Why are you here? No, for real...

kcoftx

My reasons are reversed.

I woke up one morning and I was eating Pringles and chocolate for breakfast. I literally threw out the chips I had already taken out of the can to eat and immediately downloaded an app.

Now that I see all the talk about skinny fit with pictures to go with it, I realized that previously I had always been skinny fat anyway. So now my motivation is to look better this time than I did before I gained my moving abroad I'm on vacation mode I went into. I have never liked my pear shape because my bottom is bigger and saggy. My saddle bags stick out. I wasn't unhappy but now I realize pear shape is gorgeous and I can make it better. I just need to firm it up a bit. I realize it doesn't have to stay that way. It's not the weight. It's changing how it looks that I'm ultimately after now.

jillp99

a ***** i hate is skinnier than me. lol..............

KuroNyankoSensei

I have a wedding to go to in September, and have to be my sister's bridesmaid May 2013. She'd make me starve regardless if I wasn't skinny enough by that time, might as well get a head-start

LunaPhaedra

for myself, my deep dark reason for losing weight is just so my mom and brother will finally stfu about my weight. yes, i don't really like being over weight, but hey, there are still days when i can look in a mirror and say "Helloooooo sexy!" and feel good about how i look. but i'm constantly lectured by my mom and insulted by my brother (and sometimes my sister... even though she's almost as big as me!) and frankly, i just get sick and tired of listening to these *kitten*. So sure, i'll be able to finally go to stores and not have to worry about whether there'll be something in my size or not, and my cholesterol won't be so messed up anymore; but really, i just want these people to finally shut the *kitten* up and get off my back.

Fredrikanita

I just want to look good naked, be strong, fit and feel good about me. Am definately on my way there, just have to get back on the band wagon, kinda fallen off this week. :bigsmile:

SSGirlLV

To really get myself in check and be serious about losing the weight and being healthy..

704fitness

I started because it was great for tracking my progress as well as my exercises. I now find participating in some of the message boards an added bonus.

Altarian

Here because my wife, parents, relatives, and/or people i work with insist on taking pictures of me and i don't like how i look in them. Also i have 6 years before my high school reunion. I want them to truly not have a clue who i was anymore.

redcat17

I started because I had lost quite a bit of weight 6-7 years ago, and it was slowly creeping back up. Not to mention that I was having trouble getting up a flight of stairs.

And then my jeans started being hard to fit into, so I decided to put a stop to the gaining before it got to be too much. Also because I want to get stronger and be a bad *kitten*.

Mommy2Avaj

Because I miss my fine thick self. I let thick turn to obese. Not gonna live like that anymore.

itsjustdawn

YOU made my night.

iamkelskels

though i've basically been wanting to lose weight since i was 11 (sad, i know-- i'm 20 now), this past year i turned down going out with my friends on the weekends because i felt too unattractive at my weight in comparison to the rest of them. that was the final straw, and so i'm devoting my last summer at home to making the final change in my life.

for halloween, me and my best friends (10 of us) want to be disney princesses and i was chosen to be ariel, and da*nit, I WILL wear the sea shell bikini top and look smokin' sexy when i do it..

AliciaNorris81

At first it was to get healthy....but it got serious one day when....

My daughter (13) and I were out and about. I saw a lady who was very large, but dressed like she was very small. I said to my daughter "Please tell me I am not that big" and she said ":ohwell: "

Yep...that was it. Came home, took a "before" picture and yelled into the living room "HOW COME NO ONE TOLD ME I LOOK LIKE THIS?!"

And it is history from there.

iamkelskels

Looking back over the years, I can truly say I had the show..now at 75, I want the curtain call.

congrats to you

neesie0358

This is funny because I initially started because of an upcoming family reunion. We have them every two years and four years ago my sister lost 65 lbs and began bringing her size 18!! clothes to the reunion and giving them to me. She did that at the last reunion and last year when she came out to visit us. I am determined that this year I won't be able to fit them so I can say "NO THANKS!!!" hahahahaha I've already met that goal because I am now a size 14 but this journey has morphed into so much more than when I started. I need to thank my sister for pushing me to get started. Glad I did!

cloud2011

I am with you...tired of having my picture taken and being embarrassed or feeling awkward. I'll be 50 next year, and although I've lost over 30 lbs in the last couple of years, I still have a ways to go.

I promised myself I wouldn't be overweight throughout my 40s, and although I made a lot of progress about 5 or 6 years ago, I've had trouble since then (husband's job loss, new career & relocation, mother passed away unexpectedly). I just have felt I couldn't get it together. Well, there's no right time to get it together.

So, I am not where I want to be, but if I keep moving in the right direction, I plan to get there eventually.

cloud2011

This is funny because I initially started because of an upcoming family reunion. We have them every two years and four years ago my sister lost 65 lbs and began bringing her size 18!! clothes to the reunion and giving them to me. She did that at the last reunion and last year when she came out to visit us. I am determined that this year I won't be able to fit them so I can say "NO THANKS!!!" hahahahaha I've already met that goal because I am now a size 14 but this journey has morphed into so much more than when I started. I need to thank my sister for pushing me to get started. Glad I did!

