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.

[Beamur]

I went to the GP's for a cardio vascular screening/health check. I'm healthy and have a negligible risk of developing cardio vascular problems in the next ten years BUT the nurse said I was 3 stone overweight and drank too much! I knew but had been ignoring this for some time...
I was referred onto a weight management programme and it's been more of a helping hand than a kick up the bum. I've lost just over a stone since February and feel so much more comfortable in my own skin. The weight is coming off slowly as I'm not dieting too hard, but I'm feeling as if I will get there in the next 5-6 months.

[spongebobsquareeyes]

I was tagged in a photo after a night out with my slim friends a couple of months ago and I just looked awful. I realised that I was going on a beach holiday and would spend the whole time self concious looking like that. I weighed in at 12st 9, and have so far lost 1st 6lb so down to 11st 3lb and back in size 12s!

I think the fact that I am 30 this month spurred me on as well, just with thinking the longer the weight stays on and the older I get, it will be harder to shift.

Would ideally like to get to around 10st, which isn't going to happen before I go on holiday next week but I feel a bit more comfortable in my own skin. Don't want to get too complacent though because that's how I ended up so big!

[SvetlanaKirilenko]

At the risk of lowering the tone - it was spending 18 months being treated for cancer, and realising that one way of increasing my chances of it not coming back is to lose weight. All the motivation I needed.

I have gone from a size 16 to an 8 in just over a year and it has been surprisingly easy

[WeOnlyPlannedTheFirst]

I went zorbing with hubby (then boyfriend) & struggled to get in the big inflatable ball. A member of staff was inside pulling my arms while another was pushing my arse in. So humiliating. Shrank from a size 20 to a 10/12 very shortly after.
Now a size 16 after 3 kids and determined to low carb my way down to a 12/14ish. Even at full term with my twins I didn't match my fattest weight but still got a way to go.
I think I need that killer moment again though. My motivation right now is to lose the first stone or so in order to fit into my work clothes by September.

[Giraffeski]

Nehru, do you mean you must be bigger or smaller than a 14? surely it depends on height/norkage/assorted other factors? My norks weigh a large proportion of my body weight I reckon (34K)

BTW, my moment was also seeing lovely photos someone took of DP, me and DD2 - they were gorgeous (of them) but I felt so hefty when I saw them, even though I knew I was only 2 weeks postnatal.
Have had to give up dairy, soy and eggs now due to DD2 allergies and breastfeeding, so on top of my normal gluten free diet (i know!) I'm hoping that the sheer lack of crap available to me to eat will mean I lose lots.
Saying that, just successfully made some chocolate cookies free from all of the above though, so it just shows there is always a way to sneak in chocolate and i will have to be careful how many i eat...

[Nehru]

svetlana

Lots of good wishes to you

[Beamur]

A friend of mine who is shorter than me and no more than a size 10 weighs about 9.5 stone - so I'd be surprised at someone being a size 14 at that weight (I'd expect you to be a smaller size)

[Nehru]

smaller
with my shape once I hit a 14 I look "big boned"

also tits
grr

[ghosteditor]

For me, it was the endless photos where I thought - am I really so broad ?

I used to exercise hard 5-6 times a week and love it, but I developed so many chronic injuries that I had to cut back to a couple of sessions plus yoga and Pilates - but I didn't adjust my eating at all. The weight crept on and I started to get chafing thighs and look round in photos.

I put on a huge amount of weight when pregnant due to a few medical issues and not being able to do my chosen sports - in fact, about 45lbs. I lost 14lbs from the night DD was born until a week later but then the weight loss tapered off.

When she was 5mo, DH went away for a month and I discovered vegetarian low carbing. I lost 5lbs in the first week and a stready 2-3lbs thereafter pw. DH was sceptical but tried it himself after a while, and was hooked.

He's now 14lbs lighter and I vary between 10-15lbs lighter than my pre-pg weight. I'm suffering again with chronic injury so not able to exercise as I'd like, and we're trying to cut food costs (carbs are cheap), but it's pretty much staying off.

I'm determined not to go there with dc2!

[nenevomito]

I'm another MyFitnessPal fan. I don't follow it any more, but doing it solidly for 6 months means I have a good understanding of how many calories were in my food, so now I find it easier to eat sensibly.

[thefirstmrsrochester]

I need my lightbulb moment like yesterday!
After ds 3 I gave up caring. I love nice clothes, adore them, keep buying in the size I am in my minds eye. I'm probably 2 sizes up.
I like wine and cheese too much.
Sooooo terribly unfit also. I got out of breath chasing ds up a pretty small (miniscule) sand dune today
I look like Jabba the Hutt undressed tbh (as confirmed by the mirror on the wall opposite the shower in dsis house.
Why won't my lightbulb ping on?

[QOD]

A so called friend laughing and being nasty about me not fitting in a lift, she said it to another friend who told me .... Broke my heart, absolutely lost every ounce of self confidence, sobbed and sobbed to my GP and ended up having a gastric bypass. Have gone from a size 26 to a 12/14

[Hopasholic]

Mine was realising I was going to have to go up another clothes size

I already had clothes ranging from a size 8 to size 14 in my wardrobes and I was damned if if was adding size 16's into the mix

That was the 21st January. I started 5:2 and have gone from 11stone 7lbs to 9 stone 12. And now the 14's are redundant and the 12's lovingly welcomed back to the front of my wardrobe.( lots of new stuff too ) All 14's gone to charity

[Nehru]

rochester

weight and height please

[cocolepew]

Svetlana, I hope your are keeping well now.

