What is your TRUE reasons for wanting to get in shape?

Just like the subject says, what is the true reason for you wanting to get in shape?
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  • I am moving to Tampa in the summer and want to look good for the beach. Plain and simple. :smile:
    Yours?
  • Phx99
    Phx99 Posts: 69
    Summer is coming...I want to look good, and I'm tired of having to hide in oversized things. Pure vanity. :)
  • BigBrunette
    BigBrunette Posts: 1,543 Member
    I want to be more energetic. I'm too young to feel this decrepit.
  • I have always been bigger in the Marlyn Monroe way and happy but after 2 kids broken feet and 2 sets of grandparents killed. My body and confidence is not were I want it to be. I have always been active and adventurous and when I realized I wasn't doing the things I loved or feeling the way I knew I could. This is also effecting my kids I want to be a role model not a blob that watches life pass by. That is the real reason for me. I am not built to be tiny and I would never aspire to be smaller than I am.
  • cinner506
    cinner506 Posts: 50
    I want to be a good role model for my daughter! I want to be around for a LONG time!
  • highervibes
    highervibes Posts: 2,219 Member
    60% health related (blood sugar, blood pressure) and 40% vanity.
  • Smokey19
    Smokey19 Posts: 796 Member
    I have diabetes and heart disease as major health problems. I had a heart attack and open heart surgery to bypass 5 blocked coronary arteries. My health is the real reason for wanting to get in shape. My NSV is buying clothes off the rack instead of out of catalogs.
  • TooLeftFeet
    TooLeftFeet Posts: 139 Member
    I'm vain enough to want to look good, lazy enough that I don't want to fight that fight when age sets in, and smart enough to know that my kids are learning my habits. I want them to understand what a healthy balanced lifestyle is.




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  • Because I'm obese, 30 and don't want to spend my 30's feeling fat, unattractive, frumpy and down right gross which is how I spent the majority of my 20s. I also 'think' I'm done with having kids (mum of 3 here) so I want to get a sexy, toned post baby body. This will be the body I've never had before and I'm excited and can't wait to unveil it!

    Tam x
  • MicroHez
    MicroHez Posts: 125 Member
    Health and to prove to the "other" doctor that I don't need the cholesterol meds he was trying to shove down my throat without even running a blood panel.
  • jzammetti
    jzammetti Posts: 1,956 Member
    I want to feel good while naked. :drinker:
  • mrswine
    mrswine Posts: 263 Member
    I've never felt like I was sexy or a girl guys wanted. And I want to be HOT when I get married and before I start having kids.
  • mrswine
    mrswine Posts: 263 Member
    I want to feel good while naked. :drinker:

    This!
  • taytaylynn3
    taytaylynn3 Posts: 601
    Honestly, i just want to be hot.
    I want others to be jealous, even though they can't be because they didn't try.
    I want to show how hard i have worked to get the killer body!
    Look hot at the beach in a bikini and look good all clothed off.
    (:
  • 32sami
    32sami Posts: 380 Member
    I like my butt. lol
  • Mostly vanity. I don't want to look 6 months pregnant anymore. I want to lose my double chin. I don't want to be embarrassed anymore. I want to set a better example for my kids too.
  • KaleidoscopeEyes1056
    KaleidoscopeEyes1056 Posts: 2,996 Member
    I have always been overweight, spending most of my high school years at 180lbs. I lost some of the weight, but gained it all back plus more. I ended up weighing 220 lbs, I didn't fit into any of my clothes, I didn't like how I looked. Now that I am actually trying to get into shape, I actually like breaking my PRs and pushing myself to do better.
  • JuniperT
    JuniperT Posts: 394 Member
    I want to feel good while naked. :drinker:


    This...plus I'm going home this summer for the first time in 14 years, I know I won't be at the weight I want to be, but I don't want to be at the weight I'm at now. Also, health issues in the future I wish to be no part of and I have 3 kids and I want to be a good example.
  • NYactor1
    NYactor1 Posts: 9,642 Member
    To be objectified.
  • OhioViking79
    OhioViking79 Posts: 76 Member
    I want to be the wife my husband will always be attracted to! He still behaves now the same way he always has towards me, but i want to feel like i deserve a husband that desires me :blushing:

    I also want to set a good example for my daughter, and drop jaws when i go home this summer for the first time in three years! No more being mistaken for being pregnant when the kid is 7!
  • zillah73
    zillah73 Posts: 505 Member
    I feel like I have wasted my whole adult life living this sort of limited half-life, stymied by what I couldn't do physically as a result of my obesity and what I had convinced myself I could never do. I am getting in shape because I want my life to be getting better every day, not staying stuck in one place. I have so many things to do and see and experience. Now, as I am on the verge of turning 40, I am faster, stronger, healthier than I have ever been and in the best shape of my life – and it's only getting better!
  • kbitikofer
    kbitikofer Posts: 43 Member
    For several reasons:
    -My health
    -Bikini season
    -My Husband
    -Wanting to start a Family
    -To look hott (not huge) when I'm riding my motorcycle

    (So lets be honest, vanity is a big part of it.)
  • Alidecker
    Alidecker Posts: 1,262 Member
    Originally, I lost the weight because I wanted to look good, most of my friends were married or getting married and I didn't want to be single the rest of my life and I hated the way I looked, so how could anyone ever find my attractive.

    Now that I have lost over 100 pounds, the reasons to keep going and lose more and/or keep it off have changed to feeling healthy and accomplishing different goals. This year's goal is to beat my triathlon time from last year and do more physical events. One under the belt with a 40 floor stair climb that I finished faster than I thought I would :)
  • lalonmeg000
    lalonmeg000 Posts: 276 Member
    Vanity lol I am tired of going out for a drink with friends and never being asked to dance. It's more of a confidence thing, I don't feel pretty when I get dressed up, I want to be the first everyone wants to talk to, not the last.
  • Cmmf1234
    Cmmf1234 Posts: 14 Member
    I want to live my life to the fullest NOW!
  • iulia_maddie
    iulia_maddie Posts: 2,780 Member
    Strength and vanity. I want to be strong and smoking hot.
  • iggyboo93
    iggyboo93 Posts: 524 Member
    I want to know what it feels like to be hot.
  • sarahfashion861
    sarahfashion861 Posts: 44 Member
    I got tired of my clothes not fitting right. I want to feel sexier again and wear high heels :)! Ive lost 25.8lbs in 3 months! Im a new women!
  • 1tiamat
    1tiamat Posts: 138 Member
    I mainly just want to like what I see in the mirror. I tell myself that I want to avoid the health problems in my family, but when you boil it down to the core reason, I want 2 things.

    1. To like what I see

    2. To have people envious of what they see

    Of course health, flexibility, and confidence don't hurt either. ;)
  • a1wonder
    a1wonder Posts: 95 Member
    To look like a pro when I scuba :) and also to avoid surgery ( back problems)