Did you lose weight for yourself or somebody else?

I'm losing weight for a number of people. First, and foremost for myself. I don't think I could have lost 30lbs (30 more to go) just because someone else wanted me to. However, my wife and I plan on having children within the next couple of years. With that said I'm losing weight for her and my future family. I want to be around as long as possible. I would hate for something to happen to me just because I've been lazy the past 5 years.

I lost weight for myself…so that everyone I care about (myself, wife & family) could benefit.

My wife always said she didn't care if I weighed 500 pounds - she just wanted me around for our golden years.

People I know that lost weight strictly to please someone else – never maintained that loss or were constantly in a state of emotional stress trying to keep weight off to please that other person.

GingerbreadCandy wrote: »

Both myself and somebody else. Actually, my original reason for wanting to be fit was a mixture of really weird reasons that were for others only.

Now it's mostly for myself. I got bored and needed to find a new motivation.

I kinda was in the same boat as you. I used to be really close to someone I met last year. They were always talking about such health-oriented topics, special foods because of food allergies and past exercise adventures and such. I would get so convicted, being around them, because they were taking such better care of themselves than me. I used to not care about going out for fast food every day and drinking my weight in soda. It wasn't a big deal for me. They ended up asking me about a fitness forum/app and I discovered the C25k app. We did the program together in a sense---she did it at her gym and I did it in my current town I moved to, outdoors. It was super encouraging to have someone doing it alongside me and to talk about wellness, fitness and all that jazz. I cut out the bad habits, started to lose weight.

Life and drama happened and we aren't friends anymore. We were having a lot of issues last fall, and I started to realize that I can't be inspired to better myself for anyone else than myself. I took up the hobby of outdoor running this summer and fall and it had proven to be one of the hardest things I've ever done before physically. It would be emotionally draining and healing, physically exhausting and strengthening at the same time. Running a couple times a week was my own form of therapy. I constantly was pushing myself to go a few seconds or minutes longer, or to go further than I had gone previous runs. I used to feel like death running for 30 seconds.

And now, 9 months later, I can easily run for 30+ minutes. I have ran 6 miles all at once in a little over an hour (slow compared to some runners, but amazing for me). 2014 was the first year that I was ever able to successfully run a full mile, lose weight and retain the results. I have lost 40 pounds since 05-16-2014 and I intend on losing about another 10-15 before I start going into maintenance.

Myself. My boyfriend blurted out that he likes my body better now. Don't blame him but it wasn't for him.

I do for other people (aesthetics), myself (health) and also for survival reasons (fight/ flight)

I let myself go until I was diagnosed with degenerative joint disease. The pain in my hip was so excruciating that it motivated me to lose the excess baggage. I'm doing this totally for me, and to ward off any unnecessary strain on my joints

I did it for both, to look and feel good for myself and also for the public but not necessarily for a certain person..

both?

A bit of both, Mostly for me. But I want to have another baby, so I want to be healthy for the baby, so it has a healthy start to life.