Oh, I have an older sister who enjoys telling me that her clothes are too big, and oh, wouldn't I like them. I admit I'd like to lose a lot of weight and then give her MY old clothes!

Romans624

When I was maybe 10 pounds overweight (rather than 110 or whatever it is), I felt pretty good about myself. I had a lot of self confidence, and I wasn't super vain, but I thought I was unique and special. I mean as far as how I looked. But now I feel like I'm either invisible or unattractively sticking out. I don't take pride in how I currently look - I hide it or try to make the most of what is "okay". I want to feel like I look amazing and not just be telling myself that. I want to be like I used to be - just walk into the room where my husband is and have that special power that sexy women have. And I would like to not have something terrible happen to me health wise like a heart attack.

badgranola

I have been on both sides of the spectrum. Underweight with an eating disorder in my early 20s to super large after having my son (he's 8 now). I want to break that darn yoyo cycle and get it right this time. Plus I want to be super hot haha who doesn't, right?

manderann

About a year and a half ago, I got sick of hearing that I looked good "for having a kid", and that's when I joined this site. I think one of my friends on here said this, but I feel like saying "You look good, for having a kid." is like saying "Well, you look pretty good, for a troll."

I took it up a notch (or like six) after a breakup. I'm not trying to get him back, make him jealous, or any of that crap. We had talked about how we would be a "workout couple" because we both thought we needed to get in better shape... I just want to show him that at least one of us means what we say. Of course, I wouldn't mind seeing a bug eye action the next time he sees how good I look. :bigsmile:

Lilip0p

Because I am vain. I am a snob. Because I cannot stand to see dimply, fat thighs on women, obviously myself included and wearing jeans when living in Texas is just not an option.

Aside from that? I am on some crazy mission to avoid my age, avoid being a 'frumpy minivan mom'. Sounds shallow.. but when my 18yr old daughters friends tell her that her mom is pretty, looks like a model and looks 'expensive' (all of which I laughing my *kitten* off at BTW.. I am none of that), after 5 kids it makes me proud and I want it to stay that way.

I refuse to become a frumpy, overweight mom for my kids and a frumpy overweight, polyester pant wearing wife for my husband.

Cait_Sidhe

Several things in my life were spiraling out of control and everything was becoming too horrible to bear.

My weight was something I could fix. I needed to at least be able to fix something. I'm still working on the rest.

Jaulen

Got a new job, got rid of the stress in my life, do less traveling now for work, and I had a kid 4 (FOUR!) years ago and never took off the weight I gained.....

So once I got happy and started noticing ROLLS on my back that I have NEVER EVER EVER had before I was like Hell No! Time to make them go!

So here I am.

And of course, I want to get back to feeling like I look better nekkid than I do clothed.

Firewife18

i am here because every time my fiance tells me im beautiful or sexy i feel disgusted with how i look and i want to be able to feel beautiful and sexy when he tells me that and because i want to look sexy on my wedding day

typingathome

I sit all night long typing medical reports and eating junk to stay awake. Christmas pictures put me over the edge and it took me all this time to find something that might actually work.. Wishing you luck

DriniLove

I just bacame a mom, and everything leading up to this point in my life has dereailed from the plan. Or maybe I just got pushed off the tracks by strong winds. either way. I'm broke, unemployed, single (as in unmarried, not truely single), uneducated (droped out of college), and just plan not satisfied. So I figure, at least let me get satisfied with something about myself, and comparatively weight and tonning is the easiest. Or maybe just the one I'm most ready for, I don't know. But anyway, I want to get in control again. I was voted most likely to become president, I was super athletic, I knew I had the upper hand in romantic relationships and barley thought about it or my insecurities, I went to my first choice college, and I had fun, I got the short term things but I feel I'm losing the long term race. Life has always been hard, and I have always been an overcomer, but I don't have much reward but surviving. And I just think, if I focus one thing at a time I can be better than what I was...I can be who I want to be. And she is sexy, driven, powerful as hell and in control.

TheAncientMariner

""What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable." - Socrates"

That is the reason at the core. There are others, but this one trumps them all.

tremilla

My biggest reason for being here is to get my diet under control. I can exercise, but the way I eat ( and sometimes not eat) is hindering my progress. I went two weeks without losing a pound when I had a personal trainer. I was so discouraged. i wish I had discovered this site during that time. I want to get rid of this weight so I can look great with and without clothes. My ultimate goal is a bikini, no coverup!

Elf_Princess1210

I want to get pregnant.

ProjectTae

Because I want to be hot and smokin' sexy.

There, I said it. I feel better now. :smokin:

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