What is your HONEST reason for losing weight??????

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  • heartofviolet
    heartofviolet Posts: 119 Member
    Honestly? For myself, and no one else. I want to be confident in myself. I've tried and I've tried and I've TRIED to love myself as I am, as I was--fat. But I can't. I just can't find the confidence. I'm too insecure because I'm so aware of myself. Actually, I'm probably hyperaware of myself. I feel like I'm aware of what I look like--or must look like, to someone else's eyes--at all times and it just makes my confidence plummet. I'm not scared of wearing revealing clothing, but the whole time I am I'll be thinking about what my arms look like when I'm wearing a sleeveless shirt or how my thighs look like from the back when I'm wearing a skirt. It's terrible. I just can't get over my lack of confidence in regards to my body, and I know that losing weight will help me be more confident in myself. Part of it is shallowly, vainly motivated--yes, I want to look good. But I also want to feel good. I feel those two things, looking and feeling good, are inextricably tied together.

    And and and, I'm starting uni in September. There is no way in HELL I'm letting myself gain the Freshman 15. Just no way. I want to lose 15 pounds or more, not gain them, as a uni freshman. ;)
  • kaedaza
    kaedaza Posts: 33 Member
    I wanna look hot!
  • luvred51
    luvred51 Posts: 163 Member
    To get off my meds and feel better too.
  • Meagan56
    Meagan56 Posts: 1
    To look better and to have more confidence in what I wear, and to get rid of that horrible feeling about not eating the right foods for myself.

    私はかっこいいいるよていますよ。☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆
  • HeidiSmith419
    HeidiSmith419 Posts: 71 Member
    Type 2
  • kmillers
    kmillers Posts: 144 Member
    So that I don't drink ever again...I started this journey after going to jail for a DUI. I drank heavily for several years. I drank to be fun, social, the life of the party. I drank to forget, to remember, to feel sorry for myself, to feel confident... Drinking made me hungry and hung over so I ate and I gained over 60 lbs. I was embarrassed with how fat I was, so I drank to feel better about it. When I woke up in jail for the second time in 3 years, I wanted to die. I knew what my life had become, I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. So I began to work out, really as a punishment for years of neglect. Then after awhile I beganto get all those things out of exercise that I got from drinking and more. I felt good, I wasn't bloated and yellow, I had energy... 60 lbs and a whole new life later I am so full of hope. That is what losing weight and starting this journey has given me- hope.
  • Steinish
    Steinish Posts: 8 Member
    To be skinny like my sister. People don't believe we're sister's because I'm fat. Time to prove to them that I can do this. Going back to South Africa in a years time and have 65 pounds to lose. I'll do it :D
  • raunds
    raunds Posts: 14
    My health.

    My sister was diagnosed as diabetic and I do not want that to happen to me.
    My grandmother died of heart failure when she was 53
    Both grandmothers were large ladies, as are most of the females in my paternal family.

    Vanity.

    I want to be able to buy clothes in any store, not to have to worry that they won't have anything in my size.
    I love it when people notice that I've lost weight.

    Family

    To be able to do longer walks / bike rides with my husband.
  • TaylorsGranddad
    TaylorsGranddad Posts: 453 Member
    I started dieting the day my wife and I split up, since then, I have fallen off the wagon twice and split up with my wife twice again, I'm currently not really on my diet and not with my wife, I need to stop this cycle.
  • gemmalouise85
    gemmalouise85 Posts: 157 Member
    to see the pretty bows i like so much at the top of my pants - only ever seen them before i put them on!
  • huttoi
    huttoi Posts: 1
    because I am a frumpy girl and hate the way I look. sick of it: smile:
  • TheKeithEllis
    TheKeithEllis Posts: 155 Member
    "What is your HONEST reason for losing weight??????"

    I've got a 21 month old daughter and another baby due in November - it's simple, I want to be able to run around after them and play, be a healthy dad and instill a healthy lifestyle in them. From a truly selfish perspective though, I want to know what it's like to be slim - I never have been. :O)
  • gemmalouise85
    gemmalouise85 Posts: 157 Member
    So that I don't drink ever again...I started this journey after going to jail for a DUI. I drank heavily for several years. I drank to be fun, social, the life of the party. I drank to forget, to remember, to feel sorry for myself, to feel confident... Drinking made me hungry and hung over so I ate and I gained over 60 lbs. I was embarrassed with how fat I was, so I drank to feel better about it. When I woke up in jail for the second time in 3 years, I wanted to die. I knew what my life had become, I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. So I began to work out, really as a punishment for years of neglect. Then after awhile I beganto get all those things out of exercise that I got from drinking and more. I felt good, I wasn't bloated and yellow, I had energy... 60 lbs and a whole new life later I am so full of hope. That is what losing weight and starting this journey has given me- hope.

