What made you decide to lose the weight? - Page 3

taah · 10-14-2003, 04:47 AM

I want to get healthy. I do not want to die of a heart attack at 27yrs old. I do not want my IR to turn to diabetes. Heart disease and diabetes runs rampant on both sides of my family.

I want to have a baby and live to see that child grow up.

I want to enjoy my life with my husband instead of feeling so ashamed of myself that I do not want to go places with him.

I was tired of being FAT!!!!!!!!!

It was not fair to me or my husband to allow myself to be fat or get any fatter. I deserve more out of life than what I was allowing myself to have.

This thread has made me cry and I am still crying as I type this. So many thoughts and emotions come to mind that I can not even express right now. I am fighting a battle for my life against this weight and PCOS and I refuse to lose( anything other than weight that is.)

Maddy · 10-14-2003, 03:47 PM

I've unstickied this thread to clear a little space up there, lol!

BUT I shall be putting a link to it in one of the stickies! Not sure whether I shall put it in diet info or one of the others. I shall post again later!

christyz · 10-14-2003, 03:57 PM

Maddy: Don't feel like you have to justify or explain movement of threads and stickies..that's your job, my dear! As a mod myself, I respect how hard it is to keep everybody happy while making decisions about when a thread has run it's course or needs to be moved for another important idea. We trust your judgement, girl.

dee2002 · 10-15-2003, 09:40 AM

i decided to lose weight when i couldnt get in to the size 20 jeans my mum had got me for xmas

also for my heath

and becuase i got fed up with my own dad telling me how fat i have got

also becuase i gouldnt find any nice clothes in big sizes and because i was so big i use to get sore bit on the insides of my legs where my fat use to rub togther

i have got diet club tonight so i hope i will be at my target yay

Cretia5080 · 10-19-2003, 01:32 PM

I have been fighting a battle with myself about this ever since my diagnosis way back last February. I have been trying to believe that I DO NOT have PCOS. My rationalizations have been everything from, "it doesn't run in my family," to "prozac caused this." It has been hell, and has been eating away my insides for so long. I have lost weight on the met, in spite of myself, but have done nothing to really try too. I have an eating disorder, and I will often eat and eat and eat carbs until I am sick, then go throw it all up in a state of utter self-loathing and disgust. I hate it, hate the cycle, hate myself for being sick, hate that at age 28 I am going rapidly towards diabetes. I got my lab results the other day. After 2 months on met, with no lifestyle changes, my fasting insulin has only dropped to 13.2. And my free testosterone is up to 3.7. That did it for me. NO MORE...I will no longer lay down and let this disease have its way with me. I will not have diabetes by age 30. I can no longer afford to make excuses and hide in the fact that I am "too busy" to eat healthily. My health is going to be my number 1 priority.

I'm on day 2 of trying to eat better, and although I am terrified, I believe that if I reach out to my higher power every day for help, I will not fail. I am a recovering alcoholic, and the carbs have become an addiction for me as well...It is such an awful feeling to know that the minute I put sugar in my mouth, I am out of control. But all I have to do, is not eat sugar today. Maybe tomorrow....Thank you all so much for your kindness, and for sharing your hope with another cyster.

st@ce · 02-01-2004, 06:19 AM

I'm just wondering what made you decide to lose the weight? I wish I could say my decision to lose weight was based on beautiful reasons I've read like "Wanting a baby", "To see my children grow up" or to "Improve my overall health" but I'm alot more shallow! My decision to lose weight is based solely on the fact that I feel better skinnier. I think I'm more attractive when thinner. I feel more confident when lighter. I'm happier when I weigh less. Is that terrible? I'm not sure that it is but its so true to me. I thought about this for ages before actually typing it LOL!

Was there a particular moment that it just clicked? Not really. I've been fighting my weight since high school. Its just that now I know why.

What reasons are you continuing to try to lose/stick to your diet? I'm continuing with Atkins coz I believe in it whole-heartedly now, its a WOL not just a diet for me. Not only do I understand the various impacts of different foods now, I'm witnessing positive changes in both my weight and health stats coz of it.

How do you STAY motivated? I don't stay motivated 24/7 (you only have to look at the Daily FOOD CONFESSIONS thread to realise that) but when it comes down to it I can't challenge the benefits I'm seeing. I might veer off the programme every now and then for a meal or two but I'll never totally abandon Atkins altogether. I know if I did, I'd not only put on the pounds but my health stats would go to custard too and I just revel in the fact that my liver enzymes are under control!

