It really isn't, the reason that got me motivated to loose weight was my image and most of all my health. My Mexican background and genes are filled with diabetes, hypertension, heart attacks, etc. If I can give an advise to someone barely starting on this journery would be this: DO NOT CARE ABOUT HOW OTHERS LOOK AT YOU. Just don't, more than motiviation, it just makes you go back in to your cave and keep on with bad habits. YOU DO YOU, it is hard. No one said it's not. Look for motivaiton inside of you. Write down your goals in a journal, it helps me keep on track and remember why I'm doing this in the first place. And pleasing someone is not on my notes. Do it for you, because you need to. Because it will make you feel better, confident, looking better and at the end of this joruney ahead, I promise, not even the sky will be the limit.