What are your reasons for wanting to lose weight?

What is inspiring everyone to lose weight?

I have several things inspiring me to do it, the first and most important (Well, it's actually all important!) to me being the fact that I'm tired of being dateless and passed up by every available guy.  I feel that because of my weight I'm being ignored, and I don't like that.  I'm hoping that just maybe in the process of losing it or even keeping it off once it's gone, maybe I'll meet a really nice, cute guy who I share common interests and goals with that might also be trying to lose weight or get into shape. Maybe we could even become motivators for each other.   The truth is, I just want to look good instead of fat.

 

I'm also doing it for health.  My aunt died from complications from gastric bypass surgery two years ago, and I don't want that to me, not ever!

I also want to prove to myself that I can do this.  I've tried to lose it before but failed.  This time it's going for good! 

I'm in the same boat. I'm fat so no guy will take even a second glance at me. I have beautiful features but that means nothing if they r all plump. No guy wants a fat girl.

i knew i couldn't do anything about the fact that i was turning 40, but i didn't have to be 40 and fat.

oh, and my mom--who was skinny-fat her whole adult life--had a massive stroke at 69.  so i knew that it wasn't good enough to lose weight, i had to get fit.

i want to lose weight because i honestly just don't want to hate myself anymore.

My reasons for loosing weight include keeping up with the physical requirements of the navy, both my weight and being fit, in order to become more available for women, but most importantly for myself, I mean I have a 70 year old diabetic grand father (Mom's side), my Dad's father died at 88 of heart failure, dad's mother died of liver failure at 76, my father who's 240lbs and wears a size 42 who has thyroid problems, are all great inspirations for why I want to lose weight, so rock on, whatever your reason is, keep at it.

I have already lost quite a bit of weight but I need to lose another 40 lbs before i get to my goal weight. I want to feel beautiful....all the time. I want to know that if I throw on a pair of jeans and a t and a baseball hat I look cute and girl next-doorsy and not like I am trying to hide...I want to be able to wear a swimsuit I that LOVE not one that I just am okay with. I want to get oogled by guys...I was walking through the Dallas Fort Worth airport Sunday afternoon and there was a group of 6 or so soldiers that were all checking me out and I felt damn good! I want to have the confidence to go up to a guy and start a conversation...I want to feel beautiful in my own skin! I want to belive it when someone tells me that I am beautiful!!!

I want to like the way I look in the mirror and feel confident about my body.. It would be nice to feel that I look hot even in jeans and a T. Right now I barely feel cute even if I'm dressed to the 9s.. I would love to feel just relaxed and comfortable and not worry about my tummy flab being exposed!

Well, of course I want to be admired from the opposite sex, and feeling pretty is defiantly a big thing.. But mostly there's three reasons that have thus far kept me going:

1) There's this kid I've known for 3 or so years thus far. We've only known each other through the net, but I trust him and he trusts me. On webcam, he's walking around all the time, being silly.. I want to do that too. But I can't, because I'm afraid he'll reject me because I'm a little bit on the chubby side and he's.. well.. in my opinion, freakin' beautiful. (Inside and out -swoon-) In 3 years, I'm going to meet him. I want him to think I'm freakin' beautiful too so we can make freakin' beautiful babies  because he deserves a freakin' girl in his life, and I want to be that girl in the future.

2) I just.. don't like the way I'm treated. You know it just sucks when you're not really seen for who you are, it's like.. people treat you differently when you're overweight/chubbier, and really do assume bad things of you. I want to just get this extra weight off so maybe people can discover that I'm more then just "that fat chick", and I'm kaybug.. one of the strangest species on this planet. Mind you, I'm juuust barely at a healthy weight (FINALLY! Woohoo!) but most people around here would  still consider me fat. I still do. XD I want to be an "average" size.

3) I want to be able to outrun all my friends in a game of tag. Seriously. I want to OWN them and be that fast girl on the playground while I'm still able to go on a playground and not look creepy. (Ahh.. youth, how you start to disapear so quickly). This is my last year to hang out with them on the playground, and I'll be damned if I'm going to make it easy for them to tag me. >:I

That's what keeps me going. So far down 50 pounds from last year, and I got 20 more or so to go.  :D No goin' back from here, aye?

