Weight loss epiphany

[Biggles27]

This may have been covered before in which case I apologise

what was the moment at which you realised you had to lose weight? Did you have that moment or was it a slow build up

I bought a mid price dress (just over £100) for my nieces 30th. I thought I looked amazing and felt really good

Then I saw the photos My face was huge, so puffy and swollen. I was huge (size 24). I did not look good. I looked awful in fact. I looked and there literally no photos of me in existence from recent years. I’d been hiding the truth - I was morbidly obese

Ive been a weight loss journey for 4 years now, I’ve been the scenic route due to a lot of health issues (eg two cancer scares, thyroid meds not at correct level, serious anaemia etc) but I’m still chugging away. I’m 7.5 stone down so going in right direction just slowly

But I had a punch to the gut reality check and it was not a nice feeling

Getting prank Facebook messages from a fake account calling me a fucking fat cunt and my husband must mental to fuck me. Turned out to be from my then 14 year old stepson and his mum.

@Seabubbles that was absolutely horrendous. I hope you managed to at least sew some tuna or prawns into his clothing somewhere as you sent the wee shit packing

Yes I’m staying on a low maintence dose. Not jisy to maintain my weight but also for the other health benefits they bring, been maintaning about a year now.

Oh my god, thays awful

I knew I was overweight and I knew photos looked bad but I always had an excuse like the picture was the wrong angle etc. the scales were wrong when I dared stand on them.
then last January 1st I woke up panicked that another summer would soon be on us and I had been really struggling in summer. I had my moment that day and have lost 3.5 stone with half a stone to go

That is awful. I’m so sorry they did that to you

How awful. I bet the mum was jealous of some aspect of your life or appearance, even if you were overweight at the time.

I hit 100kg and hated every photo I saw of myself. I didn’t look like what I saw in the mirror, I was in lots of pain with my joints, I was always sweaty and out of breath. I’d been on various diets and exercise plans for 10 years and just kept getting bigger.
I took MJ for this first time in July ‘25, I’m now 72kg with no joint pain, I can walk for miles without breaking a sweat and I’m ok with what I see in photos, not to mention a whole heap of other benefits I hadn’t seen coming.
Truly life changing.

I started at 27 stone 14 months ago
Currently I've lost 11 stone ..
I am using WLI ..but Ive cut out buying anything for myself,and the shopping budget is massively down as I don't buy rubbish foods any more ..
So we've just managed to afford them
I've not even exercised much more than some swimming
I had to really juggle money to afford them ,and it definitely has been worth it
Good luck x

Wow thats a real achievement well done. I might assess our finances and see, its been a turbulent couple of months financially as i got caught up in the PM Law closure so lost my job overnight so we have had a couple of tough months but back on track now. It will just reduce the amount we can save i guess but i’ll have a look again as iv seen some real success stories, a family member has lost 5 stone on it.

I had gestational diabetes and they say is about 50% chance you'll get type 2 within 10 years. I knew I had to change how I lived my life if I wanted to avoid type 2.

Well done on your weight loss op! I went to work one day (was alone) and had a huge sugar binge. Felt absolutely dreadful. So ashamed and out of control. I knew then something had to change. I was overweight but not excessively so but knew I had to change my eating habits. That was years ago and bar the odd slip now and now I’ve maintained my 2 stone weight loss and healthy eating. It’s not easy as I’m a comfort eater but being aware is half the battle imo.

Mine was doing a 'well woman' blood test when I turned 50 in combination with my scales giving my metabolic age as 80! I had high cholesterol, the start of fatty liver and something else I can't even remember now. I knew the blood test would be bad, I knew I was very overweight, but it helped focus my mind on what I was doing to myself internally which was more motivating than external appearance.
I've lost 5 stone with Mounjaro over the past year, have transformed how I eat and do loads of exercise. I feel absolutely amazing, bloods are back to normal and my metabolic age is now 40.

Id been ignoring jibes i was fat my whole life, on and off of diets, internalising belief that id never shift the weight, and maybe i wasnt that big, and maybe i should just be that weight!
Id had weight related infertility for years, sleep apnoea, high blood pressure, asthma i couldnt control and my feet burnt all day, every day. Couldnt make it up a flight of stairs....life was pretty grim in every direction.

