When did you decide to start losing weight?

When its was becoming a chore to get up a flight of stairs............

I had a lot of breaking points but never acted on them until one day I got on the scale and it said 179. I decided that I was never, ever going to go into the 180's! At about that same time I also realized, after reading the tag on my swimsuit, that I had worn a maternity swimsuit all last summer and I wasn't pregnant. I was shocked! That was enough to get me off my *kitten* and start doing something about it.

A member of my family told me that i looked puffy and swollen, and that i looked like if you stuck a pin in me i might pop. It really stung at the time. She told me later that she should have picked different words and that she regretted those words as soon as she said them....she felt like i looked unhealthy and was worried about me.

After a few days of feeling sad, ugly, and disgusting i decided to join the gym that i knew had members that were my friends/neighbors.
I started with 10 minutes of treadmill and a few light weights and went from there.

I was not angry about what she said, in fact i owe her thanks.

Jules:flowerforyou:

I think I always needed to loose weight but I never thought I deserved it. My sister was a beauty queen. Growing up, she was the beautiful one and I was... well, I'm not totally sure what I was. After a while I hid from photos, outtings, friends, family, realtionships, the scale and eventually my life. I felt like every decision I made was wrong. I felt like a failure. So why even try?! What do they call it?! A self-fulfilling prophecy?! I ate because I was upset and I was upset cause I ate. I was depressed, unhealthy, anti-social... unhappy.

I probably would've stayed this way the rest of my life except one day I met a man who looks at me like I'm the most beautiful woman he has ever seen in the world. I want to deserve that look.

So it's slow to go but now I have a reason to get up in the morning and loose the weight... He is absolutely worth it!
And, thanks to him, I finally know that I am too!

I was 5 weeks post partum and still wearing yoga pants and maternity jeans. I had to go back to work in 4 weeks and I had Never been this big. In fact I was about 35 pounds bigger than the biggest I had ever been 5 weeks post partum (I had gained 48 pounds while prenant). I work in an office and I was not going to buy a whole new wardrobe.

My motivation was a friend who called me "huge" and would say "I just can't believe how big you are" while I was pregnant and "now you know how it feels" since she gained a lot of weight during her pregnancy when I always tried to make her feel good during her pregnancy. I was so afraid to see her after the baby was born and her tell me how hard it was going to be for me to lose the weight and then talk about how fat I was, I was bound and determined to lose the weight just so I wouldn't be riduculed by her. I thought of her words a lot while working out. Made me work harder.

Once I had some time to think about our friendship I realized she wasn't a true friend and we are no longer friends for more than just the reason above obviously. So I guess if she Facebook stalks me (which I know she will) she will see that I have lost the weight and then some and it didn't take me forever either. Hahaha!

My low point was kinda building....I have been avoiding mirrors like the plague and that also goes for photos. My 5 year old daughter asked me why I didn't want to get my picture taken with her. How do you explain that to a 5 year old :frown: Plus I was also just tired of never being able to wear any of my cloths anymore. I'm practically living in scrubs, tee shirts and jeans.

When I went back to Uni last fall. I was already several years older than the average college student and being cubby just made me more self conscious and made me feel like I stuck out. I'd much rather people be checking me out because I'm attractive than "hey check out the old fat loser that's back in school" ...

The pictures of my grandaughter's christening. There I was standing next to my slim husband, trying to hide behind a 10 pound baby. I joined Curves the next month.

It happened to me twice. Some point early last year I stepped on the scale and was 275, I was mortified! Joined weightwatchers and dropped about 15 lbs in three months. Stopped weight watchers and gained about 5lns back, then in October of last year I stepped on the scale again. 275! I couldn't believe it and just had to do something about it!

Today I can happily say I am down 47lbs and currently at 228lbs. Haven't been this weight since middle school and I'm almost 24.

Still have 53lbs till goal. But damn am I happy with my progress.

It's weird people calling me mr skinny!

It was a New Year's Resolution for me in January 2011. I can't explain what made that year different to every other year it's been a resolution, but something clicked in my mind and made me think that I have to do this for myself or I'm not going to be living the life I truly want to live.

So, I started running, stopped eating junk. A year and 4 months on, and 6 and a half stone down, I think I can safely say I've cracked it!

I broke up with my boyfriend in 2008. He was obese and didn't want to marry me even after 4 years relationship. He decided to marry a slim girl instead. He made me feel disgusted with my self and finally really realize that even a fat man wants to marry his fantasy girl. I have always been rejected by the man I like.

Also I wanted to prove to the world that I wasn't lazy, out of control and I had a lot of anger in me. Plus I had haemorrhoids and almost daily migraines due to being overweight most of my life.

I did lose weight up to 33kg. I had a really good life. I get to choose who I want to be with. I had my haemorrhoids removed via surgery, my migraine is only 1-2 per month. I am calmer now.

But I am back here now because I gained about 15kg back. So I just need to exercise again.