Why did you come to the conclusion to lose weight?
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I don't have anything that made me decide to lose weight. It was just time after years of "losing" weight. I've struggled on and off. Things are clicking and I am doing it this time around! And....I'm loving it!3
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No health issues, but it was the reason I started. I want/wanted to get fit before I DO have the health problems. The longer I waited the harder it was going to be. Another reason was, climbing stairs and being a little more out of breath than I should be. I was tired of that happening, so that also helped me decide that enough was enough.2
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The scale. Stepped on it and was like "oh no, I am REALLY close to being 250 and this is heavier than the heaviest weight I remembered being!". And wearing size 18 jeans realizing the pant size is almost my own age in years.3
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Being weighed at a hospital appointment and weighing in at 456lbs (207kg) (32.6st), the next day my car broke down and i had to walk half mile to my workshop and had to stop 6 times to catch my breath!! and the final straw was a photo taken of me sideways sitting down!! ( if you look on my profile, pics/ comparison pics you will see it!!!).....and i was coming up to 50yrs old at the time......this was only 26 months ago now but i'm 13st lighter than i was then!!....and the journey continues...
why did it take 49.5 yrs to figure it all out? i have no idea....9 -
Being told i'm too fat to have an operation that I really need. I was like " WHAT!? I'm not THAT big! am I?" I then got on the scale and saw my weight at 300lbs! It shocked me! I have always been big but I hadnt realized it had gotten that far out of control. I thought theres NO way I am ever gonna loose this weight. I have broken my back and have nerve damage and chronic pain. Then I found this place and saw how others out there were in the same boat and were doing AMAZING! That was the moment I took back control!11
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Putting off holidays of a lifetime because it filled me with so much dread and anxiety, worrying showing my flesh off.
Im 1 stone 3lb down and got another 30lbs to go.
By Christmas it will be off.2 -
Too many reasons to count...I'm a nurse, I know i'm obese, know how to lose and know how to eat. I know what the excess fat is doing to me and my health. I feel it makes me look old and ugly, it even distorts my face. I'm not me with all this fat. I don't want to go outside, and am afraid someone from my past will see me. I can't find clothes that look good, they are too tight or too frumpy, no in between. As a nurse I don't look professional and have been told so. I've lost the same weight and gained it back too many times to tell you. I lost count. I know what is like to be thinner, I've been up and down like a yo yo. I love being a normal weight. being able to go into a regular clothes store and buy whatever I want, the clothes look good on me, guys ask me out, my patients and other staff are more confident in me and most important I'm not afraid someone will see me because I got fat, I want to see others and enjoy being around them.12
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I was very sick for about 5 years due to contamination of the water in my remote farm house, inability to move without a lot of pain, nausea and dizziness, resulted in severe weight gain,
I almost doubled my body weight,
Once I reduced (eventually eliminated) contact with the water, I've gradually recovered (over the last 3 years), at first I was just totally, overwhelmingly, relieved that I was getting better physically,
I now know how precious being able to exercise is.
Somehow, this year it has suddenly occurred to me that I have survived this ordeal and I need to move on, first on the list of things to make right is my weight.
And that's why I'm here
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I have half halfheartedly tried to lose weight for years, but this time I'm really serious and determined because a liver doctor told me he thinks I have fatty liver disease, and recommended I lose weight. No doctor had ever recommended losing weight before. It was a little wake up call.2
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I let myself go for 3 years and gained 10 lbs within that timeframe. My AH HA moment was weighing myself at the beginning of this year to find out I was back at my highest of 160 lbs at 5'0".
I was at my heaviest back in 2011, so when I realized I was back up there 7 years later, I finally told myself to get my eating habits back in check. My lowest was 125 lbs due to being heartbroken back in 2013. I'm around 149, +/- a pound.
My first goal is to get below 145. 130 is my next goal. My UGW is 110.
