It was september 2010, I had just got married (since divorced lol), and when I saw the pictures, I nearly died. I was much heavier than I had tried to pretend to myself. I was also a heavy drinker, and seriously unfit.
I got myself off the couch, went tee-total and lost around forty pounds, and I was a different person.
I have since regained maybe ten pounds, and lost my focus with fitness (I totally got obsessed, went too far, and that frightened me a little, so I pretty much stopped altogether!).
But now I am back on the horse, I want to get to my best once again (but a few pounds heavier than my lowest), and STICK with it this time!
Its my diet that is the problem, and I am now trying really hard to get that back under control.

Just for how it makes me feel, how it shows on my body, how much stronger it makes me. Plus I am type one diabetic, and although when I started, I went too crazy and that badly impacted my condition, the right amount helps no end with managing it.
It keeps me young and it makes me ready for anything.