What was the final straw in making you decide to lose weight?

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Just that really. Mine was realising that I was about to go up another dress size and refusing to let that happen!

To add: I don't want to be the fattest person in the room (or for that to even be something I think about!), I don't want my son to get teased or bullied because he has a fat mother, all my in-laws are skinny and I'd love for the size difference to be less pronounced, I weigh more than my (overweight) dad, my knees now ache every day and I'm only 33. Most importantly, I want my son to develop good food and exercise habits, and I can't expect him to if I don't model it for him.

Crap, this is making me so emotional

I'm still waiting for mine, I've dieted all my life and always put it back on. I know all the reasons I am 4 stone overweight, and I know how to lose weight, and I yearn to be slim and not invisible.

What I can't seem to do is make the connection between what I'm eating RIGHT NOW and how I look. It's as though I'm two different people, it baffles me. The one that wants to lose weight eats well and is getting some exercise, the one watching from the sidelines is impressed whilst secretly bingeing in the other world behind glass. So weird.

Quitting smoking. Something just clicked and I have that up in days, gave up the energy pop too now I just need to tackle my food issues but I’m determined that I shall not move upto a size 14.

Because I couldn't walk to the local shop which is 2 mins away without stopping several times. That was three years ago and I'm now 9 stone lighter and happier.

I watched my mother in law die from kidney failure. She had diabetes due to poor diet and had dialysis treatment for her kidneys 4 days a week. Last year she had 3 strokes and the last one was so severe that she was no longer strong enough to receive dialysis treatment. 9 days later she was gone. She was 55 years old. Her death was 100% preventable had she not abused her body. I’ve lost 4 stone since her passing and I’m a comfortable size 12

Buying new trousers for work and realising the only ones that fit were size 20.

When I gave a pass to a great looking cafe with rven better looking menu, because as size 20, I didn't trust their chairs... Pissed off about it till now... Food looked great
Size down now. Going slow, but I will get back to 12 no matter what.

I am living proof of the statistic that 95 to 98% of dieters regain the weight and more within 2 years of losing it.

I started dieting in my 20s when I was 10 and a half stone (5ft7inches) aiming to lose 12 lbs. 35 years later I reached 19 stone at my heaviest after countless diets and loss/regain cycles culminating in crippling knee pain, a knee replacement, pre diabetic and on medication for high blood pressure and cholesterol and taking a range of pain meds that didn’t work.

Faced with the stark choice of spending my retirement on shedloads of medication, with increasing mobility and pain problems or lose the weight and enjoy the next 20 to 30 years, it was a no brainer.

Over the last two years, I have used diet and exercise to shed 4 of the 8 stone I need to lose. After just a 2 stone loss, I was able to come off all medication, my resting heart beat came down from 78 to 60bpm. When I fall off the wagon my resting heartbeat shoots up right away on my Fitbit and this is enough to remind me eating high sugar or processed food is affecting my health not just the number on a scale.

I’ve stabilised at 15stone for about 5 months now but my basal metabolic rate has reduced by 200 cals. (Use bodytrax to monitor this) so I know my body is doing its damnest to regain the weight and I know eating less I’ll end up w ith my Basal metabolic rate reducing still further till I’ll have to starve myself to lose any weight at all so I’ve been researching Jason Fung and fasting which seems to have some success with losing weight without lowering bmr too much. I’ll try eating just one meal a day in the evening for the next 6 weeks to see for myself if I can restart some weight loss. I do one to two hours of exercise classes most days and walk at least 6 miles a day most days.

Now I’m early 60s, it’s definitely fear of being sick, immobile and dependent on others that has motivated me not to give up. How I look is definitely secondary. Its bloody difficult at times but the alternative is worse.

I took anti depressants fo over a decade, quit smoking and coffee and piled it on. The epiphany was a family photo in which I look like my own fucking Mother.
I stone down so far, another 2 to go.

When I refused to put it last any more, and decided that losing weight WAS treating myself.

I've spent a lot on diet food and personal training this past year, lost four stone, and become a whole lot fitter.

I have a big frame, so for a long time I was able to bear the weight 'gracefully' - at 14st I had a 27" waist. I've also always been fairly aerobically fit - no getting out of breath etc, able to climb mountains. On top of that, I have always been adamantly against beauty standards, and Bridget Jones style weight watching.