Good luck to everyone on MFP in achieving your goals!2 -
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I went to my long time doctor for a sinus infection. Before she discussed that and prescribed my antibiotics, she told me that my blood pressure was “uncontrolled” (I take meds) and that my BMI is 31. She said it quietly, and it just at that moment struck me. I went home and brought MyFitnessPal back down from the cloud and read up on the Dash way of eating for hypertension. Since that day in January of this year, I’m down 19 pounds, BMI no longer in the obese category and my blood pressure is averaging 117/68.9
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Going out to dinner for a friends birthday and my fat jeans were WAY too tight; I was extremely uncomfortable all night. (The previous 2 months my dr had put me on a no workout, no walking, no weight on my feet order; I had pretty bad plantar fasciitis. I gained almost 20 lbs.) I was so miserable the night we went out for dinner that the next day I re-started here. In one month I'm down almost 15 lbs, I'm hiking a lot, and feeling so much better about myself.5
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I suffered from histamine attacks and hive breakouts for the last 3 years which left my skin raw from me scratching it all night long. I had enough once January 1st hit. I read that the number 8 means new beginnings so I took 2018 as the year I was going to take my health seriously and get fit once and for all. I now have a burning fire in me that will not be doused. I've lost 30 pounds since the beginning of the year and I have no plans of slowing down. My histamine issues are gone and my skin is healed. I'm eating super clean Paleo/Whole30 and it changed everything. I hired a personal trainer twice a week and workout 5-6 times a week and feel AMAZING! Never going back. This is the year!3
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My Dad is a retired cancer survivor and extremely sedentary. The way he lives his life now makes me really sad and I think that was a big wakeup call for me. He should be celebrating that he beat cancer and enjoying his retirement and pursuing his hobbies, but he sits around all day watching tv and isn't interested in anything. He's diabetic now because of his lifestyle. It breaks my heart to see him acting like he's 100 year old when he's only 65. I love him so much and I'm scared that I'll lose him too early. I take after him in a lot of ways but I don't want my future to be like his. I feel really lucky that I realized this at 30. I wish he'd join mfp with me, but I really can't get him interested in anything.7
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When I got on the scale and it said 299 pounds! That was my moment of oh crap you have to get serious about this weight lost.
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There was a few reasons really. I gained a lot of weight really quickly last summer, and all of my clothes stopped fitting. So I went clothes shopping and realised that I had to get clothes two sizes bigger than usual. I also noticed that I suddenly had stretch marks on my stomach. Then to top it off, I got out of a long-term relationship and was single for the first time in my adult life. All of these things sort of accumulated until I decided to lose weight. My motivation now though is to just be a better version of myself. 1
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I have been yo-yoing on the scaled since I joined back in 2012, back then I was small but just wanted to gain muscle. In the years since then I have gone from 175-150 about 4 times. Right now I am at my heaviest, my realization was that since I was wearing the same work pants everyday and then yoga pants when I got home, I didn't realize that none of my pants fit anymore. I got a new job that doesn't require a uniform, guess what? I had no pants that fit. I squeezed myself in too small pants for about 1.5 months before I really saw it in the mirror. I was about to take a shower and just looked at myself in the mirror, I had no idea who that was. I looked like one of my sisters and they have both had kids.
THAT was when I got serious, I am down only 3lbs but I'm going a slower route this time to prevent injury since I have knee problems. Also changed up my diet any other time, I just added the exercise and it worked. This time I am focusing on my diet--which could also be why the weight loss is slower. But I'm here for the long haul and am completely in it.
Now if only it would stop raining so I could utilize the great outdoors.0 -
I had my gallbladder removed last summer. While it's not caused by being overweight, I just felt overall unhealthy during that time. I guess you could say it was the impetus for starting my weight loss.0
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My family went on a ski trip. First, the ski rental employee looked shocked and said, "YOU'RE going to ski?!?!" And then, once on the mountain, I couldn't keep up with my husband and 3 kids. I kept having to stop to catch my breath. My knees hurt. My legs ached. It wasn't fun. I felt like I was missing out on this family adventure. I stood on that mountainside, looking at my kids and husband waiting for me at the bottom, and decided that this was never going to happen again.8
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When I hit the 190's I knew I just could not let myself hit that 200 mark, also I was starting to burst out of ALL my clothes.
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My Bub was born and I thought i do not want to be that fat dad who can not play with her or even worse be dead at 60 due to something i can control.2
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I've been trying off and on for the past few years to loose weight. Having children did not help, gained and lost, gained and lost. Never ending cycle.
I've just gotten to the point where I have a ton of clothes in my closet but very little that fit me and look okay to wear! I wasn't buying bigger size clothes! Feeling so fat all the time, hate pictures, hate mirrors.
Not to mention not being able to play and run with my kids. Getting winded after a few minutes and needing to sit and rest.
