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    What’s your reason why?

    Posts: 33 Member
    edited November 2024 in Motivation and Support
    I am assuming that everyone has a reason for losing weight. Whether it be to feel confident, have kids, or simply be healthy- comment below yours!! :)

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      To feel confident, to be a healthy role model for my child, to look good for my husband
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      Being fat sucks.
    • Posts: 2 Member
      Control my t2 diabetes with food not meds.
    • Posts: 3,055 Member
      A lifetime of being called Fatboy, being obese. Something about enough pain and change.
    • Posts: 50 Member
      Want to feel better and control sugar levels.
    • Posts: 43 Member
      To be healthy, aware of what I’m eating, and to look my best.
    • Posts: 33 Member
      My wedding! Down 32 pounds from July 2017. I'm going to look so good April 2018
    • Posts: 12 Member
      I worked for an electrical contractor about 4 years ago. Left and went into work for myself for a few years. Somewhat recently I returned to that old job about... 3 months ago.

      I have 6, 7 co-workers and everyone cept for the boss commented on how fat i had gotten when i went back. Literally the first words i heard were about how much wieght i gained since my departure.

      I took it as a wake up call and got on-line and educated myself.

      52 mfp days later and I'm down 21lb and much closer to "normal". Currently 159 with a "healthy weight" being 147-144 for my hieght.

      The why wasn't so much for me, it was others, pretty much everyone elses unanimous opinion.
    • Posts: 6,840 Member
      My goal was controlling my diabetes. I was morbidly obese when I started, and am now the top end of normal weight. I have reduced my A1c from 11 (very high) to 4.7 (normal non-diabetic levels) and gotten off all meds but metformin, which the doctor said I could go off if I wanted to. I elected to stay on it for its appetite suppressing effects.
    • Posts: 404 Member
      Sick of walking around in this “Fatsuit”!
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      45 and single with grown kids, it's "me" time. For my health, my self esteem, my outlook on the future, and my confidence. I'm refusing to let being middle aged mean I have to look OR act old and frumpy. I'm fighting back, getting my body back to where I'm happy and going to enjoy this 1 life given to me. B)
    • Posts: 12 Member
      Getting old, gotta get healthy
    • Posts: 594 Member
      My ‘power why’-
      When I’m strong and fit on the outside, it relflects who I am on the inside. I like having integrity of body and spirit.

      When I treat myself well in terms of basic food and movement management, it feeds itself. I carry myself well, Make better choices about how to spend my time (and who with) and I remember that self-care is a basic part of my recovery from various things.

      I like feeling springy and energetic- when I was heavier, I felt weighed down, slow, encumbered by my body. Now I feel enabled by it.

      I don’t miss the misery of trying to get clothes to ‘flatter’ my fat self. Now I can wear anything - literally, anything- and look like a fit and healthy person.

      I enjoy being a role model; people continuously tell me I inspire them to get back in the gym, to pay more attention to their intake, to eat more vegetables. This makes me happyyyy.
    • Posts: 98 Member
      I saw a photo of myself at my highest weight and knew something had to change. I was sick of crying while trying on clothes. Sick of having to unbutton my pants because they were too tight and digging into my fat gut. Sick of feeling like I was in someone else's skin. I didn't feel like myself anymore.
    • Posts: 56 Member
      I want to become my best self and that isn't necessarily my skinniest self. Eating a variety of whole foods and allowing myself treats so that I'm physically and mentally in my prime.
    • Posts: 493 Member
      To get my sexy back. To move like the athlete I have always been, instead of winded going up one flight of stairs to my home everyday.

      One day I was at my hairstylist. After the final touches she swung me back towards the mirror. I was mortified. Sitting there with my gut and huge boobs pushing out. Hating that I let myself get to that point cause I kept stuffing my face with food and wine sitting in front of the TV every night.

      I was just DONE. Can't be my age and not be concerned about health.
    • Posts: 951 Member
      To feel good!
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      Planned a trip to Hawaii that had to be postponed....(Blasted sewer line)
    • Posts: 396 Member
      Primarily for my health - you can't eat better and work out and not lose some weight. But also for vanity reasons - I did not feel comfortable in my skin or even in the mirror anymore. I can change that!
    • Posts: 2,383 Member
      I've always been on the upper edge of a healthy BMI but always had that little urge in the back of my head wondering what I'd look like if I shed some vanity pounds. Sometimes I get motivated and drop 10lbs, feel great, then end up slowly sinking into old habits and regaining the weight.

      This time, I'm getting married (in Mexico!) in the spring so I'd love to look my best. So that's giving me stronger motivation to drop the vanity pounds before I buy my dress!
    • Posts: 22 Member
      Because I'm not getting any younger.
    • Posts: 335 Member
      I had one foot in the grave.
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