What sparked "I'm going to lose that weight!"

finally admitting to myself i got huge after video taping my body and really looking to see how i abused it. wow! it was the biggest 'OMG' moment of my life! truth hurts, but I'm glad i faced it and am doing something about it.

A few things. Being back at 234 after the holidays (up 10 lbs), having to renew my life insurance in a year and wanting to do the mwr bridge run/walk.

Breast Cancer ... I'd had the surgery and chemo and was sitting with the Radiation Oncologist's office Nutritionist ... when she said, "For you to be able to say that you have done EVERYTHING you can to keep the cancer from returning, you have to lose as much weight as you can and still be healthy." I knew then that the dilly-dallying was over and I was going to get serious about my weight.

I went to Paris. I decided "I look fine" wasn't enough. I want to look "smokin.'"

My upcoming annual physical has been like a bucket of cold water in the face.

Baby weight is no longer an excuse because I gained 19 pounds since last December when the baby was 5 months old.:noway:
I keep seeing myself at the physical trying to explain to the doc why I'm heavier than the day I gave birth & all the excuses & "priorities" I've had in the last year don't hold water & it's embarrassing because I know better and have done better.

19 pounds equals 1.58 pounds a month. Small changes make a big difference for better or worse. I could have made small changes and carved out enough time to lose .5 pound a week & that would have left me at around 154 instead of 191.

In sum, thinking about trying to justify my current weight makes me realize that there is no justification.

Sick of seeing how I looked naked. True story.

(Plus, I knew I had the determination, and I wanted to be healthy. After all, we're ALL worth it.)
Just gotta DOOOOO IT!

Well, I have a few reasons... I have been over-weight most of my life. At 6', all of the basketball moms would always say "It's because you're so tall!" Granted, that SHOULD be the high-end of my weight, I took it in a really awkward way. And thought I could use this as an excuse. Well, I was wrong. I was supposed to have died at the age of 12. I was born with a hole in my heart, and luckily, they had found it and were able to fix it. Another thing I could use as an excuse. "Oh, I was supposed to have been dead, so why not live and eat what I want!" Also, a wrong answer. My average high school weight had been 240. I hadn't stepped on a scale in oh, say about 2 years. I gained nearly 40 pounds. When that scale said I was only about 10-15 pounds from 300, it REALLY woke me up. I am alive now because of the heart surgery, and I have been killing my heart and body. I don't want to just be alive, I want to LIVE! I want to know what it's like to go to a beach or pool in a two-piece. I want to be able to sunbathe and not worry about if anyone is looking. There was also a picture I found on Pinterest.com that I had come across. It was a body scan of a 240lb woman, and a 130lb woman. I realized the enlarge heart, fat pockets around the brain, knees connecting, parts of bone were hidden by fat. And I decided that it's over. It's done. I am not going to sit around and let food and my weight consume me. And if that brings new attitude, and no boyfriend, then you know what, as much I would hate to say it, then that's just how it's going to be. I have hopes that my bone structure will allow me to be more Kim Kardashian, but I am very doubtful. My younger brother is the only thin one in the family, and he is a bean pole. I am hoping for dear life I don't get to bean pole. But I think as long as I do strength training, I will build my muscle and avoid getting that super tiny.

when i realised it was no longer appropriate for me to wear bikinis and i had to stick to tankinis... may not seem like such a big deal but i live in Trinidad and go to school in Barbados.. beach going is a HUGE thing here. now i just go and don't even go in the water.

When my daughter said "Who ever loves them self raise your hand" I couldn't raise my hand because I don't love myself the way I am right now. And seeing that scale hit a number I never wanted to see made me want it even more.

My husband. He's lost 80 pounds and looks amazing. I thought, if he can do it, I can do it! It helps to have that support system.

I was too fat and heavy for my poor body to carry around and it was increasing the pain I was suffering. I continued eating the same foods just less of them and at different times of the day, and I started exercising four times a week.

Five months later I'm 26lbs lighter and much stronger. I'm about half way through so I still have a little way to go, but seeing the difference losing two stone has made both looking at myself and how much stronger I am is enough to make me lose the rest.

Decided to do it after we were told that our Musical for our final year would be energetic and we'd need to be fit.

Of all the diets out there, I didn't really adhere to one. Then I was unemployed and needing to eat on the cheap. I tried to find the cheapest meal that was also nutritious. Vegetable are where it's at. Then it became a challenge to stick with the veggies minus the meat. I fit, better, in my pants and then good people on this site and in the community started to notice stuff I was not seeing. I also exercise regularly but couldn't afford the gym membership. MFP people said, "raise your heart rate" and do zumba - so I did.
Now I'm hooked.

I had a article written about my cake decorating-complete with photos- in a local magazine..I was horrified when I saw the pics, and I never even wanted to read what they wrote! I knew I was fat, but I didn't see HOW FAT I actually was until it was staring me in the face! I'm now close to where I weighed 6 years ago, and it feels great! I still have 20 lbs to go, but the people here make me want to face the day going strong! Thank you MFP!!!

I gained weight and it became a 'hard' thing to straighten my hair everyday, it would wear my arms out. I want to fix my hair again AND wear MY shirts and not my boyfriends.

My dad has Diabetes, High blood pressure and high cholesterol

I recently been diagnosed with social anxiety, and I believe it's because of my large weight gain. I feel like everyone is staring at me and judging me.

I used to take TONS of pictures with family or of special events. Now I hide from the camera.

Before I gained weight I wore a 34 B, which I wasn't the smallest then, but it went up to a 40 D. I want my regular size back.

I just want to get healthy and get the OLD ME back and ditch the horrible habits that I created in the past three years.