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What are the reasons behind your desire to lose weight?

Posts: 126 Member
edited December 2024 in Getting Started
My Three Reasons are...
1) Healthy Pregnancy in The Future (Be able to see my belly grow.)
2) More Energy and Confident in My Clothes (Confident going Shopping)
3) 10% of me, really just wants to brag that I finally did it! (To the people who didn't believe in me.)

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  • Posts: 145 Member
    1.) Healthier for me. My family has a history of type 2 diabetes, obesity, and cholesterol/blood pressure problems so I'm trying to avoid them and help my body.
    2.) Simply because I want to look better. I want to look good in my clothes, I don't want to hate myself looking in the mirror, I want to be able to look good and be comfortable wearing cute dresses, crop tops, a bikini, etc.
  • Posts: 697 Member
    Foot problems.
  • Posts: 58 Member
    1. To become healthier and it to help my asthma
    2. I wanted to feel more confident and happy with my body and my looks
    3. I genuinely started to do it for aesthetic reasons, to look cute in certain clothes
  • Posts: 2,806 Member
    Many reasons:
    1. Avoid developing chronic health problems
    2. Play with my son
    3. Do more things with my athletic husband
    4. Buy smaller clothes
    5. Like the way I look in the mirror and in pictures
    6. Have second pregnancy be healthier and easier to physically recover from than first
    7. Generally move more easily and feel better
    8. Feel more comfortable in public (move through crowds more easily, fit better in seats, etc.)
  • Posts: 5 Member
    Me and my bf of 2.5 years broke up. I realized after the fact that I was settling and realized that I cant (in the future when I'm ready) seek a man who takes care of himself if I dont. Also, I want to feel and look better for myself and I want to show him what hes missing. I know it's not the correct motivation but if it gets my motivation going, idc. #RevengeBody
  • Posts: 46 Member
    1. To become healthier and get rid of all the health problems I now have.
    2. I want to have a better condition than I now have. I love to walk but am always tired now.
    3. To prove to everyone I can do it(want to be proud, no one believes that I can lose weight)
    But really the most important reason is that I want to become healthy. I have had cancer and I don't want to feel the rest of my life how I'm feeling now. I want a better quality of life for the remaining time. Only for myself not for anyone else.
  • Posts: 35,719 Member
    to run faster
    to look better naked
  • Posts: 752 Member
    edited February 2019
    1. To help prevent future health issues or make them easier to manage (My mom has type 2 diabetes, degenerative discs in 2 locations, fibromyalgia, and neuropathy. I'm already beginning to show signs of nerve damage issues)
    2. To be able to do more with my future child (maybe in a few years)
    3. To wear cuter clothes and be able to shop anywhere for clothes without struggling
  • Posts: 1,907 Member
    Honestly the biggest thing was health. I was on diabetes meds and my family has a very high risk of stroke. My father, mother, grandmother and sister all had strokes. I didn't want to end up that way. I'm off the diabetes meds now although blood pressure is still high. It was worth it.
  • Posts: 2,540 Member
    1. To look tolerable naked.
    2. To get rid of my beer belly. I don't drink alcohol
    3. To be happy with the person I see in the mirror physically. (Dysmorphia is a m@therf%&#er)
  • Posts: 9 Member
    edited February 2019
    1. I don't want to be 'fat and forty'
    2. I really want to see my children grow up and share at least a decent portion of their adulthood with them
    3. I want to be healthier

    If I can average 1lb a week I'll get to my goal in time for my 4th decade. I do have a bit of a journey ahead of me but something has clicked and I'm finally going to lose this weight.
  • Posts: 549 Member
    1. Self esteem
    2. To look great naked
    3. More energy and just overall feeling better
    4. Defy any aging
  • Posts: 1,015 Member
    1) having control of my relationship with food improves my mental health
    2) being more fit allows me to say yes to more activities and life experiences
    3) feeling less fat gives me an indescribable amount of confidence that has allowed me to make more friends and be more outgoing
    4) buying clothes has become much less of a stressful chore and I’m able to express my personality more in my wardrobe
    5) building habits with eating has allowed me to transfer those skills to work organization and other areas of my life
  • Posts: 37 Member
    1.) To boost my confidence, and actually want to be seen again, and not just fade into the background out of insecurity.
    2.) To prove a point. My ex treated me as though I was worthless, and for a time I truly began to believe him. Figured I had already ditched 230 lbs.... might as well focus on 60 of my own =P
    3.) I really want to dance the night away, not feel overly sweaty or get tired after 20 minutes.
  • Posts: 1,283 Member
    I want to look good for my 30th high school reunion.
    So basically vanity.
  • Posts: 15 Member
    I had a cancer scare this year.... and it freaked me out.
    So, I don't wanna die of a fat disease. Like that's a terrible story to tell in the afterlife. I'm not aiming to be a size 00, but I'd like to get some weight off my knees and maybe not have to take my new blood pressure medication anymore... and not get diabetes in my twilight years... like everyone in my family.
  • Posts: 2,931 Member
    1. To be around when I have grand kids, and even great grandkids (I never met any of my great grandparents, nor one of my grandmas)
    2. To feel comfortable in my own skin, enough to wear a swim suit again
    3. Look good naked :)
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