What was the moment for you where enough was enough and you were kick started into losing weight for good?

[Shamalamadingd0ng]

Seen some hideous photos of me today, I'm 13.5 stone and have 3 stone to lose. I looked so awful.
Tomorrow I'm going to kick start my healthy living again really am certain my mind has caught up with my body.
What was the moment for you?

Covid. Scared of dying and leaving the kids so health anxiety forced me in to it. Lost 5 stone.

My friend told me she was having weight loss surgery. I suddenly thought 'Why haven't I properly considered that'? I'd been yoyoing for 20 years. Tried every diet going. Failed. Could lose but not maintain. Six weeks later I had the surgery. Two and a half years on its the best thing I've ever done

Also COVID, but not health anxiety - it gave me a focus when I was home alone for months with 4dc and I think may have been what got me through it. It helped me to feel in control when so much else in my life and the world was not.

Well done @Iampicklerick
My reasons are same as yours - I want to see my kids grown up.

@Shamalamadingd0ng I've had health anxiety for a while (have a few health issues) but got an awful fright when I saw a picture that my SIL took of me a couple of weeks ago. I'm heavier now than I was during my pregnancies.

Tomorrow is day 1. I have a plan and determined to stay focused

neverornow Thank you. I find maintaining the hardest, I’ve always been up and down my whole life but this time I’m doing alright with maintaining and it’s really down to couch to 5k. I can eat a lot more as I exercise. I find if I start to hit 5lbs more than target I really feel it so I just remember my reasons and get back on it. I’m really enjoying life at the moment and I still have a fair amount of treats. I totally quit sugar as well so that has helped hugely.

A family birthday party at the beginning of this month and seeing the photos of me pop up on Facebook.
I was 13 stone on the Monday morning after the party. I went straight onto a low carb high fat diet and I'm 11.7 now and feeling so much better.
I want to get to 10 stone as that's what I used to be before. I look at that photo of me every day to spur me on!

I, um, realised I wanted to get naked with someone new for the first time in two decades :)

Yes @Handsoffstrikesagain

I dropped a stone almost in the first week but it's mostly water weight, the rest has been steadier 2-3lbs a week.

Thank you!

How old are you @TomRipley ?
I am so impressed - fingers crossed you’re in your forties 🙌

My ultimate day of desperation came today when I realised that I really want to go to aqua aerobics tomorrow but can’t because I don’t want anybody to see me

I am 15 stone
I put on 5 stone in 4 years mainly through injury but that’s no excuse and I am just so ashamed of myself - not for being fat but for being so unmotivated, in the middle of a pandemic, with anxious children - even that’s not motivated me

I am such a pig

Gosh ladies how are you losing it so fast? I'm a yo-yo and would like to lose 3stone for good too

A routine blood test revealed that I had developed pre-diabetes. Scared the crap out of me. Lost 36 lb - 20 more to go!

I'm not there yet, not all the way but I read a book called Why We Eat Too Much by DR Andrew Jenkinson. This was back in April of this year. I've followed the woe (it's not a diet book, in fact he says diets don't work) since then and lost almost 2 st. I am not on a diet. I don't eat wheat, processed foods or sugar and I try and redress my omega 3/6 ratio. I follow it probably 80% of the time so its not ultra strict.

My wtf moment was size 18 being uncomfortably tight, despite me being fairly active and not actually having a big appetite. I feel 1000 times better.

Sitting offering visitors some homemade biscuits (not very many because I'd eaten a lot of the raw dough in the kitchen) and barely fitting into one if my garden chairs. I just felt like a mess.

Its been a slow process just myfitnesspal and the gym but I'm 10kg lighter than I was that day and that's having gained some back, which I'm now losing again.

Actually very recently. For the past few years I've eaten like a pig until the point where I've been going to bed with chronic indigestion. Three weeks ago after binge eating before bed I found myself admitted to hospital with acute cholecystitis. Had my gall bladder removed the next day.
It's given me a huge wake up call and I've completely changed my approach to food and exercise. I honestly thought I was dying.

@insufficientfuns you are not a pig. You've made some bad choices and had some bad stuff happen that's hard to control, but you are not a pig.

Mine was speaking to a colleague who told me about fasting. It just sounded so easy, not 5:2 where I'd just end up pushing the two fast days down the week until I'd run out of time but purposely not eating until 3/4 every day. For my 'all or nothing' brain, this just seemed to click. 2 stone down since last May.

When I realised that I was so obese that I would have been a candidate for bariatric surgery on the NHS.