Hmmm.. my reasons in no particular order. This might be a bit long... and go into the too much information category so.. You've been warned!!


1. There's a history of diabetes on my father's side of the family. My grandparents had it. One of my uncles had it (that I know of), and my brother has it. The thought of having to stick a needle in myself every day scares the heck out of me and I don't wanna have to do that.

2. I want to go to my boyfriend's sister's wedding next June with a fabulous size 14 or less dress and look totally awesome. Vain... oh yeah, but it'd be worth it to look great!

3. I want to shop in the 'normal' section! There are SO many cute clothes that I would love to have and would love to look good in. I'm so tired of going to the plus sized section and seeing nothing but ugly.. something that my grandmother wouldn't have even worn clothes.

4. Big reason I want to lose weight is b/c I know my weight now is affecting my fertility. And if I don't do something about my weight, I'm going to have a serious problem when trying to have kids (whenever that may be). It seems like it's hard enough for some people to have kids.. I don't want my weight to be another factor into preventing it from happening. NM the weight I would gain while pregnant.. ya know? I wouldn't want that tacked on to an already fat frame.


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5. I want to have sex with the lights on! And dangit I wanna be on top. Right now I'm just so self consious about my weight that I don't even want a hint of light in the room b/c I don't want my bf to see my body. And the top thing well... I always get so worried that I'm too heavy so I just don't do it.. *sigh*


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And yeah that's all I can come up with right now. I know I'm leaving something out that I can't think of but.. it'll come to me later and when it does I'll post it

Because I feel ugly and unattractive! Because my friend back home are all skinny and gorgeous while I'm fat and ugly!!!!! Because I really am depressed because of my weight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I need the confidence booster. Relationship wise - I have a complex of feeling inadequate to anyone I date, physically. Its a horrible feeling. Being overweight is just something I'm fed up with and want to change. Not just for other people to see, but for myself. There's only so many ways of feeling good about yourself before you look in the mirror and the truth is just staring right back at you. This might not be the case for others but I feel this more and more as time goes by.

Most of my friends are in great shape right now, while I have steadily let myself go. This came to me about 2 to 3 years ago. This wasn't always the case, in highschool I was in decent shape, played many sports, exercised - then came University and student life. Yikes. I had the time to excercise, didn't bother, wasn't motivated. 5'6 and 190. Its time for change.

I have similar reasons to you all
1) I want to be able to buy a whole wardrobe and not have to pay too much money
2) I want to be thinner so that I can possibly get a job and earn money
3) I want to look good for friends and family
and some other reasons

It's not really creepy... I just wasn't expecting it. Err, thank you very much?

Everyone tells me that I'm not fat; that I'm beautiful, but I always feel like they're saying it just to be nice. I'm so completely unhappy with myself that it's put me to the point where I get deeply depressed just looking in the mirror. I mean... if I look at my face, I'm happy. All of my good qualities are in my face. My eyes, my eyelashes, my lips, my freckles, my smile, etc. (Oh, and everyone compliments my hair, too.)

But my body just disgusts me. I know that there's a beautiful girl underneath all of this fat.

I wish that she would come out. ):

Mostly for my health, but there are other reasons as well, some that everyone has already posted...

The wardrobe thing is definitely a motive... there is a lady at work that wears some very elegant business clothes that I am so green with envy about!!!

Holly

1) History of diabetes on my mothers side... I think was very close to developing the disease when I was at my heaviest...

2) A couple of years ago my dad survived a bout with colon cancer. I found out that his father died of the same disease. Seeing as how obesity puts you at risk, and the fact that it's genetic as well I needed to do something fast.

3) Being fit is better than being fat! I love being active, when I was big, I could never do the things I really wanted to do...

4) to be able to look in the mirror without seeing that big gut! lol

1. I want to feel good about myself again. I have a lot to offer the world, and I'm tired of my fat getting in the way.

2. My husband deserves to have the hot young wife he married!

3. I don't want my son to grow up being embarrassed of his mother.

that's probably the easiest question i've ever been asked...

here are the reasons that i want to lose weight:
- to be healthy
- to live the kind of lifestyle that i want and not have to worry about my weight standing in the way
- to feel better about myself and like the way i look
- to fit into all my old clothes
- to set a good example for the rest of my family and friends
- to prove to myself i can do it
- to be stronger and not injure myself so often (threw my back out 3 times in the last year)
- to be able to shop in "regular", trendy stores

i could go on and on... the point it... the reasons TO lose weight greatly outweight the reasons not to (the only reason not to being that i like food)

There are lots of reasons for me, but one of the main ones is for my daughter. I don't want her to have to grow up with a fat dad. I want to be there for her, to play with her, and to be active enough to enjoy her childhood with her. I also want her to learn good eating habits at an early age so hopefully she will not have to deal with obesity.

Hello again!

It seems there are so many people moticated in this thread, the author of this is truly a genius but shhh don't tell them I said that.

Anyway, it seems like a lot of people hate shopping at places that never have their size in pretty clothes that's so sad. It seems like shops just ignore the more overweight people. That's really stupid.

I'm also glad that people want to get thinner and healthier for different reasons. I've seen diabetes several times in here and it's so great that this community exists.

Anyway, the best of luck to anyone here, and please do your best!

Don't worry about being too heavy - you'd be supporting your own weight most of the time. If you can't see - you're missing the best part.

^^ Very true. Don't worry about it, just go for it!

I want to as well because I know that under all of this fat I am pretty and I would love to go to work and not need to look at the mirror 20 times and end up looking like crap still.

OH MY...Heeheehee...honestly I can relate there, not with the lights on cuz my X always made us have them on so that we could have eye contact but the whole straddling thing ya...I never felt comfy doing that and it always was disappointing to him...