Why Are YOU Doing This??

Stopping problems before they come up. My mother has diabetes and high blood pressure, my father thyroid and knee problems, both overweight. They were actuallly healthy when they when they were younger, only gaining weight after kids and a desk job. I'm almost twenty. I've been chubby all my life. While I'm relatively symptom free now, I need to stop it now while my metabolism and skin elasticity are on my side. I think losing weight is helping balance my hormones out, too. I've always been extremely irregular on my period. Since I've been losing weight, I've had it every month for the last three months, at the same time of the month, which is unheard of for me.

And yeah. I want to be pretty. I'm not a girly girl, but for once in my life I'd to go to a formal event and take people's breath away. I want to wear clothes that don't just look nice, but look nice on me. I'd like to be known as the shy, sweet girl rather than the quiet, weird one.

There are several reasons I want to lose weight. 1) So I can wear a bikini next summer. 2) So I look good in my cheer leading uniform when I start to cheer for wrestling in December. 3) Because I want to look good on stage at our state FCCLA meeting since I'm a state officer.

I want to be able to eat lots of food without getting fat.

^^^THIS!

Because i hated my body for too damn long and listened to people who told me i wasnt good enough.

im not just good enough. im freaking awesome.

I get to compete with who i was yesterday, last week, four years ago....and improve.

also, i have add and ocd tendencies, working out makes me focus.

LOVE this answer!



I just want to look amazing in my own eyes for once in my life.

The other day, my 23 yr. old daughter was looking through our family phioto albums and remarked, "Mom...how come you aren't in ANY of these pictures?" II lied and said it was because *I'm* always the one behind the camera! The truth is, I can't bear to look at myself in mirrors, much less permanent photographs. :embarassed: And it made me sad to think that if I died - God forbid! - my husband and children would only have this one picture of me (my avatar) to remember me by. So, I guess my family is my #1 reason for losing weight.

I hated to go shopping and every time I had to buy bigger and bigger clothes that were just buy cause it fits not cause I like it. My Mother is obese and one day I looked in the mirror naked after a shower and was like WTF I'm turning into my MOM( I love her but don't want to be shaped like her). I hurt every day, stupid things like my neck and shoulders and I'm only 27!! Not cool at all. Here I am just at the 11 month mark and 60 lbs lost this year, I feel so much better, I am so much happier and I the only hurt I am now is the soreness that comes from working hard. 27 is almost as good as 17 was and I fully intend to look and feel my best as I proudly run into my 30's!!

I want to be more confident, feel better about how I look, and always be beautiful on the arm of my husband. I am also doing this in hopes of improving my health

to look like this:

to be at 225. When we got married 32 years ago i was around 180, then somehow i ballooned to over 320. Now I'm at 265 and wnat to be at 250 by christmas. Mostly to get healthy, i already feel so different.

Naked.

^^ this!