that thing that you want to do once you're finally at goal weight? something that you either can't, won't, or are too embarrassed to do at your current weight?

maybe something that you want to wear? or a place that you want to go? or an activity that you want to do?

for me, it's to be able to wear heels. i looooove high heels... and in fact, i have a pretty indecent collection of them, because i'll go in the store and strut around for 2 minutes and be like "oooh, i can actually walk in them!" and then i get home, and i never wear them, ever. whenever i try, my feet get dead really quickly, and i've always attributed this to the fact that i was too heavy to ask my poor feet to carry all this weight on tiny heels.

I'm hoping that when I lose a substantial amount of weight, I'll be able to wear heels to go out on the town, to go to work, or to go on dates with my bf. heels feel so feminine to me and it makes me sad that i can't wear them.

so what is YOUR thing? that thing that, although it is not your goal, would be an amazing reward?

I want to wear shorts. I haven't worn shorts since middle school. I've always hated the way my legs look. I hope that changes...

I have a few things:

- To backpack again, and be able to make the entire journey carrying my backpack
- To run a 5K, then a 10K
- To shop in regular stores
- To wear cute dresses
- To wear boots that fit over my calves

Run a marathon
Wear a dress without shorts underneath
Shop in stores without wondering if they carry my size
Wear heels and not have to buy special boots that come in wide calfs.
Go skydiving

This summer I plan to do a lot of physical things that I was too embarrassed or felt too out of shape to try when I was heavier.

-I want to try an indoor rock climbing wall.
-Go on a kayak/manatee swimming guided tour (because I wouldn't be caught dead in a swimsuit in public before)
-Complete a "Dirty Girl" mud run

I wore a bikini for the first time in my life last summer. It was awesome.

Now that I got that out of my system, I might go back to a tankini or one piece!

go to the beach/pool/anywhere in a bathing suit and be comfortable
go rock climbing
go dancing in an awesome dress
be happy
go skiing
go backpacking somewhere/hiking
I am a runner trapped in a fat person's body...I love to run so I'd like to be able to do 5k's and 10ks often and travel around the country to all the cool ones
walk into an Ann Taylor store/White Black Market and not be ignored because I'm too fat to fit anything

and there are more but those are the main ones...but I'm going to honest and say that I am tired of waiting to live my life while I 'try' to get these pounds off...I've spent the better part of my life trying to lose weight...I'm not going to waste my 30's trying to be society's definition of beautiful. If I make it to reasonably healthy, I think I'm going to take it and call it a day. I don't know what that's going to mean...but I'm over it peoples...

oooh, shorts and bikinis are good ones.... i've never worn either in my life....

bella: you should never wait to be skinny to be happy though. learn to love yourself NOW!!

To be able to wear anything I want. Im super into fashion, but cant wear most of the things I want to without feeling self conscious. Okay so thats it, I want to stop feeling self conscious in tight clothes.

I'm going to get a massage! My friends have tried to convince me to go to get one with them, but the thought of some stranger plowing through my blubber with their fingers always squicked me out to no end. I'm sure that people that do that professionally wouldn't judge, but I'd FEEL like they were judging me. So yeah...in another 10 or 15 lbs, I'M GETTING ME A MASSAGE.

Also, I'd love to do a zombie run...I helped to run a zombie apocalypse on my college campus every semester and I'm a bit of zombie enthusiast...so the idea of dressing as a zombie and chasing people down is terribly appealing to me. (Yeah, I don't even want to properly run it, I just want to volunteer to be a gorey-*** NPC.)

Now for the part where everyone's going to laugh at me...I've wanted to do a Gunner Yuna cosplay from FFX-2 for YEARS. I've always promised myself that if some day I happen to find myself skinny, I'm making that costume and strutting my stuff at a con. I don't even especially like that game compared to the other Final Fantasy games, I just LOVE that costume for some reason. /end-nerdgasm

Cosplay! YES! This is what I want to do when I get to my GW, also!

Hotaruchan - I go to San Diego Comic Con every year, and I am really looking forward to dressing up this summer! I'm not sure what I'll be yet, though the next Captain America movie is coming out, so I might be a female Cap. I can't wait!

I lost a lot of weight 2 years ago and then moved, was weak to stress, and gained 20 pounds back, ugh! I kept my clothes from when I lost the weight so I'm looking forward to being able to wear them again! I got some nice pieces and I look forward to getting back into them! Yeah!!

OhThePlaces I love your goals! I want to swim with Manatees so much. That's definitely going to be a present to myself when I hit goal. And the dirty girl mud run looks like fun!

Aside from those two, I plan on spending an absolutely ridiculous amount of money on clothes. I've been squirreling away money for a while now. Not sure what else. Probably a big spa day for myself.

Skydiving...

At 18, I wanted to go, but since you couldn't weigh more then 225, I was unable to...

I don't have a legit reason for waiting until I reach my goal again, except that I think it would make an awesome present to myself and its just that much more modivation