Maybe it wasn't one exact moment for you but what were the things that led you to finally say enough is enough and to get serious about your health and try to lose the weight?
For me, I was driving aimlessly looking for something to pick up for lunch.
I thought mexican? Nah. I just had that the other day, Cheeseburgers nah, I had that last night, chicken nuggets? Nah going to have those for dinner. I realized in that moment that the even if I gave myself ZERO restrictions about what i could eat that still nothing sounded good because I ate all of those things with way too much regularity.
Going out to lunch wasn't special, it was just what I did every day and I realized how unhealthy and how much of a pattern it had become. After that, I restarted using MFP and started to make better choices.
What was your moment?
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I couldn't stand it anymore. I googled weight loss, found this app, and never looked back.
That job was a job I will call my dream job till the end- I never would have left if it wasn't closing- however I painfully neglected myself to the point I broke every fitness and good eating habit I had pre that job and gained back every pound I fought to shed before getting said dream job.
Now I just want to find balance and love myself again (and have 1 less chin in photos
1) I saw a picture of myself that I took at Disney Christmas of 2011 and I came face to face with the truth. I'd felt super cute, and I was to the people that mattered, but I wasn't healthy.
2) At about the same time I noticed that a FB friend had significantly slimmed down. Her progress was slow, over the whole of 2011, that I'd not noticed until that Christmas. I went through her pictures and thought, wow, she's awesome! I could do this.
So my husband and I started the process of getting healthy. I started going to the gym... but it wasn't until another friend pointed me to myfitnesspal in the middle of January 2012 that it clicked. And since then, I've lost 105 pounds and I'm still working on the last 15-20 (they are v. slow). I've taken breaks here and there, but it's now eight years and I've kept most of the weight off minus a 20lb re-gain due to health issues, but I've since lost that.
I'd always been unhappy with my weight since I had issues in college, but it wasn't until 2012 that I realized that I had the power to do something about it and all it required was an understanding of food. I'm not a huge foodie (I dislike most food, but what I did like was all calorie-dense or liquid calories -- hello Starbucks Venti frapps!), so managing my food was easy to do once I knew *what* to do.
Knowledge is power and key to harnessing your own destiny.
(And "take back control" is exactly what I decided to do.)
It was around this time that I had started to see a new psychologist for depression. I thought I was going to spend my time talking about the usual stuff therapy always been about for me - abuse and complex trauma - but she started digging at stuff I hadn't looked at in therapy before. She gradually over a few months brought the conversation around to my weight. I have a better understanding of why I have gained so much and why when I start to lose a lot of weight I always sabotage it. I had no idea how screwed up the reasons that I have allowed my weight to get so bad were. She has helped me realise that I have an eating disorder, but that she says it's secondary to all the other stuff in my head. And by dealing with this other stuff while bringing my weight and eating into the conversation I've had some lightbulb moments and I'm back losing weight. There's a long way to go till I get to a healthy weight. It's slow and I sometimes mess up but this time I have some hope that I'll actually get there.
This time I didn't have a moment. I had given up. I was going to need a huge casket and a piece of machinery as a pall bearer.
I accidentally created a calorie deficit and started losing weight. When I realized what was happening my whole attitude towards weight loss shifted from something that I force to happen to something I can just allow to happen. I started going back over all my other past failures, made up some initial rules for myself, and here I am over 200 pounds lighter and a few pounds away from starting to watch for a place to stop and call it an initial goal weight.