What was your turning point?

My turning point to me was over hearing a colleague at mine at the works christmas party saying how 'much i've gained weight'. I stopped following a vegetarian diet in Feb 2013 and I thought I was eating a healthy diet until I met my boyfriend and soon came the takeaways, nice dinners and constant snacking! I soon went from 10st6 up to almost 13st at Christmas 2013 - thats where I knew I had to change.

My Mum is the most honest lady I know - will tell me straight regardless if the truth will hurt me or not. She kept on telling me since i've been with my boyfriend that my weight was increasing and increasing, yet I didn't want to believe her. It was until I saw photos of me over the Christmas period that I knew I had to change. It was the best thing finally listening to my Mum and over hearing my colleague!
 
This year I was just putting off going back and am so so glad I did.

Last year (just before I first started SW) I had a proper bout of flu. It was honestly horrendous, I thought I'd had flu before but when I got proper flu I knew that I definitely hadn't. My back muscles were seizing up, my hearing kept half going, I was in a total fever for days and felt woozy non-stop. I developed a throat infection as a result of being run down (I've had life long problems with throat infections) and between the two I was pretty much bed-bound for 10 days and wasn't allowed to speak for a week of that (my GP warned me I would likely have damage to my vocal chords as the infection was so severe).

6 weeks after being hit with flu, I was still struggling to recover. My hair was snapping off and turning white, the skin was falling off my hands, I couldn't socialise as I had no energy and it hit me that being the weight I was must have been slowing my recovery down. I had a terrible diet, ate almost no fruit and only ate veg with dinner, I was just a mess. Even though I fell off the wagon last summer I have kept some good habits and ate more fruit and veg, think it made it easier to start back this year.

I never want to feel like that again.
 
My turning point was on the 23rd November 2013.

My adorable blonde haired, blue eyed niece turned one. She is just the most gorgeous well behaved little girl and luckily for me she is head over heels in love with me, wherever we are, whatever she is doing as soon as I enter the room she beams and makes her way over to me as fast as she can.

We all had such a lovely day that day, a tea party with "Isabella themed" sandwiches... (all her favourites cut up into fingers) pretty little pink cupcakes and a glass of champagne to toast our gorgeous girl...
It was a small doo, held at my brothers house, so I went causal, skinny jeans and a nautical striped top, thought I looked OK before I left the house (I'd been in denial for about 6 months about how much weight I had put on over the last 2 years) but I still thought I looked alright that day...

When I got sent the photos from my parents of that day I was absolutely mortified... In so many of the shots Isabella is looking up at me lovingly, covering me in kisses or cracking up laughing at something silly I'm doing... and I look like a big fat heffa... totally ruined the photos!! I was absolutely horrified at the state of me. I sulked for a month, really let it get me down and vowed in the new year I would do something about it.

I started SW on the 3rd January 2014 weighing in at 21st 2.75lb and so far I have lost 2st 2lb... Not as much as I had hoped to have lost by now, but I'm hoping that by the time she turns two, I will have lost around 4st and will not look quite so bad in the photos!
 
The curse of the camera! There's nothing worse than unflattering photographs for a sharp shock!
Keep sticking at it though Amy_R- you're doing so well and a lot of people do lose slowly! I struggle for a full lb a week most weeks but it's all going in the right direction, and it's not a sprint/fad diet, it's a healthy eating plan forever.
BrokenMirrors- I totally agree that diet affects health in terms of recovery from illness- i know some people who barely even look at a piece of fruit or a vegetable and they seem to take ages to come round from cold/flu/infections- even if it is just in the mind I'm sure a healthy diet with lots of vitamins aids recovery.
CharKearney- cruel of the work colleague to say such things, especially behind your back, but if you're thanking them now for giving you a push in the right direction then so be it. Mothers can be so cruel haha. My grandma is exactly the same though- tells my OH when he has put on weight!
x
 
My turning point was because I want children, (Im 27 and my partners 22), I feel like im ticking on a bit now, and I want to be safe, fit and healthy for when I decide to have children. I want to be able to keep up with them, and I never want them to go through what I've been through.

i want to set a good example and prove to myself I can do this. Ive never been so motivated before.
 
RosiePops said:
The curse of the camera! There's nothing worse than unflattering photographs for a sharp shock! Keep sticking at it though Amy_R- you're doing so well and a lot of people do lose slowly! I struggle for a full lb a week most weeks but it's all going in the right direction, and it's not a sprint/fad diet, it's a healthy eating plan forever. BrokenMirrors- I totally agree that diet affects health in terms of recovery from illness- i know some people who barely even look at a piece of fruit or a vegetable and they seem to take ages to come round from cold/flu/infections- even if it is just in the mind I'm sure a healthy diet with lots of vitamins aids recovery. CharKearney- cruel of the work colleague to say such things, especially behind your back, but if you're thanking them now for giving you a push in the right direction then so be it. Mothers can be so cruel haha. My grandma is exactly the same though- tells my OH when he has put on weight! x
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It wasn't even in a nasty way but I'm glad I heard her as if not I dread to think what position I'd be in now!
 
Amy_R said:
My turning point was on the 23rd November 2013.

