Why did you start?
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Because I no longer
"just had a baby" or am eating for two. because i had gestational diabetes with pregnancy number two, and two of my grandparents have developed type 2 diabetes..
because nothing fit and i was grumpy and had no energy. because i didnt feel sexy .. because i look back at pictures years ago and thought.. wow it would be nice to look like tha tagain! because i just had a birthday and next year ill be the big 3-0 and i didnt want to be "old" and fat...0 -
Mainly because at my second-to-last regular checkup, the numbers started getting wrong: my BP was high and I had to start taking a diuretic, my cholesterol was high and rising (only slightly high, though, so no meds), fasting insulin was slightly high, and my liver enzymes were off. And I weighed more than 250 lbs.
After losing close to 60 lbs. everything is back in the normal range and my Dr. just took me off the diuretic.0 -
So rude little snot nosed kids with no manners stop saying "That lady is really fat" as if I can not hear them....Teach your kids manners people!
Also so I can become a pin up girl
So I can have another baby!
So I can go in public and not feel like I just walked out of a circus!0 -
Because I don't want to spend the rest of my twenties fat.0
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Competing in bodybuilding show in fall 2014..or could be pushed back to 20150
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#1 reason for me: High blood pressure. I have it and don't want it. I want off the meds for it. I'm not getting any younger and my family has a history of diabetes, cancer, heart disease. Yeah, I want to look better, but that's icing on the cake for me. I want to *feel* better and *be* healthier. I want to be able to take care of my family. So I started researching foods, figured out what I want is real food, avoiding or reducing the over processed stuff, then found MFP to figure out the rest. I still have a long way to go, but I"ll get there.
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to get rid of my double chin (no more giraffe neck in pictures)
I love this! The awful double chin in family pictures was definitely one of my issues too.0 -
Got on the scale at the dr. office and didn't like the number.
Also, both parents and one grandparent were diabetic.
Had gestational diabetes myself.
BP creeping ever higher..........115/65 now after 21lbs. lost0 -
Every pair of pants I put on enhanced a muffin top I didn't realize I had. Then those pants no longer fit...0
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Because I theoretically have abdominal muscles I'd like to see some day.
Because it was either lose weight or buy bigger clothes.
Because arthritis is annoying enough without adding extra weight (and less flexibility) on top of my joints.
Because I want people to go "ooh!" rather than "eww!" if my shirt is off in public.
Because exercise releases endorphins that combat depression, which is cheaper than Prozac et al.
EDIT: Because the picture on my ID looked like I was having some sort of anaphylactic shock reaction to a bee sting or something, merely by smiling and ducking my chin to reduce the glare on my glasses.0 -
Let's be honest. To look sexy. feel sexy. and be sexy.0
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Diagnosed with weight caused sleep apnea.
Chin sitting on my collar bone.
Being heavier than heavier than my wife and I did combined at my commencement ball in 1990.
Had fight back against degenerative osteoarthritis.0 -
I was feeling sluggish and having knee pain, and I knew it had a lot to do with the kinds of food I was putting in my body and the fact that I wasn't even attempting exercise. I'm already feeling better on the inside, which matches how I feel about the outside
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Tired of feeling bad about myself, being embarrassed to go anywhere where I may see someone who hasn't seen me in a while, not feeling sexy to my husband(even though he didn't think so), not wanting my oldest daughter(6) to be embarrassed of her mom when she gets old enough to notice, just tired of being unhappy with myself. Oh yeah and hating seeing pictures of myself with the double chin! I've lost 31lbs and still have the double chin, hoping that will go away soon!0
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The scale was getting a little too close to 200 and I had vowed never to get that big again. I had lost 50 pounds back in '99 and kept about 45 of it off up until a few years ago. I have been wanting to do something about it but really didn't have the drive to do so. When I seen that a friend of mine on FB had joined Weight Watchers and started posting her weekly losses it was enough of a push for me to get back to it.0
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Diabetes.
Starting to creep into XXL clothes
A bicycle I couldn't ride
Being heavier than my b/f...that's pretty hard to take.
My granddaughter. I want to be able to play other things than tea party or dolls with her.
