What motivated you?

[sham]

Re: What motivated you?

What motivated me was seeing my ugly fat pics aswell as wanting to fit into my lovely clothes hanging in the wardrobe.

[Julie23]

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My motivation is this - I want to walk into a room and have everyone look at me. I have never felt like all eyes are on me, I have never felt like anyone actually looked at me and said "wow, she's pretty." I never went to parties, I never went out with friends to clubs or anything like that, so I missed out on that when I was younger. I'm a wife and mother now and I regret getting to feel awesome about how I looked in the past, so now I work hard to get to my goal so I can look in the mirror and say "you look amazing" and know that it's true.

[Spring Towry]

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I was on Atkins 8 or so years ago. I lost a lot of weight, over 100lbs. I looked good and felt good. Only I didn't know I looked good. Nobody really told me. I slipped off when I got pregnant with my fourth child. I gained 80 lbs. I didn't notice as I always thought I was fat anyway.

I looked in the mirror this September and said I was a very pretty and well deserving woman who deserves to be healthy and sexy. Yes sexy. I have never felt that way before. I started again in October. I am going to look good and know it this time.

I am sick of being fat, it only gets harder after we age to take it off. I am going to wear a bikini on my 36th birthday in August.

[Browneyedmelly]

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Well I always considered myself sexy!!!! But it was my very high blood pressure and the fact that I was sitting down while everyone else was living life....wanting the small things like walking on the beach..or seeing a movie....having a whole store to pick from for clothes rather than choosing from what fits...

[tinacs007]

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Age do not matter much to me, at least I thought so, until I got diagnosed with high blood pressure. Although I only take a very low dose.,.5 milligram, I feel like I am on the rode to be one of those aging people who take several different kinds of medicines everyday to retain a simple quality of life. I do not want to be required take a pill everyday.

I am also on a journey of reinventing myself. I have made personal goals to meet on this journey. The first, stop doubting my self. I have always stated I have math anxiety, even as an undergrad, I ran from any courses that had math. Currently I am in a MBA program. I will lick this self inflicted disease. My second, is to look better and feel better. I want that dream job, but realize I would lack the confidence to go after it, because I gained so much weight. I been in the corporate world and looked around. The women who make it are not FAT! I want my confidence to show mentally and physically when it is job search time. My third goal, to learn how to swim. I want to learn, but shied away because I do not want to wear a bathing suit. I realize I am being silly. Not being able to learn because I have no legs is one thing, but the fear of being too big is quite another. I have the power to turn all these fears into positives. And I intend to. This will be the year for a new Tina.

[lannerjarv]

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in no particular order:
1. i want to prance around the beach this summer in a bathing suit and NOT feel like a whale
2. i want to be able to wear clothes that my friends wear, instead of the frumpy outfits that fit heavier people
3. i want my husband to be as attracted to me as he was when we met
4. i want to inspire people to take care of themselves and put their health first
5. i want to be a person that runs. someone that enjoys going out for a daily jog to keep fit and ENJOYS it.. and you can only enjoy something like that when you are fit. i'm getting there but it's a battle!!

most of all i want to be healthy and ready to have kids. i have been putting off having babies because i didn't want to be fat AND pregnant.

[PolarBearKing]

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Lose weight get a date, right? J/K

For me it was the physical pain of doing simple things like walking. My body just couldn't take it anymore...

[SouLThinKing]

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I wanted to be able to run in the yard with my kids and play. I don't want to have aches in my knees and joints. I want to be able to go to the waterpark this summer and not be so embarrased just to be there at all. I want to be able to go into a store and KNOW they have something there to fit me. I also want to for once in my life be able to say I am not overweight. Just once. I was the chubby girl. I was the the fat girl. I hid behind it. I want to feel beautiful.

I will do this.
This is gonna happen.

God Bless

[Jules1980]

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At a family gathering I was talking about losing weight to my sister inlaw and brother, my mother over heard and say's loudly,
"Jules, this is just the way you are, you don't need to lose any weight"
Well I guess Im showing her!! LOL
My Bro and his wife haven't seen me since then and I have been shrinking nicely!
I was 118-120 most of my life, and don't want to be humiliated like that by my mother ever again!! LOL

[Minerva]

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Seeing recent pictures of me where my face looked fat. *And* picking up a copy of Atkins first book at a yard sale and reading it.

I've low carbed before and know it works. I just needed a kick in the (too tight) pants and some inspiration.

[IrishIrish]

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There is a saying ... "out of the mouths of babes ...". For me, it was "out of the mouths of mothers ...". I will still remember while trying on a size 8 shoe when I was in junior high school, my mother saying out loud in a shoe store, "with her weight, she would look funny if she had small feet". Or the other one ... Mom said, "Daddy and I decided that it is just as well that you are fat. That way the boys will never bother you." How comforting?!?!

Whatever our motivation, the words we heard can sometime be motivators if we don't let them poison us. Good that you let the words motivate you!

Blessings.

[wackielady]

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its sad that even when i was 339 i really didn't think i looked that bad. Then once in awhile i'd catch my image in a store window and i'd be horrified, that's not how i really look is it? (for some reason just looking at my upper body at home didn't give the same effect) probably the worst was looking at christmas pictures with the family. I finally started to avoid the camera because i realized there weren't going to be any nice looking pictures of me at that time. I really had no hope in dieting, nothing had worked before, i'd stay on a diet 2 days at the most.
So I'd have to say alot of it was my husband's sucess that motivated me. Plus having knees that crack and groan at 33 is another! So far so good, part of me thinks im still dreaming...i haven't been under 200 since highschool! * a long ways to go*

I can totally understand this. I am on the tall size- 5'9" and my excuse was that I hold my weight well. At 280, standing, i did not think i was that bad, but I did not like looking at pictures of me sitting down....that spare tire in the middle always showed up.
I had to go out and buy a new set of clothes last night for work. I picked out the 2 x shirt and a 22-24/ 3 x pants to try on. Well, i was totally shocked and depressed that I had to get a size large in both the shirt and pants. This has totally motivated me to keep on the aktin's band wagon. Lets party!!!!