What's your reason for trying to lose weight?

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  • sw33tp3a_1
    sw33tp3a_1 Posts: 795 Member
    I had a baby a yr ago. I'm back to my pre-pregnacy weight but I want to be back to where I was a yr ago after I gave birth. I was at my lowest weight since high school. I want to get back to that and surpass it.
  • _dixiana_
    _dixiana_ Posts: 3,262 Member
    Straight up vanity. I wanted to look good naked. Mission accomplished.
    The health aspect is a great bonus though.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I had a few health scares but yeah, it's definitely vanity that made me stick to it.
  • mrfitnessabc
    mrfitnessabc Posts: 2 Member
    Who doesn't want to look good? Feel good? Be seen as yummy? Everybody WANTS too n for a variety of reasons, we are the ones that are DOING something about it. Bring sexy back girl. Either way you look at it no matter what, you'll always be beautiful but only you can make you FEEL beautiful, no one else. Good luck to you.
    -Joshua Ellis
  • _dixiana_
    _dixiana_ Posts: 3,262 Member
    richplank4 wrote: »
    I had a drinking problem and gained way to much weight. I got so bad, and so heavy, that I couldn't walk and I would sit and drink a half gallon of vodka a day. I ended up in a coma for a month in March and was near death. When I got out of the hospital in April, I replaced my need to drink with a need to be healthy and have been in the gym almost every morning since July. I've lost 100 lbs already and still have a long way to go, but I'm more happy with my life than I've ever been!

    Way to take back control of your life. Keep it up! Losing 100lbs is a fantastic success.
  • MrStabbems
    MrStabbems Posts: 3,110 Member
    ^dooood c'mon the picture, im at work. That's too much skin.
  • Angela937
    Angela937 Posts: 514 Member
    I want to like what I see in the mirror
  • newblessings585
    newblessings585 Posts: 19 Member
    Another reason and i think alot of women can agree their just too afraid to admit it but another reason is i want to walk into a room and be desired ... Like right now i already get a bunch of stares wherever i go and its probably because im 5'10 and i wear heels and im black lol but i want to feel confident its just that simple. Whether someone looks at me or not
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    newblessings585 wrote: »
    Call it insecurity or conceited or whatever but the main reason i am choosing to lose weight is so i can feel beautiful. People like to put on a front and say im losing weight so i can be healthy blah blah blah but there are other reasons why people choose to lose weight .Whats your reason (real reason) for losing weight ?

    I don't think that's putting on a front. My whole reason was because of a bunch of really nasty blood work. At the time I was 38 with a 1 y.o. and a 2.5 y.o. kid...with my blood work, my doctor pretty much told me I was well on my way to metabolic syndrome and being, at minimum, very ill by the time I was in my early 60s, if not dead.

    That's not a front at all...it was a wake up call. My dad died of the same *kitten* when he was 62...I have two young boys to take care of, so I got my *kitten* together.

    Four years later, and everything is pretty well corrected save for my hypertension. Due to heredity though, I have to be vigilant. Really, vanity didn't have anything to do with it at all...I always thought I looked pretty good, even when I was bigger. Admittedly, vanity played a bigger roll down the line, but that was when I was well past the point of taking care of my health issues...even then, I'm only willing to do so much. I'm 42 and married with a family...hardly underwear model material.
  • newblessings585
    newblessings585 Posts: 19 Member
    Health should be a main priority for losing weight but my point is that for some people it isnt they just want to feel better about themselves and being healthy for them is just a bonus .
  • PowerMan40
    PowerMan40 Posts: 766 Member
    1) So I can take my shirt off at the pool or river, or beach and not be ashamed
    2) Keep up with my teen aged boys, and they will never get the better of me
    3) To feel sexy and desirable,
    4) Its the one thing I can actually control in my life,
  • Cerealsensei
    Cerealsensei Posts: 1,625 Member
    i wanna look like a god, and prevent myself from ever going to the ER again.
  • ekim2016
    ekim2016 Posts: 1,198 Member
    combination reasons: I was always in shape, hunky and studly as a younger man of 180 pounds. Then in my 50s I let myself get soft and fat after a major car wreck. Head-on collision not my fault.. a heroin addict nodded off at the wheel, forgot to turn her lights on and slammed into me on a dark highway. I never saw her coming... anyway, I digress but lived to tell the tale. So now I found CICO and mfp. I have lost 40 pounds and on my way back to my ideal weight again. My objectives are to get off the high blood pressure and cholesterol drugs AND look good.. :)
  • jennybearlv
    jennybearlv Posts: 1,519 Member
    newblessings585 wrote: »
    Health should be a main priority for losing weight but my point is that for some people it isnt they just want to feel better about themselves and being healthy for them is just a bonus .
    That is definitely not me. I was flat as a board when I was skinny. I had enough of a bubble butt to pull off cute, but hot? Nope. Nobody ever called me hot. Now I get weird comments like "You gained weight in all the right places." My husband has never been able to keep his hands off me at any size. I might be strange, but I don't feel any less attractive at a heavier weight, I just like different things about my body. Being obese is unhealthy, inconvenient, and expensive though. All good enough reasons for me.
  • bboyd223
    bboyd223 Posts: 1,430 Member
    Had 3 knee surgeries and had the mentality that my athletic days were done. One day I woke up pissed off because I couldn't do the things I love. My original goal was to just build muscle around my knee and to not hurt every time it rained. Now I'm running 5ks, playing in a soccer league and keeping up with kids 15 years younger than me....girls like a 6 pack too
  • marifrie33
    marifrie33 Posts: 34 Member
    Because every Sunday morning, after trying all my church clothes on twice, trying to find something that would make me look thinner than I was, I hated myself.
  • stasiaortiz95
    stasiaortiz95 Posts: 8 Member
    I want to lose weight for myself because I'm not confident anymore, I want to feel beautiful and be proud not be so insecure. I want to be how I used to be:) everyone misses the old me....
  • dervari
    dervari Posts: 805 Member
    Health, and to attempt a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail in a few years
  • LizXWP25
    LizXWP25 Posts: 60 Member
    Training to get into 2018 crossfit games.
  • ridin599
    ridin599 Posts: 24 Member
    Tired of what I see in the mirrior. Tired of the sidways looks from my wife. Tired of knowing how unattractive i feel inside and out.
  • catbeck20123
    catbeck20123 Posts: 97 Member
    I wanna look good :D
  • melmelw03
    melmelw03 Posts: 5,332 Member
    Because I'm not good enough.
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    melmelw03 wrote: »
    Because I'm not good enough.

    wanna bet?
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  • KyleGrace8
    KyleGrace8 Posts: 2,205 Member
    For sure vanity. I love the health benefits too don't get me wrong. I want to get back to breaking necks. I want to do better than any of the past versions of myself.
  • Taylor076097
    Taylor076097 Posts: 265 Member
    Bc I think anyone who hits on me or wants to take me home is only doing it as a joke... And it's hard to want to go home with someone when your mortified to take your clothes off.
  • newblessings585
    newblessings585 Posts: 19 Member
    I appreciate the honesty and how everyone has a different reason or motive for their journey.
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