I had been trying kind of half heartedly, maybe a week on a fad diet or two or taking diet pills for a few days or a special exercise program, etc....a couple of friends of mine lost quite a bit of weight about 2 years ago and that made me think that if they could then so could I. ~6 months later I was looking for a way to record my calorie intake and found CC.

CC works for me.  It's not fast, but it is healthy and I like the people.  Once I started losing weight, it just made sense and since I wasn't hungry because I was still eating enough I was able to keep it up.

For me losing 30 lbs has made a huge difference:

• My knees feel so much better
• I never had problems getting dates when I weighed in the 180s, but I did occasionally get some of the cuter guys not interested and they of course wouldn't tell me why...this still happens sometimes, but now I know it's not my weight so it's definitely that they're idiots.
• I like the cute clothes that I can buy.
• I enjoy feeling healthy and being able to be very active.

I wanted to lose my weight so I could have sex with my husband without feeling so self-conscious.  I also want to be able to look at pictures of myself and not be embarrassed..

My biggest reason is that I am tired of being fat.  I was always the skinny geek in High School (6'1" 160 lbs), and at age 28 woke up and realized I was pushing 300.  I've been losing and gaining ever since (I'm 38 now and about 250), but I finally want to be a healthy, good looking weight instead of over or under.

The other major reason is to set a good example for my son.  The last several times I've seen him (he lives with his mom) he has looked bigger and bigger.  It's not much of an issue yet, since he is not overweight by any means, and is only 17, 6'2" and still growing, but both his mom and I have both been overweight for awhile, and I want to set the example that you can and should be fit no matter what your age.

I think it's primarily two reasons.

1) It sort of gets to me when people say things like, "Oh, you look like you've put on a few pounds."  It shouldn't bother me...but it always has.  Back when I was 15 pounds overweight and didn't even look overweight at all, people would say, "hey, you look like you're getting bigger" and now, 15 years later, 55 pounds overweight...I can no longer justify it as "I'm just filling out."  It's also diffuclt because I travel overseas alot for work and Asians and Europeans are much more fit than Americans on average.  I hate walking into a meeting and everyone looks at me like a cow in pants..."another fat American".   I may walk into a meeting in the states and I'm one of the thinnest people there...but not so overseas.

2) It's always bugged me when my clothes get tight.  I wear my clothes very loose...often times a size larger than I need.  This was fine when I was a 32 inch waist wearing a 34 inch.  But now I'm a 36-38 inch waist wearing 38-40 inch pants and I'm getting to the point where if I go up a couple more sizes I'm going to have to shop at the fat man's store and buy all my pants with elastic waist bands.

And a 3rd would be...even though I'm married and off the market...it would be nice to go to a club or bar and feel like if I wanted to pick up a girl I could.  Even though I can't morally and legally, it would make my decade to have an attractive girl actually hit on me or even notice me.

honestly, when I was 18, i looked thinner and had a certain look about me...and I've lost that. Obviously we all want to lose weight for either attention or health reasons. And of course, I'm going to throw a bone to the former. I'm not viewed as I used to be, and it takes a toll on my self esteem, as it does to all of us. My motivation is that I want what I had, but better. With more definition, badass abs and the look of being able to punch a hole into a **** wall. not that I would, but you know....

So, I'm doing it to feel better about myself in more ways than one.

 

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Seventy or so pounds ago, my reason was primarily for health and so I could learn not to hate myself so much.  I had starved myself thin from 190 pounds to 120 but binging, purging, taking laxatives, and fasting made me quickly pack on the pounds and before I knew it I was 200+ pounds.

Since then, I've learned how to be healthier and how to love my body more.  I learned that treats here and there are not the end of the world and can be magnificent.

