I joined the gym after looking in my wardrobe and hating every piece of clothing I owned, as none of them made me look good... then I found out my BMI was 31.2 and I felt sick to my stomach! It's gone down a few digits now I want to be like my other sexy 20 year old friends, wear skimpy outfits and look damn good in them.

In short: Obese, broke ankle during ice skating (I was the rink guard!), carried off the ice with my butt hanging out of my pants. Had surgery the next morning. Alone, on couch, no food. Decided enough was enough.

I had been dating a guy for about 6 months and we drank a lot and ate out a lot...and then he dumped me, so of course, I ate even more...

I've never been a tiny person, but I had become big enough that I didn't want to take pictures, cried whenever I was in the dressing room trying on clothes...and I felt unhappy overall. I knew I wasn't healthy, as I now have reflux from that previous diet!

I just finally realized I needed to make a change. I started dating a new guy, and although he thinks I'm beautiful as I am, he's very supportive of me. I now feel SO much healthier and so much better..and I did it FOR ME! (which is the most important part!!!!)

I did ok trying to change my diet last year and lost some pounds (no excercise). I gained them all back in January sitting on my couch, eating, and moping about how lonely I felt because my bf and parents live 800 miles away. I have a very nice life here so I don't know why I felt the need to be miserable and feel sorry for myself. I watched the scale creep up but I didn't bother to control my eating. My mom was coming to visit me for a few weeks in March and I decided I needed to stop these unhealthy behaviors because she wouldn't tolerate them and would nag me non-stop. In the meantime, my boyfriend and I had a huge fight partly related to my weight. He called off a trip to Europe we were planning together. Like others have mentioned, I too was feeling gross looking at pictures of myself.

All of that combined, I finally decided I needed to do something and get my life under control. The comfort I got from eating food was not worth the hit my social life was going to take if I continued with my weight gain. Through my work, I have free gym memberships at two gyms and to not utilize such a great benefit is very stupid on my part! I made up my mind that I would go to the gym, start doing something to move and get my heart rate up, and see if I could lose some weight. If after a few weeks I didn't see any results, I would hire a trainer. It's been 7 weeks and I'm seeing some results, I don't think I'm going to go with the trainer for now.

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Yay for awesome work discounts! I work for a public school system and we get discounts on gym memberships too. Its awesome! My best friend (who also works with me) has one, her boyfriend and her mom so we make it a "family" thing!