Losing weight will....
 

Here are some things I am thinking, that, keeping them on my mind helps to keep me focused on this weightloss journey. 1lb. at a time as they say....

Losing weight will.......

Feel free to add what you think about to help you stay focused on your weight

This is great Million! I am with you on most of these! I can't wait for the day when I can walk into a restaurant or hair salon or something and can just sit comfortably in a chair without it being too small or the arms cutting into my thighs!! Or sit in a booth without having to move the table or the actual booth itself to be able to fit in it!

I am mainly doing this for my health! My DH and I want children and I have spent a lot of time babysitting, I am gonna need all the strength and energy I can get :D

I think losing weight will make me feel more accepted. I know it may sound strange but even people who love you seem to treat you different when you are overweight. I don't know what it is and I'm sure they don't realize it but with the dim view that society has on overweight people, it's almost like it's a pre-programmed thing!

Losing weight will also allow me to move more freely and not wobble when I stand to walk. I can already tell a difference in the little bit that I have lost. I can only imagine how glorious it will be when I get to goal! It just amazes me to watch a thin person do the same things I am doing and they don't get winded but I am doing all I can to keep my breath! I can't wait for that day!

Losing weight will....

Allow me to spend a longer happy healthier life watching my beautiful son grow up and turn into a fine young man. I will be able to be there for all that life has to offer him. When he needs his mother for anything, I want to know that I did all I could to be there for him for as long as possible.

It's not about fitting into clothes, chairs, booths, etc. for me. It's just about living!

...will allow me to live like the person inside me. I have so many interests but aren't able to do them at this weight. 40 more lbs and I think I'll be able to do lots of the things I've been missing. I just want to be able to enjoy my life and enjoy doing things with my kids, I don't want them missing out on all the joys of life because their mom was too fat and embarrassed to get out there! I'm on my way!

Losing weight will.... Be off medications medical and mental
Shop in normal size stores
Have a flat belly
Overall staying healthy and fit when am 50 goal

I loved your post (and everybody else's as well! :) ). I, too, feel like I need to lose this weight for the sake of motherhood, and because I want to be able to be active with my kids and I don't want to make things harder for them because of them either being teased for having a fat mom, or because I develop health issues because of my weight. I don't have kids now, but that is my dream.

I lost my way, and I'm trying to get back on track. This is the kind of thinking I need. Thanks. :)

Losing weight will...

*help relieve the stress put on my heart.
*make me feel better.
*let me wear the cute clothes that a 25 year old should get to wear.
*have more fun with friends without pre-planning for weight related challenges.
*flirt shamelessly without being so self-conscious. :s:

I thought of another one...I can't wait to not have to think about my weight, if I want to go on an airplane,rollercoaster,small seat,small car,horse,boat,bungy jumping,paragliding,rock climbing...I always have to think about myself in the situation prior to going and sometimes opt out because I know the obstacles they'll bring, I can't wait to not have to think before jumping!

We all have such similar struggles and thoughts, I'm glad we can support eachother on here! You are doing great, keep at it!

All of them work for me (except I'm not anyone's mom... but I'd like to be around for my friends and family anyway).

A few more for me:

Losing weight will

* let me wear nicer shoes
* make it possible to walk all day when I'm on a trip in a new city

Losing weight will...

*stop me from using it as an excuse to not do things I want to try
*make me realize that fat isn't the only reason I react to people, places and things

Hugs,
Ratkity

Great thread!!

I know losing weight isn't a magical cure to all of life's problems... but I am looking forward to:

- Being able to keep up with my children. They deserve an active and energetic mom that can be 100% involved in all their playtime (while they still want me there!)

- A chance at living a longer life and seeing my children grow up, and getting to grow old with my husband

- To be able to put on anything and feel like I look pretty good and comfortable. Right now it can take me a long time to get ready because I have so few clothes that fit, and I don't feel good in anything.

- Being able to shop in any store I want. I'd love to be a regular size 14 (or dare I dream a 12??) so I can shop anywhere, and not just specialty plus size store... or be sent to the back of the store for the plus size section.

-Not having to worry about being able to fit into chairs will be nice for sure.

- Just feeling human, healthy, normal... things I don't feel most of the time right now.

great post! :)

Love this thread! These are the kinds of things that help motivate me.

Losing weight will....

* let me shop anywhere.
* wear cute shoes.
* ride rollercoasters....and other activities that I can't do now.
* go to friends houses and sit in the lawnchairs without checking the weight capacity first.
* go swimming without shorts and tank over my bathing suit.

Omg! we are so on the same page! :) Those plastic lawnchairs make me reaaaalllllyy nervous! :)

Losing weight will allow me to stop feeling like people think I'm less intelligent because of my weight. I always feel like people are surprised when they see me succeed because people in general have such a low view of fat people. It could be in my head, but I feel like people expect me to be dumb and lazy.

Losing weight will: Let me love myself again :D.................something that I hadn't done in a VERY long time.
Loving myself is taking care of myself and if I can't do that for me I surely can't do it for anyone else, though I really thought I could!

Everything u said here motivates me as well. Especially the lawnchairs/camping chairs. I WILL NOT sit on those.lol.

Losing weight will.........

*help me feel alive again and let me enjoy myself
*ease my physical pain I have from being fat
*help build up my self-esteem cos I usually feel like I am not worth much when I am big

So true, so true. I think sometimes people just assume that a person who is overweight is not intelligent. sigh. :( really idiotic.

Why is that?? I haven't ever figured that one out either and I heard something on Dr. Oz the other day that I have pretty much known for a while but was hoping wasn't true and that is that fat people tend to get paid less on their jobs!! You can't get any more moronic than that! I mean that's just plain ignorant!

