Why do you want to lose weight??

To control Medical Problems and to eat healthier.

Hmmmm

1. To stop constantly sweating, especially when meeting people for the first time....embarassing!!
2. To be fit and healthy-FEEL better!
3. To look sexy
4.To fit in my wedding dress again!
5. To get my body ready for having children in a couple of years!

To regain confidence in myself
For my husband
I have always wanted to live a healthy lifestyle

1. To better manage my stress.
2. To gain more energy
3. Because I miss turning heads. Who knows, I may be too old for that anyway, but I'm tired of being "she'd be pretty if..." girl, I just want to feel pretty again.
4. To be able to buy clothes anywhere and to more easily be able to find the cute ones.
5. For the amazing feeling of accomplishment I'll have when I can say "Wow. Look what I did."


Rose

1. To be a good example for my children.
2. To feel better about myself.
3. To be fit and active again.
4. To feel sexier (and have my hubby benefit from it).
5. And, I'll admit I am a little vain, to look hot again!

I am watching my mom wither away and die. She has high blood pressur, diabetes, dimentia, and 3rd stage cervical cancer. She is only 63. I don't want my kids to have to watch me slowly die. I want the 2nd half of my life to be healthy and happy! I only wish my mom would have done the same.

I want to shop for regular sizes.
I want to be in the middle of the conversation instead of listening from the corner
I want to be able to run and play with my grandchildren.

I just want to live!!!

1. For me
2. For my boyfriend (future husband) who was concerned about my bad habits (we are now having the greatest time together finding new healthy foods, learning about nutrition and comparing workouts)
3. For my health. My cholesterol and blood pressure had gone up quite a bit and that is unacceptable. (I recommend everyone have a blood work test done! It should only be about $30 and results in one day)
4. I DID NOT want to start buying clothes another size larger.
5. If my parents in their 60's can lose a combined 70 lbs I can lose weight too.
6. I dont' want to be the slowest person in my group of friends out hiking. I hate being the one that always wants a break.
7. It was time for a permanent lifestyle change.
8. I want to be hot for my eventual wedding on a beach somewhere!

If I'm to be honest...
I really feel like my weight and this battle has controlled me and ruled parts of my life. It has affected me in ways of my not taking risks and doing things I want to do. It's been my excuse for so many things. I'm just ready to remove it in my life and get it out of the way. I'm 42 and I don't want this to rule over the next part of my life the way it has so far.
Sounds dramatic, but so true.
Can anyone relate?

1) to be able to share clothes with my friends
2) to not be embaressed in changing rooms-at the beach
3) to buy a pair of jeans and know they will fit because they label says your size
4) to avoid family history of heart attacks,high blood pressure and diabetes.

I have lost 171 pounds and I am working to keep the weight off because:

1. First and foremost for my health in general.

2. To hopefully not become diabetic like my mother was. I know it had to have played a major roll in the accident that killed her and my dad. She was the one that crossed the center line in the highway. The driver of the first car she hit said she was slumped over the steering wheel. The second car she hit head on. Enough said….it’s a long story.

3. I never want to be in the wheel chair ever again. I want to continue to walk and drive myself where ever I want to go. Which I could do neither of when I was so morbidly obese.

4. In hopes of never having to take meds for high blood pressure again.

5. To never have to sleep with the C-Pap machine on my head to make me breath because I had sleep apnea from being so large.

6. In Hopes of not getting the same breast cancer that killed my great grandmother. (I am her made over right down to her voice) Or any of the other cancers that my family has been riddled with through out the years. Yes obesity plays a big roll in if you have cancer or not.

I want to add here that yes it feels really good to be able to go shopping and buy clothes that really fit and look good on me now. It felt really good the day I walked into The Dress Barn for the first time ever in my life. I was standing there for a minute looking around deciding which way I wanted to go when the sales lady said to me “Hun, your size is over here.” It was the smaller clothes. That was the day I realized I had done it….I had lost the weight….I HAD arrived! I was floating on air. I will never forget that and how wonderful it felt.
But as far as wanting my hip bones to show. No thank you. Can you say “Scary Skinny”!! Scary skinny is just out and out U-G-L-Y and dangerous to do to ones self. I think I will pass.
I want to live and I want to live as healthy as I can what time I have left on this earth.

I wasn’t always big. I started having health problems when I was 23 and my son was 2. We didn’t know it but I had a brain tumor that was making my body act like it was just a hormone problem so the doctor was giving me massive doses of hormones that were doing no good at all. Long story short here I was gaining weight by leaps and bounds. My grandmother said you could see me swell and I looked like some one had a straw in my mouth blowing me up. By the time they did the surgery to remove the tumor I had a lot of weight to lose. Regardless of how or why I gained it I had to lose it just like everybody else. I had to cut the amount of what I was eating. I counted calories and I lost 174 pounds. But the weight came back.
After I had gained the weight back we found out that I have a non-functioning thyroid and it was causing me to gain.
I also have Fibromyalgia which causes fatigue and pain and made it really hard to exercise. I also have arthritis really badly and the weight was really grinding away at my joints causing severe pain.
I have had five foot surgeries and I now have artificial joints in both feet. I couldn’t even walk to the bathroom until my feet healed after each surgery. A friend of mine and my husband had to bring my food into me because I couldn’t get up to feed myself. Just sitting and eating all that time while I healed just helped add on the pounds.
My weight went up to 311 pounds and my blood pressure was out of control. I ended up in the wheelchair and had to ride around on a scooter. It was awful. My life was one big nothing.
I still have several health problems, particularly with my body chemistry. My blood chemistry is one big mess. I counted calories again and the weight started coming off. I reached my goal weight 3 years, 3 months ago and 2 weeks ago.
I realize that the battle with my weight will be an ongoing thing the rest of my life and I sure don’t want to gain it back a second time.
Since I have lost the weight I can now walk and drive myself wherever I want to go. I also am proud to say my blood pressure is now normal and I no longer have to take medication for it.
The amount of medication I was taking has been drastically cut. I had 3 pages of meds I took every day some more then once a day. Now all my meds are printed in bold print on one page.

Those are the reasons I lost the weight and I am working so hard to keep it off.
Anyone that thinks that they can’t do it, I am here to tell you, yes you can. You just have to want to do it, and then just do it.
Hang in there everyone we CAN do this together.
Loretta

Health reasons-when I loss the weight the first time I felt I felt great. And now that I gained some of the weight be I feel awful. . I am slower and tried all the time :sad:

1. to feel good about myself--i have never been this big!
2. to be able to run without feeling like i'm going to die!
3. i need to get into my skinny clothes--because I'm not going to buy bigger clothes!!

1. to escape the diabetes epidemic
2. to save my knees
3. to knock the socks of my husband so noone else will catch his eye
4. to be a good and healthy example for my kids
5. to finally stick to something and reach my goal

I need to do this, I want to do this, I can do this, I will do this!!!

Thank you Renee :flowerforyou: