107 Reasons Why I Am Dieting

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I came across this brilliant post while I was planning tomorrow's breakfast, tonight. Someone had listed down 100 reasons why she was dieting and that prompted me to wonder exactly how many days have I been dieting myself? A quick count and I totalled up the days to 107 days, which I started in October of last year. It has been, so far, a slow yet progressive 107 days with 25 pounds lost thus far and now I present you with my list of 107 reasons--in no particular order whatsoever--why I am dieting.

I am dieting because...

1. I want to be healthier.
2. I want to look healthier.
3. I want to eat healthier.
4. I want to see the slim version of myself before I die, not from decomposition but from weight-loss and exercise.
5. I want people to stop calling me "fatty".
6. I want to be myself for REAL.
7. I want to have better self-esteem.
8. I want to have confidence!
9. I want to stop feeling ashamed of myself.
10. I don't want to be afraid to put up my hand.
11. I don't want to be afraid of volunteering.
12. I want people to see that I am beautiful on the outside too.
13. I want to stop being overlooked because of my weight.
14. I want to stop being the fattest person among my friends.
15. I want to stop being the only fat person in a room.
16. I want to stop being the only fat person in my family.
17. I want to stop being the only fat person in an elevator.
18. I want to stop being the fattest person in a store.
19. I want to be slimmer than some of my friends. (Or at least more in shape)
20. I want clothes that fit.
21. I want to stop ignoring all the fabulous clothes.
22. I want to stop having to shop at the large sizes section.
23. I want to dress more feminine.
24. I want to wear dresses.
25. I want to wear colors other than black.
26. I want nice, sexy bras.
27. I don't want to keep on being forced to buy ugly, unsexy, large bras.
28. I want to be able to shop at lingerie stores.
29. I want to throw away my one and only scuba-like swim suit.
30. I want to be able to wear a regular swim suit.
31. Heck, I want to be able to fit into a bikini and not look like a walrus.
32. I want to be able to fit into all those "incentive clothes" that I bought over the years but never could fit still.
33. I want to be able to fit into the non-incentive clothes.
34. I want to stop having to say "these don't fit".
35. I want a whole new wardrobe.
36. I don't want to dread buying clothes.
37. I want to stop feeling depressed when I go clothes shopping.
38. I want to be able to buy a lot of clothes when I go on holidays.
39. I want to not worry if I have flab poking out from under my clothes.
40. I want to be able to buy and wear heels without worrying my weight will break the heels.
41. I want to stop being envious of all the slim and/or skinny girls around me.
42. I want to be able to bend down to touch my toes.
43. I want to be able to cross my legs like a woman.
44. I don't want to sit down have have rings around my waist.
45. I want to be able to sit down and tie my shoelaces without having my air cut off.
46. I want to be able to climb a lot of stairs without panting.
47. I don't want my feet to ache after an hour of walking.
48. I don't want to ever have to keep taking rests at another day at Disneyland.
49. I want to be able to live up to my Golden years.
50. I want to be free of health complications I could have easily avoided.
51. I don't want my doctor to tell me that I've got high blood pressure.
52. I want my doctor to tell me that my "blood pressure that's a little on the high side" has become normal.
53. I don't want to end up like my grandparents.
54. I don't want to end up like my uncle.
55. I don't want to keep on running to the doctor for anything and everything.
56. I want to stop falling sick so often.
57. I want to go back to the time when I never fell sick.
58. I want to be able to wear my engagement/wedding ring that doesn't need to be resized.
59. I want to fit a wedding dress that I can breathe in.
60. I don't want to be someone's fat girlfriend or someone's fat wife.
61. I don't want to be larger than my boyfriend.
62. I don't want to be heavier than my boyfriend.
63. I want to wear clothes smaller than what my boyfriend wears.
64. I want to be able to fit into my boyfriend's shirts and sleep in them.
65. I don't want to have to remind my dad to shoot me if I ever became obese.
66. I want to make endless junk food a thing of the past.
67. I want to make fast food not as a first option of a meal but as a contemplated weekend treat.
68. I want to be able to dance and not look like a whale.
69. I want to be able to bike around a corner and not worry about falling over.
70. I want to feel comfortable being naked in the bedroom.
71. I want to have wild, hot sex with my boyfriend.*ahem*
72. I want to be able to dress nicely for my boyfriend.
73. I want to dress sexily for my boyfriend.
74. I want my boyfriend to be proud of me.
75. I want to make a nice impression on my boyfriend's family and not as "his tubby girlfriend".
76. I don't want to be discriminated at the workplace.
77. I don't want to be discriminated at job interviews.
78. I don't want to be discriminated.
79. I don't want my mum to keep on worrying.
80. Despite his encouragement, I also want my dad to stop making fun.
81. I want to stop envying my sister so badly.
82. I don't want Ian to follow my footsteps.
83. I want to stop wasting my life away in self-pity.
84. I want to be more proactive.
85. I want to be more active.
86. I want to stop being lazy.
87. I want to stop fearing the world.
88. I want to feel comfortable looking at people in the eye.
89. I want to do something for the community.
90. I want to learn how to accept criticism.
91. I want the mood-swings to stop.
92. I don't want the depression to come back.
93. I want to be happy.
94. I don't want anymore stretch marks.
95. I want to stop having pudgy toes.
96. I want to stop having pudgy fingers.
97. I only want one chin.
98. I don't want to look pregnant when I'm not.
99. I want to be one of those slim, pregnant women when I decide to have kids.
100. I don't want my kids ending up like me.
101. I don't want to keep having to buy new pillows to replace the flat ones.
102. I want to be able to look at a weighing scale and smile.
103. I want to be able to share a chair with someone and not have my ass take up 3/4 of the chair.
104. I want to be in photographs.
105. I don't want to resort to "myspace" photo taking techniques.
106. I want mosquitoes to stop biting me for my "sweeter blood".
107. I am worth it.

Wow. 

Making lists can be very therapeutic for me. I guess now you know me a little better. :)