Being overweight has NO bearing on how intelligent a person is! I view myself as a pretty smart chick! I was always the one who got all the stuff that other people didn't want to do. Kinda like it was beneath them so give it to the fat girl! GGRRRRR!!! :mad:

Ok, Anyway, didn't mean to go that far into that but sheesh, the nerve of some people!!!

Losing weight will make me feel better, stronger and will allow me to focus on other goals and challenges to keep my life moving forward in a positive way. Losing weight will make me feel successful and help to disprove my frequent self-doubt about what I am capable of accomplishing. :) It felt good to write that!! :)

I know, right! If I absolutely must sit, I sit on the edge so if I need to jump up when it breaks instead of fall on all my blessed glory, I can!

Happy to find other chicks who understand!

My hope for you, and all the other chicks/roosters who struggle with self worth issues.... I hope you find a way to value yourself separately from your weight or size. It has certainly taken me a long time to arive here and I still have to check my perspective on occasion (you know...no pity parties), but I have found a peace within my 340+ lb self that knows that I am smart, witty, funny, worthy of love & friendship....upon this epiphany I have made more friends than I've ever had in my life. And none of them make me feel ashamed of my size...and some of them have even become supporters in my "journey". I hope you find the same.

Losing weight will help me to realize my potential instead of keeping myself in a box. I want to be able to look people in the eye, and act as an equal, instead of treating myself like a second class person. My family and friends tell me that I am beautiful, and I can't wait till I can say it to myself, and believe it when other people tell me that I am beautiful.

Losing weight will help me not to hurt anymore - I am starting to ache in my ankles, knees, back, and hips - and I know that the extra weight is part of the reason.

I also just want to be able to touch my toes :)

Thanx girl, I hope I find the same too. I do have friends who love me but for some reason I don't allow myself to accept that love cos of my weight. Its something I have struggled with for a long time. I hope to find inner peace and love within myself and self acceptance. :)

I am answering before reading the other posts!
Losing weight will:
let me fly without fear
walk by teenagers without being afraid I am being made fun of
no longer have to buy fat camping fold out chairs
not get so darn hot in the summer
let me fit in smaller cars better
bring back my sex life with my husband
let me play harder and faster with my kids
not be the fattest person at the party
SHINE like the star I am! :)

Amen sista, amen.

Its like you stole the words from my mouth!! :hug:

Another one occurred to me yesterday—losing weight will allow me to ride horses again!! I grew up around horses and rode in shows until I was 15. I didn't stop because of weight, but I eventually got too heavy to start again. In the last few years I've really started to miss it. Anyway, I saw a website for a farm around my house that does trail rides, and their weight limit is 240 pounds. I'm 39 pounds away from being able to ride again! I probably won't go until I'm below 200, which is the weight to canter and gallop, but it will be nice to know I could get on a horse by that farm's standards.

Losing weight will give me more flexibility---not only physically, but in other areas of my life.

I feel like part of me just wants to run free and be this free spirit, being more adventurous. I realize that because of my weight, getting around and being on my feet all day is waaaay more difficult than when I was thinner. I want to be able to do some normal things, and without huffing and puffing. Today, I walked a bit farther than I anticipated, so I was all sweaty and uncomfortable. I think that carrying so much excess weight does slow me down a bit, and some of the ways I would like to live my life would necessitate me not feeling tired in the middle of the day, or sweating buckets when no one else is.

Losing weight would help me to feel like I can accomplish more things, and it would help me to enter more situations feeling a lot more comfortable.

Also, being thinner would help me to wear things that would be more flattering and comfortable.

I think losing weight will help me to reveal more of myself.

Right now, I feel like the improvements I have been making are helping me a lot. I hate to say it, but a certain person is being nicer to me. It makes me kind of unsure of their intentions, as they usually talk to me like I am stupid, but they are a bit superficial, and because I am dressing better and putting more effort into my appearance, they may have changed their mind about me.

I think that losing weight will help me more to be...ME. Right now I have all these things I want to do, but either cannot really afford to do so, OR, more likely, I worry about being stared at while doing it because it would be difficult and I would be huffing and puffing and all red and sweaty (making people look at me like they are worried I am going to have a coronary) and, because I worry that physically I would feel uncomfortable because of the weight (i.e., I may want to do something that would involve being on my feet for hours and hours at a time, but right now, even a few hours is a bit much at times).

I feel like I wish I had enough money to race into my local sports store and buy tons of workout clothes and feel comfy in it. Right now, I couldn't fathom wearing a biggest loser outfit showing my belly and all of that. :(

Great thread!
Losing weight will...
Allow me to participate in life fully
Not feel horrified to be in pictures (I'm always behind the camera)
Sit in all chairs (I often say no thank you when asked to sit at BBQ and stuff because I can tell the little plastic chairs are too little)
No feel that I am always being judged
Shop in "normal" stores
And sooooo much more....

I couldn't have said it better.

I am worried about your avatar though----a lot of proana sites use them. :( But, I do think that it is true in a lot of ways, just cannot be taken to the extreme, ya know? Like, it isn't worth having a cheap fast food pastry, but it would be worth it to have a slice of fancy wedding cake from your best friend's wedding. :)

I hope that losing weight will help me help me to feel more feminine. I have been working a lot on doing at home pampering type of things. I usually feel more like a strong person, rather than a feminine or a delicate or dainty type of person. I feel like I stomp more than I prance, ya know?

I want to feel more comfortable taking leisurely walks and wearing shorts and dresses. I am so tired of feeling overweight and feeling like I waddle and feeling like I just cannot keep up physically with other thinner people my age.

I want to get to a healthier state and increase my stamina. I also want to improve my smile so people see me as a happy person, and not the overweight person with the bloated face.