What are your non-traditional goals?

[jacobhottberry]

I've been doing Atkins for about four weeks and seen some major improvements. (I did Atkins four years ago and lost 60 pounds but have gained about 40 of it back...)

So what I'm wondering is, what are some of your less obvious, non-traditional goals for weight loss? Everyone is hoping to get thin, look better, feel better, fit into skinny jeans, etc. But what else?

I'll start. This will sound strange (but I'm not too embarrassed), but I've always been fat throughout my life, and I've never been able to clearly see my Adam's Apple. So, my small goal is to lose enough weight that it's visible to me! (Strange, I know!)

Anyway, what kind of different goals do you all have for weight loss?

[Danielle2842]

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Here's a very non-traditional goal:
I have some "secret" pole dancing & belly dancing skills, but I'm not going to show them off to anyone, including my husband, until I don't look like a dancing walrus.

My goal is to be thin enough (and self confident enough) to proudly show off my non-traditional dancing skills in front of crowds of people at the clubs!!

[IrishSarahHB]

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# 1
I have NEVER worn a skirt that went above my knees .... No shorts either. So i want to be able to throw on a little short skirt or some cute shorts on a hot day and look great and feel confident!

#2
I have this amazing tattoo that i want to get on my back, but i have suck yucky love handles, that i feel like 'whats the point, im NOT gonna show it off, im not gonna wear a backless shirt with these back rolls' ..

So maybe its a little silly but thats what i want

[brittni]

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I would like to see my hip bones again.

I would like to wear shorts. I hate my upper thighs.

[Jace]

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The first goal I ever met was discovering my long lost collar bone

[michellekw23]

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I'd like to wear a belt. My tummy is big, and the waist is always the tightest part of my clothes so I don't need one. Besides that, there's no need to draw attention to a big belly with a belt...

I had a panic attack a couple weeks ago cause my hubby and I went to a party on a sandbar in the ocean, and I looked around and realized that I was the only person there who was really overweight (like, more than 10 lbs) . All the other girls were in bikinis, and looked so confident standing thigh deep in the ocean, and I shut down and refused to get in the water. So, one of my non-traditional goals is to not have to go through those horrifying times of self-consiousness and doubt.

[Lisa]

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Well,today I hit one of my goals....I'm wearing a size 14 jean wrap around skirt. Okay, it's a girl thing.

The 2nd is to be able to sit in an airplane seat to Hawaii without my thighs touching/rubbing against the armrests.

3rd....to be able to out run my 13 year old daughter (I'm nearly close to that one!)

[BonnieRose16]

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Mine is to hike with my husband. We went a few years back and he was gracious to stay behind with me but I know how much he hated it (not stay be hind like not go but stay behind like go slow and stop every few hundred feet)

My other is to have a basketball tummy. I would like to start TTC once I am within 20 lbs of my goal. we will have a hard time because of some infertility problems i have (or not who knows once I lose 100 lbs!) But I don't want to be overweight and be one of those women who no on knows is pg because you can't see her tummy under all of her fat.

My 3rd is to be able to wear a pair of shorts. I literally cannot. I am barely 4'11" and when I am at goal will fit into a childrens size because I am so short. While that isn't my goal to fit into kids clothes, I look like a big idiot in shorts right now because they either have to be pulled up to my bust line or the croch sags way down. In order for them to fit around the waist I have to wear a size that would fit a woman 6" or more taller than I am.

[TheDogAteMyName]

Re: What are your non-traditional goals?

To feel comfortable in clothing (or none at all - HA!)

To continue eating more veggies on a daily basis.

To climb Diamond Head and actually make it this time.

[molaurie]

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To be able to sit with my legs crossed again, like a "lady", instead of sitting in a chair with my big thunder-thighs spread out, feeling uncomfortable and sloppy!

[Carb Addict]

Re: What are your non-traditional goals?

To finally get rid of my c-section belly. My youngest is 17 and that is way tooo many years to hang on to that tummy bulge!

[sugarsack]

Re: What are your non-traditional goals?

1. to look good in clothes
2. to be able to buy "off the rack" without a W on the tag
3. to feel "normal"
4. to have more stamina for hiking, shopping, and sex !

[Razzle39]

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I can say its because of
looking good in clothes,
being healthy,
able to play with my kids
or sit at my step- sons ball games in the heat and not sweat like a pig.

But my biggest secret motivation;
to piss off my husbands snooty ex-wife! ( she actually sat behind me at a baseball game with her freind and they snickered and made little coments about my size!!

[Mothercooter]

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I have met most of mine such as seeing my collarbone again, my wrist bones, being able to cross my legs like a lady and not ankle over knee like a guy, and to shop in the JUNIORS section instead of the plus.

Now, my goals are to get rid of my belly and not look wider from the side than from the front or back. I am at the point where I need a belt but it adds to the middle with the buckle and makes me look like im in early pregnancy with the belt buckle there because of my tummy pooch. I also want to feel my hip bones again.

The biggest high ever though was going into american eagle and being able to buy off the rack where the teenagers shop (and i used to once upon a time) and not even have to buy the biggest size! Buying juniors shirts in medium instead of plus size 2x and juniors 13s or 11s (depending on the brand) feels so awesome. But the best was the constant compliments today at my church block party when everyone was speechless on how thin I had gotten and one woman got upset because of how big a deal her husband made over it and told her to ask me my secret, lol. I gotta say it felt awesome!

Now just to work on this belly which is probably not gonna go away with out surgery but Ill give it some time after getting down to my goal.

[Chicklady]

Re: What are your non-traditional goals?

I'd like to make my husbands tongue hang out again .....if a few others' hang out as well, I can deal with it