I want to hear all your reasons for losing weight, from being healthy... to spite (we all know thats what pushes us some days)

Mine:

• Being in better shape than my mom and sisters (even though they are the best support in the world)
• Being able to borrow clothes and shoes from my mom and sisters
• Not being the fat friend anymore
• Getting hit on by guys that I find attactive too
• Not having my thighs rub together anymore
• Being able to keep up with my son
• Being able to participate in sports
• TWO WORDS...CLOTHES SHOPPING
• Going to the beach
• Seeing my ex's
• Having more energy
• Living life instead of watching others live it on T.V.
• Lingerie
• Self esteem
• Happier

I'm sure I have more, I will post them later.

I want to be able to keep up with my kids and be around for grandkids.

*Being healthy-with diabetes and high blood pressure running in my family...I've made this my top priority!!
*Going into any store and knowing I will walk out with something.
*Being smaller than my cousins, who for all my life have been smaller than me.
*Being a good example for my sister, who needs to drop a couple of pounds.
*Wearing a bathing suit to the beach or swimming pool.
*Going out with my boyfriend and not feeling so self-concious.
*Not caring if my boyfriend stares at another girl because, heck, I know I look good.
*Cute clothes on clearance.

And the biggest reason...I just want to be love how I look!!

I have a ton of these.

On the more superficial (but honestly, more motivating) side - looking fabulous in upcoming wedding photos, and not making an idiot of myself on a rafting trip with some coworkers this July. And clothes shopping. And make more money (its true - they've shown overweight people make less over a lifetime than thinner people). Get gorgeous looking back and shoulders.

On the health-related side - getting smaller before having kids will allow me to keep up with them better, reducing diabetes risk, improving cardio function, and building muscle so I can be strong. Reducing health risks in general. Not turning into my dad (who is a great person, but overweight, a compulsive eater, etc). Getting control of these issues now, when my life is relatively tame, so I don't have to control them once I have kids and have other people depending on me. Control anxiety disorder with exercise, rather than medication, if possible.

I will be visiting my family for the first time in 3 years and want to surprise them all. No one knows I am losing weight. I also want to lose because I will be around my DH ex and do not want her to think he married a loser. (I know not good right) I want to look good in a bathing suite and have all of my DH friends say wow you wife is very pretty . I want to go and buy cute cloths that look great on me.

I so forgot about the money thing!

Ditto on the family reunion

I have the same reasons as all of you: being healthy, feeling good, looking good, buying CHEAP clothes, shopping everywhere, etc, etc, etc.

This for me was never a reason but it is now:

My little sister is only 10 and she is a big solid girl. I found pics of me when I was 10 and she even looks bigger then I did then. I tried to talk to her and tell her to watch what she eats but she says she doesn't care that she is bigger then all the other girls. I know want her to grow up and feel like I did. Generally I was always happy but deep down I always wished I was skinny. I just want her to be happy and wish she would lose weight with me so we can get new clothes together. But I know she is only 10 and she doesn't see it that way yet. Hopefully one day

I know you shouldn't lose weight for someone else and I am not, but I think that is the an awesome reason!

feeling good and healthy
having more energy
liking my body
looking good in a wedding dress someday
wearing sleeveless shirts with no arm wobble
wearing skirts with less thigh rubbing
fitting into chairs/seats/rides better
buying those cute clothes that I've never fit into

My number one reason to lose weight was due to very poor health. Now that my health is improved considerably, I just want to look good. I want to feel like going places instead of watching TV all the time. I want to live long enough to raise my kids and see my grandkids grow up. I feel like that after losing this weight, I am finally starting to LIVE. I enjoy getting dressed now and going places is fun, not stressful anymore. I like the way my DH looks at me and compliments me .(He had never said anything about my weight before, but I can tell he really loves how I look now). Even the smiles, nods and waves from other men are nice, it just feels good to be noticed.

My mother has diabetes which came on later in her life. Now that I'm getting older also, I want to be healthy and give myself a better change of beating the diabetes.

In 3 years from now my youngest son will be graduating from high school (he live with his father in Maryland) and I want to look FANTASTIC when I go out there to see all of the "ex"'s family and have my son be proud of me as I am of him.

I want to be the woman on the arm of my DH that gets looks from other guys as we walk by.

I want to be able to buy clothing I like in any store I walk into.

I want to be able to walk up a flight of stairs without getting winded.

Most important, I want to be happy with my body's image and health.

-Being able to wear anything I want...
-Getting ATTENTION like my friends get all the time...
-***BiKiNi***, I want to get in a bikini and be comfortable showing my body in it...
-To be able to get hot guys that I can only have crushes on...Instead of saying he's too good for me, I want to say "I'm too good for him"...
-To be comfortable with my body...
-To have self-confidence that I never had before (it's building up)
- And lastly to be happy...

All of the above. But most of all I want my husband to look at me like Im the hottest girl in the room. He always tells me Im hot but I want to feel it.

1) Just overall health. Before I got out of breath walking up a SINGLE flight of stairs.
2) Being fit for the "extreme" sports we do. Jetskiing, dirbikes, snowmobiles, etc.
3) Afraid of developing diabetes at all, let alone at a young age.
4) Emotional/Mentally. I was miserable all the time because I hated myself. I felt fat and lazy, like I was a horrible person.
5) All the "extreme" sports wives are gorgeous. I don't want to be fat one.
6) I live in San Diego. On the beach. 'Nuff said.
7) I'm almost 21. I want to go to clubs and bars and not feel like people are thinking "why is she here?"
8) Cute clothes
9) I've always been overweight so I want to go to my high school reunion skiiiiiinny!
10) Confidence. For everything. Walking with my head up, job interviews, making friends. Everything.

Hmm, I could keep going but I think that's enough