Why did you guys end up here?

ive always ate bad my whole life. When i was 5 my parents got divorced. When I went to my dads it was fast food every meal followed by dessert. Also, we lived with my grandma and every day after school I had a chicken nugget meal from mcdonalds waiting for me. I was not over weight until I got to highschool. The biggest i got was 155 so i was only five lbs overweight. ( Im 5'5"). I taught dance and took dance classes since i was three and was on the school dance team so I was able to eat what I wanted and pretty much maintain my weight.
Then I joined a dancing team for hockey games. They were tough on weight so I joined a place and after getting to 160 i got back down to 143 and was in good shape. I was weight lifting an hour and a half four days a week.
Then it all came crashing down. I decided to move for school. I stopped dancing, stopped teaching dance, had a fall out at the place i was working out so I stopped working out all together.
Within 4-5 months, not really sure, I went from 142 to 185.
This march I finally found the strength to join this sight. Im engaged and I want to be proud to walk down the aisle not ashamed of my body. Im tired of not going out and doing things because I am ashamed of what I look like. I want to feel good about myself, not cry every time I look in the mirror. So here I am ready to change

Started March 2012 @ 202lbs
Today - 182
Goal Weight - 145

( sorry if grammar is bad do not have time to go over this lol)

I was tired of slowly watching my clothes get tighter, hiding my terrible relationship with food, and generally feeling like *kitten*. I've been at it for over two months now, and I feel much better :-)

I barely fit into the chairs of the fairground rides at Funderland at Christmas.. lol that did it for me

Lack of self control

I am too lazy to look for anything better

Half the weight from my 2 kids but afterwards I had a birthcontrol, an IUD I gained 14 pounds while on that and worked out constantly and the weight would not budge.

Ended up here b/c I saw how heavy I looked in pictures and was shocked, I had lack of energy and also I wanted to be fast in my races again! Finally starting to regain control of my life!

It started out as a weight challenge at work, the 1st place winner with the highest amount of weight in percentage will win $275. Now it is because I fill so dang good, can actually walk up stairs without having to stop at middle landing to rest. Any reason is a good reason LOL

From the time I was about 10 to the time I hit puberty I was over weight, from my teenage years on up I was over weight but held it ok. I ended up here when I became uncomfortable in my skin. I heard a lot of great things about this place. For the most part I love this place. If I would have listened to my family while growing up, I would have never had to fine this place. Poor choices, no working out, thinking I wasn't as big as I was till I seen a photo. That's pretty much how I ended up here.

I have 5 sibling, 4 kids, 5 grandkis, more cousins, aunts and uncles than I can count. We all get together for EVERYTHING and, it always involves food.

A year after I had my son I had not lost all of the baby weight. I was walking through the airport when I overheard a TSA agent talking about this really pretty black girl. I looked up honestly expecting that they were talking about me. (Yes I am that vain). Their backs were to me. When they turned around to check my bag they barely noticed me. :sad:

I had to get back to being the subject of such conversations. However my friends on MFP are the coolest most awesome people. And THEY have inspred me to worry less about looks and more about being healthy.

But I still want to be hot!

I ended up here due to the fact that my husband became heavily involved in gaming around 7 years ago and eventually I took the "if you can't beat 'em join 'em" attitude. Thankfully his gaming days are over more or less but becoming so inactive meant the weight piled on. Hubby is still as slim as he was when he started *sigh*.

Came across MFP after I was doing a clearout of my wardrobes and it suddenly dawned on me that I was clearing out the wrong clothes so I vowed there and then that the next clearout I had it would be all my fat clothes going to the charity shops.

I initially was only looking for an online diary to keep track of what I was eating but found SO much more.

Because I was fat, same as most people.

When I was 15, I had a terrible self image and was overweight (weighed about 160 and was 5'6") so I began starving myself to lose weight. Eating a top end of 300 calories a day, I lost almost 60 lbs in 3 months (was a size 2 and weighed about 103) and then my friends really started noticing that something was wrong with me. When I was 16, they had to talk to my mom and convince her I needed help so she finally sent me to a therapist, which made me feel even worse. Eventually, I realized I had a problem with needing control and I used that control to not eat. I was also manic depressive. I started letting go and stayed at a low, but healthy 115 for 2 years. Then I went to college. Mentally I felt better, but physically I began to put on weight. I slowly watched the number on the scale creep up, but it took awhile as I always was moving. I was too scared to limit my calories at the risk of relapsing. Then when I was 21, I got a job working at tech support and sat in a chair for 9 hours a day. I also started drinking soda and eating junk food because my shift was 4pm-1am. I put on about 20 lbs in the 4 months I worked at that job. When I saw pictures of myself in Texas visiting my brother, I realized how much I had let myself go and joined the site. I did really well for about 4 months, but had to move back home because we couldn't afford the city anymore. Living in my hometown with my mom, all those original self esteem problems came right back and I gained back what I'd lost in 4 months. I've held steady, but now that my husband is at BMT for the Air Force and getting in shape, I figured I should do the same so we can share in a healthier lifestyle! I am committed to sticking it to it this time as nothing scares me more than seeing 200 on that scale.

I feel safer with MFP because I can see how many calories I'm eating and know that I'm eating enough to fuel my body and not just to survive.

Because I was fat, same as most people.

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Ive had my self esteem knocked badly but realise that nothing will change the opinion of other people, but i CAN go back to being happy with me (which i always was).
Im here for all the wrong reasons I guess but at least Im honest, vanity mainly. Im used to being slim and don't want to lose that.
So its severe loss of self esteem that I need to regain even if only so I can say 'up yours'!