What made you WANT to lose weight ?

What is the thing that made you realize you HAD to lose weight ?

i have always wanted to lose weight and i have always tried. i told myself....this will be the day when i will stop eating all that bad food and become more healthier, but that never worked out for me. Two days after i started my healthy eating i would get stressed out about something and jam some unhealthy food into my mouth. i dont know how many times it has happened to me but i know it has been too many.

i finally want to stick to something and be proud that i have accomplished something i truly wanted. I'm tired of going back to my unhealthy lifestyle.  i am truly looking forward to become a healthier and skinnier me! 

My guy friend was looking at me and my other friend and said

"wow, she looks like a coke bottle and alli looks like a dr. pepper can"

NEVER FORGET IT!... EVER!

I'm officially starting my new lifestyle tomorrow ! My first WeightWatchers weigh-in is at 7:30PM !

Good Luck, Missxdior!  Weight Watchers is a great program for accountability and to learn portion control.  Another great (and free!) support group is Overeaters Anonymous.  For those of us who eat when we don't want to, eat when we're already full, eat when it doesn't even taste good, OA is the place to be! 

I've lost 27 pounds as of yesterday - I wanted to lose 30 before Christmas - guess I'll achieve that goal - horray for me!

Original Post by mad4moon:

Good Luck, Missxdior!  Weight Watchers is a great program for accountability and to learn portion control.  Another great (and free!) support group is Overeaters Anonymous.  For those of us who eat when we don't want to, eat when we're already full, eat when it doesn't even taste good, OA is the place to be! 

I've lost 27 pounds as of yesterday - I wanted to lose 30 before Christmas - guess I'll achieve that goal - horray for me!

 Gratz for your acheivement, and thanks for the support ! :D

Hello to everyone who wrote about why they wanted to lose weight last fall (and all others of course):  I'm curious - How many of us who were so motivated last October/November are still here and still losing weight?

It really helps me to read other people's stories of what brought them to their knees (perhaps realizing that once down there we can't get up again due to weight??) and motivated them to lose weight.

Health is my big motivator - I'm 51 years old and sickness/death is a gargoyle over my shoulder in a way that didn't worry me when I was younger.  As of today I've lost 39 pounds since last September, and that's with some serious cheating over the holidays.

So let's hear some more stories:  As Missxdior said,

"What is the thing that made you realize you HAD to lose weight?"

Great post.  I quit smoking so I could breath and have more energy.  I also wanted to live without the nagging fear that I could develop a smoking related illness or rather might be in the process of developing a death doomed preventable illness just because I smoked.

Well, I ate my way through it.  There are better ways.  Now my reflexes are slooooooowwwww and that makes it dangerous to ride my horses (they are young and quick).  I became concerned about my heart and chest pains. That is already improving.  I also seemed to be developing acid reflux and arthritis. Wow after a life time of being athletic to have so much go so wrong at 50 yrs!!

So here I am - ready for a change - ready to get my life back and I believe that it is a doable deal to be like other 50 year old people who enjoy a fit life.  Who said that I have to be smoke free and fat? If so by what authority?  I am willing to work to be a smoke free smokin hot 50 year old cougar!!!

Finally - I want to ride my horses, have the reflexes and the energy to ride.  I don;t want to wake up in the hospital with tubes everywhere and ask - who how did I get this old so young?  Where did the time go? 

Honestly?
Wanting to wear skin-tight jeans. When my relaxed fit, size 42 black jeans started to look skin-tight, I knew I had to shed my nearly hundred pound husk. Needless to say, I looked like a ready-to-burst blood sausage. This was nowhere near the sexy, painted-on look I yearned.

Having to do stretches in my jeans to stretch them out so they weren't skin tight on me.

still here and maintaining, just trying to loose the last few kg of fat by working out. Have pretty much stopped writng everything down as I have really gotten into the habit of eating well. I still count every thing, just feel comfortable with no longer writing it down. The only down side to that is not being around so much and reading and contributing via this forum.

I met my boyfriend's ex girlfriend.

Tall, blond, ex-model with endless legs.

I'm really competitive.

Original Post by missxdior:

What is the thing that made you realize you HAD to lose weight ?

I was told by a man that I really loved that I was too fat.  Not a great reason, but its the truth.

Original Post by littlecalypso:

I met my boyfriend's ex girlfriend.

Tall, blond, ex-model with endless legs.

I'm really competitive.

 Oh, harsh.

confidence, depression, skinny celebs.

The fact that i had these teeny skinny jeans i used to wear back when i thought i was fat and now they don't even go up past my thighs....sigh..But i WILL fit into them again!

I know that I'm not fat...I am in college and since I have been here I have gained like 14-16 pounds, due to endless nights of drinking and gorging on food. I have realized that this wasn't helping me at all so I gave up my bad habits and starting going to the gym. I quit smoking (that didn't help), then I quit drinking. I needed to give my body a break from it. I still eat a lot at night sometimes, but I really just want to be healthy and happy with the person that I see when I look in the mirror.

The first time I started losing in 07, I started because of my health.  I would get out of breath over the stupidest things.  Walking from my car to work?  Ridiculous.  I hated how I felt, and I hate to be that person that's whining all the time but not doing anything about it.     I did great for a while, and I guess I self-destructed when the pressure of a million converging events got to me.  Trust me, it's a BAD excuse, but I just couldn't handle all of it.

What made gave me the strength to begin again?   Looking at my wedding videos and nearly crying that I wasn't the beautiful bride I wanted to be...  Depression over work and my weight is getting to be too much.  I decided to try to fix at least one of them.   And I was worried that my clothes would no longer fit, so I had to put the brakes on all of my self-destructive habits and turn this fight around again. 

It's a constant struggle.  I've been very emotional lately, and my tendency is to just say "forget it" to watching what I eat when I'm feeling down.   So far, I'm doing well, though.  Just trying to stay strong.

Living in Japan surrounded by tiny girls. I've always been in the "healthy range" of the BMI, but I'd like to slim down just a bit so I stop feeling massive compared to my classmates.

I recently found an old photo of me when I was 15, i thought i was fat then but i have the (almost) perfect body, slim waist, strong thighs, toned shoulders and arms....I realised although i might not be able to get back to been that slim, i'll still have the same body shape somewhere beneath this flab. I also like buying jeans and not have a stomach and muffin top hanging over. :)

I want to lose weight because I want to be confident again, and I want to feel good about myself for achieving something, and I want to fit into all of my clothes again.

I need to lose weight because I'm almost out of the healthy BMI range and never weighed this much before ...