Your number one reason to lose weight

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  • misti777
    misti777 Posts: 217 Member
    Mainly to feel better in general, to feel healthy. But another reason is that I'm just tired of being big. I've gone up and down all over the place and it is frustrating. And also, to maybe attract a boyfriend.
  • dognamedpig
    dognamedpig Posts: 38 Member
    To look good sitting down, which is what I do all day at work, and standing up.
  • thesupremeforce
    thesupremeforce Posts: 1,206 Member
    It was an attempt to make my surgically repaired ankle not hurt so much all the time.
  • lolalament
    lolalament Posts: 73 Member
    I think my number one motivation is my clothes. I have so many that don't fit, and slowly I've just been replacing them and hiding them at the back of my wardrobe - but a while ago my bike jeans were really tight, and those things are expensive so I can't just replace them! My waterproof trousers are also tight, and they were about £200 so I need to be able to fit in them by winter. It got to the point where my clothes were spoiling my bike rides, or even putting me off because I didn't want the hassle of getting dressed. I even made myself a button extender out of a hair bobble as I couldn't fasten my jeans! Now, the button will do up properly, although they're a little bit tight - but soon they will fit better!

    I also have the motivation that I get back pain from arthritis, and if I was smaller it may not be as bad. But for me that's not a huge motivator, as it's only a MIGHT - I've been smaller before and still had pain.Whereas I know that if I am smaller my clothes will fit.
  • sgdenton
    sgdenton Posts: 41 Member
    #1 - To feel sexy in my own skin.

    Other reasons; To be healthier, to fit into clothes better, to be a faster runner, to have more opportunities in my career.
  • Bluefishstick
    Bluefishstick Posts: 6 Member
    To be healthier, finding clothes that fit well and look nice! Finally tracking my food and really real like that is helping me to realize what and how much I have been actually eating!
  • sweet_blasphemy
    sweet_blasphemy Posts: 129 Member
    ...because I literally cannot afford to outgrow my wardrobe anymore. I'm down to a handful of slapped-together outfits in which I look presentable and/or feel comfortable. Clothes are the last thing I have room in my budget for. Being tall (and in denial) it took a while for me to acknowledge the 40ish pounds that crept up on me over the past 4-5 years, until recently when I admitted to myself that my pants indeed were getting a little more than "suspiciously snug." The last straw was when I recently had to add an extender tab to my bra band...

    Oh yeah, and health and longevity and all that good stuff, too.
  • jbuck93
    jbuck93 Posts: 89 Member
    I can't buy a 20 lbs lighter sled this year so I need to be a twenty lbs lighter rider!. Oh and I want to be smokin hot naked.
  • FaithsVegWorkout
    FaithsVegWorkout Posts: 471
    My doctor put the fear of disease in me.
  • _EndGame_
    _EndGame_ Posts: 770 Member
    So I don't die.
  • gobraves47
    gobraves47 Posts: 213 Member
    I want to live!
  • lilfurson
    lilfurson Posts: 190
    I want to run faster / easier
  • trackmyday1973
    trackmyday1973 Posts: 393 Member
    So I am no longer limited to buying clothes that look like shower curtains.
  • michele440
    michele440 Posts: 2 Member
    I like to be able to move better. My joints ache and I feel like I have less body strength. Getting older and being overweight is tough on the body.
  • NZhellkat
    NZhellkat Posts: 355 Member
    My knee was giving me so much grief that I finally realized that if I didn't get active and keep moving I would in all likelihood end up having surgery and ending up in a wheel chair. I want to enjoy my kid free years and have energy and motivation to run around with the grand kids when they eventually arrive. Yeah and no hurry on those grand kids either please.
  • lolalament
    lolalament Posts: 73 Member
    ...because I literally cannot afford to outgrow my wardrobe anymore. I'm down to a handful of slapped-together outfits in which I look presentable and/or feel comfortable. Clothes are the last thing I have room in my budget for. Being tall (and in denial) it took a while for me to acknowledge the 40ish pounds that crept up on me over the past 4-5 years, until recently when I admitted to myself that my pants indeed were getting a little more than "suspiciously snug." The last straw was when I recently had to add an extender tab to my bra band...

