that I need to take back control of my health. I've been passive too long.

Having unexpected blood work done showing my glucose number was in the pre-diabetic range. I lost around 50lbs and now consistently have glucose numbers under 100 (normal range). My cholesterol has also improved, blood pressure is great etc. I'm pretty much the only one in my family/extended family who isn't overweight/obese, and the only one who's reversed high glucose numbers (several family members have died from complications to T2/several are in declining health because of it).

When I weighed myself just randomly and realized I had almost hit the 100kg mark. That absolutely terrified me I promised myself I would never let myself hit that mark and since then I've lost almost 10kg and still going strong! ^^

kschwab0203 wrote: »

When even my "fat" clothes were getting too tight.

omg, yes this ^^

having mobility issues and mega joint pains. Figured to lighten the load would help. Down 40 so far with 40 more to go to reach GW. Plus looking so fat and sloppy was crushing my self esteem.....Yesterday for my BD I did have cheesecake but stayed in range.

For me it was constantly seeing myself with a double chin in pictures...and I wasn't that far into the overweight range for my BMI. But also, when I was too big for my pants that were already a couple of sizes bigger than my "fat" jeans, I knew enough was enough. I refused to buy anything bigger, and opted instead to lose the weight. It still took me about 6 months to find this site and figure out calorie counting/macro ratios were the way to go to lose consistently.

missafwilliams wrote: »

I think for me it was seeing a picture of myself that made me unhappy.

same reason for me, also includes knee pain, back pain and ed

My favorite jeans are too tight!! time to go back at it again!