Your number one reason to lose weight

To look good sitting down, which is what I do all day at work, and standing up.

I think my number one motivation is my clothes. I have so many that don't fit, and slowly I've just been replacing them and hiding them at the back of my wardrobe - but a while ago my bike jeans were really tight, and those things are expensive so I can't just replace them! My waterproof trousers are also tight, and they were about £200 so I need to be able to fit in them by winter. It got to the point where my clothes were spoiling my bike rides, or even putting me off because I didn't want the hassle of getting dressed. I even made myself a button extender out of a hair bobble as I couldn't fasten my jeans! Now, the button will do up properly, although they're a little bit tight - but soon they will fit better!

I also have the motivation that I get back pain from arthritis, and if I was smaller it may not be as bad. But for me that's not a huge motivator, as it's only a MIGHT - I've been smaller before and still had pain.Whereas I know that if I am smaller my clothes will fit.

To be healthier, finding clothes that fit well and look nice! Finally tracking my food and really real like that is helping me to realize what and how much I have been actually eating!

I can't buy a 20 lbs lighter sled this year so I need to be a twenty lbs lighter rider!. Oh and I want to be smokin hot naked.

So I don't die.

I want to run faster / easier

I like to be able to move better. My joints ache and I feel like I have less body strength. Getting older and being overweight is tough on the body.

...because I literally cannot afford to outgrow my wardrobe anymore. I'm down to a handful of slapped-together outfits in which I look presentable and/or feel comfortable. Clothes are the last thing I have room in my budget for. Being tall (and in denial) it took a while for me to acknowledge the 40ish pounds that crept up on me over the past 4-5 years, until recently when I admitted to myself that my pants indeed were getting a little more than "suspiciously snug." The last straw was when I recently had to add an extender tab to my bra band...

Oh yeah, and health and longevity and all that good stuff, too.

I've recently gone down a bra back size, and I haven't been doing this very long. So in a short while you'll be able to ditch that extender if you stick at it, and I know you can!

My Health:flowerforyou:

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Because the migraine meds I had been on caused me to put on 45 lbs in like 3 months. And that really alarmed me, I didn't wanna have to buy any new clothes and I noticeably felt crappier and less energetic. I had my Dr switch my meds and have been logging calories and consistently working out and have lost something like 34.8 lbs now wanna get bk down to where I was before putting on weight and even a little more than that and put on some extra muscle. Also I wanna feel comfortable wearing dresses and that and not being in shape makes that really hard especially since I am very short so if I put on weight its easier to notice.

Because I want to look on the outside what I feel on the inside.

Because I don't want to be heavy for the rest of my life.

Because I want to be able to do more in life than I can do now. Not have so much difficulty doing things I am uncomfortable doing now.

My #1 reason is to be healthy. I have fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and hypothyroid, when I started mfp I was in bed 3xs or more a week. I hurt all over, fell asleep in mid sentence and basically didnt have a life, also high blood pressure and high chlesterol. Now I can live life, no more high blood pressure and no more high chlesterol and no more days in bed. Wow now I have my life back.....what a great reason to lose weight

Keeping up with this one^ ;-)

So that I can ride my bicycle up hills even faster. I'm a pretty good hill climber now, but if I were 10 pounds lighter, I'd be uncatchable.

Also, just to prove to myself that I can do it.

So what about all of you? What is your number one reason for losing weight?

I was fat.