When Did you Realize...

JulesInJersey

JulesInJersey

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...that you had to get serious about weight loss?

Forgive me if this has been asked before..I am a new member and have not had a chance to go through many of the posts yet:)

So what was your moment? I actually have two: The first was a picture I saw of myself after a recent vacation..I didn't recognize the woman looking back at me! I was sitting in a restaurant and I couldn't believe how chunky I looked!

The second was during my last physical..my Dr. told me I was going to be put on medication for high blood pressure if I didn't lose 30lbs and try and lower it. Boy, did I feel embarassed.:eek2:

So how about you guys? What made you say 'Enough!'..and get serious about losing weight?
 
I think I realized it when I still couldn't see my feet after my son was born.
He was two months old already and I hadn't lost any weight.
I was feeling tired all of the time and miserable because of how I looked.
Basically I sat around like a fat lump feeling sorry for myself but doing nothing about it.
One day I just decided that I HAD to do something about it because it wasn't going to take care of itself.
It's been tough going, but I'm making progress and am feeling much better.
 
mine was last week. none of my clothes fit. size 18 jeans are too small. i refuse to be any larger than this. i just can't do it. i hate the size i am.
 
well for me it wasn't necessairly a moment per say as more it was an event that tiggered it. My husband and I had been trying to have a second baby when he gets to come home on leave for 2 wks every 6 months. he was able to come home in june and in july i had finally got a positive pregnancy test the second one in 6 months after i lost the first pregnancy in feb. i lost the second one in the middle of july about 2 wks after i got the postive test. This was all after my husband had went back to afghanistan where he's currently at due to being deployed there.

I was really depressed about him having to go back although i knew it was coming since he only got to come home for 2 wks in june. I finally made an appt to talk to my doc about the depression and how much i hated how i felt and looked and he said that part of the reason why i may have lost the 2 pregnancies was because of how overweight I am. I was like ok so its still possible for me to get pregnant but in order to do it healthy wise i need to lose weight... i was like hello heather if you want another baby you need to get your butt up of the couch and start working out and lose this weight. he also gave me lexapro for the depression and phentermine since even with changing my diet and exercising i was still not losing weight. which made the depression even worse.

I have been on the meds for almost a month and feel a ton better since starting them and since i really started kicking things up on 7/16/07 which was less then a week after i had been told by the doc that i wasn't pregnant anymore. I have lost 7.8 lbs since the 16th of july and 10 lbs since the day i seen my doc on 7/12/07
 
For me, it was going through pictures from high school (which was 4 years ago) and looking at pictures of myself now and realizing how much weight i've gained. Also my newly fresh ex boyfriend was a chef, so that's where all the weight came from. But now that he's gone...i want all this extra weight gone too!!!
 
For me it was on holiday last Summer when I realised I could not walk more than 200 yards without the weight crushing me and making me feel in so much pain. These days I walk everywhere.
 
For me it was a loooooong time ago. Every day I told myself I have to lose weight. I feel embarased all the time about my body because all my friends are fit. So everyday I said tomorrow I'll start, tomorrow ill start and so on. Till one day I went on the scale and it was at 278. I was so mad that I let mesilf get this big that I told myself today is when I start. That was June 1st and I havent looked back. This morning I weighed in at 261 so I must be doing something right. hehe.
 
I've had wake up calls for years and never did anything about them. In March I flew to Arizona. I had to struggle to get the seatbelt buckled on my flight. I decided that was it. Still I didn't do anything about it. Since January I lost 20 pounds and didn't even know where they went.

On July 6th I decided that was it. I can't really say what triggered it. I just knew this time I was going to do it. Since then I have lost 18 pounds. That was water weight. One of the meds I take makes me retain water. I am supposed to take Lasix daily but I don't. I spend so much time in the bathroom when I do and I hate that. But now I see the benefits of it. I have been taking it daily like I should. I had forgotten what my ankles and feet looked like. Now I remember. :)

I also own a treadmill. It's crazy for it to sit around and not get used.

I also have made plans for New Years Eve with my guy and I want to look the best I can.
 
I kept using the excuse of the babies. I saw a picture of myself and I look in the mirror daily. I realize that I can't use the excuse of baby anymore (She's turning 2 in September). I started a blog to make myself accountable in a journey with others!!! I'm also running again and I can't keep carrying the extra fat!!!

I guess for me it was a combination of moments all rolled into the last two months!

It's nice to see what motivates everyone. Thank you for sharing and asking the question!

Take care,

Cindy
 
My wake-up call was on May 24. A week earlier, I had found out my dad had cancer. He had gone to the doctor for a follow-up to see what stage the cancer was in, how aggressive it was, etc. We found out that it was moderately aggressive (doctors described it as a 7 out of 10), and was completely operable...

...well, it would have been operable if my father, who at 6'1" weighs about 300 pounds, weren't so obese. On a normal-sized man, they could have gone in with their robotic equipment, gotten the cancer out and everything would have been hunky-dory. But we were told the robotic equipment couldn't get through his fat, and even if it could get through his fat they couldn't do the surgery because there would be a big risk of his fat suffocating him while he was on the operating table.

