What made you lose weight?

[Fatty321]

Please no discussions about weight loss drugs. I don’t want that and don’t wish to open this thread for discussions on my reasons why. I want to know what made people want to lose weight? I just don’t feel motivated to. I don’t have loads to lose. I want to lose 2 stones to be in healthy weight range. Could definitely do with more but just want to focus on getting healthy

Diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. That was my limit. In remission now and so much happier. It’s true what they say losing weight is hard but being fat is harder.

Being diagnosed with high cholesterol.
I’ve cut out all animal fat and eat loads of oats and nuts, Benecol etc.
I do relax my diet on meals out though.

High blood pressure, sleep apnea, and not being able to understand why my face looked as it did in photos ( fat and bloated). Six and a half stone down, bmi 20 and feeling fantastic.

I struggled to keep up with my DH & teen DC last year at a theme park & realised that a 'dream' holiday I had been thinking about, would be too hard for me to manage physically.

I've lost 2 stone 5 lbs (& have at least the same to go) but feel myself coming back. The real me, personality & all. I had become much less 'me' the bigger I had become.

Increasingly small life:

• Plantar fasciitis
• Back pain
• Feeling tired
• Not enjoying clothes
• Old before my time and 'not me'
• Realised what I really enjoyed about life was being active and productive and I was depriving myself of that

I'd always been slim and relatively fit till I hit my 40s and then I was 'only' a stone overweight - in my early 50s I was 3 stone overweight and trying to ignore it. I suddenly realised I was unfit, fat, and it was impacting my health (high blood pressure - a family problem).

My first goal was to try and halt the unfitness so I joined a gym - this was a couple of years ago - it's mostly weights (I'm not a gym person) - I go about 2/3 times a week and I'm so much more toned, fitter and a stone and a half lighter.

I also realised that my healthy diet wasn't that healthy any more - I ate too much, too many convenience meals, was drinking too much (sitting on the sofa with wine and cheese) - so I've cut out a lot of the crap. Random wine, cheese after dinner (unless I'm actually out with friends) and more protein and veg.

I've got another stone and a half to go. My plan for that is to monitor portion sizes and to go for a walk in the morning before work on the days I don't go to the gym. I reckon that will shift half a stone.

It's perfectly possible. I have to say the main trigger was a stern talkign to from the nurse at the GPs!

Watching. I’ve only about a stone to lose, I’m in the healthy BMI range but I’m short so every extra shows up. I keep lots of my weight on my arms for some reason which is very hard to hide in clothes. Face too.

I do have high cholesterol and am borderline on blood sugars (I had gestational diabetes so know I am higher risk for T2). So I have health reasons to lose a bit. But mainly, if I’m honest, I just want to look better!

Haven’t yet managed to get this to outweigh my love of food however… I’ve stopped gaining weight over the past year, but not really lost any yet. I think I will need to do some version of fasting as calorie counting is not for me.

Arthritic hip and sciatica, in chronic pain 24hours a day. Honestly felt suicidal with it. Have lost 4 stone and the sciatica has gone and hip pain only felt when I overdo things. Still 2 stone to go but it's changed my life.

Ours was a case of a lot of medical stress, caring for others and not having time to cook properly - way to many takeaways!
My husband started to go to the gym & went on a diet to loose weight so I decided to do the same. I loose mine through VR work outs & youtube work out videos though I hate the gym. It works though I have lost three stone so far! 😂

I had a health MOT and my cholesterol needed to come down, as well as my BP. Nothing major, no massive health scare, just: I can see the future at my age, and I don't want to be unwell due to 'lifestyle factors' (which is what it is for me).

As well as that, I had a very low period, mental health wise. I sat down and wrote out what I felt were my major obstacles in life. (I also wrote down the obstacles I've recently overcome, which was good.) I'm in the process of trying to sort a few of them, and weight is one.

My Dad was a healthy weight until he hit his 40s, then became obese and never shifted it, he died at 63. I've luckily never been classed as medically overweight, but could see the numbers on the scales creep up in my late 30s. I decided to make a conscious effort to loose a few pounds, so I'm in the middle of the healthy weight BMI, as I assume I'll put on some weight during menopause. My hips and back definitely ache less when I'm a bit lighter, so that's good motivation to stay in shape.

Has your cholesterol come down much Zempy?

Seeing photos of myself...I swear I reverse body dysmorphia....I feel slim and think I look amazing then I see a photo of myself and I'm like wtf. I do like to have an incentive...last incentive was my holiday...my next incentive is a social occasion coming up in five weeks time that i want to lose some weight for.

