What made you want to lose weight?

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Emma1987

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Hello, im new on the forum....but not new to losing weight im afraid.

Since i was a teenager i have struggled to maintain my ideal weight. Now i have decided its time to reach it again!

Im bridesmaid for my cousin at the beginning of december and i would really like to lose weight for it. My dress came last week, and its a pale blue colour with a white sash in the middle. I look absolutely awful. I look like a short stumpy pale girl compared to the other girls :(

What was the final straw in you guys deciding to lose weight?
 
Was gradually gaining weight. I'd hit certain weights like 210...then 215...and hover around there saying "I'll start tomorrow". That excuse kept going on for a long time until I was pushing 240. Finally decided enough is enough and that I should start right then and there before it got any worse.
 
I had always been overweight up until to late 2007. When I was around 190 and went to about 150 in about 4 in a half months. I went from a size 14-16 to a size 6-7. At that time I felt good because I was no longer the fat girl anymore in fact I was smaller than some of my friends, lol They were calling me skinny. But I wasn't exactly 100 percent happy and I didn't feel skinny at all because all the weight that I had lost was mostly in my lower body and the area that I've always wanted to get rid of was my stomach. I've always wanted a flat stomach. And at that time I didn't have it. My legs and thighs were smaller, I no longer had my double chin, I could see my collar bone and most of back fat was gone, and I had went down a few bra cup sizes starting with a Double d to now a C cup but I still had a big flabby ass stomach. I hid it well though because I wore those body suits that suck in you're stomach but I felt bad about it because I knew hiding underneath was the real me and I hated it. I gave up too easily, and too soon. I didn't believe that I could make it or that I would ever get that flat stomach.

I quit working out and within 2 years I've gained all the weight that I lost back plus a extra 30 pounds. Now looking back I feel so stupid because I now know that if I would've kept going I would've eventually lost those extra pounds and gotten to my goal. So now I'm starting over again. I'm at the most depressed state of my life and I'm tired of making excuses and stallng. I figure if I don't than I will continue to gain weight and it will be more for me to get off which will take longer. So I just started October the 8th and so far its going pretty good. And I hope to be back in my size 6-7 in 6 months. We'll see. Then from there I want to start loosing the belly fat for good.
 
I think it was when I saw a picture of myself..... I was shocked. I know I looked at myself in the mirror every morning, but I saw a picture of me standing next to my wife ( she is 5' and 100 lbs) and I was huge in comparison. At that point I knew that I had to change something if I wanted to be with her, and our kids, the rest of our lives ( health reasons.)
 
It was definitely seeing a picture of myself. For some reason the person you see in the mirror always seems much slimmer than what you see in a photograph! I looked like Humpty Dumpty, I felt absolutely disgusted with myself. I used to be curvy but I had a womanly figure - in this picture I just looked like a big ball of fat, LOL! I let myself go too far and now I'm taking control of my life.
 
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