you know it's time to lose weight when...

I wanted to share a funny story...

I have an in-home daycare.  One day a three year old came up to me after lunch and patted my belly (which she could hardly see around!)   I patted my belly too, and told her I was really full.  She rubbed my rounded belly again, looked at me thoughtfully and said, yeah, your butt is full too!

So, I am interested to hear from you all as to what initially motivated you to lose weight. 

Let's start with "you know it's time to lose weight when...."

lol

That is priceless!!!

Thanks so much for sharing :) gotta love kids.

You know it's time to lose weight when your boyfriend comes home from work and looks for the pack of brand new cookies that he was so looking forward to only to find it empty with crumbs all over your chest.

Ooops.

You know it's time to lose weight, when the pulmonary specialist tells you that you might die if you don't lose weight.

Ouch

ouch is right humorpam.  Good job for taking that info and making a difference in your life. 

too funny going2lose!!! 

reminds me of another story... a friend of mine, really, a friend, not me, was at the mall and bought a (i think 4) pack of cinnabon.  If anyone doesn't know what a cinnabon is, they are ooey gooey yummy cinnamon rolls, fresh baked with lots of frosting... So, this friend was on her way home and decided that since there was 1 extra in the box, and she couldn't wait to get home, she would just go ahead and eat the extra one.  she did, and it was sooooo good, that she thought she would also eat her's too.  Well.  She could hardly go home to her husband and teenage son with a half a box missing, they would think she was a pig!!  You guessed it, she ate the other two!  Out of necessity, of course.   

Ohh, 4 cinnabons... with 1 I about pop, they are pretty big!

When I first gained weight, I had one of my cousins come up to me and say "Laura-Lu, why are you so fat?"  I about died.....laughing! Her poor mother heard her and was kind of upset about it (she's my aunt and godmother) because she had warned her not to say anything before they saw me.  It was funny just to see the horrified look on everybodys faces.
Sure it bugged me a bit, though I knew I got way fat, but there was nothing I could do about it cause I was drugged up with different sedatives and prednisone (the culprit in the weight gain) due to migraines. 

Little kids are too innocent sometimes, they don't know that saying things like that is bad, and they also don't accept explanations about it either.

You've got some funny stories cookiemakermom!

I work with DD adults. and on the road doing drop off's one of my favorite clients said " cathleen has  a baby in her tummy" while reaching over and pushing on it.

oh and when you pinch your tummy in the dishwasher while closing it.

When you're feeling chunky and actually have to buy a size of clothing that you don't want to...in my case it was 14/16 and I'd always been more 10/12.  I'm now at 8/10...yeah!

I refuesed to by clothes any larger and knew I would have to loose to not show up at work naked!

That and dear husband got us a trip to Hawaii over New Years, I don't want to look like this when we go. I have 40 to loose, it's doable by then! =>

Last but not least I have a class reunion coming up and I want to be comfortable there, not hating the girls that stayed skinny...

I use to be skinny...I want to feel like that again...energetic, sexy, confident... =>

lala7819 - I got enormous on prednisone too.  I gained a stunning 92 lbs in 3 months.  I've struggled ever since with my weight. But part of the struggle has been having babies. 

You know you  have to lose weight when you ask your son if he would like to take Tae Kwon Do with you this fall and he gets a scared look on his face and says "Only if you lose 35 lbs by then."  He said it today.  I said "Oh, you're embarassed about me being fat?" He said he is a little bit.  I assured him I was slimming down and I'd be eligible for the class. 

Another time I knew I needed to lose weight... I was bending down in front of my husband and commenting on my weight gain (from steroids) he said "Oh my God! What are we going to do?" LOL.  I didn't get mad that time.  The weight came on so fast and I really still felt like the old skinny me, I just didn't know the person in the mirror. 

You know you need to lose weight when you go to a store to buy clothes and the saleslady asks to help you then asks you for your size and you say "I'm not sure, I used to be a 4 or 6, maybe an 8 or 10 will do since I've gained from pregnancy." Then the saleslady says "Hmmm...I don't know maybe you should start with a 12?"  Happened to me after first baby.  I was up to an 18/20 from the lovely 92 lbs I gained.

An ex of mine used to say he felt like Samantha Fox going down the stairs one day, because his chest felt huge. He has a very skinny frame, and a bit of wight felt like a ton on him.

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You know its time to lose weight when your in a high end store trying on an outfit for a party........and you put it on just barely and your busting out the seems and now your trying to figure out how in the hell your going to get out of this dress staring at yourself in the wall of mirrors thinking OMG am i really this fat?

On a lighter note to this I went shopping the other day and for the heck of it i tried that same dress on the same size i tried on months ago.........it now fits me with some room to breathe in!

losing weight makes you feel WONDERFUL!

you know you are fat when every not only asks if you are pregnant they are insisting it. Girrll yes you are pregnant!!

LOL these stories are great. :)

I have 2. You know it's time to lose weight when 3 different people ask if you are pregnant. (I'm with you amaresmom.) I was about 18 at the time and within a few months, 3 people asked me that. I was crushed.

The other wake up call I got was when my Mom had gastric bypass surgery in 2004. I vowed that I would never allow myself to go through that. I knew I had to make life changes to prevent that from happening.

you know it's time to lose weight when someone who works in the same building as you but hasn't seen you in a long time says off-handedly "i used to see you walking a lot but i haven't seen you doing it lately, maybe that's why you've gained so much weight...."  there were circumstances behind that weight gain that he didn't know about (death in the family) but i didn't make any excuses.  probably because i was so shocked by his bluntness.  i dropped those extra pounds soon after. 

You know you need to lose weight when your doctor calls you fat, as in, "I suspect you have gallbladder problems because you are fair, forty and ffa-" then he blushes, realizing what he just said.

You know you need to lose weight when you discover that your favorite black suit pants barely zip up and you then have to spend an entire conference standing - not sitting - for fear you are going to break a seam in front of your boss.

jenmcc I have busted out pants! Once I broke a zipper, and one time when I was in Tae Kwon Do I ripped my pants doing squats. HELLO lose some weight.

You know its time to lose weight when you keep going up in sizes and you run out of excuses.. I always had one-  " oh The Gap is running smaller these days." Yeah, they run small and I was running BIG!

i just got a new job and i'm super excited about teaching first grade. in order to teach in pa you have to get a physical so i went to the doctor and he checked off everything as normal, except my weight and under comments he put: overweight. i've always known i had weight to lose, in fact quite a bit of it, but for a doctor to put that on my brand new job physical really hurt. i decided i never want to see anything like that written in my medical charts again. i started on the 4th of july and so far i'm down 9 lbs!