What is Your Motivation? Why do you want Change?

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  • chainess413
    chainess413 Posts: 2
    I wanted to change coz i have been like this big since ages!
    I wanted a change...basically to be with my kids...see them grow up and have families of their own in the future.

    I am starting to do this again and I hope I can continue it and lose EXTRA EXTRA weight!!

    Motivation?...as long as I will not be dealing with stress and temptation...i guess my motivation is ME..
  • LurveTheDoctor
    LurveTheDoctor Posts: 303
    I've always been a big girl. I just decided one day to change. I want cheaper clothes.. live longer for my kids.. not be treated badly bc I'm fat..
  • stud_pride05
    stud_pride05 Posts: 8
    my self-esteem is low and i feel unattractive and undesirable
  • TwistDSG
    TwistDSG Posts: 10 Member
    I needed more self-confidence. I looked terrible all my life until now and of course I would get made fun of because I didn't look like the rest. I don't blame them though, haha. I look back all the time and ask myself how I let myself go. Of course their comments still hurt but the past is the past, right? Now I just do it for me because its my gain and no one elses.
  • Nix_Way
    Nix_Way Posts: 201 Member
    I started to take control of what I ate because I have severe back pain (arthritis) and was basically in bed 80% of the time. I had to push past the daily constant pain to get up and get walking. I could only do 10 minuets at a time with great pain.
    I also was sick of waiting for life to "get better". How was it going to get better if I couldn't even get out of bed??!?!??!
    I now do it because I like being able to walk 1 minute father each day!
    I keep doing it because I don't have to take as many pain pills everyday for severe pain!
    I keep doing it because I like how I feel when I put on my clotthes and they are loose on me!
    I keep doing it because I'm getting less afraid of chairs! (what can I say.. I got a big can:laugh: )
    I keep doing it because I like not obsessing over food! I feel NORMAL!
    I keep dong it because by next summer I might ..no, WILL be able to go to the beach and not feel like any minute someone will say they just saw a beached whale!
  • Losingthedamnweight
    Losingthedamnweight Posts: 536 Member
    Because I don't love myself. I grew up a horrible childhood filled with neglect and abandonment. Living in extreme poverty with only my mentally ill mom to take care of me. Then unsurprisingly, I went into my teens and 20's full of ridiculous emotional issues. Anxiety and depression held me back from living the life I could've had. I was always such a dreamer...I always had this fantasy of what my life could be like but I was never strong enough to go out and live it. I was a victim of circumstance and stuck being afraid. Being sad. It's just...not living.

    Now I'm 29 and working my *kitten* off to lose this damn weight and make my 30's count. I may have let my 20's pass by and totally wasted them, but I won't continue living like this dammit! My 30's are going to be what my 20's should've been. Losing all this weight is the first big step in really living my life and feeling confident and pride and loving myself. And I'm so freaking excited for it!
  • Siansonea
    Siansonea Posts: 917 Member
    I don't exercise, so I only have to engage my willpower for the dieting portion of the equation. Trying to diet AND exercise is just too much, and I don't have that kind of willpower, so I'm using all the willpower for the diet. I'm doing it because I like the way I look when I'm a size 6, and I want to look like that again. :D
  • 2013sk
    2013sk Posts: 1,318 Member
    When I squeeze that bit of fat on my hips..................

    When I look in the mirror and feel a bit bloated.......................

    Going to the gym and doing a good sweaty workout always makes me feel good, Eating healthy makes you feel good, When I eat rubbish I feel like rubbish.......Lol!!!
  • ingeh
    ingeh Posts: 513 Member
    I'm done having kids. My body is my own again. It's much easier to stay motivated when I know that all of my hard work is not about to be undone by another pregnancy. :)
    Im similar, Iv got my 2 young boys so im done with changing my body through pregnancy. So now I can get that dream body Iv wanted for the past few years. Im the weight I was 5 yrs ago so Im amazed, just need to lose this last 1st or so then im done with weight loss mode.
  • JenToms80
    JenToms80 Posts: 373 Member
    For me the motivation is knowing that I can and want to push myself!

    Excercise is part of my life and Im really enjoying it! :happy:
  • annettelotty
    annettelotty Posts: 4 Member
    my motivation is new, I have spent my life caring for my family and never thought of myself, one day i look in the mirror and think *kitten* where have the years gone, and who the heck is that in the mirror.... its my time to shine
  • gigglesinthesun
    gigglesinthesun Posts: 860 Member
    I haven't posted a picture of myself on facebook for years because I don't like how I looked in pictures.
  • Hildy_J
    Hildy_J Posts: 1,050 Member
    Because when I'm super slim it REALLY gets up the nose of those snotty family members, acquaintances and colleagues who I don't like and who don't like me. :glasses:

    *smug face*
  • Joehenny
    Joehenny Posts: 1,222 Member
    No motivation, ocd.
  • LLT57
    LLT57 Posts: 21
    I wanted to feel good about myself, to feel attractive again.
  • biggsterjackster
    biggsterjackster Posts: 419 Member
    Simple, I think, fat people are unattractive and I don't want to be one of them.
  • Rai007
    Rai007 Posts: 387 Member
    For Some One Very Special :cry:
  • ktsmom430
    ktsmom430 Posts: 1,100 Member
    Biggest motivation was $$$$$. We were told in 2011 that we were having health screenings for our health care coverage. I passed everything except weight. We are having the screening that will count on October 30th.

    Now the motivation is how I feel. Being able to move around, pretty much pain free, is totally motivating for me now. I feel better than I have in decades.
  • NH_Norma
    NH_Norma Posts: 332 Member
    to be able to do what I want to do, without worry of weight restrictions for some activities but even more without hesitation of my own ability. One day almost 4 weeks ago I was feeling energetic and decided to go hike a small mountain near me. FAIL! I went about 15 minutes and had to come back because I was way too exhausted already. That moment I decided to change. I ate healthy the rest of that day and signed up for MFP as soon as I got home. Yesterday, I met with a wellness coach of sorts (a nurse practitioner that my employer has on-site a few days a week), and my goals for October are to go back to that mountain and walk for 20 minutes up (even if I have to take several breaks) and turn around. Go back another day and do 25 minutes. My plan was to wait until Spring to go back but she wants me to meet it head on and let it be my baseline (and not something to fear).
  • gymgirl3590
    gymgirl3590 Posts: 46
    1. To be able to do the things I love again (I started playing around doing gymnastics at work).
    2. To be smaller than my boyfriend.
    3. To be able to take care of myself (to be self sufficient, physically strong, and for when I age).
    4. Honestly I had some emotional trauma growing up and have some low self esteem because of it, I feel better about myself when I'm in better shape.
    5. I'm getting to the age where I may have kids soon, the better shape I'm in now, the easier it will be. We have several pregnant employees at the Y who have stayed in great shape.
    6. Avoiding a few surgeries, I also think my recovery time may be quicker if I'm in better shape.
    7. Coaching gymnasts in awesome shape makes me want to be better, it inspires me. I also never wanted to quit, I miss it, and being in shape I can play.
    8. To feel sexy.
  • jesserunsfree
    jesserunsfree Posts: 194 Member
    I really think it started with my health, then because I got pissed off because I was doing so well and I gained, then it became because I wanted to fit a pair of jeans Target sold now its because I really wanna outrun my husband.. lol an ever changing motivational moment, I'm ADHD for motivation. But I keep going..

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