What is your why? Why are you doing this?

Aaron_K123

Lots of reasons that finally built up enough to influence me to take action:

In no particular order:

1. My health
2. My appearance
3. My ability to do things I like doing
4. My wife
5. My family
6. My self-respect/confidence

cgabby101

I'm tired of being so self conscious and unconfident. I'm tired of hating what I see in the mirror. I can't even go in public anymore without having bad anxiety due to my body. I want to be confident and comfortable in my skin for the first time in my life. May be vanity but that's why

can111

My doctor in his crappy bedside manner said, Don't you care about your body? That was the start! But really I want to be healthy and dare I say it? slim. I hate the spare tire around my middle. I want to be an active fit 50-something. Not someone who has to sit on the sidelines. I was thrilled to go from obese BMI to just the fat BMI. lol. I have my eye on normal BMI!

drabbits2

A few reasons. I never had trouble with my weight until I hit 40 and then BAM gravity happened. So now I am 46 and have about 30 pounds to take off. So reason #1 -- I don't like looking like a dumpy middle aged mom. I want to be a fit mom (not model skinny, but fit). Reason #2 -- I suffered with a back injury for a year and couldn't work out at all. I had back surgery July 25 that was a 100% success and on Oct 17 I will see the surgeon to get cleared for all normal activity except running, which I can't do ever again (back is too unstable, but honestly--I didn't run before so no biggie). I miss being more active and my stamina is awful from that year of pain and no movement.
Reason #3 -- I hate buying double digit pants. My goal is a size 8. That is an achievable goal for a person my age and height and activity level. So I feel like my goals are realistic, no reason I can't meet them. Reason #4 -- to challenge myself--I am kinda scared middle aged malaise is creeping in on me and I don't like it.

Melionfire

I am doing this because I want to be a role model for my two girls. I also want to develop a healthy relationship with food. Get control on my portion distortion and learn that food is not black or white. I can have what I crave but in reasonable amounts. I have been on the fad diet until I brake and binge and gain it all back cycle for 22 years and I want off desperately. I also had high blood pressure during both pregnancies and diabetes as well as high bp and cholesterol run in my family so I want to prevent these so I never have to go on medication. Plus i wouldn't mind fitting into my small clothes again and feeling confident when I look in the mirror.

Alyssa_Is_LosingIt

I want to:

1. live an active life
2. be around as long as I can for my husband, kids, and future grandkids
3. look good naked

Gotrek1

I want to see my grand kids when(if) they come, I want to stop flirting with diabetes.

momofGD

You guys are awesome. Like I said before please friend me so we can stay motivated together

tomteboda

I have lupus and arthritis and scoliosis. That means a lot of joint pain. My weight was not helping any of this one bit. And I take care of my morbidly obese mom, having to use a patient lift to transfer her from chair to bed to toilet. NOBODY in the world would want to live the way my mom lives. And I was terrified I was heading down the same road.

I've lost 100+ lbs in the last 2 years. My mom has lost almost 150 with me. We're making progress.

KyleGrace8

I'm here bc I want to never fall back into bad habits. I've been chubby to overweight my whole life and was just tired of not liking what I see in the mirror and being out of breath doing simple things. Getting fit has been great so far and I want to keep climbing the ladder so to speak. Hopefully in 2ish years when I turn 30 I'll look better than I did at 20. Feel better too. I already have family members asking me for advice, yes, the same ones who poked fun at me and that right there, is the best karma. I love the feeling of being capable and strong.

allenpriest

I got sick and tired of being sick and tired.

allenpriest

MysteriousMerlin wrote: »

My husband. We lost twins almost 2 years ago, after a very long struggle with infertility. We're no longer trying to have a family, so we just have each other. He wants me around for a long time, I guess. I don't care either way.

Please see someone to help deal with the grief.

soufauxgirl

I want to see and enjoy my grand-babies and be able to run around and play with them, not be stuck in a wheelchair with gangrenous or amputated limbs due to my obesity/diabetes with a oxygen tank and mask thrown in for good measure, that was my future. I chose a path to a brighter one.

gypsybunny72

Since 2011, I've been hit with a plethora of health and mental issues and enough is enough! I want to lose 66-70 lbs and go back to the old me, the healthy me. The happy me. I want to be around to see my son grow up and be happy again.

jenfran89

Because some of my favourite clothes stopped fitting and I'm too proud to buy new clothes in a bigger size

Charliecatesq

I am fed up of being too hot all the damn time. I am relatively fit and walk everywhere but always end up sweaty. I know people who drop weight say they are cold all the time but i would honestly prefer to get to work with a jumper on than standing in front of a fan for half an hour

nehaad88

This is such a fantastic thread.

My "why" is that both my parents are diabetic and my brother is a diabetic at 30. I am pretty near that age myself. Plus my husband is lean and athletic and i dont like to look 10 years older than him when I am not..

Karen_can_do_this

It has taken me a long long time to admit to myself that I am fat. Yes I have called myself fat multiple times in the past, but never really believed I was as large as what I am. After hitting 80kgs this was a scary wake up call. That is only 20kgs less than 100!!! At 5 foot that is a lot for me.
My mum for years told me I was a "big build" "big boned" etc.
It's time to discover who I am under this fat suit I'm wearing

85Cardinals

To be as good looking on the outside as I am on the inside.

sgt1372

For health & fitness now and to avoid a wheelchair and walker later.

TracyY824

My doctor put me in bp meds about four years ago and told me I needed to lose at least 30lbs. After years of starting and failing I'm finally on the right path 30lbs down and plan to stay there. I sometimes still can believe that I was able to do it. I feel so much better about myself physically and emotionally.

TonyB0588

Doctor said I was pre-diabetic so I wanted to stop the numbers actually moving in to the diabetic stage. Exercise and weight loss was the alternative to deteriorating and needing diabetic medication.

rcktgirl05

I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. And then there was that one picture where I didn't even recognize myself. Yikes.

Sairzie

I'm 26 now and am aware I've spent most of my teen years and over half of my twenties worrying about my weight and not feeling my healthiest self. I'm growing up and settling into who I am as a personality, as a wife, as an employee, as a member of my social group and felt it was time to settle into my body so I can live a healthy, happy life.

amelialoveshersnacks

rcktgirl05 wrote: »

I was sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I liiiiiiike it!

newheavensearth

Prediabetis, fibromyalgia, tired of people thinking I was pregnant when I wasn't, tired of everyone disrespecting me, tired of being pissed off about my weight and taking it out on everyone else for what I did to my health. Wanted to look and dress like a lady- makeup, heels, fitted clothes, the whole nine yards, but my weight didn't match the vision in my head. I wanted to love and respect myself again and live a long healthy life, comfortable and confident with myself in my own skin.

fitoverfortymom

Today my why is to not be the fat mom at my kid's school events.

DeviatedNorm

I would sing to myself, "I have become...uncomfortably fat" (to the tune of Uncomfortably Numb). It was such a hindrance in my life. There were two main catalysts to losing weight: spending over 20 minutes forcing an airplane buckle to just barely snap together, and then my biggest motivator, the passing of my father. He didn't pass away due to anything related to weight, but I know he would have wanted me to be a healthy weight and it's a huge motivator.

Orphia

To *kitten* rock.

elleestmighty

My boys...I have 3, the youngest is 3. Getting down on the floor to play with the 3 year old is difficult. I want to be around to see them have their own kids. I want to be a good example for them. Other reasons...to be able to shop easier for clothes (I'm short + round....not an easy combo to shop for!). To feel attractive and confident again. To be healthy. To not have weight stop me from doing things.