Well, it has been quite a while since I posted in this forum. I just wanted to kind of share where I am at currently and why I have a new found nudge to get healthy and stay there. I had an issue with a kidney stone, so I went and got checked out. He also ran a usual work-up. Now, I haven't had a work-up in years because I was scared to see what my cholesterol was, so when he ordered the lipid panel, I was like, okay I'm not at my heaviest weight. Shouldn't be too bad. Heart disease is on both sides of my family, but I'm only 28.

Yeah my bad cholesterol came back 103, supposed to be less than 99. Not too bad in my opinion, but my doctor mentioned if I wanted to start medicine as more of a preventive, I could. That was all it took for me to hear. I told him I would like to see what I could do on my own to get my bad number down and my good number up. I told him I wanted to lose weight and continue to work on my eating habits. So I'm hoping when he next tests me that I will have a handle on it with diet and exercise.

Has anyone else needed a wake up call like this?

My own wake up call is medical related, but not blood work related.
It's good that you faced your panel and now you have a starting point.given some time and hardwork, you will surely meet your goal of not needing the meds!

My wake up call is just my hunch that my excess weight may be what hinders me from going into labor. When DH and I have our third I was to be as close to my GW as possible and gain as little as possible during that pregnancy.
I have very healthy, very uneventful pregnancies but I don't go into labor at all, so we will see what happens when I lose this weight.

My wake up call was seeing I was obese. I always knew I was overweight, but never in my life did I think I could reach obesity. It was the moment I joined this forum and never looked back. I also think my wake up calls along the way have been the feeling I get in my own skin. When I don't eat healthy or workout, I actually feel gross! It's hard to describe, but I find myself feeling a lot larger than I am when I don't make an effort to be healthy.

My wake up call was seeing I was 30lbs away from 200

My wake up call is being considered a candidate for weight-loss surgery.

I always thought of that as people who were just very very obese, not me. But I'm freaking 260 lbs. TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY. Like, that's just unfathomable to me.

I weigh the same as Dwayne Johnson.

Let that stew.

I weigh the same as a huge, hot, muscley man.

I also weigh more than pro football players. linebackers. I weigh more than one of my favorite Chargers player, Manti Te'o.

If that's not a wake-up call, I don't know what is.

I wonder how much did his "girlfriend" weigh?

Mine was more gradual. I hit snooze for a while. In college, I lost a lot of weight and played division 1 college athletics. I maintained through law school for the most part, but my third year I began putting weight on very quickly. Fast forward to now, I am back to where I started. I was in denial about the weight gain, even though 50 lbs doesn't just come back overnight. Clothes started getting tight, but I dismissed it as not a big deal. I mean, I still wasn't as fat as I was before. Well, that excuse got old. Looking at pictures and trying on an old dress has made me realize that I have got to make some changes. That, and plus size clothes. I recently had to purchase my first item from the plus size section of the store. I had forgotten how terrible plus size clothing is. I'm determined to lose the extra 50 and then some.

Yeah Chargers fan here. That's not funny.