What is your incentive in regards to your weight loss?

Tell me, whats yours?

To be healthy and strong.

Because I'm 18 and for once I want to know what it's like to be attractive.

Weight loss and healthy eating are two separate goals for me-- the healthy eating is because it makes me feel great and strong, and will help me live longer.

I decided I was tired of bulges and clothes not fitting how I want, I'm 22 and this is the time of my life to look my best, then hopefully learn to lead a better lifestyle since this gets harder as you get older...

I'm going to Paris for my birthday and I want the Frenchmen to hit on me!

Ooh la la!

well I had babies!! 2 babies in one year to be exact. Afterwards I realized that my "baby weight" wasn't the baby at all, (hahahaha) and that my prepregnancy weight of 160 at 5'5 was not the skinny I thought it was. :) Between pictures and pant sizes it finally hit me. I did not want to be an overweight mom that couldn't play with her kids and teach them sports because I blamed it on pregnancy weight. Now I've lost my baby weight plus an additional 24 pounds my new goal is to look how I feel. At 23 I should not feel like I'm 30! I want to get my body in the best shape possible! And now I know it is! 120 here I come!!! :)

oh yeah, and being able to shop anywhere and getting what I want not what fits feels great!!! that's a HUGE incentive! I"m a 7 now and seriously I have NEVER been this size before. I was an 11 when I started high school. 13 when i graduated!

To feel killa!

To not pass out when I walk down the aisle.  Alex and I are getting married at an old canal and it's one heck of a walk to get to it.

I feel so bad for my family.  They're all fatties and are going to have fun venturing to our wedding location.  Bahaha.

to fit in my size 8 jeans and look smokin' at any high school reunions.

To get rid of "baby weight" that I put on while pregnant, a year ago!  I was really heavy in high school, after I graduated I lost a lot of weight and I told myself that I would never weigh that much again and now I weigh more than I ever had, even after the 20lbs I've already lost.  I really want to get back to that weight and stay there.

I know im not having any more babies after having four so i know i can keep it off for sure. I also want to look good when i go to hawaii next year. and most important is that i am feeling stronger and healthier...i can run two miles as when i started a couple months ago i could nt run a block...i see muscle definition in places i havent in a long time...i also can now buy clothes in a regular store...which is awesome...there are just so many motivations for me.

One of my mini-goals is 150 lbs by Jan. 1. If I make that, and my best friend makes her goals, we are going on a spa weekend together. That's a HUGE incentive.

I love clothes so another really big incentive for me is going to be to wear some of my old clothes that are the next size smaller, and no doubt buying some new things, too.

i'm so surprised no one's mentioned my main motivation.  true, it's related to boyz (luv that attention!), but in general, people are MUCH nicer, respectful, helpful, friendly, etc. toward thin, attractive people.  i've been chubby and thin, and there is a huge difference.  i am a person who's pretty tough-willed (i'm ALWAYS right), and that goes virtually unchallenged when i'm thin; when i weigh more, people question me/my opinions.  definitely.

i want to-get in shape for my dancing,   i want to be a ballet dancer.

I want to have a nice trim body one more time before I turn it over to the biological imperitive (i.e. pregnancy).

I want to feel comfortable, be able to wear whatever I want without worrying that I look ridiculous, and I want to be able to feel like I can believe my guy friends when they tell me I look beautiful.

So many incentives but they mostly revolve around living a normal life.  I want to live as long as possible. I want to be able to walk up stairs without breathing hard. I want to be able to wear normal clothes.  I want to be able to go to amusement parks and ride any of the rides there. 

My wife and I want to renew our vows once we both get back to 'normal'.

I am going to get my 3rd tatoo (first in 12 years) once I get my target weight and body shape/fitness. 

I want to be healthier, have boys fall at my feet, have girls jealous as crap of me.  You know, normal teenage things.  But mostly I'm trying to move from the plus modeling world to the straight modeling world.  Pretty soon I'm going to be stuck in the middle and get no work which will suck, so that will be huge incentive to keep going so I'm in one class.

I want to be healthy.

Can I just add how sad I am that xwewhisper, who is at a healthy weight (and is also stunningly gorgeous), is a plus size model. She is not even remotely plus size, but that's the way the modeling world works. Sigh.

I think she should be able to be a regular model right now, at her healthy, womanly weight (but the agencies wouldn't agree with me). I would definitely buy a magazine with her on the cover! It's a terrible reflection on our society that she may have to become underweight (or close to it), and try to get back to her weight from when she was 14 years old, in order to work as a "straight" model!!

/(end rant)

trustwomen, i agree.