What's the REAL reason you want to lose weight?

It started for vanity reasons, I wanted to be thin like all the other pretty girls. Now it is for health and to finish something that's challenging and to triumph over my demons.

I feel like healthy people are taken more seriously than those who are not. Also, I want to feel good about myself. Back when I used to eat bad food all the time, I felt bad all the time. Eating healthy and being active puts me in a better mood and makes me truly feel better. And having the weight come off, and being thinner as a result also makes me feel better.

Also, I'd be lying if I didn't say a big motivator to me was the dating scene. I feel like I get way more attention from females now that I'm 51 lbs lighter.

No more joint pain, lethargy, lack of sleep, feeling bloated, great numbers for BP and blood values. That's why I want to lose weight. If I look good then that's a great bonus.

I want to wear cuter clothes, and I want my doctor to shut up.

I want to feel good about myself.

I want to look sexy, find myself attractive, and have sexy men and women find me attractive. Also, I want to be comfortable in my own skin.

I'm almost at that point, just gotta get sexy people on board

Up until the age of 25 I was one of those "naturally slim" people who ate/didn't eat whatever they wanted and didn't gain weight. The ravages of time and an illness have meant that I gain 1kg/month unless I watch my weight. I want to be slim again. There are about 5 things that the illness has brought me (depression, bad sleep etc) that I can't change but the one thing that I can change is weight gain. Also I have breasts. I want them to disappear. I'm 50. I want to glide into old age still staying at my goal weight, watching what I eat and like what I see when I look in the mirror.

I was tired of feeling old and creaky. I was tired of feeling bloated and yucky when I got out of bed in the morning. I wanted to set a better example for my kids. I couldn't fit in my clothes and HATED buying bigger sizes. I wanted to head into middle age healthy and strong and fit, not flabby and lazy and tired. I turned 44 two weeks ago. Since June 30 I have lost 18 pounds--20 was my goal, so almost there. I feel like a different person. I am not waking up already feeling stuffed from late night snacking with no exercise. I feel more alert from all the fresh air and movement--my favorite workout is an hour long walk along the lake two blocks from my house.
and it's more fun to shop now!!!!

I want to buy bras at a normal store and not have to get the old boring granny styles that cost a fortune.

To live longer for my girls & to stop sitting out on the fun things in life because of my weight!

To fully get my abs in and get bodyfat below 10%. Did the bulky thing for many years. Decided to really lean out and go for definition. Just enjoy pushing my body to extremes. Sticking to a diet has always been easy for me though because I focused on the performance of the food I ate. Don't eat for comfort just fuel. Bulking to 316 was more challenging truthfully. Eating 4-5k calories a day was hard. No junk only healthy food. Following Keto diet is soooo easy for me. Not sure total calories but can't be over 2300 a day. Workouts are a breeze now. Cardio and abs everyday. Regular workouts 2 days on 1 day off then 3 on.

Aside from my two daughters needing their mother... My husband who doesn't deserve to lose another wife in his lifetime... Being at risk of losing part of my colon due to a GI disease I have, and my increased risk of colon cancer (a precancerous polyp was found when I was 28), as well as a number of diseases I'm at risk for because of familial history...

Because I want to look good. I want to feel sexy. As sexy as I felt 9 years ago when DH and I started dating.

kellyb28 wrote: »

It's not for me. I'm already at a healthy weight.. honestly, I try not to let myself conform to society's standards of beauty, but thin to me represents someone who is healthy, takes care of themselves, and has self-control... all attractive features. Now don't get me wrong, someone with extra fat on their body can absolutely be all of these things and often are! It's just hard not to succumb to the pressure that thin is healthy and how everyone should be. Another reason that I want to be thin is because I'm vegan and a nutrition major... I feel like people have these ideas that vegans need to be thin and dietitians need to be thin. I feel like being thin is also a great way to promote the vegan lifestyle... someone might ask "how do you stay so thin?" and an answer might be "well, first of all, I eat a healthy, vegan diet.." and it might get people curious to try out veganism (which I want everyone to do, it makes you feel amazing!).

That's funny, I could sign all of this, the "vegan ambassador" thing (even though it's not proved to be very effective in the past) and the not-wanting-to-conform-to-standards-yet-doing-so-anyway part.


Further reasons:

– This is again related to those hated beauty standards that I don't want to let myself be tyrannised by, yet do so anyway (what choice do I have?): I don't think I'm particularly pretty, therefore being thin/lean would be the only thing I have going for me, looks-wise. People tend to forgive an unattractive face if you are at least decent enough to be skinny.

– I have become ambitious with my running and my dancing and, to a lesser extent, bouldering, and fat is not functional: it's dead weight in sports, and the more you carry with you, the harder it gets and the slower/worse you get.

– As of this week, I'm a student at a big-*kitten*, elitist sports academy, which is obviously doing wonders for my body image… I really don't want to look the odd one out there!

– A (mental&physical) health reason: I like feeling lighter because I'm not full all the time; I like having a clear head because my whole body isn't busy digesting heavy food all the time; I like feeling fresh and energised because I've eliminated (to a large degree) all the poison that I put in my body when I go through a period of indiscriminate emotional eating. I have experimented enough with food to be able to recognise changes in my body when I eliminate certain foods. That's the beauty of the weight-loss process: change is immediate; there's no delayed gratification: I don't have to remind myself that I'll begin to feel better when I'm down 15 lbs – I feel better immediately!

MCIBTY wrote: »

I want to not be fat.

Honestly, this. 80+ lbs down and 140 to go, I already feel less fat and it makes a huge difference.

Oh, also, my sex drive is higher when I'm not so damn fat. Yeah, I've been married 14 years and have four kids, but I well and truly love getting laid. That fell off as I hit my highest weight. I've lost 80+ lbs and it's already improving. Four times last week!

I want to not be disgusted by what I see in the mirror every day.