Thread: Who are you dieting for?

Good reasons there Redhead and Spot
Good Luck. I'm sure you'll be successful.
My motivation to lose weight was mainly for health reasons - various.
My health has improved 100%, my back pain, footpain, bronchitis - all disappeared.
I have had a whole Christmas/ New Year without colds or flu (will prbably catch something now!)
Able to wear mini skirts, high heels ,colours etc.
It opens up your whole world again and gives you so much energy.
Go for it ladies.

wow what can i say slendablenda you look FAB,and to still be there 13 months later is a great achievement.

I always lose weight for a holiday or a party or a wedding, but I started this diet for me, as i am fed up being over weight.

I'm doing this for me, the last thing I want is to fat and 50
being 50 I have no control over but being fat I do
also along the way I hope to improve my health and fitness

If I'm honest, alot of it is to do with how others see me. I want to feel and look as good as I possibly can. I'm also doing it for myself though, I've got to the point where I feel uncomfortable and unfit, not just chubby anymore - its really effecting my health.

Interesting question. My inital reaction was I am doing it for ME, my kids, my husband, enjoying clothes shopping etc . . . but, (and if I remember this correctly) according to sociologist George Herbert Mead, our view of 'self' is dependant upon how other people see us, so perhaps it's both. (Apologies if I've got the wrong end of the stick). :-)

I'm dieting for me.

After putting on so much weight in my pregnancies I just want to get back to how I was before (well try to anyway).

Hi Everyrose,

my biggest problem was pregnancies as well, and I only had two.

I love your signature showing your kids, how do you do it?

All through school i was never a slim girl, i was always about 5-8 kilos above the upper limit of my healthy weight range, which i guess is not so bad, but about 3 years ago i finally managed to get to within my healthy weight range and achieved my ideal weight, only at the time i couldn't get into the mindset that i was slim, i still felt overweight even though i knew i wasn't. I am now in a relationship and my partner does not care one bit that i have put on a lot of weight, but worries because he knows i don't feel good about myself. So i guess my reason to lose weight is to get back to what i was and actually really appreciate that i am slim and healthy rather than continuing with an unhealthy mindset of feeling fat

My brain still hasn't adjusted to the fact that I am losing as I still feel the same as when I started this diet, although the scales tell a very different story!

I'm doing it for myself, my boyfriend and to set a good example for the rest of my family who are overweight. I was also the one to actually quit smoking so I fancy being "the strong one :P"

Butterflybow

Well done on the smoking and setting the family trend!

Thanks Suzy! Sometimes I wish that I was still smoking (11 stone) but I suppose it was the right thing to do

You know it was the right thing to do to give up smoking!!!

Don't ever go back as it is such a hard habit to kick, as I can vouch for! It is also now so unsociable as you have to go out in the cold at pubs etc......

True, it is rather nice to stay inside and toasty while my friends huddle around a lighter. Ha I'm such a smug ex-smoker.