When did you decide to start losing weight?

I was sitting at a big brunch, , weighing in at 230 lbs, stuffing my face and saying I want to lose weight.... We started talking about this one girls friend who signed up for a bootcamp program, I took a bite of a muffin and said I'll try it. Finished the food in front of me, went home and signed up! :P Now, Im 159 lbs, and on the right track for a healthier me!! woo hoo lol

when we took xmas pics of me, hubby and our 2 year old. i decided right then and there to do it. i saw them on december 28th, and i refused to even wait until january 1st, i did it right then and there. went down 30 pounds and 12 pants sizes. maintained it over a year now.

I decided I had had enough when I saw myself in the picture in my profile from last spring. That is the biggest I have ever been and i'm not going back.:happy:

When my Brother in laws youngest son looked at me a couple of years ago and said "you look like you're pregnant"

A photo of myself where I look 7 months pregnant and I have NEVER been pregnant

I saw a sign once that says: It takes 4 weeks for you to notice a difference; 8 weeks for your friends and family to notice a difference, and 12 weeks for the world to notice... Just keep going.

I decided to get in shape a year ago when my mother ended up being hospitalised for fluid aroud her lungs that was caused by a scarred liver due to being over weight. I see what she has to go through every month when she has to go back and get the fluid drained so she can breathe. I don't want to go through that. After spending hundreds of dollars on diffrent weight loss programs/ products i found MFP and decided to give it a try. Since starting this 2 weeks ago i have worked out every day and lost 1.5 lbs it would have taken me a month to lose that on other programs/products. I even feel healthier! :happy:

After avoiding cameras for years. I kept buying clothing that was bigger and bigger...never really noticing the size of the clothes until I went to go get another pair of jeans (since my thighs rubbing together wore holes in them) and I couldn't zip up the 24's... I struggled so hard to make them close, and when they finally did, i couldn't breathe. I still ignored the weight gain, I just wouldn't buy anything bigger than a 24... finally, a year later, after doing the Vagina Monologues for a college class, i didn't see myself in the cast photo. And my friend was like "sweetie, that is you, front and center." and she pointed me out... I was horrified. 352lbs, I was scared. I mean... 48lbs from being 400lbs... only 48lbs... DO YOU ALL KNOW HOW EASY I CAN PUT ON 40LBS?? So yeah, I started two a day workouts. 2x a day five days a week 2 hrs each. I was a college student who worked in a gym (how ironic, right??) So I could afford the time as long as the front desk was covered. Three and a half months later I weighed in at 315. The smallest I got after that was 250, and I was in a size 18... almost in my 16's... I then lost sight of why I wanted to loose weight... I moved here to Hawaii Jan 31st... I weighed in at 328lbs. I am currently at 315 and working on it.

November 2011 I went to Cali to visit my brother, we went to Catalina Island to go zip lining and the walk to the zip line was like a mile long and up and own hills and all that great stuff I was so out of shape and deff lost the race with my brother... that I just decided that it was time to take back my life and live it the way I know I should.

When I went to the doctor. She had me go on the scale and I was HORRIFIED to see I was 206 lbs. I knew I was large, but I never thought I was over 200 lbs.

April 25, 2011...I was sitting at my desk doing my work and I was halfway through a can of Pepsi when I had that epiphany moment. I decided at that point that I was NEVER going to live that way again. A little over a year later, well, see my ticker.

When I realized I was over 230 pounds.

I think it started before that because my pants size kept on going up. I remember being able to fit into a size 14. All the way over to a size 18 W.

I don't think I will never be a size 14...I just don't want to be classfied as obies.

My hormones. I am hypothyroid. I was fairly recently diagnosed, but I think it started 10 years ago, but I didn't have a ton of symptoms. Oer the past 12 months, my period patterns shifted. It got to the point where it was lasting 3 weeks. (And not the previously pleasant long periods I had)

I talked to my doctor, and she said it could be caused by your thyroid or your recent weight gain (I had gained 15 pounds over the previous 2 years after starting a new job). So we decided to try the pill, and weight loss.

I actually hadn't made any serious attempts to lose weight before, but I decided I wanted to be in the best shape of my life before I turned 35. The heaviest point for me was the last 2 years. Prior to that I stayed in about a 10 pound range from age 22-32 -- I was overweight from childhood on, but I don't have any health issues. This January it was time to start. I have about a year to go, and I hoping to hit my goal in the fall. I am about 50% of the way to my goal weight. I think my goal weight should be pretty close to my ideal look as well.

I also decided I wanted to lose a few dress sizes before my family reunion this year. One relative or another told me at the last one, the reason I didn't look like my mom was because I was too heavy. #fail I was sort of crushed, as I always have thought I looked like her. I have another 1.5 sizes or so to go to hit my family reunion goal.

And I was getting a little annoyed at all of the cute clothing that stopped at size 12. Oh and the fact that I could never get cute lingerie sets due to my size combo. (The bras in my size had matching underwear that stopped at 14. And I was more like an 18.)

April 25, 2011...I was sitting at my desk doing my work and I was halfway through a can of Pepsi when I had that epiphany moment. I decided at that point that I was NEVER going to live that way again. A little over a year later, well, see my ticker.

Doctor says, "your cholesterol is a little high" and he had recently lost 20 pounds. Figure if he can do it with his schedule I certainly have no excuse. Lost 35 lbs in 6 months and all the important numbers are now in line. Most exciting is feeling a lot younger. Now weigh in at what I did when I was 20 something. It is awesome. I am still old, but I don't feel that way any more.