Same here! I know it's shallow, but I want to feel more attractive, more sexy, and actually meet someone! I want to wear small clothes and actually be willing to buy nice jeans because I fill them out well. I don't find it worth it when I feel too heavy to actually look good in them.
For the past five years, I've steadily gained and kept buying bigger sized clothes. For some reason, I just kept thinking to myself that I'm not thin but I won't ever be obese (which is really dumb considering the aforementioned reality of buying bigger sizes). On June 1, I finally became motivated to start calorie counting again. When I plugged my numbers into some of those calorie counting web sites, I was astonished to find that at my current estimated weight (don't want to weigh myself), height and age (170 --- 5 ft 3 ---- 43) I can only eat about 2000 calories (while sedentary) to MAINTAIN my weight. WTH!!! For some reason, I kept thinking that I could eat much more than that. Then, I did some quick calculations of my typical eating day and realized that I was consuming way more than 2000 calories a day. That means, I would steadily have continued gaining.
That was a big wake-up call for me. So, my goal in losing is to just be "normal"---not extra thin, not a fashion plate, but just normal. I'll be satisfied at a size 10 and really satisfied at a size 8.
Oh man there are so many reasons I am going to lose this weight. First and foremost is probably to gain confidence. This feeds into my desire to feel sexy (though my bf insists I already am) and to be able to live a happy, healthy, fulfilling and active lifestyle. I am fortunate that my weight has not led to serious health issues, but I've let too much of my life pass me by because of my lack of confidence and by losing weight I am saying NO MORE!
Well I started this because I was the only fat person sitting at the dinner table Christmas. Now I do it because it makes me feel great to see the weight coming off.
I mostly just want to feel healthy and good about myself again. However, I am only 22 so getting my old toned body back is fairly motivational as well.
For the past five years, I've steadily gained and kept buying bigger sized clothes. For some reason, I just kept thinking to myself that I'm not thin but I won't ever be obese (which is really dumb considering the aforementioned reality of buying bigger sizes). On June 1, I finally became motivated to start calorie counting again. When I plugged my numbers into some of those calorie counting web sites, I was astonished to find that at my current estimated weight (don't want to weigh myself), height and age (170 --- 5 ft 3 ---- 43) I can only eat about 2000 calories (while sedentary) to MAINTAIN my weight. WTH!!! For some reason, I kept thinking that I could eat much more than that. Then, I did some quick calculations of my typical eating day and realized that I was consuming way more than 2000 calories a day. That means, I would steadily have continued gaining.
That was a big wake-up call for me. So, my goal in losing is to just be "normal"---not extra thin, not a fashion plate, but just normal. I'll be satisfied at a size 10 and really satisfied at a size 8.
I agree with you. I'm not trying to hit skinny. I got child-bearing hips, skinny would look bad on me. I just want normal/thick. (I'm Spanish, so I'm curvaceous naturally, and anything below normal would make me look misshapen.)
