My weight has always been yo-yoing but this week I weighed myself and was at 98.1kg I refuse to let myself get to 100kg so it's time for me to get my act together

Same thing happened to me. I'm up 3 pounds from the last time I weighed myself I don't want to be at my all time high weight again so I'm puttin my foot down.

Realizing how unhappy it was making me- seriously cliched, but true! At 18 years old, I never went out, I only had one or two friends, and I spent all my spare time alone. It's only been 12 months since I started, but it is amazing what a difference twelve months can make!!

Realizing how easy it is to fall into bad eating habits AGAIN. If I stop being vigilant for one meal, if I say its ok to have this or that, the next thing I know I'm eating off plan for a few days then it becomes easier to just give up.

When 2011 rolled around and it struck me that I was going to turn 40 in a few months. Though it may sound macabre, I decided I either had to change my life and get healthy, or I would just kill myself. I made a choice to live, and I never looked back!

I had major surgery (unrelated in any way to weight) which is known to have a very difficult recovery -- difficult for anyone, not just me. As I was recovering, I couldn't be sure whether I was having difficulty getting off the couch because of the surgery or because I was out of shape. I couldn't be sure if my blood pressure was high because of the surgery or because of my weight. I went to a hockey game and everyone could leap out of their seat to cheer when a goal was scored. It was a struggle to get out of my seat. Was it because of the surgery or because of my weight?

I decided to take my weight out of the picture. I didn't want to ever again have to wonder if my weight was the source of a problem.

In retrospect, I do think that all those issues that I encountered above were largely because of the surgery. But I'll never know for sure, and the experience of being left to wonder was the last straw.