What is your motivation of losing weight?

My motivation is my wife who has lost over 100lbs this year. She's a superstar to me and although I was only a little overweight I wanted to join in with the health kick.

Oh, and I wanted to flatten that beer belly!

I need to take care and protect the body god gave me. For that I need to get rid of the extra 20lbs of junk I have been lugging around for years that has been overloading my system (my tender feet, soft knees, hips and arms).
As a bonus, I want to look great in any outfit I wear.
Cheers!

i wish i could say it was for health reasons, but to be honest with you, im one of the healthiest patients my dr has had in a long time. all my numbers are perfect, blood pressure always around 108/65 cholesterol at 143... i can never find something wrong with me... im a hypochondriac, so believe me, i go in alot... she always sends me home with a clean bill of health... thats why all the times i asked her for "diet pills" she turned me down, said my health is not in jeapordy, so she wouldnt give me such a risky quick fix... so, no, im not losing it for health reasons... im already healthy... some how...

im losing my weight because i had 5 kids back to back and gained a whole lot of weight in 10 years... i got up to 246!!! im only 32 years old, and without sounding like im bragging, i think i kinda have a cute face, and id like the body to match! i dont like being embarassed when i go to the kids school, to my husbands christmas parties, to birthday parties for old friends... im sick of being fat!

i finally got serious in september, went from 246, to today, 201!!! im about to hit one-derland, and im so freekin excited!!!

i just want to feel attractive again... and ive already started to feel it a little bit. my husband is very supportive, and has also been eating healthy with me... my kids, 2 who start high school this upcoming year are both very proud of me, and look forward to having a good looking mom to cause trouble as normal at the school...lol

so thats it guys... i just want to feel pretty again...

I'm studying abroad in England this summer and just got out of a 5.5 year relationship. I am ready to start my life over and do things for me!

I'm losing weight for myself.
I refuse to wind up obese like my mother was, I refuse to wind up relying on a surgery to be able to lose weight.
I want to be comfortable in my body and be proud of the fact that I did this all by myself and I am stronger than I ever thought!

Me and my personal health...my doctor got me to thinking that if I kept on the way I was going, I might not be around long enough to see my kids as adults. I desperately want that, as well as the opportunity to grow old and active with the most awesome woman in the universe. Still no guarantees obviously, but I've substantially upped my odds.

I would like to be healthy enough to live for ever. Failing that I'd like to watch my daughter grow up.

Any vanity related benefit while nice is not my motivation.

NOT WASTING MY LIFE IN REGRET AND WISHES.

This. Also I wanna be a MILF!

health, to set a good example for my kids, blah, blah, blah.

But really: I want to be strong enough to move the living room furniture around by myself if I decide to. I want to look good in clothes and naked. I want to have crazy stamina for crazy sex. I want to get checked out by someone who's not my husband.

Honestly, I want to feel confident and beautiful. That's my motivation.

Also, I work in a vascular surgery clinic, and I see first hand what happens to people who don't take care of themselves.

Seeing my grandmother die overweight, with diabetes, her leg amputated, with a tracheotomy and alone. My children. Myself!

My motivation for permanently releasing this ugly flab and fat off of my body and outta my mind forever is God...God (and godliness--honoring my body and my lifestyle as "The Temple of The Holy Spirit) is my motivation first, I'm my own motivation next--I'm doing this for me and my family and friends/others last. I LOVE to encourage and inspire others--It's a cool and special gift I have...HOWEVER, being overweight/sloppy looking outside and a hypocrite and lacking self-control and being a glutton and slothful really is and has been holding me back all these long years (though that's negative--it's a motivating factor for me as well)...I think hypocrisy, denial, gluttony, slothfulness/laziness is a total habit/character issues and complete YUCK that I am able to conquer DAILY, as I make my fat cry (sweat) and choose life and health, rather than denial, slothfulness, ease and gluttony--I believe I can so much be a better "witness" to God, myself and people and an encouragement/inspiration to others as they look at my life and can not only see and hear the real fabulous beauty within me--but that my outside appearance MUST and will and is matching my inside beauty, wisdom and wholeness as well.

I'm also doing this because I have "illusions of grandeur" and I believe getting RID of the excess flab/fat from off of my body and out of my mind and spirit/soul daily and shaping up/looking & feeling slim and trim and maintaining this new way of life FOREVERMORE will so inspire and give hope to so many--especially to/for older women--and people in general, that impossible doors of opportunity are going to open up to and for me in this stage of my life--that I've only DREAMED of. I can/WILL become a lifestyle/fitness coach at my age. I'm believing that so many people will want to know "how did you do it, etc." that I can start a new career of sorts (don't laugh ) and experience an entire new life of helping others achieve their lifelong goals and dreams to get fit too--not just physically fit, but mentally and especially spiritually fit/more aware too--I'm just dumb enough to honestly believe this .

BOTTOMLINE: My motivation is an entire new and fabulous lifestyle of eating, drinking, thinking, being and doing and helping and being a blessing to others lives and my own in process!

WOOT!

Lower back injury

The kids and myself. I didnt like he way I looked in the mirror after a shower and I hated being winded and not being able to play with the kids without having to rest every 5 mins.