Another thing was on fb someone posted portion sizes of 200 calories, they were tiny!

[CheeseAndMushroomToastie]

I've had my killer moment but can't start dieting yet as only had ds2 three weeks ago

I had to have an EMCS and apparently, because my bmi says I am overweight, I have to inject myself daily for six weeks with anti clotting jabs. All because medically I am deemed to be overweight. That was a shock. Was a size 14 pre pregnancy, and always knew I could do with losing a stone or so, but still.......

Another trigger for me these last few weeks is seeing my sister in laws, we are all similar in age, with at least two kids each, and I realised I didn't want to be the fattest out of the three of us! So that will incentivise me !

Am currently on the breast feeding diet, it's the best diet I know! Have also used MFP in the past as its so easy with a smartphone to keep track of what you eat, helped me shift some lbs easily.

[cocolepew]

Also we weight ourselves every week in work a record it! My scales at home weigh me 5lbs lighter though .

[Giraffeski]

True- I'm a size 10 at 9 stone, but my norks mean I have to buy size 12/14 tops - if i don't buy from Pepperberry or sew my own (can never be arsed though despite sewing for a living!)
Currently 10 and a bit stone and fit nicely into size 12 trousers, and size 14 tops as long as they're stretchy!

I do fit back into my pre preg jeans though, so i think most of the extra weight must be my mahoosive breastfeeding norks- I don't stand a cat in hells chance of fitting into any of my pre preg tops so am stuck with some hastily purchased H&M fodder and a few nursing wrap style tops.

[cocolepew]

A size 14? Did you go up loads?

[SelfconfessedSpoonyFucker]

Watching that documentary about 5:2.

I had wanted to loose weight (actually 'get healthier' but the loose weight is a bonus) for a while but hadn't found anything that really suited my lifestyle and the way I wanted to eat so had never started. I still want to eat lasagne and biscuits and be able to go to a party and eat birthday cake. I'm doing 4:3 and not counting calories (really couldn't see doing that for the rest of my life) but keeping to about 600-800 on fast days. I'm loosing really slowly but steadily and I have found it completely doable and can imagine doing this long term and sticking with it (albeit possibly reducing the number of days down to 1 or 2 eventually). I've lost about 15 pounds doing this. I know that doesn't sound like a lot in four months but I'm in this for the longhaul and it keeps going down and is not that hard.

[sallycinnamum]

I am so glad I started this thread.

Some amazing stories. Going to read up on low carving tomorrow and do something about this sodding stone.

[AmericasTorturedBrow]

deciding DD would definately be my final baby last summer (she was 10months old), seeing the looming countdown to 30 and signing up for a 545mile Charity Bike Ride spurred me on to try to be a size 8 by my birthday, get my fitness levels up and get myself into good eating and exercising habits for life.

I've generally been a size 12/14 throughout life.

I'm 30 next Sunday and now wearing size 8 jeans, am enjoying cycling swimming yoga and Shred and am actually good at them and pushing myself further, looking forward to working out (I had an allergy to exercise prior to this!) and by doing 5:2 have found a sustainable way of eating for life that means I can still drink wine and eat cheese!

Am stupidly chuffed with myself but the proof will be in the pudding when I leave San Francisco in 4 weeks time and attempt to get to Los Angeles by bike a week later....

[postmanpatscat]

In Feb half term I had the worst acne ever, a major dental appointment where I had a crown fitted (because my sugar overload had rotted one of my teeth almost completely) and I actually bothered to weigh myself in kg AND convert it to stones/lbs so I knew what the numbers really meant. For the first time in my non-pregnant life, I had reached 10st. I know for many of you this won't seem like a lot, but it all goes on my waist, tummy and thighs and I was finding size 12s tight. I did not like what I saw in the mirror and I knew I had to change. DP was in Oz for six weeks with three more weeks to go and he was going to the gym every day and updating me on Skype with his latest achievements.

I started 5:2 on 21 Feb. Ten weeks later I have lost 18lbs and am a fingertip away from my goal of 8st 10lbs. I unpacked my summer clothes yesterday and last summer's size 12s are going to the charity shop, while the summer before's size 10s are going back in the wardrobe :)

I also go to the gym 3-4 times a week and have got my running distance back up to 10k, I hadn't done that far in about three years until last month.

[PeppaFuckingPig]

I've added some before and after pics on my profile if anyone wants to see.
I destroyed all before pics except these 2!

Aren't humans strange though?
Even though I've lost weight and am considered a healthy BMI, i'm still not happy with how I look.

[thefirstmrsrochester]

nehru I'm 5.1 but I have been nowhere near a set of scales since ds3 was born - he is 9 this month. I am clearly in denial. I will get scales tomorrow.
I've planned for some 2 years now to do C25K so maybe it's time to blow the cobwebs off my trainers.