My reasons......
 

Okay here they are....

• I want to be able to look in a mirror and like what I see
• I want to be able to do more things with my husband like hill walking
• I don't want my doctor to blame everything on my weight before I've been examined!
• I want to be able to shop ANYWHERE!
• I want to feel good about myself
• I want to be able to agree with my husband when he says I look sexy
• I want to be able to ask my husband if my bum looks big in something and he'll have to think about the answer! :-)
• I want someone else to be the biggest person in the room
• I want to sit in plane/train/car seats comfortably and not worry whether the seat belt will do up!

When I feel low I'll come back into this thread and remember just why I'm eating healthily and exercising more.

Karen.

Why?
 

• I want to go into a gym and not have the customers think "She's the instructor?"
• I want other instructors to acknowledge I could actually be good at my job
• I want to interview for a research job tomorow without feeling FAT
• But most of all I want to get skinny(er) faster than my kid sister

Definitely a blue bunny this weekend:( :( :(

my reasons for dieting
 

It's been very thought provoking to read all the other reasons for dieting. I identified with so many of you. Here is my main reason:

- so people don't keep calling me Karen. (I have a colleague about the same size as me. We look very different. She has short mousey hair, mine is long and almost purple, we have very different styles of dress, but obviously, people only see the fat and not the chicks...

I would like to be seen as me, not just as an anonymous blob.:mad:

indigo welcome to madness :lol: hope you stick around and post on our other threads

Hello Indigogirl

Welcome to ukfc I know what you mean I think there must be a fat woman called Clare who looks like me round here as two different people who I've met in the last few months kept calling me that when I first met them! :dizzy: :?:

Yet more reasons - I have hundreds of them - may even eventually write a pysocologial book about them all - need to learn to spell it first.

Todays one is,

I hate thinking I look alright and then I catch site of my reflection, in a window or a shiny piller of something and realise it ain't true. I am going to catch site of my reflection in the future and think - 'hey girl - looking good !!'

Want to spend spend spend - hate wearing the same clothes all the time because they are the only ones that fit

Want my white shirt at work to hang like it used to - not like it does now over my newly gained 'extra' bit of bulk

OK that was more than one - but who is counting

I want to look good on my daughters wedding photos next spring

I want to be able to get past people who are stood up on a crowded bus so that i can get off at the stop i want to (i have sometimes stayed on the bus another few stops because there was no way i could get past people)

and the list goes on and on and on ..........




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I would honestly have to say 'All of the above', but to elaborate on a couple:

I think health has to be one of the biggest considerations. My mum suffered from diabetes, & was always telling me how worried she was that I would develop it if I didn't lose weight.

Other people touched on the subject of kids. I don't want my kids to grow up with the same issues with food that I have. At one point last year, I was upset about something, & my daughter, then just 2, ran off to get some chocolate to make me feel better. It was very sweet of her, but I felt ashamed that she'd already made that connection. I grew up watching my mum trying every diet that came out, largely unsuccessfully, & I'm sure that can't be good. I also don't want anyone to ever be able to use the fact that I'm fat to get at my kids - I've heard of other cases where that's happened to people.

I want to be able to dance & not be self-conscious! I LOVE to dance, & I still do when I go out, as I try not to let my weight stop me doing things. However, I know myself that you could be the best dancer in the world: it just doesn't look right when your flab carries on moving when you stop! I want to feel that no-one's looking at me & I can do my own thing.

One that's very personal to me is that I want to be able to wear the purple silk lingerie that DH bought me for Xmas. I was pregnant at the time, so he bought me Size 18 'as an incentive for after baby's born'. Determined as I was, I took it all back & swapped it for size 14s!! Now THAT'S what I call an incentive!

Just short-term, I want to have things to wear - only a few items fit at the moment. I really need to get back into the Size 18s I was in last summer.

This thread is certainly inspiring - I'm sure I will be looking back on it when the going gets tough!

I would like to feel more confident being naked in front of my partner.

To buy the cute little gypsey tops that they are selling everywhere now.

To not feel out of breath after climbing up a flight of stairs.

To get my PCOS under control and have a baby someday

This is a great thread...Its so hard sometimes, and its nice to know that others share my feelings...

Re: Reasons for dieting
 

Dear Sarah Anne:

i really identified with just about everything you said in your post and you can do it...it's just so hard doing for yourself.. we are so good at doing things for others but when it comes to us where is the love? I to would love to look like 7 of 9, but at almost 54 i would probably look like 70 of 90 with all that loose skin flapping in the windonce i lost the weight. It sounds like you are many years younger than me and I say lose it now once and forever. remember we lose 1/2 pound of muscle every year after 30 and that means 50 calories burned per day per year are not burned multiplied by the number of years. In my case I must eat 650 less calories a day than I did 13 years ago just to maintain and even lose.

Try weight training, it is so relaxing once you get into it, and once you tone up you only need mantain those muscles with maintenance lifitng once a week after maybe a year of lifting 3x a week.

I am bacxk on that track now because I am in menopause and am nearly starving myself trying to lose weight. No estrogen, practically no weight loss...i'd give the world to have my periods again.

