Why did you come to the conclusion to lose weight?

When I sat on the floor I couldn't get up by myself.

The physical comforts of being lighter, clothes lay more comfortably, body moves more easily, the expenses of gaining and self esteem.

Two times but the same reason - health.

First time - I was at my highest weight in the 260's at age 24. I had a bad reaction to medication which made my blood pressure increase to 180/110. One of my grandfathers died in his early 40's from a heart attack and that number scared me. I eventually lost 150 pounds.

Second time - When everything shut down due to the pandemic, I didn't handle that very well. My husband and I usually have a lot of plans - concerts, games, vacations, day trips - all of that was closed or cancelled. I sat around being depressed and feeling sorry for myself. I would go to bed at night and hope I didn't wake up. I let myself get very sedentary. Also, I had to work from home which meant I could cook for every meal. I'm a great cook and overeating has always been my number one problem.

When everything opened back up and I went back to in-person work, I still kept overeating and being sedentary as it had become a lifestyle by then. I gained 40 pounds altogether. I had pre-diabetic test results last year, which you'd think would have been a wake-up call, but it wasn't. I had the official T2D diagnosis this year and that finally snapped me back into reality.

I lost those 40 pounds. I'm hoping there won't have to be a third time.

One of the first times was realising I was 20kg heavier than a pregnant woman at my school who was the same height as me, and she was like 8 months along. That was mortifying.

Well I have seen and read everything here before and I agree with most of them that at a certain point to be fat is not the new wave I am 74 years and a high profile person not to say also a father of two kids and four grandkids I had a smoking life of 50 years and using alcohol more than was good for me for about 40 years I stopped it 14 years ago from that moment old I was getting more and more weight at that moment I decided to go down again and try to fit in those clothes I used to wear before I quit smoking and drinking now that's why I am here on this site it's difficult to learn the program I do my best to understand as much as possible and it goes in the right way I lost one kilo in about 1 week well let's see what in here for me bye bye

My final straw was when I recently became single and had nothing better to do than to just walk for hours.
Once I started losing the weight I realised my body wasn't hurting me as much anymore! (I'm only 5ft 😅). 2nd time round was after having my child.

I didn't want to be the overweight mum, so really tried to push it and now I'm still on my weightloss journey!
Haven't even reached 60kg again which is great! But still not where I want to be!

Went from 72kg back in 2013 to now 55kg.

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For me, it has always been about being healthier whils trying to manage long term health conditions. On & off yo - yo dieting trying to manage the fatigue that comes with the conditins, work & bring up a family, & coping my mechanisms have resulted in a developed, unhealthy relationship with food…has only taken me 30 years to work this out & stiil learning.😬🙄🥴

Further health scare 2023 & hopefully, finally (🤞) starting to get my *kitten* together.
Battlein a flare of my autoimmune diseases at the moment, but bit more 40 lbs now lost … only another 40 to go to healthy range goal! 🤗

I can totally relate.

I hurt. Someone said, if your body hurts, lose weight. Less body, less body pain.