What was your biggest motivation?

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ilovefastcarstoo
ilovefastcarstoo Posts: 115 Member
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I'm curious what everyone's biggest motivation or turning point was to finally lose the weight? I'd love to hear from you! Also, what keeps you motivated?
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  • _kingbooble
    _kingbooble Posts: 25 Member
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    Biggest motivation is to get to a healthy weight, which I have never been pretty much all my life. Also to look normal so feel better about things but primary its about health for me rather than looks..
  • Lizzypb88
    Lizzypb88 Posts: 367 Member
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    I have a few...
    To be there for my kids and hubby
    To be happy
    To go on vacation- hubby and I will go on a cruise next year if I get to my goal weight
    To stop having to use powder under my c section fat fold.. I actually am almost to the point where I don't need to as my stomach is shrinking! It's the little things that add up!
  • Lizzypb88
    Lizzypb88 Posts: 367 Member
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    And my turning point was weighing myself after a long day of gardening and yard work I had lost a few pounds, it gave me the motivation to think, hey, I can do this! Everyone has that moment where it clicks and they make it a lifestyle change, that was mine, no special reason, but I'm glad I started and would never go back!
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
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    Originally, I was mostly motivated by my general medical health and wanting to feel better physically. Now I am motivated to continue my good health and continue feeling good but there's also a lot more vanity involved.
  • mwood1234
    mwood1234 Posts: 60 Member
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    My son's wedding in October. My first thought was "OMG PICTURES!" That was it. I'm on a mission...
  • CasperNaegle
    CasperNaegle Posts: 936 Member
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    The mirror and wanting to look good naked!
  • lithezebra
    lithezebra Posts: 3,670 Member
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    I have no motivation, only good habits.
  • Adc7225
    Adc7225 Posts: 1,318 Member
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    I have several . . .
    Health was the first one, I wanted to get off high blood pressure meds.
    After losing some weight I was dumped so then I had the Revenge Dress Motivation thing going for a while.
    Then there was the realization that some of my co-workers were betting if I was going to keep the weight off (from Christmas 14 to 15) Heck Yeah!!
    Now I am motivated to just be the best I can be, the healthiest and happiest I can and fit my clothes because I have no large clothes.

    It changes and I think it should, you need to set goals that are reachable and then move on to new goals to keep up the motivation.
  • wrknonmedaily
    wrknonmedaily Posts: 203 Member
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    Most of all to lower my blood pressure and to get off the pill for that. I want to get down to my per-pregnancy weight of 155. I have 2 wonderful kids, 23 and 18, and I have not seen 155 in over 23 years. I want to look good in my clothes and even better naked. I want to be pain free and have more energy and have been starting Jan 2, 2016 after cutting out a lot of junk.
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 4,995 Member
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    I didn't have just one. I have been overweight for several years and even though it bothered me, it didn't really bother me enough to do anything about it. But finally this past September I realized that I weighed 195 (almost 200) and I weighed more than my husband who is 7 inches taller than me. Combine those two things with me just getting tired of being fat and I finally started logging seriously. What keeps me motivated is seeing the graph showing my weight going steadily down. Last summer was my 25th anniversary and we went on our first cruise. I don't know why I didn't get motivated a year ago. My goal was to lose 60 pounds and so far I am down 36 pounds so I am a little more than halfway there. I really feel that I can do it this time.
  • Asher_Ethan
    Asher_Ethan Posts: 2,430 Member
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    I joined a workout group and I was the most out of shape person in this group of 100 people. I decided I would continue to go to this group and I refused to be the slowest/heavyest person there.
  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,484 Member
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    Middle age spread.
    No middle age spread

    Cheers, h.
  • Beaner63
    Beaner63 Posts: 69 Member
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    I got to a weight and size where if I tried to bend down to tie my shoes, my gut would cut off my diagphram and I would quit breathing. So everyday I would try and tie my shoes while holding my breath as quickly as I could. I realized how absolutely absurd that was and tld myself something had to change.
  • alipie420
    alipie420 Posts: 39 Member
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    I've tried so many times to actually be serious and I'm honestly just tired of failing myself and I need to learn better self-discipline. A great motivator I have is my cousin; she was more overweight than me growing up and now she has lost over 50 pounds and now is working on crossfit training. That makes me insist that this is my time too and i can do it.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,874 Member
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    Losing weight really wasn't necessarily on my agenda to begin with...I turned in some really nasty blood work a few years ago and it was obvious that the path I was going down was going to have me pretty sick, if not dead in another 20 years...with two small kids, that was unacceptable and I set out to get my health back. I was also a pretty decent athlete once upon a time and I wanted to get my fitness back as well.

    Losing weight was just a nice product of getting the rest of my *kitten* together and just living a healthier lifestyle. Once I started dropping weight though, for sure a bit of vanity came into the picture.
  • endlessfall16
    endlessfall16 Posts: 932 Member
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    @cwolfman13

    That's also more or less my reason/motivation. The notion of me wanting to lose weight or "really really want" never works for me. I have to attach concrete, important values to it to be successful. The more impactful and emotional and bigger than yourself the reason is, the better chance you succeed, I believe.
  • ncboiler89
    ncboiler89 Posts: 2,408 Member
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    ilovefastcarstoo wrote: »
    I'm curious what everyone's biggest motivation or turning point was to finally lose the weight? I'd love to hear from you! Also, what keeps you motivated?

    No one loves fat people.
  • Alarae21
    Alarae21 Posts: 171 Member
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    What triggered it for me and to stick with it was the realisation my wedding was 8 months away. I wanted to look good standing in front of my friends and family, look smoking hot for my future husband and for vanity when looking back at pictures!

    While that started it, it has now evolved to being healthy. I have never been 'skinny' and while I was accepting of my body, I have never been proud. I want to be proud of myself.

    I have been tracking for close to two months and joined the gym. I even love the gym! I never thought in a million years I would say that, and that is something I am massively proud of. Soon, the body will follow.
  • HStheBusyBee
    HStheBusyBee Posts: 1,366 Member
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    It's a combination of wanting to feel healthier, being able to do more things with my son like play football etc. And wanting to look better :)
  • SweetestLibby
    SweetestLibby Posts: 607 Member
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    Serious answer: Keeping myself healthy enough to donate a kidney to my sister if/when she needs it. She's type 1 diabetic and has been through kidney failure twice now. There was nothing more painful than the doctor telling me I was a match but I wasn't healthy enough to donate - I was 5 foot 4.5 and 215 pounds.

    I managed to get into the best shape of my life (120 and 16% BF) - I started dating my boyfriend and I changed jobs (I have my dream career now!). I've picked up a bit of weight with the change.

    I'm still healthy enough to donate to my sister if she wants to try again but I realized that I liked my active lifestyle more at 120. I don't want to use my job as an excuse for gaining weight. There's a happy balance that I found before that I need to find with the new job.

    not serious answer: I miss having "smaller" boobs! I mean the smallest I was ever able to get to was a DD but I'm back up to a F (heading back to a G if I keep gaining weight). I like running darn it and these things make it difficult and expensive!

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