Why the Weight?

There's always a reason, right? It can be for self-improvement, an incentive-driven goal, or vanity, but anyone trying to lose weight must at least have some sort of motivation, or some understandable, reasonable cause...

Why lose weight? Why gain weight?

I'd love to know what everyone's stories are. I hear talking about it can help motivate anyone to do better or keep on keeping on.

Part of it is to prove to myself that I can, in fact, overcome at least some portions of my social anxiety by being able to go out in public without assuming that every person that looks at me is thinking about how bad I look. I recognize that's more of a "love yourself" issue than a "look better" issue, but really, I think it'll be a lot easier to love myself when I can run for a full mile or be able to squeeze behind people's chairs.

(Although, to be honest, it'd also be really cool to wear a bikini or go into Hollister and buy a pair of jeans.)

well my goals were to gain initially since I was struggling with anorexia and thin enough to drop dead from heart failure. i was miserable and being emaciated didn't help me with that, so i figured if killing myself is getting  me no closer to happiness then why do it? why not try to enjoy life or give myself the opportunity to enjoy it later by staying alive? so i gained, and here i am now maintaining my new healthy physique :)

im tired of being  "bigger" "chubby" "thick" "average" or any other stupid name. i want to be skinny while im still young and pretty to match it.

Because I'm a happier, more confident person when I weigh less :)

Because I want it to be cute when my tummyaccidentally peeks out from underneath my shirt..not gross 

Right now I'm actually really motivated by curiosity - I just want to know what I look like 'slender'! I dunno, is that weird? x3

Also, come fall I'm going to have to learn to get dressed/undressed in front of a bunch of other girls on a daily basis. I'm a lot more confident than I was a couple years ago, and have overcome many of my body and anxiety issues, but...I guess I'm also rather vain. If people are going to be looking at me in my skivvies every day for a year, I'd like to at least be happy with the way I look.

I am losing weight because I'm fed up with being the fat guy.  I'm 17 and haven't had a girlfriend in 4 years, I know people say that confidence is everything but it's had to be confident when you're 90 lbs overweight (well was 90 lbs overweight, now I'm only 65 lbs overweight)  I'm leaving for college in a month and I realized about 2 months ago that I won't fully enjoy the college experience if I'm fat while I'm there.  I'm going to Cal Poly which is like 10 minutes from the beach and that's what everyone does for fun, and if I'm fat I'm not gonna go to the beach to enjoy myself because I'll be embarrassed.  And I'd like to have a girlfriend in college, which would be a lot easier if I was at a normal weight.  And I want to be able to go to parties and not be the fat guy no chick wants to hang out with. 

It started out as a self-esteem issue.

Then I kept going because the health benefits were awesome.

Now I just lose weight because I'm curious to see where I look and feel the best at.

And I secretly would like to jiggle a little less. I know some things will always jiggle (see: boobs and booty) but I'd like it if my tummy looked less jiggly. It reminds me of jell-o. I don't like jell-o. It always freaked me out at a kid, and it's like my childhood fear has manifested as the stored fat on my stomach. Not such a bad thing on other people, but when it's on me it's kind of.. "eeks!" I mean that in the most non-offending way possible towards myself. XD I mean, my tummy has it's own cuteness, but the jiggle.. the jiiiigggllee~!!11two

I've been all over the place...

Once I hit puberty my depression and anxiety disorder kicked in full force, as well as a form of social phobia. Because I was so depressed I started comfort eating, and gained 14kg.

I had no self confidence and hated how fat I was, so I starved myself and lost 16kg in a very short period of time, which is really unhealthy.

Because of the starvation I got binge eating disorder, and fought that for a while. My depression and anxiety got worse, and I gained 5 kilograms.

I'm really afraid of being fat, since I have pretty terribly self confidence and self esteem. I'm recovering really well, I'm seeing a psychiatrist and I'm on Espiram which has made a huge difference in my life. I'm almost cured of binge eating disorder.

I just want to be skinny, but to also have a healthy relationship with food again. (And lose that 5 kilos).

At first, I kinda just wanted to lose the weight to become skinny and be able to wear normal clothes. After losing about 15-30 lbs, I realized that I just felt better. I could walk longer. I didn't run out of breath that quickly, and my sugar cravings had gone down. That is when I started losing weight to be healthy.