Dreamy · 02-01-2004, 07:33 AM

I decided to lose weight because enough was enough for me. I have other health issues aswell, and the the thought of having to get an op done at one point in my life and being refused, because I am too fat terrifies me.

I also couldn't understand why I got this heavy considering I was never an 'eater' anyway. So it was one of the things I brought up with my doc when telling him about the other symptoms of my PCOS. So it all tied in and the best way forward to treat the PCOS aswell as getting me healthy again was to begin losing weight.

It's the best thing I have ever done, I am feeling great about myself nowadays and bought my first ever fitted t-shirt yesterday!

It's so nice not looking for the biggest baggiest t-shirts, I felt like a woman for the first time in ages!

VickiP · 02-01-2004, 04:56 PM

I'm just wondering what made you decide to lose the weight?
I hated the way I looked, wanted to wear my old clothes, etc. Usual reasons.

Was there a particular moment that it just clicked?
Not that something clicked, but I hurt my leg really badly while playing ultimate frisbee. I was on crutches for a month and a half, had surgery, etc. I was so afraid that I would gain weight because I was being so inactive, but I actually lost weight. I had no appetite b/c of the injury and especially after the meds from surgery that I ate very little. That got me motivated to continue.

What reasons are you continuing to try to lose/stick to your diet?
I used to complain all the time how unfair it was that I couldn't lose like a normal person. I would think, 'why am I not losing?' but when I look back on it my eating habits were not good. I would eat healthy, low carb, controled calories for a few days then eat crap the rest of the week and then complain that I didn't lose anything!

How do you STAY motivated?
Now I can think when I want to eat junk food how I used to eat and what I used to weigh and that is motivation enough for me!

Good luck with your weight loss and keep checking back here for some great motivation from these ladies!

Catylou's mom · 02-01-2004, 06:52 PM

I'm just wondering what made you decide to lose the weight?

I already knew I needed to lose weight and have always wanted to but joining the June challenge sounded like a good idea.

Was there a particular moment that it just clicked?

After about a week on the challenge I started to feel so good that it just made sense that now is the time to really lose the weight.

What reasons are you continuing to try to lose/stick to your diet?

[color=orange] I've already lost 20 lbs since the 2nd of January and I don't want to stop now.

How do you STAY motivated?

I've started visiting FAAS (FitAtAnySize) Kat's new site and I love it, so far everyone is working so well on motivating each other it's great. You post on there and people help to keep you on target for your particular goals.

Rebecca527 · 02-02-2004, 04:11 AM

My focus isn't so much on just losing weight, but getting healthy and treating my PCOS all around. It can pretty much be summed up in part of an e-mail I sent to my Mom when she asked me pretty much the same question. She is very supportive of me, but was suprised when she noticed that I was really sticking with it and taking charge of my life and my health. My answer to her (and this post) is this:
........"you know everything I've gone through (being ridiculed my entire life for being seen as fat and lazy or having no willpower even when I was starving myself and still gaining weight.) and tried (Weight Watchers, Slimfast, Jenny Craig, any fad diet or pill that they have on the market), and how I've failed in the past. Something has totally switched over in me, and I can't believe that I, *ME*, am doing this. I never want to go back to the way I felt before. And I want to beat this PCOS. I know I will always *have* it, but I don't have to *suffer* from it like I have in the past. I've felt like the past few years I've been running a race against it, against time, against fate, and you know what? I finally feel like I'm winning! I'm stomping PCOS in the dust!!! And it feels so good! Something is finally working. I wish I could pinpoint what exactly changed, because it's so hard to describe. I think everytime I tried to lose weight in the past, it was for all the wrong reasons. Because someone else wanted me to do it, because I wanted to just be thin and pretty and get a date, because I wanted to be like everyone else around me. But you know what? That obviously didn't work. I'm not doing it to be thin and pretty (because I am a BEAUTIFUL woman no matter what size package I happen to be wrapped up in). I'm doing it to be strong and healthy. I'm doing it so I won't keel over dead from a heart attack, or come down with Type II diabetes and lose my eyesight (well, more than I have already!) or my legs or have to be on dialysis everyday. I'm doing it so I don't lose my reproductive organs to endometrial or cervical or uterine or ovarian cancer from not having a period for a year at a time. I'm doing it for ME. Not for soceity so I can feel pretty and desired (even though that would be nice!). I'm doing it for everyone I love, and that loves me. I'm doing it so I can someday place a grandchild in your arms, and be healthy enough to run and play with that child like you did with us and watch that child grow up. God, it's so confusing to try to explain. I want this more than anything I have ever wanted in my life. I don't want to be ruled by PCOS anymore. I want to win the fight!!! And for the first time, I feel like I am.".....
That was sent after I found out I lost 13 lbs following the IR diet and working out 4 days a week. My motivation unfortunately has wavered in the past couple of weeks, but I am not going to give up. I'm not looking at what I'm doing just as a diet or a plan to lose weight, for me it's a lifestyle change and a treatment plan. And that's how I explain it to others when they ask. I'm doing this to treat my PCOS and get it under control so I can live a better, longer, happier life as the strong, beautiful, loving woman I am. And, developing a fit sexy body and maybe turning a few heads is just the icing on the cake for me!
Like I mentioned, something finally clicked for me around the 1st of the year, and I don't really know what that was. I think part of it is that I'm going to turn 30 in eight weeks, and I don't want to spend the next 30 years of my life how I've spent these 30...being depressed, overweight and unhealthy. Sorry to be so wordy!