But...

I got to the point I looked unkempt and older with weight.
I got to the point my blood pressure was measuring high.
I had an overdue epiphany about weight - no, it isn't necessary or healthy to obsess about your weight. But yes, it is actually fine to monitor it to stay within your healthy zone.

Since then all my choices have been about putting myself first - I really think the mindset has more to do with it than any diet advice I could give. Those salads. Those workouts. All the time I have spent at the gym, all the times I skipped the wine. I wasn't denying myself. I was empowering myself. THAT has worked more than any shame or upset I ever felt about my body.

Sitting in a meeting and a woman looked okay me with pity

A photo of me from a New Years party. I had to buy a new outfit as none of my old ones fit, but thought I’d managed to get away with looking like I’d put on too much weight due to the cut of the dress and me wearing Spanx with a shapewear slip on top. I saw the photo and realised I was wrong. I’ve wanted to lose weight since having kids, but have never really taken it that seriously. I started SlimmingWorld in the new year and am down 1stone 2lbs so far. Only another 4-5 stone to go 😬

Fertility issues. I started the keto diet 3 months ago, only lost 20lb but lost 6" on my waist, lots on my limbs and dropped two dress sizes. Bmi is horrendous still but I'm back to a size 12...Will carry on as I find it easy to follow

Love what you just said thecats.
I have 2-3 stone tomoo

Sorry posted prematurely.
I have 2-3 stone to loose.
It's definitely got to be about doing it for yourself. And making that a good thing. Making it a priority.

I knew I needed to lose weight for some while but it was catching sight of myself naked in my bedroom mirror. I thought I was looking at Jabba the Hutt.

Got to my biggest after having DD2 (4 years ago). Started losing weight when she was just turning 1 and have lost almost 7 stone since then.

Breathless after doing pretty much anything.

Couldn't play with my baby on the floor OR have her on my knees because there just wasn't space with my gut!

Sitting in cinema seats was uncomfortable, theatre seats were cutting into my legs which meant watching my eldest perform on stage was very painful.

Couldn't wear the clothes I wanted. My wardrobe didn't have a single peice that was actually to my taste. I wanted to shop in EMP for example, but the majority of my clothes were from Yours. Ugly (imo) and expensive.

Soft play. No chance. I didn't dare go on the equipment which meant DD2 could only play in a very limited area as I couldn't follow to supervise. I'm all over the place now

I have sciatica. The excess weight only made it worse.

I wanted to be a more positive role model for my daughters. Eldest DD has recently told me she's unhappy with her own weight (she is 14 and a bit overweight) and she can see that it can be dealt with, and that we'll support her through it.

I had to do something to battle my depression and pull me out of the sinking hole I was in.

I chose exercise and diet.

It worked. Along with meditation and stopping hormonal contraception.

Not been on anti depressants for 3 years now.

NCKitten

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Best of luck, you can do it! Loads of support over in the weight loss threads if you want online cheerleaders.

@thecatsthecats thank you x I really need to adapt your 'empowering not depriving' attitude. I am 5'4" and at 11st 13 I'm almost at my heaviest.

DD2 went out with friends and couldn’t fit in the booth for dinner. She’s just over a stone down in about 7 weeks.

What I can't seem to do is make the connection between what I'm eating RIGHT NOW and how I look. It's as though I'm two different people, it baffles me.

That's EXACTLY how I feel!

Those salads. Those workouts. All the time I have spent at the gym, all the times I skipped the wine. I wasn't denying myself. I was empowering myself.

What a terrific mindset to have. I really need to work on this part.

Being officially weighed and realising I was officially obese.I knew I was fat but this just hammered it home.
I have just joined ww and am feeling motivated.
My first goal is to loose 10lb to get me out if the obese category then work down from there.

Being fat, realising I was fat, hate it, totally loathe and detest being fat!

Love the feeling of being light, of moving easily, of feeling stomach is empty. Hate that over full feeling. Can't stand it.

Don't want to get into old age a moment too soon!

Like eating healthy, like trying to push myself to get out of breath, for a cardiac workout.