Well I want to loose weight so that I can feel good about myself again. I do have confidence but not in my looks...I want to feel sexy and know I am sexy, it isnt even really a number for me, I just wanna look better and feel better. My weight also hinders me and what I want to do and will do with my girls...I just dont wanna limit myself and my children due to my feelings...At some point I would like to move forward with my life and find a man, in order to do this I need to liek myself and feel good about myself...I guess that is it...I just wanna have fun without worrying about beign fat and how embarrassing I look and so on...

I just want to feel like myself again. I want to wear cute clothes. I don't want to the "thick" friend. I want to feel like a deserve a certain "him" that I want. I want to see a picture of myself that doesn't make me say "ugh." I want to believe people when they tell me I'm beautiful. I want my physical to reflect what I feel my mental deserves.

I want to have energy and be happy

I want to lose weight because for a long time now I have been slowly packing on the pounds and my body does not suit who I am. I'm a very active and outdoorsy type person, but as the weight has been packing on I have found myself wanting to go out and do things less and less because I'm self conscious about my body.

But why did I decide recently to kick it into high gear and get serious? My husband and I decided it was time to start a family. But before I get pregnant, I want my body to be ready for the baby - I don't want to be so fat I can't move while I'm pregnant, and I really don't want people to look at me and not know that I'm pregnant and just assume I'm fat because it's an all around fatness. I want to be healthy so I can have a healthy baby and live a long and healthy life!

So, I've got a kick in the butt to lose weight, the faster I lose it, the faster we can start our family!

Excellent motivation!

My initial trigger....

to feel fitter, be able to run with the dog and kids.

but also because I knew that I was going to die before my time, and that I owed it to my wife and kids to do something about it.

However, more than anything else - it was for ME! Years of low self-esteem, feelings of unattractiveness, poor health. Something just clicked and I took control.

Since I lost 'weight', I haven't stopped - I want more and more fitness. Despite back pain and running injuries, I refuse to give up (although I sometimes take a tactical retreat) - I go to gym 2 to 4 times per week, I go running about once per week, and I love eating healthy! I do it for me first - then my family.

right now, because I want to look better , the best that I can

besides the vainly obvious - i wanna be hotter! hehehehehehe!

but more seriously and numero uno - i have two adorable daughters that are very young and i want to be a very good example to them, to be healthy, strong women. i want to give them the tools to live a great long, healthy life and i can't do that if i don't do it myself!

i wanna be healthy for myself first, in order to be better for everyone around me!

amy - i'm from ohio!!!! good to see you here! and kudos for the weight you've lost thus far! i'm right there with you, so i'd love to put you on my buddy list and keep corresponding with you, if that's okay????

Sounds great. Congrats on your weight loss as well!

thanks a million! awesome to meet you here!

I'm with you there. I was well on my way to being very sick if I didn't do something. I hated my appearance and felt limited in my activities. I always sort of knew what I had to do. I just needed a better reason. Getting sick slapped me in the face and got my attention. I very lucidly realized then I wanted to live as long as possible in as healthy a condition as possible.

John

I wish my husband would come to the same realization. Last year he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. He's 35 and weighs 255, He really just needs to lose 50 lbs for his health. It's so difficult to watch him not taking care of himself (he does nothing the doctor told him to), and then to see when he doesn't feel well because of the high blood pressure or something (he has heart palpatations) because I know that someday the palpatations could be a heart attack if he doesn't change his health.

We're going to start a family next year, and I can't bear the thought of not having him around until we're old and feeble and can't chew our own food, but whenever I bring it up he brushes it off as if it's no big deal...

I'm sick of staring at my flab in the mirror and hating myself for it yet not doing anything about it. Comments from other people hurt, yet they give me the motivation and I probably wouldn't be on a diet unless people had commented on my body.

I want to reclaim the body I think I have under the extra weight. Tall, wide shoulders, big chest, etc. I was last at a good weight maybe 10 years ago, and I wasn't as muscular then as now.

I don't want to be the most overweight person in the room anymore. I have a pretty good genetic history, but both my uncles have had heart attacks, and my grandfather died of a heart attack too.

I also don't want to wear out all my joints from carrying around this stupid extra weight. The weight I've lost now is the same as what my dog weighs. I look at her and can't believe I had that much extra mass glued to me.

Finally, I want to stop thinking about my weight ALL THE TIME. You can probably all relate, it becomes a major player in all aspects of my day. Do I want to go out? No, nothing to wear. Walk past a window, see my reflection, feel down. Etc. When I get down to my goal, I will need to pay attention to my weight, but I won't have to obsess about it.

So in short. Healthy. Happy. Looking good. :P

my health


i am only 25 and my health is starting to suffer from my weight...i am 150 pounds overweight...i developed tendenitis in 1 knee, ligament problems in foot on the same leg...i have a shoulder injury that hasn't completely healed either..my feet and legs hurt everyday, shortness of breathe..it doesn't help that i have asthma as well..i am always tired, lack of energy...