What're Your Top 5 Reasons???

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What're Your Top 5 Reasons???
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Tue, 08-10-2004 - 3:24pm
This board is getting boring--so....Give me your top five reasons for wanting to lose weight, and how you think they'll make you a better person.

1. Look better--I feel self-conscious about my legs and i wish they were more fit; my stomach could use some work

2. Feel better--I won't feel out of breath all the time

3. More confident in the bed-room(the whole leg thing), and I think it'll help our relationship if I didn't think about "What do I look like right now...?"

4. Be happier--I thrive on self-fat jokes, and I think deep down it hurts my own feelings to realize that I am so fat that I have to make those jokes..

5. Because I am worth being (more)beautiful everywhere(I am already beautiful--now I am going for gorgeous!!)

Sara

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Registered: 07-28-2004
Tue, 08-10-2004 - 3:51pm
My top 5

1. To be healthier and live longer

2. To have more self confidence

3. So I can participate in more activities

4. To feel better about myself in general

5. So I can stick it to all the people who've treated me as less than a person for being overweight


Shannon

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Registered: 08-07-2003
Tue, 08-10-2004 - 4:18pm
Wow five seems like a whole lot I don't know if i have that many but I'll try:

1. So I'll be able to keep up with my son when he starts running around.

2. To be able to fit into all of the clothes that they don't make for fat people

3. So I don't feel so self conscience arounf my skinny friends

4. To be healthier

5. So that my doctor can't call me fat anymore

Well that wasn't as hard as I thought it would be!!

nyk

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Registered: 07-20-2004
Tue, 08-10-2004 - 7:45pm
Here's my five reasons:

1. Health - I have type 2 diabetes...Losing weight is a must for me.

2. Self Esteem - Sometimes, I'm self-conscious about my weight, and I hate that feeling.

3. Appearance -I want to fit nicely in jeans...I don't feel comfortable wearing them now.

4. Self confidence (self-explanatory)

5. I want to encourage my son to lose weight too. I want to set a good example for him.

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Registered: 01-27-2004
Tue, 08-10-2004 - 10:40pm

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Registered: 08-08-2004
Wed, 08-11-2004 - 2:05am
1. My first and most important reason is that I want to be myself again. I just don't picture myself the way I am now, I think of myself at the weight (and health) I used to be at. I want to be myself, not this stranger who can't do all the things I used to do.

2. Health- My family has a history of high blood pressure and serious heart problems. I'm petrified of developing diabetes or having a heart attack.

3. To be able to do all the things I used to do- walking, dancing and not feeling like an elephant, sitting comfortably (well, more comfortably) on airplane seats and in tiny booths.

4. I have some nice clothes I'd like to wear again; they're in the closet and in my drawers, I just can't get rid of them.

5. Stop worrying about what other people think of me for being overweight.
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Registered: 06-16-2003
Wed, 08-11-2004 - 9:44am
Irish, I didn't mean to offend you or anyone else when I said the board was getting boring--I meant it was boring me. I get bored really fast, and I don't like, even though it IS a diet board, to only talk about dieting all the time...I like when we have OT polls and stuff...

Sara

~Sayruhb02
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Registered: 06-16-2004
Wed, 08-11-2004 - 10:33am

My top five reasons are:


--I want to be healthy and be a good rolemodel for those around me (Family, son and husband)


--I want to be able to go shopping and not worry about bulging fat or large sizes.

 

  Shawna

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Registered: 05-17-2004
Wed, 08-11-2004 - 12:21pm

Top Five Reasons for Losing Weight:

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Fear

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Registered: 03-20-2004
Thu, 08-12-2004 - 4:28pm
Only one reason: to live a long, healthy life. The alternative doesn't appeal to me.

Forte

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Registered: 05-19-2003
Fri, 08-13-2004 - 12:28pm
1- to feel embarrasses running into people who knew me thin

2-to feel better about my body

3-not worried if my 'fat' is 'jiggling' while exercising/running around

4-fitting in my old pre-pregnancy clothes

5- enjoying trying clothes on/liking how i look

****since i am already heathy i won't state anything on that =)

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