Why did you come to the conclusion to lose weight?

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  • berky06
    berky06 Posts: 210 Member
    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!
  • letsresthere
    letsresthere Posts: 3 Member
    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.
  • dunkind45
    dunkind45 Posts: 110 Member
    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.
  • lisabobczuk
    lisabobczuk Posts: 115 Member
    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.
  • peachvine29
    peachvine29 Posts: 400 Member
    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.
  • genchiyu
    genchiyu Posts: 244 Member
    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!
  • HDBKLM
    HDBKLM Posts: 466 Member
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  • ColoradoBringItOn
    ColoradoBringItOn Posts: 132 Member
    edited April 2018
    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!
  • londell16
    londell16 Posts: 19 Member
    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.
  • Cirque95
    Cirque95 Posts: 22 Member
    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. :smile:
  • AlainaKayy
    AlainaKayy Posts: 206 Member
    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.
  • shenanigans_
    shenanigans_ Posts: 457 Member
    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.
  • BattyKnitter
    BattyKnitter Posts: 503 Member
    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.
  • lukeruss
    lukeruss Posts: 34 Member
    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.
  • QueenieB76
    QueenieB76 Posts: 12 Member
    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!
  • JaiNicole7
    JaiNicole7 Posts: 88 Member
    edited April 2018
    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. :wink:

    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.
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  • chickpea75
    chickpea75 Posts: 3 Member
    when my wedding ring wouldn't come off even when i used soap in the shower
  • Elania21
    Elania21 Posts: 1 Member
    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.