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

to make my self look like the person my alter ego thinks i should look like .. you know that ideal vision in your head of what you looked like at your"best"

To look good in my dance costumes!

I reallllly want abs.

I have lots of reasons now, but the main reason I started was simply that I hated being fat.

I have kids and am sick and in pain all the time. i cant do anything active with them without hurting myself or being physically unable to.

Because I'm currently unable to have children and I'm pretty sure if I could break the 200 pound mark the chances would really go up.
Having 5 ruptured discs in my spine is a motivator too, losing weight helps only a slight bit with pain but better than nothing.
I don't want to be like my mom. Adding more to that, she recently go diagnosed with diabetes and she doesn't control herself (adding to that my dads ENTIRE and I mean every single person still living has diabetes, if there was every a person to get it.. it's probably me) - fyi my blood sugars are perfect

I was very fit before and now became a couch potato, lost all my drive. I want to get my drive and passion for life back.

I want to lose my chubby cheeks and even out my figure (most of my weight gain has gone to my stomach/arms/chest)

Honest? To look hot.

Well here is my story:

When I was 9 years old my next door neighbours were all killed in a triple murder by their own son who was a paraniod schizophrenic. This lead to myself unknowingly suffering from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) throughout my childhood and my way of coping with all this was eating. Day by day I would go home and I would raid the fridge when I got home and still eat what my parents gave me for dinner. I was highly active, participating in all the sports team even playing county standard for both Rugby Union and Rugby League but it was simple maths I was taking on more calories than I could expend and before I knew it I was 16years old and just under 23 1/2 stone (329lbs). I was so heavy I would be out of breath tying my shoelaces, walking up stairs even to the point were I would need to take breaks just on my short walk to school. This was no life for anybody let alone a 16year old kid.

Leading up to this point were years of bullying about my size and the more I was bullied the more I ate. After going to college and studying Sports Performance I began to educate myself on nutrition and exercise, a subject I loved. It was in college that I realised that I needed to change and that I was determined to not let an obese childhood develop into obese adulthood. I sought counselling for my PTSD and began to fight my way back to life with every pound I lost. I went to university to study sports science and the more knowledge I gained the more science I applied to my body the more weigh I lost. This was an education to save my life rather than simply career development.

Mid way through university people could see how much weight I was losing and wondered how I was doing it, so I decided to further my skills and become a personal trainer so that I could help others in their journey and thus Bonza Fitness was born!

Right now I have been graduated just over a year and business is going great, I am the head coach of the most successful Rugby league team Exeter has ever had and more importantly I have lost 137lbs and I am just 14lbs off my target of 80kg!

Now to the question: what is my honest reason for losing weight?

I do it for myself first and foremost.
I do it because it needed to be done.
I do it to prove that it can be done.
I do it because others said it couldn't be done.

You only get one shot at life, don't waste time being the person you don't want to be

Kyle Bonsor PT BSc
Personal Trainer & Motivational Speaker

#1 HEALTH & CHALLENGING MYSELF
I've had back and feet pain the first time I was at my heaviest weight. I've lost weight, gained weight again - was a tad heavier than my last (heaviest) weight. But surprise surprise, no physical pain.. only fatigue and the constant need to sleep. My body's adapted to that heavy weight. So yeah, I don't want my body to adapt to THAT.

#2 CONFIDENCE
I don't want to feel and look older (in a bad way) than I should be. In my culture, as courtesy, most people address you as 'akak' ('older sister') if you're older than them and 'puan' ('mrs') if you're married.. I've often been called both by strangers. Not much of a courtesy anymore ey?

#3 BADARSE
If I was that fat girl, I'd be the fat girl that could KICK YOUR *kitten* - unless you kick mine first, of course.

To prove women wrong and to finally feel attractive regardless of what they keep telling me to the contrary.

well for the longest time it was just to get back to the weight i was 2 years ago and get into my favourite jeans. that's still true but i have a new reason now too...so that when i run into my ex and his new girlfriend, which is bound to happen eventually, i won't look like a bloated pig. childish, i know, but true.

because I look lumpy in clothes

For the love of leather and lace!