    well done!
    Be very proud of yourself, you've achieved that by yourself!!
    Good luck with future i wish you all the best....
    take care
    xx
  • SabrinaSt
    SabrinaSt Posts: 142 Member
    I want to look and feel sexy again. Yup, I'm shallow.
  • SilverOnTheTree
    SilverOnTheTree Posts: 102 Member
    I'm tired of being the token fat girl at glamour parties! And I want to buy clothes from the normal-people shops during sale season (yup, motivations are shallow AND cheap).

    Living longer, being healthier etc are secondary motivations. Or public reasons when people challenge me about "why-don't-you-having-another-xyz-from-the-buffet-table?" (I hate that! And partygoers who press extra alcohol on you in the mistaken belief that you want to "loosen-up-a-bit-go-on-have-fun".) /RANT

    ok... :) I'm all good now
  • slimsdown
    slimsdown Posts: 122 Member
    i want to be recognised again as "the skinny blonde" amongst my friends.

    im soooo happy everyone is doing it for vanity resons, my bf made me feel guilty when i said it was for my personal satisfaction rather than for my health. poo poo :-(
  • gemmalouise85
    gemmalouise85 Posts: 157 Member
    to b honest i've always had - you be soo much prettier if you was slimmer, and you look really pretty to say your a big girl,
    I want be to say ' you look nice' not with the if you was slim at the end.
  • mamakira
    mamakira Posts: 366
    I want to feel fit.
    I want to look in the mirror and enjoy what I see. Hopefully a sexy mum of four. :)
  • babymine55
    babymine55 Posts: 127 Member
    i want to have amazing sex again.
    there i said it!

    Rofl...honesty at work!!

    ....although, without TMI, I can say, it is definitely a worthy goal to work towards. Hubby and I are like newlywed's again. ;)
  • xtinydancerxx
    xtinydancerxx Posts: 13 Member
    I want to be skinny. Shrink my stomach, thighs, arms, busy, you name it. It's all I've ever wanted and I might as well do it now while my young person metabolism complies.
  • bluebird321
    bluebird321 Posts: 733 Member
    Look healthy in my fifties.
  • 10manda86
    10manda86 Posts: 229 Member
    i sent off an army application... i blitzed the aptitude test and looking down the barrel of Duntroon (Australia's equivalent of West Point).... nothing else in the past has motivated me as much as this opportunity!
  • eeriesilence
    eeriesilence Posts: 73 Member
    I want to be comfortable enough to walk around naked, to pose naked for my artist girlfriend.
    I also wouldn't mind showing off a nice *kitten* in some tight yoga pants. Yoga pants are my motivation. /sigh
  • mzfrizz15
    mzfrizz15 Posts: 135 Member
    1- Tired of being morbidly obese.
    2- Want to buy clothing at regular clothing stores instead of specialty shops.
    3- Want to hurt less. Being fat so long has not been kind to my feet and knees.
    4- Want to actually be "date-able" for once in my life.
    5- Want to avoid diabetes for as long as I can.
  • ANTlSOClAL
    ANTlSOClAL Posts: 47
    "I just don't want to jiggle when I brush my teeth." - Kevin James
  • ponycyndi
    ponycyndi Posts: 858 Member
    I was too poor to buy new clothes, and I couldn't button my pants.
  • bluecat145
    bluecat145 Posts: 144 Member
    1)To look good.
    2)To be able to play sports better.
    3)To be healthier and live longer
    4)Make myself and others proud (especially my dad)
    5)Be confident
  • ParamoreAddict
    ParamoreAddict Posts: 839 Member
    To live as long as I possibly can. There's no way I could ever envision being an old man in my 80s when I was around 300 pounds. Now down to around 240 and still have a ways to go until I can truly call myself healthy again.
  • futureskinnibitch
    futureskinnibitch Posts: 4 Member
    I just want to be skinny. LOL.
  • MSeel1984
    MSeel1984 Posts: 2,297 Member
    I hate my "wobbly bits". I feel uncomfortable if my clothes are the SLIGHTEST bit too tight.

    I have more confidence when I am comfortable in my own skin. I've noticed a dramatic improvement in my blood sugars compared to when I am less active.

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