In all honesty my motivation has never been health..but how I look. Perhaps it's because I've never felt any negative health effects from being overweight

We booked a big trip to Thailand and realised we likely wouldn’t be able to do some of the trips due to our weight / fitness. DH was really struggling with knee pain and was finding walking difficult. I struggled massively with steps. We decided together that it was time to change. That was Nov last year. Thailand was in March, we lost 4st & 2.5st respectively for Thailand, and have just had a summer holiday where we have now lost 8st & 4.5st and were able to do things like the sky air walk etc.

Anal fissures! I don’t recommend them as a diet aid but it certainly worked. I put on two stone since covid, lost it all in six months this year as I was in such pain, didn’t know what was going on, took ages to get a diagnosis but in the meantime I was doing everything I could to have perfect bowel movements, so a strict whole food high fibre diet, and plenty of it. Worked a treat. My BMI is now 23 down from 27 and I feel myself again.

Things that worked in the years before no longer work at 47yrs and I'm no longer able to get away with things I did before. I also have high blood pressure which I would like to resolve with lifestyle changes.
I wouldn't say my diet is strict but I am quite mindful of it. I've just got back from France and for once didn't have as much cheese, bread and butter as I would liked in previous years - I did have some and my weight in now back to what it was before we left if not a bit a bit lower.

Saw pictures of myself as a (fat) bridesmaid at my sisters wedding next to the other (not fat) bridesmaids. I als had a very painful knee and the choices were surgery or lose some weight.

so I did. 4 stone so far with one more to go to goal weight. But I did it the way you don’t want to discuss.

I had more or less convinced myself that I didn't mind being overweight, especially as I was fit and healthy and could walk for miles and cycle everywhere. But one day I was walking up a hill with a family member and realised I was having to deliberately make an effort to moderate my breathing so I could chat normally without it being obvious that I was out of breath. That made me realise I was actually a bit ashamed of my weight, and not fine with it. Not the effort of walking up the hill, but the impulse to hide it.

Trying on clothes for a funeral that used to fit and nothing fitting and feeling like a flat blob on the day even when it was not about me. Watching YouTube videos which explained where exactly I’d been going wrong (thought I was an expert) and finally cracked it. It’s coming off slowly but it’s coming off!

My papa died at 93, I was incredibly close to him, he had a happy healthy long life and it really opened my eyes at how he managed to live life to the fullest because he was active.

When he was dying i cared from him and he was not ready to die ( cancer,very fast ) and i remember thinking he would give anything to have a healthy body again and here i am abusing mine at 38 years old.

I started strength training by joining a small group PT run gym and have not looked back, ive lost 3 stone, im in the best shape of my life and im really fucking happy, before id say i was a pretty happy person but ive evolved, im a better mum, friend, sister and overall person.

Truly it has changed my life.

I crept up to over 11 stone (I'm 5ft 10) and I just didnt like having flab on my belly and felt unfit.

I got a fitbit watch and just moved more and did 15k steps a day. I was too busy having fun with friends at the time to change my diet.

Nowadays I'm too busy having fun with my kids to ever get overweight! I struggle to understand how anyone with kids could be overweight. Trampolining, sports classes, bike rides and scooters, running round the park, bouldering.

I do want to lose a stone, which I know has been bugging me for a while now but with a recent bereavement, pre-menopause and other factors (I am making excuses really) for me it is the fact that I can't fit in any of my clothes and can't, and don't, want to buy new and larger sizes and get used to being bigger. I looked at photos of me recently and don't like what I see. Friends and DP would never say anything and say I look good but I know myself I want to get back to fitting nicely in clothes. I have started reading the Dr Chris UPF book which is interesting.

My dad had a second stroke at 68.

I stoped drinking alcohol and cut out most upfs and sugary snacks. Since January I have gone from 13 stone to 10 stone 8.

I am quite boring now to some of my friends though, as I used to be a large glass of red kind of friend. But now I enjoy wild swimming and hiking whilst chatting to mates.

So thinner and happier, with better skin and more energy but a bit dull... So it is a trade off.

At my biggest, I was morbidly obese & really struggling to do everyday things. I was in quite a bit of pain, had bad heartburn/reflux & generally never felt properly well. All caused by alcohol. Now I am 4 & a half stone lighter, teetotal & no longer hate catching sight of myself in a mirror or photos. I’m still overweight for my height ( 11 & a half stone at 5ft 2”) but I have plateaued so perhaps this is where I’m meant to be.

Yep. It’s 3.5 now 😇