What is your motivation?

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  • mynewlife10
    mynewlife10 Posts: 52
    My health. I was healthy and fairly fit, and then I had a heart problem, needed surgery and I thought I was going to die. It was a bad cycle - my heart didn't like the exercise, and I had a hard time recovering. I gained a lot of weight back and I know that exercise and prudent eating habits is the key to be in control of my BP and my otherwise escalated heart rate. I deserve to be feel great and look great. Now, if I can just stick with that it will be a good thing.
  • Buckeyegirlbritt
    Buckeyegirlbritt Posts: 69
    I tell myself, I've come too far to give up.
  • fitdreaaming
    fitdreaaming Posts: 7
    All my life i've always been the fat girl, i cannot remember a single time in my life where i was fit. I am obese now, my motivation is to get in shape and be the healthiest i can be, because honestly all these diseases and health problems are scaring me. I also want to look good naked, it may be stupid, but i really want this for me, no boyfriend stories or anything, i want to look in the mirror and LOVE the way i look. I cannot handle being fat anymore, and no matter how much it takes i will just keep going until i reach my goal, then keep living healthy for the rest of my life !
  • Sharon_73
    Sharon_73 Posts: 189 Member
    I am a cancer survivor and that is my motiviation. Survivor. I owe it to myself to take care of myself. I was given a second chance and I won't take that for granted. I'm not aiming for the imaginary "perfect body" I am aiming for the strong, powerful and healthy body. I never know if the cancer will come back and I want to make sure if it does, that I can fight and win.
  • TheBackStory
    TheBackStory Posts: 263
    Once I wrapped my brain around the fact that there really is no finish line, I stopped worrying so much about the little things and started to really be able to see the much bigger picture...I started to see that it wasn't all about dropping X Lbs per week...it wasn't about hitting some arbitrary goal weight by some arbitrary date or fitting into some pants or whatever...it's not about what's necessarily happening today or tomorrow or next week.

    It's really all about being the best you can be in the moment...it's about being better today than you were yesterday...it's about sleeping well with the knowledge that tomorrow you will be more awesome than you were today or yesterday. It's all about knowing that next year at this time you will be more awesome than you are right now...it's about the next 5, 10, 20 years and then some...it's about the rest of your life and making a choice as to what you are going to be the rest of your life. It's about your health and well being...it's about being able to spend those later years in life traveling the world with my SO rather than hold up in some hospital bed. It's about being around for as long as I possibly can...watching my kids grow up, get married, have kids of their own.

    I don't give a damn about what size my pants are...or what my weight is...or whether I have six pack abs or whatever. I just care about being healthy and being the best me that I can possibly be....and every day I am more awesome.

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    This!
  • juliemouse83
    juliemouse83 Posts: 6,663 Member
    Initially it was the thought of losing weight that motivated me. I was cruising on up to obese and this was not a good look on me. So I lost some weight.

    Then I found weight lifting, and it stopped being so much about getting the pounds off of me, and more about getting the pounds on the bar, and how much I could actually pick up. When I started? I couldn't pick up much, LOL...but I loved it and kept with it.

    Now it's the idea that perhaps, before I turn 50 in 2015, I can get myself to where I can, if I so choose, enter a competition. Fifty used to scare the hell out of me (in my mind, 50=old), but now? So yeah, I guess I'm vain enough to want to be the hottest 50 year old on the block. :wink:

    I think, for myself, anyway, it's about always having a goal; just that "something" that I work toward. I know competition is a long term goal, but on the shorter end of the spectrum? By December 31, I want to do one unassisted pull-up, be able to deadlift more than my body weight (like, maybe 1.5x?), and be closer to squatting my body weight. The fact that I love doing it (I mean I look forward to my lift days) keeps me from having to feel "motivated."
  • lavaughan69
    lavaughan69 Posts: 459 Member
    My motivation has changed since the start of my journey, when i first started i just no longer wanted to be obese/overweight which i have been for as long as I have remembered. In the past few months my new motivation is still to be a "normal weight" but my main motivation is to look good naked, I don't mind admiting it but Ive never thought I was looking mainly due to my weight and specially when stark b*ll*cks naked. So when I finally get to my goal, i don't care how long I want to finally say while looking in a mirror "damn you look good"

    yeah, pretty much this!

    Right now I'm 2 lbs from goal but I still don't like what I see naked in the mirror. I'm going change my goal to lose 10 more lbs once I hit goal. Oh, and I'm going on a cruise in 60 days, so wearing a bikini is always a good motivator!!
  • JLHNU212
    JLHNU212 Posts: 169 Member
    I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want another baby!!! I have a few issues that are only magnified by being heavier than healthy... So I want to be healthy with FANTASTIC blood pressure and a few pounds lighter. I dont have a magic number, just want to be healthy! Getting a pain in my chest and automatically thinking it has to be a heart attack or some sort of blockage is SCARY and having that fear all the time, is not letting me live the life I want... with a house full of babies and being able to run after each of them! :)
  • phenuala
    phenuala Posts: 1
    Adopting a child, and the country has a weight limit.
  • l0l0p
    l0l0p Posts: 167 Member
    I desire to be a better person than the one I am yesterday.:wink:
  • CharChary
    CharChary Posts: 220 Member
    Myself. I am worth it. I know I am. I know that my weight was/is something that is keeping me from being happy and holding me back. I want to live and be comfortable in my own skin!
  • karinajean2388
    karinajean2388 Posts: 162 Member
    Honestly, I started because I wanted to get sweet, sexy revenge on my ex. Maybe not the best reason, but after she left me, I was in a pretty dark place (still am some days) and I needed to be able to have control over something. I want to be able to slim down, be the best me I can be...and then rub it in her face. Of course, along the way, it has started to shift more towards just doing it for myself because I am feeling the benefits of dropping the pounds (physically, mentally, and emotionally). However, I do look forward to bragging about my success on Facebook and imagining the look on her face :happy:
  • ChocolateSnowflakex
    ChocolateSnowflakex Posts: 18 Member
    It's amazing how many different things drive people to do the same thing; lose weight/get healthy.

    Also fantastic to see all your trackers and see how far you've all come :) I only discovered the forums yesterday even though I 've had the app using it on and off for a long time without much success.

    I started a new job and a new degree in the past couple of weeks so it's definitely time for a new lifestyle as well.
  • Messier108
    Messier108 Posts: 23
    I know it sounds shallow but I don't really care: nice clothes.
  • almasters90
    almasters90 Posts: 38 Member
    The smile I see on my face when I look in the mirror.

    Knowing that I love what I see instead of "I'll try to lose weight starting tomorrow."

    Also, looking at the terrible candid photo my boyfriend took of me 40 pounds ago. That tends to do the trick when times get depressing. It's a nice reminder since the photo is part of my profile picture for mfp and I happen to depend on the app to save my body. :happy:
  • CubicalF13
    CubicalF13 Posts: 263 Member
    Other then looking great, my overall health before i was fit motivates me to keep doing the exercise. I suffer from asthma and also knee pains from being BMI over weight. Now however after each exercise i can feel my lungs getting stronger allowing me to breath more freely plus i feel little to no knee pain thanks to the reduced weight i have to carry. When i stop training for a period of say 2-3 months, i have trouble breathing and my knees start aching again so i continue to exercise to avoid these ailments from returning.

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