Why do you care so much about your health?

I was fighting Type 2 Diabetes, a fatty liver, and no energy. My last blood work...liver normal and blood sugar in the non-diabetic range with no medication. I have so much more energy now. I've learned to put my health first.

I want to make the best of my life, I want to live it to the fullest, no medications or limitations.

Im 56 years old. Soon to be 57. and like a number of others, I want to be a fabulous fifty something and eventually a sexy sixty something. I have been active and fit my entire life until the past few years. Fractured my hip (which I actually didn't realize for over 2 years) and gained a lot of weight. All that being said - I have 2 college age daughters and I absolutely want to be around to torture them. My Mom died 26 yrs ago of breast cancer. My husband never even got a chance to meet her (2nd husband). My Dad passed away when my daughters were 4 and 15 months of a stroke (back when they didn't know NOT to take someone completely off Coumadin then putting them on full strength). I want to feel good and look good and be around for a long time.

My parents are 50, obese, have no clue what healthy food is (they think they know), and they can't hardly keep up with my 2 year old. They are slowly killing themselves with their unhealthy lifestyle. I don't want to be them when I'm 50 and I want better for my daughter. I want her to know what real exercise looks like and what actual nutrition is.

I'm 60. I miss a day of work due to illness about once every 3 years. I don't know I have a back, a stomach, knees, etc. because they just do their thing without bothering me. I'm not on any prescriptions. Part of it is good genes and part of it is work and I want to feel this way for a very long time.

And yeah, I want to look good naked!

I'm loving this! You go girl!

So many reasons.... But the biggest one is because I am worth it and deserve to be happier and healthier

Because I'm only 24 years old and I feel like I let myself go. I'm too young to be this overweight and causing possible health problems for myself. I can't go to the doctor so I need to get healthy for me.

You're still young enough to start getting healthy. Its never too late... start now before you have no choice but to see a doctor. Stick to MFP, great resources/support/motivation on here.

Yup I've started! The time is now I've procrastinated too long.

spent a lot of time being overweight, then about 10 years being skinny fat, then slowly went up over the years until I hit morbidly obese (I think now I am just obese)~~in my 20's, 30's and 40's, I was somewhat healthy even though overweight, but when I hit the big 5-0, I discovered due to some female problems, what I was doing to myself. So at 52, decided that I needed to make a change and become healthy if possible~~so far, it has been a great way to spend the past year! I feel soooooo much better after losing 20% of my body weight...I could easily stand to lose another 90 lbs, so that I would be at about 50% of my highest weight.

I have already seen an increase in stamina, my mood is better, I sleep better, and don't snore. My knees don't ache, my body only hurts when I have overworked it (which I do on occasion) and I can breathe...I don't sweat unless I mean to, I eat what I like, just not as much of it, and I am learning how to make better choices in how I fuel my body.

My life is 100% better. My family is proud of me, my friends on MFP, at work and in real life, are supportive and have been complimentary and have I mentioned that I can move without getting out of breath?

When I see people that are NOT taking care of themselves, it makes me want to cry...when I hear someone say, "I hurt all the time." and I can see that the reason they hurt is because they eat too much and move too little, I want to say, "Just start today and by this time next year, you can feel amazing, too!"

So why do I care so much about my health? I care because I have been possibly at the brink of death and not only is that scary, but it also feels miserable!

To quote my favorite actor~~"That is all I have to say about that." ~Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump

Basically I was diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome, it's mostly becoming more common with overweight women) when I was 18 and was told if I don't get in shape and lose weight it will be difficult for me to conceive. I really want children, and I want to be healthy so I can be around for my children, grandchildren and maybe even great grandchildren if I'm as lucky and as healthy as my great grandmother was I want to be a good example for my children so they don't have to deal with weight issues growing up like I did.

Because I'm watching my mother age right now. She is having a lot of health problems. And some of those are a result of not having been very active in her middle-age years.

I like to compete in running events and watching what I take in vs what I put out has really shown me how much crap I was putting in my body. I want to be able to run for a long time and as a plus healthy = confidence!