What's YOUR Motivation?

WanderingRivers

Spite and self-loathing.

EatingAndKnitting

At first it was vanity. I saw my future in a vlogger on YouTube that day on a couch with a sheet covering her torso because she was too large for her clothes. I was pushing closer to the upper end of plus size stores, so I knew that was going to be me in a few years. Plus added risk of heart attack.

Now my motivation is health.

I'm diabetic, and I've seen my A1C (average blood sugar for the last two-three months) come down from 7.2 at its highest, to 6.5 when I started losing weight in January. In May after starting on a new med, and losing 35 pounds my A1C was 5.7. That's the cutoff for normal/start of pre-diabetes! But I got there by using a lot of insulin and having hypoglycemic episodes in addition to my new med, because I was eating a lot of sugar and way too much pasta.

My A1C two days was 5.9, up from 5.7, but improved in many aspects. I've only used insulin maybe five times in the last three months and had no hypoglycemic episodes! And I've lost 10 more pounds.

Since I've given up sugar (cakes, ice cream, candy, etc, but foods with added sugar like ketchup or pancake mix (though I limit that too)) and added daily exercise to my routine I expect my A1C to fall below pre-diabetes level and into normal.

My goal is to lose the next 100 pounds in two years, but put diabetes into remission by this time next year and get off my cholesterol drugs by my next test in May.

GoodrichFalbe

Being fit again and fitting into my jerseys I own.

ravengirl2014

To be honest...initially vanity as well...my daughter and I want to go to a Walker Stalker Convention (For fans of the Walking Dead) and we want to get photo ops with our favorites...Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Daryl (Norman Reedus) I do not want to be disappointed with my picture standing next to those beautiful men...and I want to have the confidence in mystelf to actually speak to them... I want to wear something hot...I want to feel slinky! That was my initial motivation...now? Nearly 6 months in I have other fitness goals as well...pull ups, push ups, running...actually maintaining my weight at or around 130 pds...which I have never done before...I feel something I have never felt before...confidence that I can do it! My Trainer started that seed and has helped me grow it.. I can do this! I do not have to be the fat/chubby girl!!!

TorStar80

ravengirl2014 wrote: »

To be honest...initially vanity as well...my daughter and I want to go to a Walker Stalker Convention (For fans of the Walking Dead) and we want to get photo ops with our favorites...Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Daryl (Norman Reedus) I do not want to be disappointed with my picture standing next to those beautiful men...and I want to have the confidence in mystelf to actually speak to them... I want to wear something hot...I want to feel slinky! That was my initial motivation...now? Nearly 6 months in I have other fitness goals as well...pull ups, push ups, running...actually maintaining my weight at or around 130 pds...which I have never done before...I feel something I have never felt before...confidence that I can do it! My Trainer started that seed and has helped me grow it.. I can do this! I do not have to be the fat/chubby girl!!!

You NEED to share that photo if you get it . And yes... you’ve got this.

Pintorasaurus

I decided to have 2 more kids in my 30s so here I am 33 with a 10 month old. I want to be healthy and feel confident I won't have a heart attack before she graduates high school.

ravengirl2014

TorStar80 wrote: »

ravengirl2014 wrote: »

To be honest...initially vanity as well...my daughter and I want to go to a Walker Stalker Convention (For fans of the Walking Dead) and we want to get photo ops with our favorites...Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Daryl (Norman Reedus) I do not want to be disappointed with my picture standing next to those beautiful men...and I want to have the confidence in mystelf to actually speak to them... I want to wear something hot...I want to feel slinky! That was my initial motivation...now? Nearly 6 months in I have other fitness goals as well...pull ups, push ups, running...actually maintaining my weight at or around 130 pds...which I have never done before...I feel something I have never felt before...confidence that I can do it! My Trainer started that seed and has helped me grow it.. I can do this! I do not have to be the fat/chubby girl!!!

You NEED to share that photo if you get it . And yes... you’ve got this.

AWWW thanks!

kcastagnoli

TeacupsAndToning wrote: »

I want to be hot.

you ARE hot!

kcastagnoli

KurumiSophia wrote: »

Spite and self-loathing.

LMAO!!!! I hope it's not all that bad, but that was funny!

PamRoman61

I want to stop pretending I am happy and fulfilled. My choices have been lazy and consumptive and I will change that mindset because I want to do and be better.

April4th

I got tired of having a big belly and a big butt. Plus I wanted to look better in my photo ops with the actors from Supernatural instead of dreading how I usually look.

April4th

kcastagnoli wrote: »

TeacupsAndToning wrote: »

I want to be hot.

you ARE hot!

This would be nice too. I've never been hot. :-)

ravengirl2014

Sometime in the next couple of years my daughter and I are going to Walker Stalker, either the convention or cruise and I am going to be hot, wear something slinky, and have the confidence to talk to my celebrity crush Jeffrey Dean Morgan. And I am going to love my photo with him instead of being embarrassed by my weight...