What FUELS your health journey?

ItsKatashi

What fuels you? Revenge body, a dream dress you want to wear..or just realizing you deserve to be happy in your own skin?

gonnasnap

I just really enjoy pushing myself and watching the changes occur but ultimately just want to be healthy

Viktorija34

I want to look great again! I've put on 30kg in the last 2 years and I don't even know how I've done it. I'm hoping that with the help of this app and with the support of this community, I will lose the excess weight.
Recently I went to the party and people were taking photos. It was a wake up call when I looked at the photos. I looked so fat! I've realised I need to take action as I'm heaviest I've ever been. So small steps at a time but hopefully will succeed.

tiaray1979

I want to stabilize my high blood pressure, and... I don't know else

RepswithRyan

I want to be able to snatch x1.5 my body weight over my head.

nighthawk584

My Health

sardelsa

I'm trying to get back to my pre-pregnancy body, strength and fitness level for now

gallicinvasion

My fuel is the desire to have a positive relationship food, where guilt and binging doesn’t rule my life and ruin my happiness. My secondary fuel is the amazing feeling of being able to say yes to activities and life choices that would have felt scary or impossible when I was obese.

rainbow198

When I first started my journey, I honestly just wanted a fit, toned body and wanted to wear a bikini comfortably and shop for cute clothes. That motivation worked very well.

However, as time went on it became so much more than the physical. I was sleeping better, I could walk up stairs without getting tired, I could fit in seats easier, I just felt better overall.

Now that I've been maintaining for several years and have hit my goals, I've been seeing a lot of people around my age and younger getting sick from preventable illnesses.

Others are just defeated and feel that life is over. I don't want to live that way. I want to avoid doctors, I want to move without pain and just be physically fit and able-bodied for as long as I can.

So the combination of the above (my appearance, clothes, how I feel, longevity) keeps me going strong.

manderson27

Reducing joint pain is now my top driver. I don't care much how I look as long as I can move and do normal daily stuff without hurting.

RoseyandReady

I want to feel comfortable in my own skin again and to be confident in my appearance when I'm out in public. Also, I want to join some recreational sports leagues and not have to worry about what I look like.

Mr_Healthy_Habits

The fact that statistics show 95% of people who lose weight, gain it back plus...

*kitten* your statistics...

God willing, I will die a beacon shouting out to everyone that you can beat this!

✌🏼💕

muskieschaef

My health and my active lifestyle.

AnnPT77

I didn't want to take statins for my high cholesterol, because I felt like I'd already given up enough cognitive bandwidth to chemotherapy previously. I tried changing what I ate, but only achieved minor improvements in cholesterol and blood pressure (also high). I was already very active, though obese, and eating mostly nutritiously.

That motivation was enough, but being diagnosed with gallbladder adenomyomatosis, a cholesterol/inflammatory kind of thing that can be correlated with gallbladder cancer, sealed the deal for extra real.

Losing to a healthy weight solved those problems**, and improved lots of other things as well. (I'm now in year 4+ of maintenance, age 64.) So worth it!

** Well, the gallbladder had to come out, too!

AlexandraFindsHerself1971

I want to be able to wear dresses with a waist, and to be active and healthy for many, many years to come. I also like the control of calorie counting, and want to have a body that I made the way I want it.

Also the thought that if I start now I'll be able to be 100 lbs less next time I see my sister, who I don't get along with....yeah. I LIKE that. Not real noble, but that'll be satisfying.

ReenieHJ

When people hit retirement age, all too often they fill up their free time with dr. visits...so many health issues seem to develop then. I don't want to be at the dr.s office every week. I want to feel comfortable being in public and not worrying people are gawking at me due to my weight, which is the way I always felt growing up and into my 60's. Now I feel confident they only gawk at me because I'm weird.

kali31337

I want my body to age well as I get older.
I want to be able to shop at certain stores with my friends.
I am in a wedding in June and I want to be HOT in those photos (not more than the bride though!!).
I want my mother to stop worrying about my health
I want to finally get off my lazy *kitten* and actually make some progress.
I want to go on dates and not wonder if it was because of my weight that I'm not going on a second one.

zzzedd

Hi,

my reasons are:

Overall health and better diet (i used to snack a lot and eat late, often missed breakfast)
I want to be able to play with my kids when i am older without any health issues.
I am constantly reminded by people i know about how slim i used to be. We cant have a single family gathering without my weight being discussed so i want to give everyone something new to talk about as the conversations got stale

Back_4_more

My bad bloodwork numbers when I don't take care of myself

geraldaltman

Fear. Be it real, imagined or irrational, I fear that if I don't, if I stop I will revert to the immobile, unhappy mess I was prior to my 2019 (January & April) hip replacements.