Alia
Silver Member
I'd love to know what was the final straw that made you finally decide, once and for all that you really need to do something about your weight problem.
There has been quite a few things that have happened to me in the past that should have made me want to lose weight yet I've managed to sweep them under the carpet for so long.
I went to a restaurant years ago with my ex hubby and mine and his parents and they had the chairs with arms on them and they were a little snug to say the least. Half way through the meal I burst into tears in front of every one cause the arms of the chair were cutting into my thighs causing me so much pain. On top of that my mum bless her was so upset seeing me in pain that she shouted a waiter over and asked for them to bring me a chair without sides on them - it felt to me like the whole restaurant heard or saw what was going on and I've never felt so humiliated in my life.
On a holiday a couple of years ago when we boarded the plane my hubby saw that the seatbelt wouldn't fit and stood up and rather loudly shouted to the stewardess as she passed that we needed a seatbelt extention - I was mortified. Again on top of that the flight was so uncomfortable for me due to having no leg room and seats where the arm between two chairs did not lift up. I remember being so relieved as we went to land at heathrow and then wanting to cry when the piolet changed his mind as he was about to land and took off again and diverted us to Germany, I nearly burst into tears. Even that did n't make me want to change my lifestyle
A trip to Alton Towers while I was previously doing SW allowed me to go on most of the rides until I came to one that needed a harness over your shoulders and they need to click down to lock - the poor guy did everything he could do to make it lock barring sitting on it and it just was n't happening and he had to ask me to get off the ride with every one looking at me - of course I did what I'm guessing lots of overweight people do, I laughed it off
The final thing that happened to me and made me want to lose weight and this time get to target was having a miscarriage in March - I'd had a scan the previous week and everything was ok and when we went for the scan after I'd been bleeding the pregnancy had gone. I asked if there was any apparent reason for why it had happened I was told they would never really be able to tell what happened but my weight could have been a factor. I disagreed with her as I have 6 children and I've never had a miscarriage before. Ater a couple of days of distress and being so upset with the baby I had lost, I realised that if I do ever want to have one final baby to complete our family then there was no way I was in a good state health wise to carry a baby to term. I don't have good pregnancies, I'm sick from start to finish and after soul searching I came to the conclusiono that even though I could carry a pregnancy now I did n't want to go through the illness I suffer from whilst being so - my last pregnancy was the worst, I was sick from morning till night and could hardly function which was n't too much of a problem as all my kids at that point were so much older and able to sort them selves out. If I was to have a bad pregnancy again I'm not sure how I'd have coped if the same thing happened again and now having a 2 year old to run around after. That prompted this final weightloss journey for me and I've decided to not get pregnant and concentrate on losing weight until some time next year.
There has been quite a few things that have happened to me in the past that should have made me want to lose weight yet I've managed to sweep them under the carpet for so long.
I went to a restaurant years ago with my ex hubby and mine and his parents and they had the chairs with arms on them and they were a little snug to say the least. Half way through the meal I burst into tears in front of every one cause the arms of the chair were cutting into my thighs causing me so much pain. On top of that my mum bless her was so upset seeing me in pain that she shouted a waiter over and asked for them to bring me a chair without sides on them - it felt to me like the whole restaurant heard or saw what was going on and I've never felt so humiliated in my life.
On a holiday a couple of years ago when we boarded the plane my hubby saw that the seatbelt wouldn't fit and stood up and rather loudly shouted to the stewardess as she passed that we needed a seatbelt extention - I was mortified. Again on top of that the flight was so uncomfortable for me due to having no leg room and seats where the arm between two chairs did not lift up. I remember being so relieved as we went to land at heathrow and then wanting to cry when the piolet changed his mind as he was about to land and took off again and diverted us to Germany, I nearly burst into tears. Even that did n't make me want to change my lifestyle
A trip to Alton Towers while I was previously doing SW allowed me to go on most of the rides until I came to one that needed a harness over your shoulders and they need to click down to lock - the poor guy did everything he could do to make it lock barring sitting on it and it just was n't happening and he had to ask me to get off the ride with every one looking at me - of course I did what I'm guessing lots of overweight people do, I laughed it off
The final thing that happened to me and made me want to lose weight and this time get to target was having a miscarriage in March - I'd had a scan the previous week and everything was ok and when we went for the scan after I'd been bleeding the pregnancy had gone. I asked if there was any apparent reason for why it had happened I was told they would never really be able to tell what happened but my weight could have been a factor. I disagreed with her as I have 6 children and I've never had a miscarriage before. Ater a couple of days of distress and being so upset with the baby I had lost, I realised that if I do ever want to have one final baby to complete our family then there was no way I was in a good state health wise to carry a baby to term. I don't have good pregnancies, I'm sick from start to finish and after soul searching I came to the conclusiono that even though I could carry a pregnancy now I did n't want to go through the illness I suffer from whilst being so - my last pregnancy was the worst, I was sick from morning till night and could hardly function which was n't too much of a problem as all my kids at that point were so much older and able to sort them selves out. If I was to have a bad pregnancy again I'm not sure how I'd have coped if the same thing happened again and now having a 2 year old to run around after. That prompted this final weightloss journey for me and I've decided to not get pregnant and concentrate on losing weight until some time next year.
