When Did you Realize...

early october 2007 I realized i need to try different approach in loosing weight. Before, when I lost 40lbs before gaining it all back, I went to gym 6 times a week but my eating habits were totally wrong. So in October I decided to try actual dieting with eating right and healthy food. Ticker on the bottom shows my progress so far. I haven't gone to gym yet while dieting, just sometimes I would take a 30min walk, maybe 2-3 times in a week.
 
My ephiphany was not due to being heavy, but for health reasons. I had gall bladder pain, and they found a polyp, they wanted to operate. During the time my gall bladder was acting up, my GI tract was a mess. The doctors said they were not related to one another and they want to give me an edoscopy and a colonoscopy which I go for in Feb. I felt awful, my stomach hurt all the time and I couldn't keep anything in.

I started reading certain books about vegetarianism. I used to be a vegetarian, but I got away from it. Anyway, during the readings I learned a lot about what being overweight can do to you. Not to mention I already have high cholesterol.

I knew I was overweight, but I figured, I was only a little overweight. In 15 years I had gained 60 lbs. It was gradual and I didn't notice. When the scale read 200 I almost died. I'd never been that heavy before.

And here I am.
 
The day I saw myself in pictures and then saw pictures from years before.....wasn't even funny how much I had gained :(
 
I went to try on wedding dresses, and my mom took pictures of me in every one. when I got home and looked at them I knew i either needed to lose weight, or be doomed to look at wedding pictures that I am ashamed of for the rest of my life.
 
I am certain I have posted this once before but I realized when I couldn't fit into any of the new pants I bought in October that it was time to get back on the weight loss wagon and seriously stick to it! I have done it before and dang it I can do it again!
 
I know exactly when I realized!

It was the day after a night of partying last year. I was hungover and felt awful, and regretted the night before. I went on facebook and saw some photos from the night before and I saw one of me.

I WAS FAT!

It was a shock to me. I remember I went and looked in the mirror. Looked at the sizes of my clothes. I was much bigger then ever before and didn't even realize it. I was 235 at the time. Now I'm 170 / 175. I love it..
 
for years my family has said that I was fat I just blew it off thinking I am not fat Im just a large person then the last couple of years I have hated looking at pictures of my self and I found myself sinking more and more in to depression I tried several things eating less ended up gaining more excercising after a month did not loose weight!got discouraged and quit. In july my best friend of 20 yrs who weighed near 400 lbs started a life change with the help of a doctor and medication and she started dropping lbs her high blood pressure has almost gone away completely and she is looking great I was so happy for her I started thinkin I am going to be 30 and weigh 220 lbs my friend Who has the same name as me except every one puts big in front of it because she has always been the larger one was going to be my size soon and I am going to be known as the big one I have smaller then her since middle school I decided to try the program that she is on and since December 2007 I have gone from a size 18 to a size 14 and gone from 220 to 188 I plan on loosing till I am a size 9 or a 7 cant decide I just want to look good and feel good and I will never ever be that large again It feels so good to be achieving my goal I told myself that Starting december I was going to be under 200 lbs by jan and I was :hurray: I am happy and will keep on for the rest of my life
 
When I looked dead on straight at the mirror it didnt appear bad, but as I turned to the side my stomach would come over the front of my belt and thats when I said okay... its gotta go!!!!!!!!
 
I realised when I saw some awful pictures of me at a party. I was just shocked by how fat my face looked and how tree-trunkish my thighs were. Then I measured my thighs and realised they were the same measurement that my waist used to be!!
 
When the doctor of a smalltown practice told me I had one foot in the grave, I knew I had to lose weight. I was on vacation and my TMJ acted up to the point of my being bed-ridden. My mother suggested we go to the doctor and after diagnosing me with TMJ, he ticked off on his fingers the obesitiy related diseases I was at risk for because my blood pressure was sky-high. I was 290 pounds at that time and only fourteen years old. He all but told me I was going to be dead by the time I was the age I am now if I didn't start taking care of myself. I freaked out and as soon as I got home, I vowed I was going to change my life. So, I became active and started eating alot less. From the age of 15-16, personal problems spiralled me into a depression and I gained twenty pounds back. Thankfully, after I decided I was strong enough to deal with life's curveballs, I finally decided to go all the way. I became active, and started moderating again what I ate and so far, it's worked wonders. I've lost a whole person and I'm going for that last ten-fifteen pounds.
 
