Why are you here? No, for real...

a ***** i hate is skinnier than me. lol..............

for myself, my deep dark reason for losing weight is just so my mom and brother will finally stfu about my weight. yes, i don't really like being over weight, but hey, there are still days when i can look in a mirror and say "Helloooooo sexy!" and feel good about how i look. but i'm constantly lectured by my mom and insulted by my brother (and sometimes my sister... even though she's almost as big as me!) and frankly, i just get sick and tired of listening to these *kitten*. So sure, i'll be able to finally go to stores and not have to worry about whether there'll be something in my size or not, and my cholesterol won't be so messed up anymore; but really, i just want these people to finally shut the *kitten* up and get off my back.

To really get myself in check and be serious about losing the weight and being healthy..

Here because my wife, parents, relatives, and/or people i work with insist on taking pictures of me and i don't like how i look in them. Also i have 6 years before my high school reunion. I want them to truly not have a clue who i was anymore.

Because I miss my fine thick self. I let thick turn to obese. Not gonna live like that anymore.

though i've basically been wanting to lose weight since i was 11 (sad, i know-- i'm 20 now), this past year i turned down going out with my friends on the weekends because i felt too unattractive at my weight in comparison to the rest of them. that was the final straw, and so i'm devoting my last summer at home to making the final change in my life.

for halloween, me and my best friends (10 of us) want to be disney princesses and i was chosen to be ariel, and da*nit, I WILL wear the sea shell bikini top and look smokin' sexy when i do it..

Looking back over the years, I can truly say I had the show..now at 75, I want the curtain call.

congrats to you

I am with you...tired of having my picture taken and being embarrassed or feeling awkward. I'll be 50 next year, and although I've lost over 30 lbs in the last couple of years, I still have a ways to go.

I promised myself I wouldn't be overweight throughout my 40s, and although I made a lot of progress about 5 or 6 years ago, I've had trouble since then (husband's job loss, new career & relocation, mother passed away unexpectedly). I just have felt I couldn't get it together. Well, there's no right time to get it together.

So, I am not where I want to be, but if I keep moving in the right direction, I plan to get there eventually.

When I was maybe 10 pounds overweight (rather than 110 or whatever it is), I felt pretty good about myself. I had a lot of self confidence, and I wasn't super vain, but I thought I was unique and special. I mean as far as how I looked. But now I feel like I'm either invisible or unattractively sticking out. I don't take pride in how I currently look - I hide it or try to make the most of what is "okay". I want to feel like I look amazing and not just be telling myself that. I want to be like I used to be - just walk into the room where my husband is and have that special power that sexy women have. And I would like to not have something terrible happen to me health wise like a heart attack.

About a year and a half ago, I got sick of hearing that I looked good "for having a kid", and that's when I joined this site. I think one of my friends on here said this, but I feel like saying "You look good, for having a kid." is like saying "Well, you look pretty good, for a troll."

I took it up a notch (or like six) after a breakup. I'm not trying to get him back, make him jealous, or any of that crap. We had talked about how we would be a "workout couple" because we both thought we needed to get in better shape... I just want to show him that at least one of us means what we say. Of course, I wouldn't mind seeing a bug eye action the next time he sees how good I look. :bigsmile:

Several things in my life were spiraling out of control and everything was becoming too horrible to bear.

My weight was something I could fix. I needed to at least be able to fix something. I'm still working on the rest.

i am here because every time my fiance tells me im beautiful or sexy i feel disgusted with how i look and i want to be able to feel beautiful and sexy when he tells me that and because i want to look sexy on my wedding day

I just bacame a mom, and everything leading up to this point in my life has dereailed from the plan. Or maybe I just got pushed off the tracks by strong winds. either way. I'm broke, unemployed, single (as in unmarried, not truely single), uneducated (droped out of college), and just plan not satisfied. So I figure, at least let me get satisfied with something about myself, and comparatively weight and tonning is the easiest. Or maybe just the one I'm most ready for, I don't know. But anyway, I want to get in control again. I was voted most likely to become president, I was super athletic, I knew I had the upper hand in romantic relationships and barley thought about it or my insecurities, I went to my first choice college, and I had fun, I got the short term things but I feel I'm losing the long term race. Life has always been hard, and I have always been an overcomer, but I don't have much reward but surviving. And I just think, if I focus one thing at a time I can be better than what I was...I can be who I want to be. And she is sexy, driven, powerful as hell and in control.

My biggest reason for being here is to get my diet under control. I can exercise, but the way I eat ( and sometimes not eat) is hindering my progress. I went two weeks without losing a pound when I had a personal trainer. I was so discouraged. i wish I had discovered this site during that time. I want to get rid of this weight so I can look great with and without clothes. My ultimate goal is a bikini, no coverup!

Because I want to be hot and smokin' sexy.

There, I said it. I feel better now. :smokin:

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