What was the 'killer moment' that made you lose weight

[sallycinnamum]

Donkeys years ago I lost a significant amount of weight via SW because I saw a photo at a work Xmas party and made a vow to lose a stone. I ended up losing two over 4 months.

When I got married two years ago I ate nothing but porridge and Ryvita for two weeks and lost half a stone so the dress wouldn't be too tight. Then a month later I got pregnant with my second DC.

Now, after 2 DC I know I need to lose a stone but I haven't had the killer moment yet that will spur me into going on a proper, long-term diet and sticking to it.

I just wondered what it was that finally spurred you into going on a diet and doing it properly rather than giving up a couple of weeks in.

I know I am resurrecting this thread but I've only just come across it.

My killer moment is now. I've lost nearly four stone in the last 18 months and I've put half a stone back on. I still need to lose 20 lbs to get my bmi down to 23.5.

I've just downloaded myfirnesspal and run 5k in 8 weeks apps.

That's it. No more mindlessly opening a bottle of wine and grazing the kitchen cupboards when the Dcs are in bed. I can't afford it anyway. My chocolate, subway and wine habit over 5 years is - Christ it's virtually a deposit on a house.

This stops. Today.

Shit. SHIT.

it says I am only allowed 1200 calories per day.

chubfuddler, it tells everyone 1200, most ignore it. Have a look at the forums and you will find loads of people easily losing weight on much more. Have you thought about trying 5:2?

There's 600 calories in a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc apparently

I tried 5:2 but never quite got around to the 2 starvation days....

Chub - come and join us on the Bootcamp thread - you can have wine ...

Follows BIWI off thread .....

(Did you sort your dispute btw - I'm sorry I wasn't more help)

You were incredibly helpful! Sadly we are coming to the view that it's just not worth us trying to pursue things any further. We are, though, trying to negotiate (although they are refusing at the moment and probably always will.)

My lightbulb a few years ago was realising that I needed to actually tell my best mate my measurements as I live in Dubai, she was in the uk, and I was her chief bridesmaid so she needed to order the dress without me. Oh. My. God. I couldn't believe it. That was June 2011. By the wedding in march 2012 I had gone from 94.8kg ( I will NEVER convert to stone because I just don't want to know what that means in reality) to 79.2kg. And therefore from needing a size 20 to my size 16 dress needing pinning to my underwear on the day to hold it up. Mainly through exercise.

I have since got back to 88kg, and this is a horrible moment and I sound awful, but this time's moment came last Saturday when we were shopping for wedding shoes for my friend. Her wedding is in July. It had been about 2 months since we'd seen each other as we'd both been on holidays, but her weight loss was incredible. She was gone from 102kg to 84kg since November, and in these last 2 months you can really really see it and she looks amazing. It sounds awful, but she has always been the big girl of the group. It's not that I think I should be smaller than her, or scared of being the biggest now (which I am scared of a bit), but it was more of a well if she can do it, why can't I, I did it before so why not.

This week I have lost 2.8kg through eating better and 5km fast walking every night. I start spinning on Monday. That's gonna kill me!

Hello...my name is ChameleonCircuit and I weigh 17st 3lb, I'm a size 24 and THIS THREAD has been my lightbulb moment. I've d/l MFP and messaged a couple of super fit friends for moral support. Wish me luck.

What's your mfp name? I'm chubfuddler same as here. I'll be your friend.

Well since starting this thread, I've lost half a stone on BWIs amazing Bootcamp 'regime'.

Feel amazing and can't wait to get rid of the other half a stone now.

And this is from someone who was a total carb queen too.

That's fantastic!! Well done

Your thread gave me my 'killer moment' so thank you for starting it

Awww. I'm glad I started it too. Been dilly dallying for far too long.

Mind you, I've got a birthday treat of afternoon tea in a posh London hotel tomorrow so diet might be temporarily derailed for a day!

