INCENTIVES AND INSPIRATIONS!!

kezzieh

Hi everyone! Just out of pure curiosity i thought it would be interesting to share your incentives for weight loss/healthier eating/fitness! Upload photos of that gorgeous dress, before pics or anything that you think may inspire others.

Before i joined my only real goal was to loose my baby belly and get back into my size 10 skinny jeans. After being here for less than a week its been lovely speaking to other people. I have realised its not just about loosing the weight fast or how i look, its how you feel, what you eat and how you can help others, so come on guys...lets inspire!!!!

My incentives are now a healthy diet for my little boy. He will be weaned onto solids in just a few weeks and i know i want to give him the best!
My partner and I are also relatively active people but since falling pregnant its been hard keeping both our fitness levels up. Im going to try new sports and more exercise that we can do as a family.
Im also giving surfing a go this year!! We lived near some gorgeous coastlines and i have never taken advantage of this!

What are your incentives, no matter how big or small?

unsuspectingfish

Other than getting and staying healthy, this http://www.501st.com/ and this http://www.rebellegion.com/ (I honestly don't know which I'd rather join) and costuming in general. I don't want to be the fat Doctor/Jedi/Starfleet officer, anymore. Plus, it's more difficult and expensive to find/make stuff in my size. I've embraced that I'll be a nerd no matter WHAT size I am, but I would really like to kick down some stereotypes.

Also, I really wouldn't mind rocking that Princess Leia bikini, some day.

bonjour24

i want to run. i want to have lightening legs that can carry me for miles. i'm running a half marathon in october, and i don't want the bus of shame to get me( that's the bus that picks up the people who are too slow, and they get driven to the end).

i want to be able to play with my kids properly, and stop being lazy.

i don't really care about my weight or size that much- i've been a fatty forever! but i want to be fitter.

TamiLinc

Ive always wanted to cross my legs... like the skinny girls.. my grandma once told me i will never be able to do that because my body was not made like that.. i want to show myself i can!!

diembroadhurst

you grandma is very unkind - unless your legs are put on backwards everyone's body is capable of crossing their legs - you'll get there xx

diembroadhurst

At my heaviest 277lbs I told my boss I wanted to run a marathon - he snorted and couldn't hide his amusement at that idea. Next year I will have run my first marathon - I already have conquered a half marathon and nothing will stop me acheiving my goal next year.

lailenm

I've been morbidly obese my entire life. In elementary school, I was tormented for being a 'Teacher's Pet' and such, and that was what led me to start putting on weight. And then I was tormented for being both a Teacher's Pet and for being heavy. I didn't have the capacity to deal with the torment as a child, plus I didn't trust my mom's husband (I remember telling her on her wedding day to not do it), so I didn't deal with it - I just tried to push it away and comfort myself with food. I know that was the wrong thing to do - I should have been an active child and found things I love, like volleyball, a whole lot sooner (but I admit that I was a pretty sheltered child).

Now that I know better, my incentive for losing the weight is primarily to be healthy. To avoid all of the health conditions that plague my family. To avoid having a major health problem all because I was lazy, because I wasn't properly informed about my risks and what those diseases would do to me.

My biggest inspiration is actually my cousin, Jonathan. When my grandma and I moved into a house together, we had our family's usual Christmas get-together at the new house (this was back in 2009). And I hadn't seen Jonathan in right around a year, I believe. He, like the other members of his immediate family, had been on the husky side, too; but that Christmas, he walked in thin and in shape. I was in awe of what he had done in just a year. So I vowed that I would get healthy - which I kinda fell through on last year. But now I'm mature enough to dedicate every fiber of my being to this, especially since I wanna shock him while he's away in Afghanistan.

chubbyandawkward

This might sound a bit wierd but I watched Hanna last week and that's really inspired me. I want to be as much of a bamf as she is! I want to be strong and badass and know I could get kidnapped or left in a desert or something and be able to survive it XD

And also there's this boy and not even joking, he is beautiful. The goal isn't to make him interested or anything but I just want to be in that league, if you know what I mean?

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