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What is your HONEST reason for losing weight??????

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  • fittiefoodiemommy
    fittiefoodiemommy Posts: 22 Member
    I wanted to look and feel great! I wanted my children to feel proud of me! I didn't want to be embarrassed to be in family photographs! I wanted to be comfortable in my own skin! I wanted to have the energy to run and chase my kiddies!

    Always looking for more MFP friends to encourage & support! Those that will keep me accountable and that I can help keep accountable! Shoot me a friends request with a quick message if that sounds like you!!

    xoxo
    Rebekah
  • UsernameisNick
    UsernameisNick Posts: 49
    Honestly?
    I suppose I'd like to be attractive to girls my age. :laugh:
  • kdhamner
    kdhamner Posts: 309 Member
    I was frustrated with feeling like crap all of the time. At the time I was 36 years old, trapped in a 70+ year olds body! I wanted to live an active life - not one full of aches and pains. I knew it was time to make a change, so I did. I want to live not just be alive.
  • Mikkimeow
    Mikkimeow Posts: 1,282 Member
    I used to be really hot, and everyone treated me amazing. Then I dropped out of college, got married, had a kid, and now bank tellers won't even look me in the eye. I realized that I was invisible as a fat person. Horrible, but true. So, I am on my way back to sexypants. I have learned a lot about what it means to have true friends and fair weather friends.
  • GallifreyanGirl396
    GallifreyanGirl396 Posts: 76 Member
    I used to be underweight.Now, I'm very overweight. It makes me feel like a failure.
  • sriley7682
    sriley7682 Posts: 48 Member
    To look good, be sexy, live longer. All of that.
  • Julzanne72
    Julzanne72 Posts: 468 Member
    Initially it started because I wanted to look good in my wedding dress in September. I started really focusing on eating/calories/working out in March. But since I started and I actually completed TurboFire, it has become so much more. I mean the standards all apply: I am tired of being overweight, I want to wear cute clothes, I want to look in the mirror and like what I see. But now it's about that and about being able to walk a flight of stairs without being winded, it's about being healthy well into my 50's and 60's, its about accomplishing what I thought was the impossible, it's about finishing what I started, it's about me believing that I can do anything that I put my mind to, it's about leaping when I am afraid I am going to fall. I am losing weight because quite honestly I owe it to myself to be the best version of me that I can possibly be. That means taking care of my body and my mind! That is why I am losing weight.
  • feralkitten1010
    feralkitten1010 Posts: 219 Member
    1. I was bored.
    2. I didn't want the doctor to tell me my weight.
    3. Asthma.
  • MissMissle
    MissMissle Posts: 293 Member
    I'm all set with my fupa, and muffin top.
  • VeryKatie
    VeryKatie Posts: 5,961 Member
    I don't feel like I have a reason. Like I kinda do but it keeps changing, and I don't really care if I do or not? But I also just want to get 'er done. Maybe I'm just challenging myself. Seeing if I can get that number?
  • sculli123
    sculli123 Posts: 1,221 Member
    To make weight in a lower weight class for a powerlifting competition last month (which I won). Now my reason for staying lean is to look good at the pool on my vacation.
  • TheVirgoddess
    TheVirgoddess Posts: 4,535 Member
    Avoid diabetes.
  • WisteriaLady
    WisteriaLady Posts: 28 Member
    I avoid weddings etc because there is no way I have the confidence to put my vast bulk into a dress! There is a family wedding next year and I want to go to it!

    Also I want to enjoy running about with my kids, go swimming etc - something I wouldnt dare do now!

    I went through a health scare and it gave me a wake up call. Ive only been doing it for a week today but im loving every minute of it!!

    I also want to get a professional family photo done, right now I prefer to be the one taking the photos!
  • 1fatchicken
    1fatchicken Posts: 1
    I don't want to die young like my dad did, and tired of wearing "fat" clothes.


