Then and Now - your motives for fitness and health

[Seraffa]

Hi everyone. As you can see, I'm just bursting with questions, existential and otherwise, and I get my head around actually succeeding with PP!

If you had lost weight earlier in life successfully, and you had set clear goals for yourself back then ( i.e. I want that sexy dress and I'll have more dates! or, whatever your mindset was back then), please tell me about it. And now please tell me what your reward THESE days - aside from hugely improved health - is for yourself, esp. if you are, say, 20 or more years older.

I'm trying not to think of myself as old fogey, yet I know I'm not the kid that
I was in yesteryear, who yearned to fit into a pair of Calvin Kleins so that I could get into the New Wave image and tear up the dancefloor with those '80s moves!! (although I wish I could do it all over again! Yes!) Maybe I just lived my live buried under a rock the past 15 years or so, or maybe it's the aftermath of my first marriage!

Help me cut down on the "dowdy" factor...I want to explore what everyone thought when the first fitness craze took hold and we were first getting to know our slim selves ( or imagining what our slim selves were like!!!) Have your ideals carried over from that time, or are they extremely changed since then?

Thanks! *pretending to moonwalk...*

[Roadstr]

I think they have changed. In some ways anyway and in some ways not if you look at the history and Banting who started this WOE.

[maile]

Help me cut down on the "dowdy" factor...I want to explore what everyone thought when the first fitness craze took hold and we were first getting to know our slim selves ( or imagining what our slim selves were like!!!) Have your ideals carried over from that time, or are they extremely changed since then?

Thanks! *pretending to moonwalk...*

Hi Seraffa,

to a certain extent the ideals/motivations are the same but have aged along with me. At 20 something it was all about the "hot dress" etc, now in my 40's it's about not wanting to fall into that trap of "she let herself get comfortable" but doing it with a healthier intent. it's no longer about being skinny, it's now about being slimmer and stronger. Age is rearing it's head and I find when I eat right a lot of the age related complaints disappear.

not sure if that's what you were after???

[gitfiddle]

...now in my 40's it's about not wanting to fall into that trap of "she let herself get comfortable" but doing it with a healthier intent. Oh, Maile, I love that phrase! It's much kinder than the other descriptions I've heard. :)