who/what are you losing your weight/getting healthy for?

my reasons

- for myself... i want to have more selfconfidence

- im a dancer and sick of being told im "not the right body type"

- for my mom, she really wants me too and i want her to be proud of me




you guys?

I'd say ditto for myself on your 1st and 3rd reasons. I don't like the way I look, I wish I could get back to how I looked my freshman year of high school or in middle school. And for my mom, she wants me to be healthy and everytime she sees me and my bad habits she really gets upset so that's also partially why I'm doing it.

for myself - i want to wander around in a bikini and not feel self-conscious

for my fiance - i want to surprise him when i finally see him again in a month and a half

for my wedding - when else am i going to want to look good?

ok for my fiance again... i really like the way i feel when he looks at me. :)  and if i feel this good at 15 lbs overweight, how will i feel when i don't have anything to worry about??


I LOVE HIM!!

(and no, he keeps telling me i don't need to lose weight, that he loves me how i am, but that doesn't mean i don't want to improve myself for him).

:)

myself - more confidence, better self-esteem, self-worth, etc. and I'm training for a 1/2 marathon in december

social pressure - (notthe best reason, I know) I'm the biggest amongst all my other tall friends (the over 5'10'' club)

and I want to see how thin I can get so I can be nicole richie for halloween - haha!

    I'm with armandfrvr on this one...I want to wear a bikini! I'm young, I should be able to do that without feeling self-concious, and it's about damn time!

Also, I want to be healthy so I can be more effective at studying - my grades are the most important thing for me (I want to be a professor) and healthy people can concentrate better for longer.

And, I too am sick of being the "big girl". I'm sick of feeling ashamed and unhealthy when I'm out with my friends. And I'm sick of feeling like a slave to my cravings! I want to be in control!

Really, you need to be losing weigh mainly for yourself. If you're losing weight because someone tells you to or because society pressures you to, not only will you never be happy, but it'll never last. At least if you lose weight for yourself, you can set healthy goals.

I'm losing weight for health reasons, mostly. I'm 30 now and I'd like to get married and have children and be around to teach them good habits and watch them grow up to be my age.

It's 100% all about me!  I want to be a healthy old lady!  I don't care how "the world" or even my friends see me, as long as I stay a good person.  My appearance has nothing to do with my self worth.

Try it, you'll like it!

all about me... finally decided i am totally worth it! i do have to say, though, that the rest of my family benefits in ways i couldn't have predicted... not only do i have more energy, but i think i am just generally more fun to be around!

For myself so I will be healthy and enjoy life more.  Also, I am trying to be a role model for my husband and daughter who also need to get healthy.  They both have serious health problems.

my reasons?

my health. my self-esteem. my kids.

for me - i want to look good for whenever i get married, i want to be healthy when i have kids, i want to live FOREVER! my grandma never got enough calcium and has osteoperosis and she's had 3 hip replacements, can't get around on her own very well, and sits in a chair watching tv all day - i want to be one of those old people you see running down the street when they're 90! none of this "oh i can't move" crap. that's my ultimate goal in life.

j- that just reminded me of a time when i was backpacking in japan and i just couldn't get over the little old ladies scaling the muddy hillsides... they were literally passing me the whole way up and the whole way down! the steep parts are actually equipped with a rope so you can pull yourself up... they scoffed at the rope, i had to use it!

I have an sjogren's syndrome and want to be healthy.  Stave off the arthritis and such.  I have to do it for me.  I learned this the hard way.  That and just turned 41 Sunday and want to age gracefully.

myself. I want to be healthy and fit one day and that is why I am doing it now.

My dad tells me I didnt have a belly 6 yrs ago and now I have a big one. SO I am also doing this for him.

My hubby tells me I look fine just the way I am, so he's here no matter what. I still do it so I can dress sexy for him when we go out. :)

Just for me..  I finally don't care what others want or like or think, so this is all for me.  That is why it is working I think

I just want to be the biggest kid on the block.  =P

1) For me - I have never been happy with how I look...and I'm actually catching myself looking in the mirror and thinking "damn! I'd do me!!"

2) For my vacation - I go to the beach in a few days, and I did NOT want to be the fat guy of the group.  Granted I don't have a nice beach body, but it's a lot better than before.

3) The ladies in the area.  They need some new eye candy.  HA!

4) Out of spite - My mom used to say some rude things about my weight...so looks like I'm going to prove her wrong.  Also, to make my ex-girlfriends kinda mad that I'm a lot better looking NOW than when they dated me.

myself!! Always he best reason for doing  it. I want to live as long as possible, and have the best quality of life I can. I want to see my son grow up and be happy successful adult. I want to be around for any future grandchildren. I want to be there for my mom when her health starts declining (she's 75 now).

I want to be able to go to a store and pick out nice clothes and have them look good on me.  I want to be able to be active all day and not get exhausted. I want to have energy to keep up with things, I want to not be depressed, I want to like what I see in the mirror. I want to have guys look at me and drool. I want to make every person (including my ex), who ever made a nasty comment about my weight eat thier words, and regret every sour syllable.

I want to stop warming the bench in the game of life and get out and play. I'm tired of being a spectator, I'm tired of being afraid. I'm tired of using my weight as an excuse for everything. I'm tired of hiding under a blanket of fat that protects me from the world. I'm tired of siting home eating in front of the tv, while others are out living.  I"m tired of being a lab rat for the food industry, who is profiting off my  poor choices. 

I want to be a good example fo rmy son. I want him to be healthy now while he is young and not have to go thru all the issues his parents and grandparents have had to deal with. He will still have plenty of his own junk to deal with, but i want to give him the tools to deal with life himself.

I want to live!!      &nb sp;               &nb sp;               &nb sp;               &nb sp;               &nb sp;   

As American Beauty's Lester Burnham said "I want to look good naked!" :-)

Also, I've a family history of heart attacks and strokes that I'd really like to avoid.

Shopping. I don't agree with the sizing policies of places such as Oasis, Topshop and Warehouse, but I think that their clothes are lovely and I find it absolutely crushing to walk into a shop and have to realize that their biggest size is a UK16. It makes me feel horrible, rejected and "not good enough".

I want to look good in a dress! I currently have a huge belly and it just looks crap and wrong.

I started exercising, more than losing weight, because people in my family have big heart problems and it really scares me. Also there's problems with diabetes, which is even more heartbreaking because I can see one of the people I love the most being self-destructive and sneaky (someone tell me WHERE my bad habits came from....) and stubborn with food. I don't know what to do about it and it breaks my heart. I'm thinking maybe if I lose all my excess weight, I'll be able to help.

I am doing it for me, for my mom, for my wife, and for god!

Me-I want to look good, I have been a chubby guy since I was in grade school, I want to be able to look good when I am out working on the house with no shirt, or when I go to california next year. I also want to avoid alot of health problems, I have heart disease on both sides of the family, same with dieabities! Cheaper to stay healthy than pay for all the meds and medical bills!

my mom- she passed away last year from a heart attack, we were both trying to lose weight (she had lost about 70 pounds) and she did not get much time to enjoy her sucess, and I want to still show her I can do it!

my wife-she is 5'3" and 110 pounds (healthy pounds, not anorexic) and would like to look good for her naked as she certainly does! Grrrr!

for god-we are supposed to treat our bodies as temples, but I have used and abused my body and given in to glutteny, and it is time I treat my gift with respect!