Please, please don't give up....remember "failure is not an option"! :s:

Best of luck and keep those chins up, Carol Ann

I am on my 7th day of this diet and I am all cold and shivery and hungry and fed up and depressed, etc. etc. I keep asking myself why I am doing this - and I thought I would post here my reasons why so that I can come back and have a look when I feel like this again.

1. I want to be healthier - get my blood pressure down, not get puffed out if I have to run more than 20 yards and not worry about my health in old age.

2. I want to look better - I would love to look amazing, but realistically I want to be able to look in a mirror and say to myself in all honesty that I am pleased with what I see.

3. I want to be able to go in to any clothes shop anywhere and know that there will be something in there to fit me - even if I don't like it and don't want to buy it.

4. I want to be able to feel that I don't stand out in a crowd - or if I do it is because of positive reasons, not because I am that porky woman who obviously has no self control (not my words - the words woman on a bus about a year ago!)

5. This follows on from No. 4 - but I want to be comfortable with the idea of eating and drinking in public. I hate that feeling of being watched and people thinking 'so thats how she got fat'.

6. I want to be able to go to the doctor and him not blame every minor and/or major ailment I get on my weight.

7. I want my husband and daughter to be proud of me. They know how much it would mean to me to get down to goal. To get to my target weight and stay their for a year will mean as much to me as getting my degree did.

8. I want to know that I have got some control over myself and my eating habits - its stupid for an adult woman to carry on the way I do. Noone forces me to eat - its MY decision!

9. I want to be a size 12-14 and wear shorts and a strappy top on really hot days and not huge T shirts and leggings.

10. I want to be able to get in the shower and not wonder if the bottom of it is going to give up the ghost this time.

Well - there it is - my reasons for dieting. I am sure there are much better ones, but those are mine.

Anyone else??? [/QUOTE]

I want
 

Hi

New to the site - but not new to the diet trail ....

1) I want people to look at me and not look through me
2) I want to be proud of myself
3) I dont want to be scared of sitting on those flimsy garden chairs in case they collapse
4)I want to control my eating and instead of my eating controlling me
5) I want to have some of my 'favorite' foods in the house and them last for days ... or weeks ... instead of hours ... or minutes

And I WILL

I want to lose weight because:
- I want to be able to buy my clothes from a 'normal' clothes shop. Sorry larger size clothes shops are great but 1.I can't afford them and 2.They don't have the sort of clothes that I want to wear. :cry:
- I want to lose weight for me and not for anyone else or because someone tells me to
- I want to be able to look good when out clubbing (rather than have people pointing and making snide comments) :dance: :dance:

DITTO!
 

I can honestly say that I can identify with each and everyone of you!
What I would really like is to turn up somewhere in the future slim and fit with a new hairstyle (I've had the same one for at least 10 years!:tired: :yikes: ) and wait to see if anyone recognises me.......

I don't know what's stopping me really, is my love of food more than the love for myself? :shrug:

great thread!

I have just been re reading my reasons for wanting to lose weight and here they are:

I want to get out of bed and immediatelythrow on a pair of jeans and tuck a t shirt in run downstairs and put the kettle on smiling......

I want to run around with the children in reception class at playtime and not feel like a hugeblundering fool!! (like i did today)

I want to feel comfortable in hot weather

I want to shop anywhere I like

The last four I achieved in 2002 the others are still top of my list....

I want to live long enough to see my sons children...if he wants so have some........or just to see him grow up

I want to be slim!!

Lots of people are telling me they cannot believe I still want to lose a lot more weight. I used to be 5 stone less than I am now!!! My target then was 10stone 7lb (147lb), I was a size 12, slim but not thin. I am very tall and have a big build, take a size 10 in a shoe. I am aiming for 11 stone 13lb eventually but realistically am taking it half a stone at a time and think only I will know when I am at a comfortable weight. Hopefully this year will see me get to target and uncover the real me, I am well on my way but still have a long way to go. I would like to thank you all on this site for your encouragement over the last 12 months. I am going to need you in the next 12 months too so I hope you are all planning to stick around..........Of course this is the easy bit cos when we get to babeville we will still need the support and encouragement to stay there.
:angel:
Its a long and winding road and we will no doubt all get lost several times along the way but as long as we find our way home to this site we will get there. i feel like I am ready for the journey, right lets see how many sandwiches do I need ???:D
I think I have some good company to see the journey through, thanks for joining me :)

HI TO ALL!

I have just read the whole of this thread..thank you all for your honesty.
Here are my reasons for weight-losing....

To NOT be turned down from the heart transplant list 'cos I am too fat...you have to be under a certain b.m.i.
To have more confidence in myself
So that I can wear a skirt and no tights in hot weather and the insides of my thighs won't get sore and come out in a rash
So that I will not feel like the butt of all jokes and feel like everyone is looking and laughing at me.
To be able to clothes shop without always choosing dark, baggy and loose-flowing-hide-every-roll-of-fat clothes
So that I like what I see in the mirror
So that I can eat out in public or at a freind's house without constantly thinking "if I eat more than one potato, they will say well she shouldn't be eating that, and no wonder she is so fat.
And so that a certain relation of mine will not say at every oppurtunity "what, no pudding...you must be ill".

:mad: :( :o :drill: :drill: