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

i don't like my body when i am heavier /squidgy-er
:sick:

I lost my husband to smoking and being overweight four years ago..... While, He lived his life the way he wanted and was a happy man. He was my best friend and I feel I did not do enough to get him to live healthier/quit smoking.

As much as I live my life the way I want to as well, I want to live a healthier lifestyle, than we did.

So, I quit smoking and now losing weight.

So I do it for many reasons, to honer my late husband and for a very selfish reason... for me to live and be a much better example to our kids and grandkids.

Revenge
Depression
Feeling like a fat failure
Wanting to feel good about myself
Wanting others to look at me and say "Damn"!
To look in the mirror and smile and instead of look away real quick
To start posting pictures of me on Facebook again
To fit into any clothing besides yoga pants and maternity clothing
and one that keeps me going.....
One of the only things in my life I have complete control over. I can control what goes in my mouth and how much I excerise. There is not much else in my life I feel I have that much control over.

yes - what she said:):wink:

My real reason for losing weight is to stay healthy and trim and not have diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. Those diseases run in my family and some of them passed away with it, including my dad and my uncle and aunt, and my grandparents. I don't want to have any of those things that cause me to slow down and stop, because I can prevent disease from occurring inside me.

I was trapped in my house from 2007-2009 and unable to stand for more than 20 seconds at a stretch... I had a computer chair I ripped the back off of that I would wheel myself from room to room... Actually it was more like my 10th or 11th computer chair because I kept breaking the welds..... At 560 lbs. something had to change, so you know when someone says they hit ROCK BOTTOM!! well yep that was me.... 3 days in a chair with a loaded hang gun will do that to a person.... On the 3rd day a made a choice...... I choose LIFE!!! and I've never looked back since...... Best of Luck.....

I want to be healthy and strong.

To not be fat anymore. :P

Have you ever went to get on a roller coaster and didn't fit in the seat? Cringed when they would seat you at a booth in a restaurant? Prayed the seat belts were long enough? I decided that I would not worry about those things ever again. Half way to goal now.

omg - i know exactly how that feels.....

I am losing weight for me. I want to look in the mirror and be happy with what I see.

To reach the point where I can love myself both outside and inside. For me, they're connected.

I look in the mirror and hate what I see reflected, and then I look deeper and hate what I've allowed myself to become.

When I break this cycle, I know I will have reached not only a heathly weight goal, but a healthly mind goal as well.

Honestly..... and this is weird, I know.

I want to look amazing this Halloween as The Silk Spectre from Watchmen

Oh, and my health.

But, come on guys, it's really hard to pull off thigh highs and latex.

No longer want to be the fat guy. Want to have women look at me, not try to look around me

Vanity (don't like the way my body looks naked)
Revenge (tired of people making assumptions based on what I weigh)
Flexibility (used to be able to dance; miss having that flexibility)
Freedom from pain (knee pain, back pain...)
Being able to climb stairs without being winded (second story in a walk up sucks)
Reduction of PCOS symptoms (hirsutism, irregularity)
Being able to shop at Hollister instead of Penningtons (or worse, shopping online)
Being able to buy lingerie that doesn't cost 150-200% more (*grrr*)
Self-respect (see vanity)
I want to hit my 40th birthday and have my waistline be lower than my age for the first time in my life.
I want my body to be more congruent with the person I feel like I am
I want the energy to have fun with my life
Sick and tired of being sick and tired

Mostly, I miss the body I had when I was 19. I'm 39 now, so it's unlikely I'll get that body all the way back, but I'd be willing to settle for the body I had when I was 25.

All I want is to be a 14-16 again so I can shop where everyone else shops and not have to pay the premium prices for the SAME DAMNED CLOTHES just because they're bigger. *Grrrrr!!* So I guess that's my primary reason. It seems kind of silly put like that, doesn't it?

I started this journey when my doctor basically sussed me out. I went to an ob-gyn, got on some diabetes meds, and started eating in the way my body needs for me to lose weight (which bears about as much resemblance to the AHA guidelines as a paper kite does to a 747) and being a little more active.

Tired of my mother, my doctor, my coworkers, my friends all ragging on me about my weight; about the only person who DOESN'T is my boyfriend. Tired of people assuming I'm fat and lazy and I eat all day long - the only one of those things that is true is that I'm fat. So to hell with them. I'll prove them all wrong now that I finally have an ob-gyn on my side who understands the problem and is willing to help me.

=B=

I was sad after I lost my daughter Star and I just went... running... (ok forest humor was needed to break up that depressing part) then I just kept on going... and really I enjoyed it (working out and eating!) and fact was I was/am fat so it needed to be done

I know your pain my husband and I lost our daughter too, I was in shock couldnt move, felt like dying, the weight spiraled and I got fatter then a son of a gun. Fat was my shield from everyone but I was sick and tried of being this obese woman, I want to feel hot and sexy like I did once! Now I'm losing, I'm feeling sexy! I want to be the hot and sexy mom I once was. oh and for my husband can't keep his hands off of me,woot woot!

Honestly..... and this is weird, I know.

I want to look amazing this Halloween as The Silk Spectre from Watchmen

Oh, and my health.

But, come on guys, it's really hard to pull off thigh highs and latex.

OMG - so totally NOT weird! I said last Halloween that THIS would be the year that I wear the skanky costume and NOT apologize for it! And I am SoOoOoOooO gonna do it, too! Bring on October 31st!