13 Reasons to Lose Weight

  1. OBVI: Look better
  2. Live longer
  3. Live easier
  4. Live healthier
  5. Easier clothes shopping
  6. Tired of feeling bad about feeling fat
  7. Look better naked
  8. Look better in a bathing suit
  9. Easier to fit underwear & bras
  10. Cuter/cooler clothes
  11. No huffing & puffing with moderate movement
  12. Not unhappy when I'm in pictures
  13. Visible muscles (have some pretty good biceps/triceps but arm fat makes it less apparent)


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