[canadianmarshmellow]

Had to share this with you all.

1. Reduces your risk of getting heart disease.

2. Increases your lever of muscle strength.

3. Improves the functioning of your immune system.

4. Enhances sexual desire, performance and satisfaction.

5. Helps you to more effectively manage stress.

6. Helps you to lose weight -- especially fat weight.

7. Improves the likelihood of survival from a myocardial infarction (heart attack).

8. Can help relieve the pain of tension headaches -- perhaps the most common type of headache.

9. Improves your body's ability to use fat for energy during physical activity.

10. Increases the density and breaking strength of bones.

11.Helps to preserve lean body tissue.

12. Reduces the risk of developing hypertension (high blood pressure).

13. Increases the density and breaking strength of ligaments and tendons.

14. Improves coronary (heart) circulation.

15.Increases circulating level of HDL (good) cholesterol.

16. Assists in efforts to stop smoking.

17. Reduces your risk of developing Type 2 (non-insulin dependent) diabetes.

18. Can help improve short-tem memory in older individuals.

19. Helps to maintain weight loss -- unlike dieting, alone.

20. Helps relieve many of the common discomforts of pregnancy (backache, heartburn, constipation, etc).

21. Reduces your anxiety level.

22. Helps control blood pressure in people with hypertension.

23. Reduces the viscosity of your blood.

24. Reduces vulnerability to various cardiac dysrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms).

25. Increases your maximal oxygen uptake ( VO2 max--perhaps the best measure of your physical working capacity).

26. Helps to overcome jet lag.

27. Slows the rate of joint degeneration in people with osteoarthritis.

28. Lowers your resting heart rate.

29. Helps to boost creativity.

30. Reduces circulating levels of triglycerides.

31. Helps the body resist upper respiratory tract infections.

32. Increases your anaerobic threshold, allowing you to work or exercise longer at a higher level, before a significant amount of lactic acid builds up.

33.Reduces medical and healthcare expenses.

34. Improves ability to recover from physical exertion.

35. Helps speed recovery from chemotherapy treatments.

36. Increases ability to supply blood to the skin for cooling.

37. Increases the thickness of the cartilage in your joints.

38. Gives you more energy to meet the demands of daily life, and provides you with a reserve to meet the demands of unexpected emergencies.

39. Increase your level of muscle endurance.

40. Helps you sleep easier and better..

41. Improves posture.

42. Improves athletic performance.

43. Helps you to maintain your resting metabolic rate.

44. Reduces the risk of developing colon cancer.

45. Increases your tissues' responsiveness to the actions of insulin (i.e., improves tissue sensitivity for insulin), helping to better control blood sugar, particularly if you are a Type2 diabetic.

46. Helps to relieve constipation.

47. Expands blood plasma volume.

48. Reduces the risk of developing prostate cancer.

49. Helps to combat substance abuse.

50. Helps to alleviate depression.

51. Increases your ability to adapt to cold environments.

52. Helps you maintain proper muscle balance.

53. Reduces the rate and severity of medical complications associated with hypertension.

54. Helps to alleviate certain menstrual symptoms.

55. Lowers your heart rate response to sub maximal physical exertion.

56. Helps to alleviate low-back pain.

57. Helps to reduce the amount for insulin required to control blood sugar level in Type1(insuline-dependent) diabetics.

58. Improves mental alertness.

59. Improves respiratory muscle strength and muscle endurance -- par

[BerkshireGrl]

Hey, where's the rest 'o them? They got lopped off at #59 midway...

This sounds like 100 Reasons to Exercise really, hehe!

My favs!
3. Improves the functioning of your immune system.
4. Enhances sexual desire, performance and satisfaction.
5. Helps you to more effectively manage stress.
29. Helps to boost creativity.
50. Helps to alleviate depression.
58. Improves mental alertness.

All of them though, very good bonuses!

[.Steph.]

Good list. Definitely gives you a reason to exercise.

What are YOUR reasons for losing weight?
1) So I can wear shorts in the summer and feel comfortable and not die of heat exhaustion
2) So swimming won't be just a nightmare anymore
3) Be strong and healthy to fight off illness and have babies
4) Have the energy not just to walk but RUN away from the cookies
5) To have a pair of jeans for a long time not have them wear away between the thighs.

I definitely feel cloudy when I am not eating right and exercising so my favorite one is:
58. Improves mental alertness.

[mauvaisroux]

My reasons for losing weight:

1) There is a history of heart disease, diabetes and breast cancer in my family and I would like to do everything possible to reduce my risk of developing these problems.

2) I want to lead a healthy active lifestyle well into my old age

3) I would like to have more energy

4) Have better choices when shopping

5) Feel confident enough to wear shorts and/or a bathing suit in public

[alteaon]

My reasons for wanting to lose weight;

1. Being able to sit down with out thinking about my pudge
2. Wearing shorts and not putting the fear of God into people around me.
3. It makes me feel sexy.
4. It helps my depression and levels out my moods.
5. Looking at a pair of pants or a dress, adn knowing that I could wear that.
6. Being able to know what it's like on both sides: Supporting people who are losing, maintaining, and who have lost already.

[partschik]

Not having to buy a bra on line...having my size in a store!

Looking in my closet and having a choice of clothes that fit!

Feeling great, confident and healthy!

Having my knees thank me every morning!

[Stayc]

My Reason Is Simple:
Feel Better About Myself , My Body And My Weight!
Stacey