When Was Your First Time?

When I set off the doctor's office counseling alarms after weighing in at 302 back in December. That "3" was a zinger and I surrendered to the truth that restaurant booths were not getting smaller. Looking forward to Friday's visit with the doctor. Not too often you get to say that.

I've always been somewhere between the high end of normal, and up to 10-15kg overweight (at my worst I stayed away from the scales), so I've always felt fat with the exception of the last couple of years.

About three years ago I was sharing a house with a family and stepped on their new scales, and I was just shy of 90kg. I was horrified because I realised how close I had been to being in the 90's, and therefore "almost 100kg". So I lost 10kg (with the motivation of a trip to Thailand to keep me going) and ended up being the lightest I had ever been (but still not slim).

Since then, I have had some health and personal problems, and the weight has crept back on. I realised that I could only fit - and by "fit" I mean "could juuuuust do the button up but could barely move in the pants" - into one pair of my "skinny" pants (which were my back-up ones that I never wore because they were too big, not to mention ugly) and that I was actively choosing to wear skirts and stretchy things and avoiding my tighter clothes so I didn't have to deal with it. And then I saw a photo of myself in bathers at the beach that my future sister in law (heh. Or maybe not, the way things are going...) took at Easter, and I knew it was time to do something about it.

So I'm on my way to getting fit for my 30th birthday. Wish me luck!

i have been pretty oblivious to my weight until an ex-colleague of mine posted this picture (see my profile picture on the left side) on facebook and she tagged me. and i was like. "WTF?"

People at work and people at my convenience shop started asking if I was pregnant. Unfortunately, all my weight hits my middle first then disperses to other area. It was embarrassing. However, I got over it and continued to gain and go off and on diets until this past September when no matter what I keep going.

After my college graduation my graduation photos left me both proud and disgusted.

I was at my heaviest ever at 505lb's.

Was in heavy denial and even admitted to myself the world may be better off if I wasn't around thought about death a couple of times too.

Thank God though I found a love for myself, the love of my family, friends and a desire to live last december 2011 and now I am on my way to great health!

i often think about this too.. i wish i had started sooner.. but i always got whatever dude i wanted.. no one ever said anything. so i thought it was all in my head. now that i look back at pictures i was heavy but curvy..

so all in all, it was really down to wanting to wear a bikini.. and wondered if i could, the way i looked.. the answer was no. so i thought i would do something about it.. then 55lbs later i wonder where all the weight is falling from.. now i'm on a roll i figure i'll keep going since i haven't got the body i imagined i would have 50lbs later.

It was from a doctor's visit. I was weighed on the scale and was surprised by how much I weighed (we didn't own a scale at the time). I went into the doctor's office and as I watched the nurse input my weight and blood pressure, I saw how my weight had steadily grown over the years from my appointments. It was really the point where I said "If I keep carrying on as I am now, that number is just going to keep growing and growing." It's sort of a comfort too. I could have never had that epiphany and would later have a bigger weight problem than I do now. But I'm fixing things before I could be classified as obese and getting myself back in the healthy range for my height and age.

After christmas I was sick for a week. Could not eat anything. I dont know if it was from all the bad food i had eaten or a stomach bug or what. I got to feeling better and tried to eat some of the foods i was eating before and it made me sick again. Thats when I realized I was making myself sick by eating crap. Had to do something to change it. I was having gall bladder attacks so bad and I would not go to the doctor due to no insurance. I have not had a single attack since I started eating better and exercising!

Seeing my school ID picture (taken 3 years ago at the beginning of my freshman year) compared to my newest driver's license photo (taken last year). Both show just my face but it's a HUGE difference

I noticed my weight along time ago, but was just too lazy to do anything about it. I had people asking if I was pregnant and rumors saying I was pregnant at a factory I used to work at in the summer. Obviously the people were immature, but it still hurt. My weight fluctuated from the highest 155 (may have been even been 160) to 147lbs. But I would always go off the diet after a few weeks. Last summer I saw a picture of myself with my cousin and sister, and my sister had been pregnant the year before, without any sign, and I looked pregnant even though I never have been.

Ughh....anyways...I made my new years resolution to lose weight and I've stuck with it. I slowed down at times, but I've been able to maintain my weight. I'm hoping to reach some of my goals this summer!

I've never been really skinny... least I've weighed as an adult is 145, but I tend to hover around 155.

After my divorce, I got kind of depressed and let my weight get up to 164 (way too much for me at 5'3").

The other day I was looking in the mirror, hating what I saw, and just decided (even though it sounds a bit pathetic)... if I'm going to be sad and lonely, I don't need to feel fat and ugly, too.

Just my own opinion of me, but it was the kick in the butt I needed.

For me it wasnt clothes or running into doors stuff like that.....nothing quite clicks you into gear (well for me anywaythan having your Doctor tell you that youd be dead by 45 if you keep up your current lifestyle.

I wish I had your DR! Instead I had a dr. who was similar to my build and weight, who just told me that losing 20lbs would be good, but I was fine the way I was........ even with high cardiac markers (showing the probability of future heart problems) all at the age of 29! Seriously! If she had told me 4yrs ago I'd be dead by 45 I wouldn't be here now, I'd be where I'm on my way to

When I saw myself in bikini photos on a camping trip with girlfriends.

I thought I looked like my slim friends. I had a small waist but my legs and arms were huge.
I regret getting rid of those photos. They would have been awesome "Before" shots.

When my daughter responded to my comment about a picture where I said I "looked" really fat. :noway: She said (only because she loves me), "Maybe it's the outfit you have on." Sweet, but absolutely not true! I'm not looking back - ever again.

When I walked by a mirror and glanced at it then kept walking and stopped and turned and said wait WTH was that me no way and walked back to it yup sad day but in a good way now