I'm not yet at my goal and the following things keep me motivated:

1.  I don't want to be the largest one of the group.  I'm sick of being the "fat one".

2.  I want to be able to fit back in my old clothes and comfortably go shopping.  I want to stop being ashamed to walk out of the dressing room and look in the mirror outside the stalls.

3.  I already have a wonderful boyfriend but it wouldn't hurt to know that I'm attractive to others.  It'd be nice to reject others for a change (though that probably sounds insanely selfish).

4.  I want to stay thin and healthy and never slip into my old habits again.  I want to prove to others that you don't have to revert to unhealthy behaviour to lose weight and that the way to successfully lose weight is the healthy way.

5.  I want to be a success story :]

I have a few reasons why I want to loose my weight.

1. I don't feel healthy anymore. I want to feel better. Have more energy and not tired all the time. Not to mention get rid of my heartburn that I got once I gained the weight. Also feeling bloated all the time is no fun.

2. None of my clothes fit me anymore! I really hate wearing any kind of pants and my big stomach bulges out in the front over my tight jeans. Even if my jeans are falling down when I am standing. When I sit it bulges out.

3. I want my husband to have the woman he married. I used to weigh allot less. I feel like a cheated him somehow. I don't want to be a fat wife.

4. I am starving all the time! I'm hoping that loosing weight and getting back to my old self will help me not adore food. I used to hate food.

i have a few things inspiring me to lose weight.

1. i want to be able to get clothes, and i actually feel like they look good on me, and of course not many guys that i have liked are attracted to biggers girls.

2. my passion and goal in life is that i want to become a musician//actor//photographer, except i feel so self consious about my weight that i feel like everyone is going to be paying attention to my stomach instead of me, and then not many good roles are open to bigger people, and i know if i lose weight i'd feel way more confident with myself and stop letting opportunities pass me by, because thats what i tend to do because of my weight.

3. i want to get healthy. i do come from a big family, outside of my mom who is skinny, but a lot of my family members have struggled with diabetes, and i don't want that to be me one day. i want to be healthy and live a good healthy life.

4. another thing, i want to be able to look in the mirror and actually not hate how i look. i hate being classified as the fat kid. at school i'm very shy and conservative. the truth is that's not my personality at all. i'm extremely outgoing and very loud and random. then of course i have been teased because of my weight and i hate that as well.

 

Because I want to know what it feels like.

I am the biggest I have ever been

This year I was afraid to go to Six Flags because I didn't want to have to get off the ride before it started because they couldn't lock the safety harnes

I want to reach goal weight and punch the WW leader in the face, telling her that HAH I DID DO IT BL**DY RIGHT!

 

But a better and more maintainable reason would be to get healthy and see my kids grow up, get married, have babies, and be happy.

I have always been the biggest guy in the room (since I was a kid) and because of that around my sophomore year in college I no longer worried about being fat and I actually became one of the more confident guys that people know (still am to this day).   So nothing ever motivated me to lose weight because when it came down to it I really was pretty happy.  I never even tried to lose weight.  Anyway I have a 6 year old daughter with a girl that i got pregnant in College.  She was a pretty good mom for the first couple of years of my child's life but the last couple of years home girl has gone off the deep end.  She is now in and out of jail and basically a career criminal.  I always thought that if I died or something like that my daughter would be fine because her mom was alright and my parents would help out as well.  This is not the case now that babies momma is a total sketch ball so I am losing weight and really succeeding at it because I need to stay alive.  If I die my daughter is screwed and will head down the exact same path as her sketchy mom.  The second reason for my weight loss that I think about every day is that I want to get down to 220 or 230 lbs so I can get even better life insurance to take care of my wife and child if I where to die.  i have good insurance now but if you are healthy you can lock in a low rate for 10-20 years and set my family for life in case something happens to me.  My daughter is why I graduated college, why I have a great job, why I own a home, and because of her needing a daddy I will go ahead and try my best to stay healthy and stay alive so I am around to pay for her college and wedding.

i want to go into a store and try something on and not feel depressed because it doesn't fit. I want to feel healthy and look fabulous!