What motivated you to begin your weighloss journey?

Soooo many reasons but here are some of the main ones.

1. I am not getting any younger and I deserve to live a long and HEALTHY life so it was time I got to it.
2. I want to be here with and for my family as long as I can.
3. I was/am tired of feeling like crap.
4. I need to have surgery and it's to dangerous to go under the knife at my current weight.
5. I want to travel and be comfortable doing so, that way I can enjoy myself.
6. I LOVE myself.
7. I am getting married this year and I want to feel and look good walking down the aisle.

First, it was because I work in a hospital lab, on my feet all day, extremely busy, and I would come home totally exhausted. I felt if I would lose weight I would have more energy. What I now realize is that the act of exercising gives me energy.
Secondly, buying clothes and seeing pictures of me has been a huge motivation to lose weight.
Thirdly, all of my "skinny" clothes, combined with seeing my sis who lost 100 lbs wearing adorable outfits has been a big motivation.
Fourth, and perhaps most importantly, I want to be healthy... I was tired of feeling lousy... feel much better now.

I saw a pic of me sitting next to santa and i was fatter than him. Wtf. This put me in gear:smooched:

well this year I would be turning, The Big 50 and I said that I wanted to lose 50lbs, Plus i just had my 5th Grand and wanted to do something difference this year.. Great question !

i guess just being the healthiest person i could be... I never had a lot of weight to loose, but i am one of those people that cant eat when dealing with lots of stress, there for always fluctuating 10 pounds or so.... but i really what to be healthy and keep my weight steady by exercising everyday ad eating healthy (never skipping meals)

hopefully this will help get my metabolism higher and loose that 10 pounds and keep it there.

Stepping on a scale and realizing I was steadily gaining a few pounds every year, and that it would continue if I didn't do something about it. I didn't like how I looked in photos, I hated always having to 'suck it in' for certain outfits (still working on that!) - just decided I wanted to be fit, and I had no excuses as to why I couldn't be.

I hardly have any pictures of myself with my girls when they were babies. They are 4 and 20 months and I will not let this time pass without pictures of my family. Haven't had any pictures with the husband since our wedding day!

Tired of the rash I get between my stomach and top of my thigh. I'm tired of buying Lotrimin and powder just to be able to walk around.

Tired of sweating when it is cold outside

When I started feeling my stomach on my legs when I sat down...gross!

Realized that I was staying home A LOT because I was embarrassed to be seen by the "town" and knowing people were talking about how big I had become. I was always average size.

I could go on forever...This all ends in 2012!

I beat cancer last year now i need to beat this weightloss i think after beating cancer the weightloss will be a breeze (hopefully)

I saw a picture on FB of me at a family meal I was absolutely shocked at how big I looked I actually cried about it, I then found the picture of me at my sisters wedding I was a size 8/10 back then I knew I'd put on some weight I was just oblivious to the fact that I was now a size 14. Which to some people would think it's ok but not to me.

And then Hannah Waterman was on a morning breakfast show and she had lost so much weight and she was talking about her DVD coming out, so I purchased it as soon as it came out, and dropped a size.

I'm down to a size 12 now, I'm getting there slowly but I suppose I'm not going to be back to a size 8/10 in a matter of days it's going to take time and hard work but I'll get there, I'm hoping to get down to a size 10 by the end of this year so I can start trying wedding dresses on.

So many things contributed to my decision to get focused on looking better and feeling better.

I saw a picture of myself and nearly fainted - who the heck is that fat woman holding my grandson? OMG - it's me!

I was turning 50. 50. I may not be able to change that number, but I sure as heck don't have to be a walking billboard for it. I don't mind that I am a 50 year old grandmother of six, my life is awesome. I just don't want to look like one, lol.

This one hurts a bit, it's kind of shallow and stupid. I found out my DH was attracted to someone else. A skinny little younger thing he worked with. Now, I know my husband. He would never have an affair or cheat in any way. But knowing he found another woman intriguing was a real crusher for me. I realized that I needed to get back to being the woman who turned his head to start with. He didn't fall in love with or marry me because I was a tiny little thing. But, everyone has a "type" that they like. I was that type, which is one of the reasons he was attracted to me. I pretty much stayed that way, through having and raising 3 kids and living life. Until the past few years. The pounds came on slowly, just sneaking in there a little at a time. So, I made up my mind that I would be his "type" again. I actually got to meet "her" . I'm sure under other circumstances I would have liked her just fine. As it is, my sole goal for a long time was to show up at the next company function looking so much better than her that after he saw us side by side there would never again be any attraction to her. I'm happy to say, I did it. I still have a long way to go to get my body back to where I want it. But I'm closer than I was.

What motivated me to begin is understanding that the misery of my life needed fixing. Once I started to take care of that, I was able to take care of my body as well. These things have always been hand-in-hand. When one is out of whack, it affects the other.

What motivates me to continue is the realization that I'm not on a journey. Caring about my health and body is everyday, real-life, and not going to come to an end until I come to an end.

going to my nephews wedding and for once had the money to spend on something really special to wear, but couldnt find anything to fit. eventually found a nice dress that the woman said was 'for my shape', still had to wear spandex underwear and when saw the photos I looked like (as we say here) 'a wee fat wummin'. Had another wedding 4 months later and was determined to be in better shape for that.

I saw a pic of me sitting next to santa and i was fatter than him. Wtf. This put me in gear:smooched:

Lol!

I saw pictures of myself in a bikini from this past summer..yikes! I realized that I needed to make a change so that the next summer (and the ones thereafter, for that matter) wouldn't be so horrific
I also decided that since I'm still rather young, I can lose the weight now so I'm not stuck with it in another ten or twenty years.

Being ashamed of how I looked, trying to hide fat underneat coats and sweaters and seeing my wife start to really notice and flirt with other men. That is my motivation!