50+ Reasons To Lose Weight - For Those Low Moments

[mypartyiz]

All brilliant reasons! Keep 'em comin!

xxxxx

[poohbearmufc]

Mine to add are...To be a yummy mummy...To be able to buy matching sexy lingerie and feel great wearing it!!To be the real me...To be the one who succeeds and keeps it off!!Love

[SARAHP]

Excellent list, can I add going for a meal where you have to go and fill your plate and then return to table without thinking everyone is saying no wonder shes that size look at whats on her plate!!!

[sonkie]

To feel confident to go swimming with my boys.
To be able to get on the fair rides without feeling you will tip the blooming thing over.
To be able to get on the rides and have the safety bar fit over your belly.
To sit on the beach without feeling you have been beached.
To be able to buy bras that cost less than £20 +
To be able to throw anything on and know you look blooming fantastic.

This thread is brilliant Zoe...great idea.

[nina]

• To fit in an airplane seat while not having to keep the armrest up.
• To be able to properly put the tray down and eat normally.
• To go into a store and not have the salesgirl say --'we dont carry your size here'
• Not have to seat in cinema seats sideways.
• Not have knickers that look like a mini parachute.
• To be able to run in a park just like all the rest of the fit and healthy women.
• To not be singled out and given the 'sturdy big chair' when sitting in a group of normal sized ppl
• Not to feel emotionally hungry.

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Love this thread!!!

[sonkie]

To run in the mums race at sons sports day.
At parent evenings to be able to fit both bum cheeks on the chair.
When watching the christmas pantomime, to be able to fit in the seat and to stand up without having to wiggle...lol
To buy a bike and go out with my boys.
To want to go out for days out instead of being dragged along under duress.
To be at a decent weight to have my hernia operation and for it not to return again.

[mypartyiz]

Lovin' all the new ideas! Especially the parachutes for mice, and the wiggling out of seats!

At least we can say we have a good sense of humour about things!

And when we do hit goal weight, keep a list around, just to remind ourselves of what we could get back into if we got back to eating the way we did!

Sound like a plan to me anyway! lol

xxxxx

[lyric]

For me its just the air of confidence it gives me,
To feel that Im worth talking to.

Im starting CD on Tuesday and boy am I ready, summer here I come
Lyric

[Frumpster]

Excellent list, can I add going for a meal where you have to go and fill your plate and then return to table without thinking everyone is saying no wonder shes that size look at whats on her plate!!!

Here, here!

Mine are:

1. To hear a wolf whistle and know that it could be for me

2. To meet up with old friends and not have to 'explain' my weight gain.

3. To receive an invitation to a night out/wedding/party etc and actually go!

4. To not feel like an embarrassment to my hubby on his works nights out.

5. To be able to shop in 'trendy' shops like New Look, Top Shop, Oasis, Warehoue, River Island.

6. To go into a clothes shop and not have to go straight to the back of the rail to see how big the sizes go.

7. To go out in the Summer without wearing my coat (my safety blanket) and to be cool and breezy, not hot and sweaty.

8. To go to 5th Ave in New York and to be served like everybody else, not ignored because of how I look. (this one could have been down to my clothes or hairstyle, but I still put it down to my weight because if I had been slim I'd have worn nicer clothes)

9. To climb a flight of stairs and actually be able to hold a conversation with someone, instead of gasping for breath.

10. Last one! To feel worthy. I have been mulling this one over, trying to think of a good way to explain it. All I will say is, anyone who has ever felt complete self-hatred for how they look weight wise will know what I mean.

This is a great thread, and has proved really inspirational. Thanks mypartyiz!

Helen

[texasmorning]

Dear Frumpster,

Today is Easter Sunday. This is how God told us: "Because you are worth it!"

Relax and remember that. He is not wrong.

texasmorning

ps you are going to have to change your name (Frumpster) soon, because it doesn't suit you. How about "Gorgeous"?! And wear it with pride!

[Frumpster]

Thanks Texasmorning

Oooh, you made me cry I'm a tad emotional today anyway. It's the first time I have seen my weight drop in years and it amazes me that it's happening.

Thank you for your lovely message.

Helen.x.

[nina]

hello ladies (and any lurking gentlemen)...anyone have more to add to the list of incentives????

[fingers crossed]

Love this thread!

My contribution- for someone to say 'you look well' & to actually mean I look well, not that I put on weight.

In fact, to actually look well would be nice!

[I will do it this time!]

My contributions to this thread would be:

To not have people say to me, what pretty eyes you have, as they are stuck for any other compliment.

For people not to judge me as greedy or lazy just because of how i look.

To be a dedicated follower of fashion! or at least to wear clothes because I want to and not because it's the only thing that fits!

To be treated as an equal by my peers and not as someone who shouldn't be speaking.

To be totally at ease with myself for the first time in 25yrs!!!

[Barb]

To stop thinking so much about how I look, to just be 'normal', whatever that is.
Also to be able to move the drivers seat in the car furtehr forward without my tummy coming into contact with the steering wheel.
To feel fitter and more flexible.
To not worry about needing an ambulance and being too heavy to lift. (how paranoid is that?)
Oh and feeling really nutty, when the time comes, in about 100 years, not to need an outsize coffin.

Love this thread,