What kicked off your motiviation to lose?

Each person is different. You gotta just make it happen and put you first.
For me personally I just had a rotten year and it was just time but put me first again and make working out and eating right a priority.
I believe you can do it, you just have to be dedicated. Log everything, measure, and don't forget to move!! Remember it didn't take a day to put it on so it's not gonna fall off in a few days either. Good luck & best wishes!

I think what happens for me is I get stressed or just really emotional. Being a single mom who works all week sometimes its easier for me to stop in at Red Robin than go home and cook. But I have friends now who we are doing this together. I get texts from them and we talk about things we can change that help in the long run. I have my "thinspriation" right now too, which is a nice fat picture of myself. I dont want to look like that anymore. I want to be healthy and not just for me but I want my daughter to make the healthy choices too!

I struggle with the same thing every day. I just started reading a book called...skinny chicks dont eat salads. So far it has pretty much told you how the foods work together in your body. and how having the right attitude helps. You may look at 1/2 price and see if they have it. I am only 80 pages in and so far so good.

Oh wow you sound just like me!
What got me back into it (although I've only been eating healthy for 8 days now) is that I got just fed up with being fed up with something I could easily change and better myself.
It also helped that I read about the fit2fat2fit guy and he gives meal plans and stuff out and I have been following this for the past 8 days but its has helped so much! The first few days were tough but I didn't want to give up anymore. I was just gettting annoyed that I would get up to day 2 or day 3 and then give up and stop excersising or start binging or just eat bad things.
I'm now settled and although some days are hard, I think to myself "you've been healthy and good for 8 days, 8 days longer than I have ever been healthy before, don't mess it up now for just a biscuit or a piece of cake" and its worked and I hope it will continue to work.

Also I freaked out when I worked out my BMI and all the health issues that came along with it and I know I don't want to be the fat out of breath person that goes up to the buffet 5 times for more bad stuff that just hurts myself more.

I'd say try and stick with a diet for a week going cold turkey on all the bad foods and see how you feel.
Feel free to add me And good luck

I am right there with you. I have been teaching group exercise for 13 years and I gained 70 pounds with my last pregnancy. I went back to teaching long before I lost any weight. Most people were understanding because they saw me teaching while I was pregnant. I struggled way more to lose the weight after this second pregnancy than the first, so it has taken a few years and I am still working on it. The jumpstart I got was when the gym got a new manager and one night he made a comment to me about how much fatter I was than all the other instructors ( in front of a group of people) and how they come in with cute matching workout outfits and so on. I was completely devastated. I almost ran out of the gym as I tried to not cry. I was so embarassed, ashamed and pissed at the same time. I called the owner and said I was going to quit because I was so embarassed and did not want to show my face again. The owner ended up firing the manager the next day and talked me into coming back. From that point on I got serious about my diet. I was always good at the working out part, but I needed to clean up my eating.

Now I have a few accountability partners that I text daily with, interact on facebook etc. I also have a partner at work and we hold each other accountable for our eating. Everytime I want to cheat, I think about what would Helen say or do.

Stop beating yourself up when you do slide off track. We all are human and it's natural to crave every now and again or to not workout here and there. The problem occurs when you use those moments to fuel the rest of the week. Remind yourself that it's okay, don't think about it again and keep moving forward. It is a lifestyle change and it will take a daily reminder to eventually turn bad habits into good ones. Good luck to you!

I started back on the bandwagon to help with my infertility. I wasn't following too closely then I went for an eye check up. Over the last two month I've had 2 MRIs. The first one to rule out a brain tumor, the second for further diagnostic testing. I have pseudo tumor cerebri. Evidently PTC is getting more common in women of child bearing age that are overweight/obese. So, trying to prevent having to have surgery to remove the additional spinal fluid pressure in my skull I'm back on the bandwagon. I guess sometimes just losing weight can relieve the symptoms.
You can do this! maybe take your measurements and don't weigh yourself. Then remeasure yourself in a month. From a weigh in addict, believe me I know how hard that will be. Just try, it sounds like you aren't giving yourself enough time to see a reaction on the scale.

For me I was just so upset that I couldn't ride the kiddie rides with my kids at the amusement park. I wanted to enjoy life with them and I couldn't. I picked up a book at Wal-mart called "The real skinny on losing it" by Michelle Mckinney Hammond and her words almost reached into my soul and made me wake up and realize so much. She is a christian so it was from a christian perspective, it just really hit me the way she explained things. I didn't follow some of the things in the book but it made me look at my body and how it was supposed to be a gift from God and How I had been abusing myself and the Gift he gave me. There are so many times when I struggle and have bad days still but I just don't give up. U can do this sweetie hang in there

Agreeing with the previous poster, riding the rollercoasters with kids is a huge plus to weight loss. And sitting comfortably on the airplane.