I haven't been a member of the 20-somethings group for very long, so I'm sorry if this thread has already been done here. I know it's been done a few other places so, sorry if it has!!
Anyways, my "click" moment when I realized I needed to lose the weight and make some healthy changes in my life happened when I saw myself in a video with some friends. I saw myself and was just shocked at how big I let myself get. That's when I had the moment where I started exercising regularly and eating healthy.
Today, I had another click moment. I've been out of my exercise/healthy eating routine for a while because I lost some motivation. But today, it just kind of happened that I'm realizing how good I feel when I exercise and how awesome it is to see the pounds go down on the scale. It's all very exciting and I really am determined to get to my goal weight. I'm glad this click happened to help me get back my motivation.
So, I wanna know, did you have a click moment? Or did something else happened? Perhaps this can give us all a little more motivation to help us along the way!!
Hi! Thanks for sharing your moment. I had an incredible moment of my own about a week ago after I realized how obsessed I was with weight and food. I have been trying to lose 10 pounds for over a year, and I slowly was gaining more rather than losing. I was so focused on how many calories everything was, on trying not to eat certain foods, on trying to burn a certain number of calories at the gym, on losing x number of pounds in x number of days, that I was driving myself crazy and really sabatoging myself. I decided to try and eat how I'm sure God intended us to. I have only been eating when I'm hungry, stopping when I'm full, and if I want a treat, allowing myself, but in a very monitored portion. Like yesterday I wanted a cookie, so I had about 1/3 of one where normally I would have had at least 5 whole ones. I find myself having to remind myself to eat now, after only a week of trying to eat like a "normal" person. It's been amazing. My average calories for the week was 1208 per day. So amazing that it is only after I ditched the diet that I am finally finding some diet successs. I'd love to hear other "click" moments as well.
My click came one night after making love to my husband. I went to the bathroom just after and I turned on the light. When I turned I saw myself naked in front of the mirror and was afraid for a moment before I realized it was me. I just stared for what seemed like forever, but it was only a minute or so. What a slap in the face! I'm doing whatever it takes to lose the weight now.
MY 'click' moment came summer when I went to Huntington Beach in Orange County. In a sea of six-pack abs and rippling muscles, I sported a mini-keg But that was over 2 months and 15 pounds ago.... hopefully next summer I'll be fit in, but without the personal trainer and/or high class gym membership that serves evian by the truckload.
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For me it was a culmulation (sp?) of things.
I hated not being able to fit into my clothes and would always get frustrated with myself.
I hated the comments from family and I was always extremely self-conscious.
I hated to look at myself in the mirror or when I was showering.
But the worst thing that really did it for me was seeing a picture of myself. I had seen the picture before, but one day I pulled it out again and couldn't believe what I saw. It took me a while to admit I needed to change.
I've been getting on myself since I had Brenna that I needed to lose the baby weight plus what I put on between getting pregnant with her and having Gillian. My click moment was going through pictures at MIL's. I'm always the one behind the camera, so when I actuallly saw a picture of myself I was disgusted. Gut hanging over my pants, big butt, back fat....just completely grossed myself out. My husband and I have been having some problems, and I know a lot of it has to do with my own issues with myself. So, when he left for bootcamp I decided to give myself a complete makeover and knock his socks off when I go to see him. I want to show him that I can be the same happy girl I was when we got married and not some frumpy overweight housewife that only gripes and nags.
I've had a million click moments, and tried a million times. I had know for a while I had gained back a lot of what I had lost because my clothes were on but, not fitting, I was bulging out of them but I refused to buy more in a larger size. When it finally clicked and I started this journey, it was last November, I went on a vacation with my sister and friend. When we got the pictures back from the vacation, there was one where I was snorkeling and it was disgusting, I couldn't believe it was me. I thought I was so cute but looking at that picture, I was horrified. So I joined WW, I have been going almost a year, and have been losing slowly but at least I havn't gained. I'm down a total of 37 pounds and I still have a lot more to lose but I'm doing it. I keep that picture hidden so no one else will see it but I pull it out once in a while to keep my self going.
My loudest click that made me actually do something was getting on the scale and having it say 190. Real 190, not like at the end of the day, drank a lot of fluids and ate a lot 190, but first thing in the morning a couple days in a row 190. I thought "Wow, I guess that's really how much I weigh, that sucks". My fiance who is 6'1" was 188 when I met him, he gained weight too, just not as much as me (his highest 213 and now is 195 about). I was just like, man this has got to stop because I am consistantly gaining.
Lockitup, it is so funny what you said about your fiance. When I met my fiance, who is 6'1", he weighed 185. We have both gained weight together (me more than him) and he is now around 197.
My "click" moment was when I went to my OB-GYN to get birth control. He had my lipids tested and found that my cholesterol is "borderline high". I'm only 21 so the ridiculousness (I know its not a word) of how I could allow my body to lose control really pushed me into getting healthy.
aovercast - i feel your pain.. if I had done it when my bf left for bootcamp, id be feeling a lot better about myself right now...
My "click"... my god there were so many of them.. It was an extended one which got me here. I was tired of looking through pictures of me and my friends, or me and my bf, and seeing how I could fit two of them (an exaggeration but its how I felt) into my jeans. I felt.. ashamed I guess you could say. So finally I was like "screw it, this has got to change.." and then I remembered this site, which a friend had given me months before.. and here I am.
My click was the realization that I am the SINGLE mom of a 5 1/2 year old. I want to be the MARRIED mom of a bunch of kids (5-7 or more, I know...I'm nuts). My best friend is engaged, and pregnant. Her good friend is engaged and pregnant. It seems like everyone around me is happy...except me.
I think my click moment was when I got out of breath running with my niece while we were playing in the backyard and that had never happened, it scared the living poo out of me and also seeing my aunts and grandmother pass away from diabetes. So I guess you can say I have had a lot of click moments.
my "click" moment was when a guy friend of mine was joking around at a party (he was veerryyy drunk) and said he wouldn't mind hooking up with me because he likes his girls fat. yeah, that pretty much did it for me!
I know what mine was I had to go to my sisters wedding. She and her now husband decided that they wanted to get married quickly (no she wasn't with child :P). This left me basically no time find a dress. Basically from the point I got back from the wedding on I have been exercising on a normal basis and eating alot better.
Hello...I'm new here and was just roaming the 20-somethings. I introduced myself in the Getting to Know You thread just previous to this one....
My "click" moment was really several....not fitting into clothes, having to buy larger sizes everytime I shopped. Noticing myself expanding in certain areas and being ashamed of myself enough to not stand in front of the mirror. I also went to the doctor and that is how I found out how much I weighed at my heaviest....she looked me and up and down after she got the number and said well I woulda never guessed you weighed THAT much...I was mortified! I REALLY realized what exactly I looked like and how big I looked to everyone else..It was Easter pictures from my moms house. I was actually mad and asked my mom, one of my sisters and my husband why they hadn't told me I needed to lose some weight!! But the biggest motivator and "constant click" for me is when I'm intimate with my husband. I dread it! I can't fully enjoy the experience because in my head during I am analyzing myself and thinking of what I look like in this and that position...its terrible. It keeps me from being as open with him as I want to be. I want to feel sexxxy! I
Did you have a "click" moment?
But that was over 2 months and 15 pounds ago.... hopefully next summer I'll be fit in, but without the personal trainer and/or high class gym membership that serves evian by the truckload.
