What's your inspiration???

ChelleFeegan

I find it encouraging and sometimes emotional reading about people's inspiration

Mine is my daughter; and not through anything she has said but simply because I want to live to see her grow up and I want to experience every part of her life with her. If I had continued the way I was going I don't think I'd make it.

What's yours?

brooke_young08

I don't know. Generally, I want to look and feel great; be an inspiration to others; just be the best "me" I can be. On a funny side note, if there is a zombie apocalypse, I want to be able to run away :huh: Just kidding!

DefyGravity1977

I have several. First and foremost is my children and my husband. I want them to see that you can accomplish anything you want to and I want them to be proud that I am their mother/wife. Secondly, my grandparents who both lost their battles with cancer in the last two years. Even being as sick as they were they were concerned about me. In fact, the last conversation I had with my grandfather was him asking me about my weight. At my grandmother's 90th birthday less than a month prior to her death she made it clear that she was proud of all the hard work I was doing. Thirdly, I want to be able to sing again and I mean really belt it like I used to. The weight has taken that passion away from me and I am slowly gaining it back.

chezileigh

Mine isn't perhaps as inspirational as yours, but my inspiration for starting again on the dieting thing recently, was looking through old pictures of myself and my mother and sister. My mother has been a chronic dieter all her life, and I always therefore thought she needed to lose weight. My sister was very thin as a child, and I wasn't. In fact I always thought I was fat, and perhaps I thought my mum was too.

We went through a load of old pictures the other night, and I was not over weight until teenaged years, and even then, only a little. I have been slowly but surely gaining since then, and now I am BMI 27 ish, so overweight/fat. My mum also wasn't fat, in fact she was super gorgeous, and when I asked her why she was always dieting she said because my dad was always going on about fat women and berating them, so she was terrified of getting fat. I realised that she was in a negative place, and that I had been brought up with that, and that was actually the cause of me going overweight, because I developed dieting behaviour such as comfort eating.

I realised that the only person who is ever going to make me thin is me, no excuses about always having been big boned. The end.