Reasons to lose weight

I decided to write down reasons I want to lose weight, instead of just keeping them as a note on my iPod.

1) To be able to wear my wedding rings again. I took them off, I think, when I was pregnant with son #2, the youngest, and he's now 12.
2) To get to the point where my thighs no longer touch! No more wearing out jeans near the crotch, no more thigh chafing!
3) To be able to put on a pair of jeans, have them pull up and fit comfortably, and zip them without sucking in.
4) To get rid of the belly!

I'd like to cut down or stop eating pre-made, pre-packaged foods. Fresh is best, certainly, and more fruits & vegetables is better. The rest of the family doesn't need to eat them if they don't want to; I want to have them there for me.

I need to drink two purple bike-bottles of water per day.

I need to make my minimum, walking, of ten thousand steps a day. I have an Omron HJ-720ITC pedometer that I love, and an account on Walker Tracker, but far too often I only have 3K to 5K steps from doing my regular routines; I need to make sure I hit 10K, and that will likely mean going to the gym now that the weather is becoming more wintry.

I need to remember to work toward my bucket list; not just the everyday stuff that needs to be done, but the stuff I want to be able to do, like biking across the country & hiking the Appalachian Trail. If I don't lose weight, I won't be able to do anything.

I need to keep myself motivated, with blogs, TV shows, weight tracking gadgets, whatever it takes.