Want to preserve my knees
And just all over look and feel good!0 -
i want to be healthy and look as good dancing as i feel.0
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I've always been a big girl and I don't want to be the big girl any more.0
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Found out I was D cup. Sounds stupid, but I realized I was a D cup not from being large chested but that I was fat and my boobs now had more fat. I'm a b cup when I feel healthiest. I had bought size d bras the year before and made a vow to lose weight. I forgot my promise to myself and went in the next year and couldn't figure out why all of the C cups all felt too tight! Looked at my old bras and saw the D cup size. I might have frightened the sales girls at Vicky's from my scream and then moan. I walked out of there refusing to buy new bras, I know its important to have bras that fit, but damn they're expensive ($50 each) and I promised myself I'd get by on sports bras (of which I have a ton!) until I could be down to a C cup again! Which I've done. I might soon be a B cup pretty soon again.
And the that I began to feel constricted in my normal everyday movements. I'd never felt that before in my life.
The sobering reality that every time I go home I can see my mother and grandmother suffering horrible personal pain from their morbid obesity. It frightened me as a child; I thought I was doomed to be morbidly obese in adulthood. I've decided I wasn't going to lay down and accept such fate without a fight!0 -
My husband said "you will always be attractive to me because I love you" :grumble: this was in response to the question "does this look good on me?" :sad: it was at that point that it hit me. I was no longer sexy! I had let myself go to the point that my husband had to ignore my looks and focus on his love for me to see me as beautiful.:noway: he deserves a hot wife and I am on my way!:happy:0
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Like some others said...I was tired of being fat. I was tired of being winded walking. Tired of not finding my size in 'regular' stores. Want me to keep going? :happy:0
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I had come up with every excuse in the book. " my husband loves me - why does it matter " - " why can't i eat whatever I want - it's not like I suck down a whole pizza in one sitting " - I even just started referring to myself as " big " and " fat " and " large " - like somehow the acknowledgement of this would make it easier to accept and therefore " Ok " - to be.... the list goes on and on...
Bottom Line - I was tired of being Fat. I found MFP and Zumba - and finally, now I am doing something about it!0 -
honestly, i am tired of being fat.0
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I've been lucky to not be plagued with diseases associated with obesity. Luck will only get me so far. I want to live a long and healthy life doing whatever the heck I want. Including biking all over creation long after i turn grey. lol.0
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Because I was weighing almost as much as my 6'4 boyfriend, I'm only 5'2. I also want to get married we've been together for 6 years have two kids and the thought of me being in front of everyone at my size in a wedding dress I got because it fit and not cause I liked it, is scary.0
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Because I want to be an action movie hero girl. :smokin:
I want to be able to run through the jungle for 3 miles without coughing up a lung.
I want to be able angry, determined pull-ups in a holding cell.
I want to be able to go to kick boxing classes and not have anyone question it.
Also, I want to be able to be able to beat my husband in tickle fights.
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Because I want to be an action movie hero girl. :smokin:
I want to be able to run through the jungle for 3 miles without coughing up a lung.
I want to be able angry, determined pull-ups in a holding cell.
I want to be able to go to kick boxing classes and not have anyone question it.
Also, I want to be able to be able to beat my husband in tickle fights.
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I want my nephew (about to turn 2 years old) and my future kids to see me happy and healthy. It took years but i've finally accepted my body type and shape, but I also know I can be toned and in tip top shape.0
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because my endo thinks I'm very fat and keeps comparing myself with her(She's a very scary, petite, skinny lady) I wouldn't have lost all this weight had it not been for her and her endless, scary, nagging/lectures honestly. :P That women scares the crap out of me. I had to make sure I shed off weight every time I'm scheduled to meet her lol. I was dxed with PCOS that time because I was very obese. I'm actually very grateful my GP introduced me to her coz carrying all those extra weight sucks!0
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I started because I'm built to be very slender (except for my extremely large rack, ugh, I hate boobs) and the extra weight I gained after my wedding is giving me back fat, a belly/love handles, and thighs that rub together. My husband says he still thinks I'm sexy, but he deserves the hottest version of me possible, and this just ain't it!0
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