What motivated you to loose weight?

Hey there! I also always wonder what made people make the change, it was a few things for me, sitting one day and feelin cellulite on my leg! OMG i almost died righ there! I can no poudly say its almost all gone! Number 2 I am tired of my boyfriend saying everyone else has such a nice body! i want him to say that about me too!, we are still a ways off from that goal! but getting there!! The other thing is want to be healthier do fun active things without feelin embaressed or getting winded!

We are all on the same yet very differnt journeys!

Good Luck Stay Strong! x

The short version, I looked in the mirror and decided I was done being the fat girl with the cute face.

seeing this really fat guy looking back at me from the mirror the other day. I figure if I lose some weight he will go away..

My husband noticed how depressed I was and when an opportunity for a gym trainer came about, he basically voluntold me that I was going to do it. I was furious! Initially I took it as 'he hates the way I look' but then I realized that I hate the way I look and that this opportunity would mean a better me.

Now I have signed up for a year with my trainer. She's the one that introduced me to MPF and my gym buddies and friends here are the ones that keep me motivated and inspired to keep going. I am feeling better emotionally as a result of feeling better physically.

My nephew called me fat. Children speak the truth. It hurt so bad, but because it came from such an innocent place, I knew that it was how the world saw me. I knew that it was true. I was fat.

What motivated me was...being demotivated and upset about it..first.
Getting higher than normal levels of sugar, cholesterol and triglicerids...second.

To put it bluntly, depression.

My dr could tell all the different tablets I had tried were not helping but only making me worse so she decided to do something different and give me a week off tablets put exercise every day and see how i feel at the end of the week.

Never been back on tablets and I'm happier than ever!

I knew I had been gaining weight,but didn't wanna kno how much,so I avoided the scale at all costs! Well I got my courage up (after I had no clothes that would fit anymore,well besides sweatpants!),stepped on the scale and....200 POUNDS!! 60 pound gain in 3 years.I busted out crying right then n there! Started walking and rejoined Curves the very NEXT day.Now I'm 183 -slow going,but at least it's going DOWN and not UP!

A couple of things have motivated me throughout this. 1st, I'm infertile because of my weight and my doctor said that by losing weight, it will give me a much higher chance of conceiving a baby, which my hubby and I have been trying for 4 years. 2nd, I was at Christmas Dinner with my family and my sis-in law cracked a job about someone from high school and how she was probably only wearing stretch jeans, which lo and behold I was wearing stretch jeans. 3rd, it hurt to get up in the morning and walk, I mean my back hurt, ankles, legs, and then it even hurt to shower and make sure to reach everywhere...and I thought to myself, I'm 26 and I should be in the prime of my life, if this is my prime....I'm screwed!!! One day, when all of these things built up enough, I said enough is enough, and I started keeping track of everything and I go to the gym at least 5 days a week. Even when I have a bad day, week, whatever...I just think to myself, one day at a time. Each day I do good, I'm another day closer to my goal. That has kept me motivated right now.

There were several factors. My current husband says that he loves me as I am right now, and even when I was 15 lbs heavier. He did not want me to change anything unless I wanted to. This was the first time in my life that someone wasn't telling me that I am not fat but I am not thin either and that I better lose some weight because I am 'bigger'.

As a teen, I started out a decent size, but them comments from others about my weight only made me think that there was nothing I could do about it. Obese family members would tell me that I couldn't do anything, and that it was genetic. I believed them, and so I did not try to get healthier. Along came my first marriage, and my ex had addiction issues (mine obviously was food). Those issues I blamed myself for and I packed on the pounds. I went from 135 to 215 over a 14 year period. I realized that his issues were his, and there were other things that led to me leaving with the kids.

I focused on myself for the first time in my life, and I lost almost 30 lbs. Then I got married again, and stopped being as active and was more focused on hanging out with my husband. I gained 25lbs back. After we decided to get married for eternity back in April of this year in the temple, I determined that I wanted a change.

I am a vocalist, and some of the choirs that I have had to sing in required me standing for a long time. It hurt my knees and hips to stand that long weighing as much as I did (225). I determined that I was not going to fit the image that others in my family had given me to fill anymore. I was going to be healthy, increase my chances of landing more performances, and feel sexy. I have a lot of motivations.

I am happy that I have lost 15lbs since the beginning of May when I came back here. I am looking forward to getting all the way down to 135. I have not been there for 17 years.