At this point, I was 225 pounds, a size 20 and not eating healthily AT ALL. I looked at my dad, and I looked at myself, and I just said, "I don't want that to be me." I'm only 24. There's so much I haven't experienced yet that I WANT to experience!! And I knew that if I didn't get the weight off, I would never know what having my dream job felt like. I might get married, but I wouldn't live long enough to see my kids grow up or even get to experience grandkids. I would never get to travel to the exotic European vacation spots I'd fantasized about since taking French in high school.

So the very next day, I made like Kirstie Alley and called Jenny Craig! And now I'm down 18 pounds, and I fully intend to keep on going until I get down to a healthy BMI. I feel like I finally have the right motivation to do all this, so I'm doing it!!!
 
Mine was several things in a row:

1. I am a teacher and I was showing a kindergartner how to make a "D" and said "It stands up tall and has a big, fat belly." He replied, "Like you have a big, fat belly?" What could I say? He was right, and I knew it.

2. Seeing my mom's goddaughter 5 months pregnant and realizing I was larger than her.

3. Having my mom ask me, "Your feet are so fat and puffy, how do you get them into shoes?"

So....I decided the time was long, long gone and I needed to start NOW.
 
People offer up their seat on public transport - they think I am pregnant!!!! And a loud mouthed lady in a shop was talking to me as though I was...SO embarassing.
 
I've wanted to lose weight since i was about 15 but the first time i really meant to do something about it was about 2 years ago when i was in newcastle. THese erally annoying guys kind of invaded our hotel and one went in my room with my friend and i freraked out and couldn't get in. When i finally got in i pushed the door closed and i heard one saying what ones that and the other one said the fat one. That really hurt me, especially because i'm not very fat, theres not a big difference between me an the friend that was there, I'm slimmer in the face and arms and legs she just has a flatter stomach than me.

After that i was giong on holiday and sick of how i looked. I gave up for a while this time i just knew i was unhappy i've never been confident i always feel like i'm not as good as other people and i was spending nights out that last few months being depressed not having fun because i could only think aobu thow i looked.
 
I realized i wanted to get in shape august of 2006, as i was entering college. I hated the way i looked and the way i carried myself. I decided from that point on that i would change small things at first to counter in my weight loss. I really got serious about weight loss in January of 2007 when i looked at myself in the mirror and just felt disgusted. I'm glad to say now with 95 pounds of weight loss that anyone can do this, and that the feeling you get from this accomplishment is great. I still have a small pudge but i am continuing to work very hard on getting rid of it.
 
When i looked at pictures from a bbq and my birthday with my friends.....I couldnt believe how fat I looked, I was so embarassed and I remeber crying because, I couldnt believe that I let myself get that way

..not any more I want to lose 30ibs by my birthday (may) and WANT to take LOTS OF PICTURES lol :party:
 
Mine was a more gradual process...I would see myself in pictures and be horrified at how large I was...last January a friend of mine started an office weight loss competition and I decided to try to lose weight at the same time he did w/o telling anyone about it. After a few weeks, when I saw some success, I began telling people about what I was trying to do. I am accountable to so many people now with what I am doing, I can't fail!

As a side note, the friend who was doing the office weight loss competition is my workout and lifting partner and one of my biggest cheerleaders. Having support though this is so crucial, I definately could not do it alone.
 
when I was 10 and everyone told me I needed to lose weight. at that age, I actually didn't realize it so much myself until others made me aware (and once i was aware, I only got more aware as I got older). what's kept me trying is the fact that I've never succeeded to reach the goal (+ keep it off)
 
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when I had my breast reduction in Nov of 2006, I realized that for years my size 48 F's were covering up a bigger problem....its not like I didnt know I was over weight, I just didnt look "that" bad (and I weighed less than I do now). I had been all excited about being able to buy smaller shirts (they took me down to a full C cup) and I couldnt, my stomach was now taking up what my boobs once did, and because the boobs were smaller than my stomach, I looked about 8 months preggie all the time.

I had to wait for clearance from the doctor to be able to exercise post op, which I got in Jan of 07....when I promptly turned around and got food poisoning and as a result passed out in the bathroom and fell and broke 2 ribs.....great....again having to wait for the dr to tell me I could exercise.

Fast forward to April....dr says ok...exercise....I get pneumonia for 5 weeks, kinda hard to exercise when you cant breathe lol

June...mother in law takes back treadmill and its WAY to hot to walk outside (yeah I know I could have found another way, but by this time Im dealing with a physical problem that it takes us 3 months to figure out its severe hives from new b/c pills lol, thats another story all by itself)

September....get the flu and promptly break my ankle when the flu is over

December, get a treadmill for christmas and decide come hell or highwater IM GOING TO LOSE WEIGHT....the family christmas pictures just put me in tears....I've never weighed this much (and as my mother keeps reminding me, Im almost 40 and its going to be harder to lose the weight if I dont do something NOW)

so thats my sad little pity party lol
 
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