The pandemic really was the first thing that made me go, ah fuck. Its killing fat people, i will die if i dont lose weight.
I went to czech republic for a gastric sleeve.
It was useful but the stuff in my head was a problem. I was still bingeing, ended up in hospital having torn my oesophagus from being sick so violently... shortly after the 4th time i got therapy for BED.
Between the sleeve and therapy i had 2 pregnancies.
Down from 23stone 10, down to 13 stone 13.
Back up to 19 stone 8.
Started WLI in March of 2025. Im now 13 stone 1. I have another 3 stone to go. By which point the tummy tuck i desperately need will then be a full body lift because ny loose skin is unreal.
I think the only way for me to deal with tbe food demons is to stay on WLI for my whole life but content with that if i can feel healthy.

Probably a slow build up for me. I have lost weight now (Wegovy) and I’m still gradually realising how big I was.

I had normalised it. Like you, sometimes I thought I looked great until I saw the photos.

my face was enormous and puffy and bloated. Arms flabby and awful. I am actually fairy small boned so I had a small frame just engulfed in rubber. Multiple spare tyres around my waist. BMI was in the overweight category, not quite obese, but my body fat percentage was really, really high.

Pregnancies had seen my go from a size 8 to a 14, although being truthful I was probably a16. In fact I did have a clear out recently and found some side 16 clothes so I was obviously buying them but just not registering it / admitting to myself that I was a 16.

I never went anywhere as had no clothes that fit or looked good. There were no photos of me taken for years.

I’ve now lost two stone and would say I am a comfortable 12. But today, for example, im
wearing a size 14 trousers that fit quite nicely. These are trousers I wore a lot at my biggest. I realise now how much they were cutting into me then. They were “on” but they certainly did not “fit”.

I think it was the never wanting to go anywhere as I felt so unattractive that made me realise how bad things were. But I felt powerless to change anything. I’d tried diets, exercise, nothing worked.

I think it is all very complex and it’s very difficult to see yourself clearly and objectively. I saw myself as a thin person who was temporarily fat when I had actually been very overweight for over 10 years.

Still, what an awful way to behave towards you. Well done on turning into a positive

Thank you. They did get a knock on the door from a nice policeman to discuss malicious communication actually being a crime.

Unfortunately that was tip of the iceberg, he was living with us at the time as well, sent the messages during a weekend stay at his mum's. To cut a very long story short we (my husband as well) are now estranged from him unfortunately. He is 19 now and I raised him from 16 months. Ho hum x

Thank you. X

Well-done op !! I saw a pic of myself on holiday I was bike riding I didn't feel great thou but the picture really confirmed it ! I lost 3 stone throu slimming world and I'm at target 🎯!! But what annoyed me the most was people saying I wasn't fat ! When I clearly was lol 😁

Try and find a different group !!! I'm in a group that super supportive and really friendly everyone is so nice x

When I had to carry my then toddler in the baby carrier (hadn't carried him since he was a baby, my husband usually carried him in the carrier if needed when he was a toddler!). He weighed about 2 stone, and by the time I'd walked a mile with him I was absolutely ruined. And I realised that being 3 stone over weight, I was carrying more than that around every day. That was autumn 2023 and I've been losing weight slowly ever since. I still have a stone to go, but I'm now a healthy BMI. Looking forward to getting the last stone off over the coming months!

That's horrible 😔

Well done on the 7 stone, incredible loss

About 3 years ago for me. I have an auto immune issue that’s eating my joints and is ballooned up to 17 st. I could lose weight but undiagnosed adhd meant I always regained what I’d lost and an extra 10% on top. I went through mj first while on the weight loss pathway and it worked but caused horrific gall stones. So I ended up on the surgical pathway and had a bypass with gb removal. Best thing I’ve ever done. I was also diagnosed with adhd and treated with medication 3 months post surgery and my life has completely changed.

i was 17st9 on surgery day. Im now 8 months post op and i weight 11st11 and still losing although its very slow now at just 2-4lb a month. I’m very close to being in the healthy weight take for the first time in 20 years. I’m now in 12-14 and it turns out I didn’t like bright prints and alienating style clothing. I wore it because I was fat and couldn’t fit into the clothes I actually wanted to wear but didn’t go up to my size. My knees are SO much better and I can move my body and am enjoying yoga.