    Oh yeah, and health and longevity and all that good stuff, too.
    I've recently gone down a bra back size, and I haven't been doing this very long. So in a short while you'll be able to ditch that extender if you stick at it, and I know you can!
  • jazzvel
    jazzvel Posts: 5
    For overall health and to feel comfortable around people without a shirt! :wink:
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    My Health:flowerforyou:
  • sharonfoustmills
    sharonfoustmills Posts: 519 Member
    For my health, for how good it makes me feel, the energy it gives me.

    Second, for my appearance.
  • BaconSlanger
    BaconSlanger Posts: 64 Member
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  • BaconSlanger
    BaconSlanger Posts: 64 Member
    I want to be able to outrun zombies in the event that another ascomycota fungi evolves/mutates and takes over our bodies.


    (Brownie points if you know that reference.)


    Please say you speak of The Last of Us.
    That game is just *falls to knees* the best.
  • sally_jeffswife
    sally_jeffswife Posts: 766 Member
    Because the migraine meds I had been on caused me to put on 45 lbs in like 3 months. And that really alarmed me, I didn't wanna have to buy any new clothes and I noticeably felt crappier and less energetic. I had my Dr switch my meds and have been logging calories and consistently working out and have lost something like 34.8 lbs now wanna get bk down to where I was before putting on weight and even a little more than that and put on some extra muscle. Also I wanna feel comfortable wearing dresses and that and not being in shape makes that really hard especially since I am very short so if I put on weight its easier to notice.
  • themommie
    themommie Posts: 5,033 Member
    My #1 reason is to be healthy. I have fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and hypothyroid, when I started mfp I was in bed 3xs or more a week. I hurt all over, fell asleep in mid sentence and basically didnt have a life, also high blood pressure and high chlesterol. Now I can live life, no more high blood pressure and no more high chlesterol and no more days in bed. Wow now I have my life back.....what a great reason to lose weight
  • Sunitagt
    Sunitagt Posts: 486 Member
    Because I want to look on the outside what I feel on the inside.

    Because I don't want to be heavy for the rest of my life.

    Because I want to be able to do more in life than I can do now. Not have so much difficulty doing things I am uncomfortable doing now.
  • rainbow198
    rainbow198 Posts: 2,245 Member
    My main reason was to tighten up my body. I loved my curves and knew I had potential so I went to work!
  • reddaddie
    reddaddie Posts: 121 Member
    My #1 reason is to be healthy. I have fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and hypothyroid, when I started mfp I was in bed 3xs or more a week. I hurt all over, fell asleep in mid sentence and basically didnt have a life, also high blood pressure and high chlesterol. Now I can live life, no more high blood pressure and no more high chlesterol and no more days in bed. Wow now I have my life back.....what a great reason to lose weight
    Keeping up with this one^ ;-)
  • RaggedyPond
    RaggedyPond Posts: 1,487 Member
    To look good next to my sexy weight lifting husband.
  • TheRealParisLove
    TheRealParisLove Posts: 1,907 Member
    So that I can ride my bicycle up hills even faster. I'm a pretty good hill climber now, but if I were 10 pounds lighter, I'd be uncatchable.

    Also, just to prove to myself that I can do it. :smile:
  • kkaiser104
    kkaiser104 Posts: 24
    I'm going to grad school next fall and I don't want to be the fattest girl in the room anymore.

    I don't want to worry if I can fit into a desk, car seat, airplane seat, or rollercoaster.

    I'm tired of my knees and ankles hurting at 21 years old.

    I'm young and have some chance of my skin bouncing back if I lose the weight now.

    I want to feel like I deserve to be loved.
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    So what about all of you? What is your number one reason for losing weight?

    I was fat.

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