Appollonia · 02-02-2004, 02:56 PM

GO BECCA!! YAY! Yeah, don't let temporary amotivation derail you!

I am wanting to lose weigth to:

1) Look a bit better

2) Avert diabetes

3) BE fit and able t0 do more athletic things

JD8 · 02-02-2004, 11:35 PM

I want to be healthy. I know weight loss will come with it. Two weeks ago, I threw away my scale. I'm tired of letting the damn thing decide my mood for the day. When I was first diagnosed, I lost weight right away, but 40 lbs into it, I hit a wall. I've just been wishy washy for 5 months. I've gained and lost the same 5 lbs since then. I get motivated for a week or so, then I cheat. Apparently, I'm a bit of a fatalist. Once I cheat, I feel like the whole day, week, month is ruined, and I feel really bad about myself and my "lack of discipline." I've seen relative after relative get diabetes, and today I decided it's not going to happen to me. I'm going to do the best that I can every day. I love to work out and usually do about 50 minutes on the elliptical machine. I've decided to weigh in about once a month. Let's go girls... we can do this.

vancouverNicole · 02-03-2004, 02:03 AM

reasons i wanna lose weight are-
-alot of heart problems on both sides of my family, some diabetes aswell.
-if a guy doesnt go for me i wont have to wonder if its because im out of shape
-be able to do things i miss like snowboarding without getting tired immidiatly
-feel more comfortable in cuter clothes

claire_f · 02-03-2004, 02:26 AM

You ladies are so inspirational. I have tears in my eyes!

Why I want to lose weight?

1) I want to have a baby. Losing weight will help me manage my hormones better, therefore give me a better chance of conceiving. I also want to make my body as healthy as possible, so my baby has all the right ingredients to grow healthy and strong.

2) I REFUSE to keep gaining weight. I may only be 35-40 lbs overweight right now, but if I don't change, that number will keep growing. The more weight I gain, the more risk I am placing on myself for future health problems.

3) I don't still want to be trying to lose weight 10 years from now, or 20 years from now, or 30 years from now. I want to get to a healthy weight and MAINTAIN.

4) Better sex. Sorry to be so blunt, but seriously... When DH and I are working out, it is SO much better! We enjoy each other's bodies more and feel better about our own bodies. It makes a world of difference.

5) I want to look hot again. Shallow? Maybe. True? Yes. I admit it.

What keeps me motivated? Results - seeing a difference and wanting to take it one step further.

Thanks everyone for sharing! This is all great stuff.
Claire

freebirds · 02-03-2004, 09:21 AM

1. I want to have a baby.
2. I want to have a healthy pregnancy
3. I want a healthy baby
4. I want to be healthy enough to enjoy my kids someday and teach them to be healthy
5. Be able to buy the clothes I want to wear, not just what will fit and look o.k.
6. Be able to see myself in a picture and say, gee, I look nice