A great thread!
For me it started when the right trousers for me in H&M were a size 16. I kind of registered it but kidded myself that their sizing is small and ignored it. Then they became too tight and my lightbulb was that I never wanted to have an item in my wardrobe that said 18, whatever shop it comes from.
I did lose the weight but was miserable about my relationship with food. It only changed when I met my boyfriend. He follows a very old fashioned eating regime called the hay diet to help his sensitive stomach, but an additional effect is that it can help overweight people lose weight and underweight people to gain it.
Since living together I also eat like this as there's no point having separate meals. For the first time the weight is staying off, my portion sizes are normal, I can have treats and I'm no longer hungry and upset around food.
Good luck to all on their own journeys. I'm profoundly grateful for my light bulb moment and finding a way of life that works for me and is sustainable - 5 years and counting!

Made 50lb lost today , only another 50 to go

This thread was my lightbulb moment. It made me admit to myself that the reason I don't wear my wedding and engagement rings is not because I'm not allowed them at work. I don't wear them because I can't get them on. I have lost 4 pound so far !

Megs that's fab Low carbing is great isn't it! I've managed 30lbs since the beginning of Feb. Still plenty to go!!

Chub & CC are you going to come over to BIWI's threads and low carb with us?? (be a bit careful when using mfp as anyone can enter the nutritional data and I found it was often completely wrong so I put everything in myself and it made a big difference.

Marking

Don't think I can face low carbing but is like a link to BiWis thread please!

Chubfuddler - I can't find how to add you on MFP - it gives me options to add people from FB or via email or contacts. Do you know how to do it? I'm zingylemontart on there.

Going on a really fab holiday, somewhere I've wanted to go since I was a child. There was no way I was going to let feeling fat and uncomfortable in my clothes ruin the experience.

I've had three proper lightbulb moments- one at age 21, when I realised I was 21st. Only found that out when I had to be weighed for the gynea. The nurse weighed me twice, they called me back as they didn't believe someone so young and short (5'2) could be so big. I was. I slowly started caring about myself, leaving the house for short walks, didn't weigh myself but I lost some.

Number two, age maybe 24, weighed at work and found I was 17st. Better but not by much! I did Rosemary Conley for a year, low GI, loved it, lost 3st! Then I lost my job and my home..... moved abroad to a job I ended hating..... gained it all back.

Number three- last January, aged 29. Was 15st. Started a VLCD and lost 4st! Well done me.... I've gained it all back, every lb, in the last 6 months. I had a reverse lightbulb moment- I was on a bus, going to a friend's wedding, at the lowest weight I have ever been in my life, wearing a nice frock. It was a crowded bus, I was standing right by the front and a woman on a seat tried to get my attention. I was trying to ignore her as I knew what she was going to say. She started waving a hand at me and getting loud, saying I should have a seat, you poor dear. I had to say very firmly 'I'm not pregnant, I'm just fat'. After that point I gave up. what's the point in trying and trying and life is still shit? I'm stronger and fitter when I'm eating what I want, I can walk 10 miles plus in a day. I look and feel shit though. Urgh. Given up completely now. I've never been pregnant, all the fat is down to me alone.

What an inspiring thread. I wish my "killer moment" would arrive. What is this "Bootcamp" of which many of you speak?

My most recent one was a 3 stage one... someone asked if I was pregnant (but she's not the most tactful person so...) someone ELSE asked if I was pregnant (must be the dress...) and then I bought a maxidress on ebay to wear at a family party. Well, I should know better, i always think maxidresses are great in themselves but I am a complete apple with good legs, so when I put on the dress, I looked at myself in the mirror and for the first time for years can't focus approvingly on my legs which are covered up, but instead my eye is drawn relentlessly to the enormous barrel that is my top half.

I am not going to wear the maxidress, but I am also NOT going to the party that size. I can realistically shift half a stone before the party if I give myself a hard time.

OP that's great, well done :)

Seeing photos of myself in a bikini a year after having dd. trying on the bikini a year after the pics were taken and it felt like cheese wire round my bum, plus I looked 4 months gone.

Not being able to wear anything except the fat jeans and a baggy top in my wardrobe. ( panic trying on after bikini drama)

Joined BIWI low carb bootcamp beginning of this year and lost 9 kg easily.

Still lc, and about to start the shred to tone a bit.