I luckily decided to stop eating so much, cut back on carbs and fats the day before we went grocery shopping. So none of the fattening stuff has been in the house for weeks! I'm on a mission and I'm not stopping til I feel and look 100% better!2 -
It was a number of things:
- When I was sitting on the sideline for the 100th time watching friends and family enjoy an activity that I was too heavy, too self conscious or too unfit to participate in.
- When I started to check the weight capacity of every purchase I made. And particularly when I had to abandon a number of purchases because I was too heavy.
- When I'd be nervous walking places with slightly narrow aisles as I was afraid my girth would accidentally bump something and break it /knock it over / cause a mess
- When I'd go somewhere and have to be uncomfortable because I was wedged into a seat with arms or, if there were no arms on the chair often be on edge the entire time as the seating didn't look equipped to handle someone as heavy as me and felt on the verge of collapse.
- When I was honest with myself about my eating patterns. I was kidding myself with my 'good all week so can indulge on the weekend' mentality as my 'indulge' over those two days was probably close to 5x or 6x my daily maintenance calories
- When my house would end up in a mess because I didn't have the energy to get housework and chores done.
- When I would do everything possible to avoid stairs and then fake a leg injury because I'd be embarrassed taking the elevator or escalator.
- When I sat down and worked out how much money I spent on binges of sweets, pastries, donuts, milkshakes, etc. (I came to about $4000 - $5000 p/a in extra food)
- When even the 'big and tall' section of regular stores wasn't big and tall enough so I had to wear generic clothes from specialist outlets. And when my clothes stopped adding X's (XXL) and just started prefixing the X with a number instead (7XL).
- When I got so large I started to get clumsy. Tripping over things, knocking things over, bumping things and people.
- When I'd sit in the triple-seater train seat and only 1 other person would sit down as there wasn't enough room left for the 3rd person.
- When I would be in pain while flying as the belt would be cutting into my belly because I would flat out refuse to accept a seat extension because that would mean having to move from the exit row and give up the extra leg room
But the final straw, after all that. The thing that broke the camels back and finally got me to take action was when my bathroom scales (which go up to 160kg/350lb) stopped displaying my weight and started showing "Err" because I'd exceeded it's max weight.14 -
MsTracy1972 wrote: »Wearing this spare tire around my waist..ughhh, its such a downer. I feel like I have lost control of my belly. I don't have kids, but I look like I do. Oh, and I am built like my mother, and I dont want to be.
I'm in the same boat! Only my mother is still built like a brick **** house! I was too, before kids (I have 3 but they are grown now). Just want to get back to ME-without the "spare tire." I call it extra meat LOL. When it stopped me from wearing certain things and then doing certain things, and spilling into my life and affecting my confidence was when I knew it was time to really get serious about losing the weight and getting fit-being HEALTHIER.1 -
Me and my ex broke up, and i realised what terrible eating habits she had gotten me into. Just started eating like i used to before we got together and whent down 10 kg over i year. It felt good so i thought, why not keep at it and make it my new years resolution to lose weight this year? But how was the question since i(like most people) fail to keep it. I put a super harsh punishment on myself if i would have failed (not gonna tell you what it is) and now ive gone down 9kg more in 4 months and i actually hit my goal weight today!5
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when my wedding ring wouldn't come off even when i used soap in the shower0
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For me the pushing point was when I went to the doctor twice, about a month apart, and had gained almost 10 lbs in that short time. But even before that I was in the contemplation stage, because the stretch marks which had finally started to fade from last time are coming back. Because my pants are getting tight and I don't want to buy new ones. Because I can see that my face looks different in the mirror. Because I get winded way too easily.
The motivation has been building up for months, but the realization of how quickly I've been gaining really smacked me in the face.3 -
When I bought a dress at the thrift store that fit me well and I felt really good in it...until I realized it was a maternity dress...I've always wanted to lose weight since I was 8 years old, and this is the first time I've felt more committed to eating healthy and focusing on lifestyle changes. I'm making sure I stick within the 2 pound a week loss bracket as closely as possible, when in the past I would go full force and drop 12 pounds in a week. I'm down 9 pounds in 3 weeks and I have so much more energy, I'm actually sleeping more than 4-5 hours a nice which is really improving the quality of my daily life. I know this is the time I will be able to change my life.7
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