What is your number 1 reason to get fit?

Tina0807
Tina0807 Posts: 212
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Everyone has reasons why they are here, logging everything they put in their mouths and every minute they spend sweating their tushies off. But what is your number 1 reason? Health scare? Was asked when you were due, and you're not pregnant? Plus size clothes suck? Want to be there for your kid's wedding one day?

For me, and yes this is a completely vein reason, I want to look sexy. I want a body that I can be looked at naked and look hot. Yes there are other reasons like health, but my number 1 is what it is.
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  • CaseyCrafter
    CaseyCrafter Posts: 22
    To fit into smaller jeans :)
  • skinnyfithealthyme
    skinnyfithealthyme Posts: 213
    To look hawt in my birthday suit
  • Tina0807
    Tina0807 Posts: 212
    To look hawt in my birthday suit

    Girl, you already look hot.
  • skinnyfithealthyme
    skinnyfithealthyme Posts: 213
    To look hawt in my birthday suit

    Girl, you already look hot.

    Well so do you! :blushing:
  • Tina0807
    Tina0807 Posts: 212
    To fit into smaller jeans :)
    See that goes along with my "sexy look" reason. At least I'm not the only one.
  • Sockimobi
    Sockimobi Posts: 541
    I don't want to hit 40 and have a list of health issues that I could have avoided.
  • TonyM1984
    TonyM1984 Posts: 267
    My 7 month old baby!
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
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  • iLoveMyPitbull1225
    iLoveMyPitbull1225 Posts: 1,690 Member
    I met a fantastic man who changed my life. He loves me, completely, no matter what. He thinks I am beautiful and perfect and has since the moment we met. I have never truly loved myself. I looked at myself in photos and in the mirror and thought, "I should love myself that much. I want to feel beautiful, I want to be the best I can be."
  • dlwyatt82
    dlwyatt82 Posts: 1,077 Member
    I have a 7-week-old daughter. It seems like there's a "motivation switch" in my brain that got flipped as soon as I found out my wife was pregnant; I don't want my child to have a 400lb dad as a role model.
  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    My reasons have changed as I've gone thorugh the last 2.5+ years... At first it was just about losing weight/getting skinny.

    Then it was about being able to do more and challenging myself - walking faster/farther, running, getting stronger, being able to do housework without being exhausted, increasing my balance (I'm such a clutz, this is important! LOL), etc.

    And yes, it's also about looking better. I've got a lot of loose skin that I'd like to tighten up and I know that means less fat and more muscle. Plus, I'd love to have at least some abs showing! :)
  • Il_DaniD_lI
    Il_DaniD_lI Posts: 1,593 Member
    My main reason is vanity but it all ties into having a better life...


    Looking good gives me confidence which makes me feel good which makes me smile more which makes me happier which makes me less stressed which makes me have more sex which makes me even more happier which.. well I could go on forever.

    Being fit = better life
  • Berto0391
    Berto0391 Posts: 273 Member
    If I'm going to live to 60+ then I don't want to fell like crap all the time with tons of health issues.
  • Tina0807
    Tina0807 Posts: 212
    My main reason is vanity but it all ties into having a better life...


    Looking good gives me confidence which makes me feel good which makes me smile more which makes me happier which makes me less stressed which makes me have more sex which makes me even more happier which.. well I could go on forever.

    Being fit = better life

    I am so with you there! Especially the better sex. Sex is the main reason I do yoga!
  • Tina0807
    Tina0807 Posts: 212
    If I'm going to live to 60+ then I don't want to fell like crap all the time with tons of health issues.

    This is probably my biggest number 2. I don't want to live long just to take a pharmacy of meds to be healthy.
  • ChrisRS87
    ChrisRS87 Posts: 781 Member
    Get more attractive girls
  • Tina0807
    Tina0807 Posts: 212
    Get more attractive girls

    Um, Honey, unless you have the personality of a wall I see no problem with you getting attractive girls....just sayin
  • dereksmb
    dereksmb Posts: 95 Member
    “No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training…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

    My good friend Socrates had it right. I simply want to be as strong, fast, and as good looking as my body will naturally allow.
  • maroonmango211
    maroonmango211 Posts: 908 Member
    I want to love myself. BUT if I were to explain the complete vain attitude behind it I NEVER want to hear "you look hot, for a mother of 2' again. I just want to be hot for being hot :P
  • ladyfox1979
    ladyfox1979 Posts: 405 Member
    To prove that family genes have nothing to do with me being fat. By my age most of the women on both sides of my family are overweight. So far I am beating genetics
  • TheVimFuego
    TheVimFuego Posts: 2,412 Member
    I am 41 and suspect I am going through a midlife crisis ;)

    It's cheaper than a sports car ...
  • FiercelyBeautiful
    FiercelyBeautiful Posts: 590 Member
    FOR MYSELF! To be the person I really am and not let my physical appearence hold me back from being the mother, wife, friend, and daughter of God I was fearfully and purposefully created to be! Despising yourself is no way to live so I decided to do something about it!
  • LilMissSunshine_
    LilMissSunshine_ Posts: 520
    Just ta look gooooood nekky!
  • ChitownFoodie
    ChitownFoodie Posts: 1,562 Member
    I am short. When I gain weight I look like an Oompa Loompa
  • LaVonda47
    LaVonda47 Posts: 17
    To be around for my beautiful granddaughter, the love of my life.
  • ChrisRS87
    ChrisRS87 Posts: 781 Member
    Get more attractive girls

    Um, Honey, unless you have the personality of a wall I see no problem with you getting attractive girls....just sayin

    Is the wall covered with a mural?

    I suppose you're right, I don't have a problem meeting/talking to them. And that was my primary goal when I started off years ago, but I guess now I know that I can still get into even better shape, so why not?
  • Eleisabelle
    Eleisabelle Posts: 365
    To do everything in my power to avoid the heart disease that is so prevalent in my family.
  • Debbe2
    Debbe2 Posts: 2,071 Member
    Health
  • WILSO190
    WILSO190 Posts: 1
    I want to feel more confident with my body and enjoy shopping again. I had two kids and they did a number on my tummy :( i want to be able to wear form fitting clothes again and feel sexy around my husband. I dread shopping because nothing fits right anymore and I used to love to shop. I'm not obese but could tone up a bit.
  • AmberLeighD
    AmberLeighD Posts: 112
    Lost my dad in 2006 to diabetes... but the switch went off in Aug 2010 when I lost a guy I was sweet on due to weight related health issues on the same weekend my dad had passed away.. and I pledged I wouldn't let their lives be for nothing, one look at the scale that day, and my daughter, and I kicked my journey into high speed.

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