My adorable blonde haired, blue eyed niece turned one. She is just the most gorgeous well behaved little girl and luckily for me she is head over heels in love with me, wherever we are, whatever she is doing as soon as I enter the room she beams and makes her way over to me as fast as she can.

We all had such a lovely day that day, a tea party with "Isabella themed" sandwiches... (all her favourites cut up into fingers) pretty little pink cupcakes and a glass of champagne to toast our gorgeous girl...
It was a small doo, held at my brothers house, so I went causal, skinny jeans and a nautical striped top, thought I looked OK before I left the house (I'd been in denial for about 6 months about how much weight I had put on over the last 2 years) but I still thought I looked alright that day...

When I got sent the photos from my parents of that day I was absolutely mortified... In so many of the shots Isabella is looking up at me lovingly, covering me in kisses or cracking up laughing at something silly I'm doing... and I look like a big fat heffa... totally ruined the photos!! I was absolutely horrified at the state of me. I sulked for a month, really let it get me down and vowed in the new year I would do something about it.

I started SW on the 3rd January 2014 weighing in at 21st 2.75lb and so far I have lost 2st 2lb... Not as much as I had hoped to have lost by now, but I'm hoping that by the time she turns two, I will have lost around 4st and will not look quite so bad in the photos!
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AND what an amazing role model you will be for her! Can't believe you said your weight loss isn't as much as you would have hoped for!!! Two stone, two pounds is incredible in, what is roughly, five months!! It's the equivalent of FIFTEEN of those disgusting, yellowy, rubbery blobs, they have at the SW meetings! Absolutely, well done for such a fantastic loss and for turning a negative into a life changing positive!

Kathy
 
I bet it's as much as your niece weighs ;)
 
My turning point was having emergency open abdominal surgery and looking down at my huge scar which didnt heal .properly over my fat tummy and thinking this has to go
 
Not fitting into my favourite heels from pre pregnancy! Clothes were annoying but expected but not getting into some shoes, bah! And I hate shoe shopping
 
Elvisfan4life said:
My turning point was having emergency open abdominal surgery and looking down at my huge scar which didnt heal .properly over my fat tummy and thinking this has to go
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Wow! Poor you! It's surprising how many different reasons there are for giving us all the final push we need. Just glad it happened and now we know what to do about it! :)

Kathy
 
Thanks hun....i hated my scar so much at first ...no more bikinis for me but,now im proud of it as it saved my life and it reminds me i should look after my own body better so here i am tryng to lose it
 
Wow! Definitely a dramatic wake-up call! If I feel like I'm going to go off track, even though this particular thread isn't all that long yet, I read back through each 'turning point' story and it gives me the inspiration to stick with it and ignore the chocolate cake, beckoning to me from the staff-room table! :D

Kathy
 
I had been 14 1/2 stone, that was always my maximum weight, got gallstones and ended up just under 11 stone. After getting my gall bladder out I was able to eat what I wanted again and the weight kept creeping up. I ended up a stone and a half over my previous highest weight and decided enough is enough. A friend told me about slimming world last week and so I went to my first class on Monday. I'm amazed how much I'm eating and this does feel different to previous weight loss attempts, just hope I can stay motivated and on plan!
 
lougalx said:
I had been 14 1/2 stone, that was always my maximum weight, got gallstones and ended up just under 11 stone. After getting my gall bladder out I was able to eat what I wanted again and the weight kept creeping up. I ended up a stone and a half over my previous highest weight and decided enough is enough. A friend told me about slimming world last week and so I went to my first class on Monday. I'm amazed how much I'm eating and this does feel different to previous weight loss attempts, just hope I can stay motivated and on plan!
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You can you will just keep reporting ihere we,will keep you going
 
lougalx said:
I had been 14 1/2 stone, that was always my maximum weight, got gallstones and ended up just under 11 stone. After getting my gall bladder out I was able to eat what I wanted again and the weight kept creeping up. I ended up a stone and a half over my previous highest weight and decided enough is enough. A friend told me about slimming world last week and so I went to my first class on Monday. I'm amazed how much I'm eating and this does feel different to previous weight loss attempts, just hope I can stay motivated and on plan!
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Well done, lougal, for taking that step. I had my gall bladder removed when I was 21 but, unfortunately didn't learn my lesson either! So glad I discovered SW! :) Good luck on your weight loss journey and, as Elvisfan4life said, there's always someone on Minis to offer advice, encouragement, etc.

Kathy
 
Yeah, thanks. I've stuck to plan so far, going away for a few days tomorrow so hoping I can stick to it then, but if I need any inspiration or even a good kick up the arse I know I can come on here as everyone is so supportive!
 
Going away so can't make my first weigh in, but on my own bathroom scales its showing 4 1/2 lb loss since Monday morning, yay!
Can't believe it given how much I've been eating but so chuffed.
 
Wow! Amazing! Enjoy your break away and, if you can't fit SW into it, you always know you can sort it out when you get back. Not worth letting it spoil any part of your time away. Sometimes, I just think, I'm eating out/going away so, sod it! I know how to get rid of anything I put on! Enjoy.

Kathy
 
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