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    What is your motivation?

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    • Posts: 160 Member
      Operation Beach Body! I want to look and feel good by beach season! I can't figure out if I am more motivated by fat pics of me or old skinny pics!?! Trying to find a good profile pic!
    • Posts: 156
      Florida!
    • Posts: 92 Member
      My health. I wastched my parents suffer from heart desease and Diabetes. The left the world when I was 35.they were 68/72. Too young . I get up everyday to another day of clean eating an continuing my ambition of being healthy

      ^This. My mother died 2 years ago, at the age of 64. She suffered from heart disease and diabetes, and had spent the majority of her life over 250lbs. I was 26 when she died, and decided that I am going to do everything in my power to prevent going down that path.
    • Posts: 21 Member
      The mirror and setting a competition with my self.
    • Posts: 42
      Excellent point!

      I too watched my mother and then my father slowly fall into ill health.

      Diabetes, HBP, kidney disease and heart disease ran rampant through my family on both sides.

      Unfortunately, I have acquired all of these with quadruple bypass the most recent instance.

      Since starting a healthier lifestyle I have my Type 2 diabetes under control with diet alone and my blood pressure is showing signs of improvement.

      I can't say vanity doesn't play a small part in my weight loss as I think just about everybody wonders what it would be like to fit into the latest fahions but, more over, having watched family pass away, in some cases, decades before their time is really the motivator for me.
    • Posts: 40 Member
      Right now my motivator is to make my wedding dress look good. Longer term it's to be able to do a real pull up this year. I have a friend who started crossfit 6 months ago and watching her progress is strong motivation. If she can do it with two kids and a job where she travels all the time so can I.
    • Posts: 246 Member
      My motivation... Be healthy.... and be comfortable with my shirt off...My six pack use to get alot of looks! I want it back lol!
    • Posts: 91 Member
      My motivation, is good health (many problems run on my mom's side of the family), and self-confidence! There's really no excuse why we shouldn't take care of ourselves.
    • Posts: 1,704 Member
      Health and -hate to be blunt- I don't want to look and live like most of the rest of my family when it comes to health and weight. The women in my family seem to have a consistent habit of becoming obese by the age of 30 or so.

      I'm nowhere near that level, but I'm doing preventative measures just to be safe :)
    • Posts: 195
      I want to get in shape and look normal for a change. It's pretty sad that I can't remember what it felt like to be under 200 lbs. I want to have energy again, instead of being tired all the time. To be able to buy clothing in Wal-Mart and other stores.

      I'm so tired of feeling like a prisoner in my own body. It's time to start living again!
    • Posts: 246 Member
      I want to get in shape and look normal for a change. It's pretty sad that I can't remember what it felt like to be under 200 lbs. I want to have energy again, instead of being tired all the time. To be able to buy clothing in Wal-Mart and other stores.

      I'm so tired of feeling like a prisoner in my own body. It's time to start living again!

      Good job on the 16 lbs lost! keep it up!
    • Posts: 102 Member
      My motivation is to see my fitness improve and to end up liking what I see in the mirror !
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