    This.
  • clarks_mom
    clarks_mom Posts: 3
    Feminine pride .... to resolve something that has been an issue for me my entire life ... to set an example for my son and, finally, to attract a hot man, which, apparently, my current body isn't going to do for me.
  • kshadows
    kshadows Posts: 1,315 Member
    My clothes don't fit and I don't like the way I look.
  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    I want to lose my moobs and girls
  • misscem94
    misscem94 Posts: 114 Member
    To look good in photos/clothes
    To manage my condition
    To not be the fat friend any more
  • Babygurl721
    Babygurl721 Posts: 10 Member
    I dont like the way I look and feel in my cloths. I know im gaining cause my feet are starting to swell up in my shoes and my legs hurt from all the weight that Im carry on them. I want to be able to wear my heels again and look sexy for ME!!!
  • swaistle
    swaistle Posts: 119 Member
    It is for vanity really. So I don't feel and think I look fat. So I can wear all the pretty body-con dresses and assume it'll solve all my self-confidence issues. (Which I know it wont and it's something I'm working on along with losing weight) Also my health I guess, it's not nice knowing I'm classed as obese/overweight cause of my BMI and stuff. It makes life insurance premiums higher too ¬¬
  • criticaldog
    criticaldog Posts: 21 Member
    Vanity. I want to be able to wear cool clothes again.
    Example. I want my kids to see me making changes, and being healthy.
    Pride. I hope to belt in TKD next year, and I don't want to be a fat black belt.
    Sexy. Asthma attacks during vigorous sex are not sexy. I want to be sexy again.
  • UNLESS19
    UNLESS19 Posts: 118
    i'm sick of hating the way i look and not having any self-esteem/confidence, especially as i've always been fat and was bullied a lot
    Plus I'm short so i look stocky

    I want to look good naked and in clothes, not cringe at photos of myself and get upset by them and feel good in my own skin. i also want to feel/be fit and healthy, not loosing breathe unless doing something strenuous, as well as having people think and say i look good too!
    So vanity and health
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    hmmm..

    my hip hurt a lot along with high cholesterol. Really that is what started it.

    Next in line i have this bag under my eye...it's going away now and I was sick of being the "fat" friend.

    so mainly health...then vanity kicked in and now why do I maintain...I gave all my bigger clothes away, I like lifting weights and I look pretty fine.

    ETA: whenever vanity was the main motivator I lost that motivation and yo yo'd a lot...my health really kicked it into gear for me.
  • ladyblue100
    ladyblue100 Posts: 37 Member
    I want to work towards having abs and being able to kick some butt!
  • Velum_cado
    Velum_cado Posts: 1,608 Member
    To begin with, it was about feeling healthy again. I had previously lost a lot of weight and regained most of it and I felt really unhealthy. As I've carried on, and become more physically active, it's about being able to maintain and increase that level of activity , particularly in relation to pole dancing.
  • 692ecs
    692ecs Posts: 33 Member
    i have 2 reasons:

    1. I want to look and feel good about how I look, rather than constantly worry whether something is going to fit and how bad it will look.

    2. My weight is affecting my fitness which in turn affects my job. I really need to get both sorted!
  • loveless_me
    loveless_me Posts: 115 Member
    To look and feel sexy naked.
    I hate being the ugly chubby girl, I look like I am 6months pregnant because of my belly fat.
    Its also something to work towards, it gives me a goal. I want to be hotter than my friends, I want to be sexy for my boyfriend.
    Also my whole family is obese, my granny, aunts and uncles, my mother and recently my older sister has put on more weight. I don't like to look at my mother and say one day ill look like her, so I've started now, to try to keep my weight in control.
  • ChasingMyBliss
    ChasingMyBliss Posts: 803 Member
    I am tired of feeling "plain" all the time. I want to look and feel "extraordinary". I want to wear WHATEVER I want, and know it is going to look good. I want to feel strong, vital and healthy, and know my body will be ready to take on any challenge I ask of it! I want to be the best roll model I can be for my boys. I want to give a big, fat middle finger to a MS diagnosis and live my life exactly as I want for as long as I can.
  • laura2813
    laura2813 Posts: 84 Member
    I want to be comfortable in clothes.
    I want to look acceptable in a bathing suit.
    I want my husband (23 yrs younger than I) to be proud of me
    I want to be able to exercise for more than a couple minutes without feeling like I'm gonna die
  • Meerataila
    Meerataila Posts: 1,885 Member
    I'm all set with my fupa, and muffin top.

    What a beautiful horse!

    It's all about the fupa for me now. I've declared a war to the death on it. Mine or its. And it's going down!
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