When doc was like ....

"We've got a serious promblem here....your bloodpressure is 164/107 and your triglyercides are at 309. Your cholesterol isn't good either and I can just recommend as your doctor, as a friend....you need to loose weight. -Now."

Sheesh...I knew my clothes didn't find anymore, but dang!
I had no idea all that was going on.
It's amazing how we can be so blind about our weight.
 
It was about a year ago when I weighed 250+. I had some crappy taco thing from Taco Bell and got food poisoning. Lost like 5 pounds in a couple days and decided to make a change in my crappy diet and weight.
 
When my friends from work got together and asked me to join them in a weight loss challenge. I weighed myself for the first time in 2 years. 262lbs! At that moment I knew I had to do something. That was at the end of January. By the last week of February I had lost 10lbs (after some slip ups). I decided to join Jenny Craig and Curves shortly there after. I'm down 4.4 lbs and I'm looking forward to the summer now :)
 
I am a (hopefully former) yo-yo dieter. When I realized that the most of the clothes I owned were too tight and extremely uncomfortable, I knew it was time for a change. While looking through my closets for clothes that would fit, I realized I had clothes from a size 10 through a size 16. I had kept clothes in all sizes so no matter what yo-yo weight I was, something fit...but the biggest ones no longer fit.

I also had my eyes opened...quite widely, by a picture of me from November 2007's Marines ball. I thought I looked great that night...but my pictures told another story. In fact, while looking through my pictures, my obese sister told me that I was starting to look like our obese mother. YIKES!

I'm happy to say I've lost 20.6 lbs since January 7, 2008, and as I drop sizes, I am THROWING AWAY (actually gave them to Goodwill) my "fat clothes" so that crutch is no longer there for me. In fact, I have some size 12's due for a trip to Goodwill.
 
When my son's friend called me fat at a football practice. I'd never been called fat before, I'd always been a skinny twig. It hurt to hear that for the first time in my life, but I'm sure my son didn't feel too good hearing someone call his dad fat. That's what did it (even though I'd known in the back of my mind for quite awhile).
 
The first time.. being 278 and not having knuckles really clued me in.. lol

This time, I just know I need to get back to where I was before the baby, a size 10. It was wonderful going from 22 to 10, going shopping, just feeling pretty again. I don't like to be "lost" in my weight. Being thinner isn't everything, but it brings me much more happiness.
 
when i realized that i outweighed my boyfriend by 40lbs.
and then when i went home to visit my mom and she thought i was pregnant.... :rolleyes:
that was awful.....
 
I knew the whole time but it wasn't as clear... I went to the Dr.s and she weighed me and said "you put on quite a bit of weight" (7 kg in 2 years... which I then followed up by putting on another 5 kg on top of that), but I just thought she was being rude!
At my gyn in December I told him I thought my hormones were off, because I would gain weight very quickly and wouldn't eat that much crap, and he smiled and said "I think your life style is off!" (however he was partially wrong there, my thyroid is not functioning well tests have shown, I will start the medicines in about a months time, but of course my lifestyle didn't help).
I looked extremely pregnant, because all my food sensitivities had me bloated like a pig, but I just thought "it would be nice to be thinner" while I bit into the cookie.

When I finally got diagnosed with celiac disease and I had to change all of my food habits anyway, I started to be more serious about this. I then also weighed myself and found out I weighed the same as my man (and he is a good 20 cm taller), and I had gone over my horror weight of 70 kg!!

It has been 2 and a half months, I feel better, I look better and once my hormones are in order hopefully I will feel "right"... know what I mean??
Camy
 
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