What is your "Petty" Reason to Lose Weight?

littlegreenparrot

This year is our 10th wedding anniversary. We are off to sunny California in September, and will spend a couple of days in Vegas. I want to look hot and make him proud.
I know he is anyway, but would be great if I could get back to where I was when we met 😉

Buttermcbutter

Wanna have abs once just to take the picture lol

arieljeanbailey

I don't want to be the fat trans chick. Hot trans girls get all the attention.

jennifer_417

To get hot and wear cute clothes.

TheMrWobbly

It is our 25th anniversary next year and want to go somewhere nice where I can wear swim gear and not want a full length coat to cover me up

SummerTwentyOne

To no longer be the DUFF. My friends are super super hot and attractive and they constantly complain about all the attractive guys and the attention. I just sit there and listen whilst shoving Doritos down my throat like a chunky lemon.

AmberGlitterSparkles

My son is starting 8th grade after the summer. I have planned to take the whole family to Epcot center to celebrate his graduation next summer. I want to be sure that I’ll fit on the rides. Everyone’s telling me I won’t have a problem because of how I carry my weight. I don’t want to chance it though. I would just be destroyed if I couldn’t get on the the two Harry Potter rides because I’m too fat. I have just started this journey. It’s not been easy either because my other half is not supportive. He doesn’t want me to lose weight. He likes my body how it is. But it’s so easy for someone whose 6 ft 7 and weighs 180 pounds to say there’s nothing wrong with you, when they aren’t the one who will have to wait while the whole family gets to ride the rides. In addition, the double edged sword is that I cook all the meals. The good news is, if he were cooking I promise it wouldn’t come close to sticking to my diet in any sort of way. But I’m challenged to come up with meals that I can eat, with everyone’s allergy restrictions, that doesn’t seem like “diet” food to them. So I have just been trying to eat much smaller portions. Which honestly, mine were always much smaller than his, but MUCH smaller now.

AmberGlitterSparkles

dhiammarath wrote: »

@io8785a Oh, you better believe I found a better doctor immediately! I do not suffer fools for long, but I still want to not get the nurses eyeing me. It's lessened, but in my head, it's going to go away completely when I hit a healthy BMI! To be fair, when I encountered health issues that caused me to gain back some of what I'd lost, my new doctor was awesome. My allergist even awesomer and my Gastroenterologist never batted an eye about my weight. There are bad seeds everywhere, which is why you gotta tune out the negative and focus on the AWESOME! But still, there's a part of me that totally wants to go in at what they want (healthy rando BMI though everyone knows it's imperfect) and be like... YEAH. I'M AWESOME. I DON'T NEED TO GO TO FAT SCHOOL (the first doctor tried to send me to a group for obese people to lose weight -- now it wasn't a support group to learn about diet and exercise. It was definitely the, "you're too overweight and you can't do it yourself so here, take yourself off to a group of people to be shamed" kind of delivery. The look I gave him had him completely backtracking).

I actually think if someone had tried to educate me on weight loss and what it entails and had given me a true support system, it would have been different. I would have lost the weight a lot earlier. But no one did. They shamed me, instead. And that is the problem with the health system today.

(edited because typos and clarifications)

I often feel the same way. I have Hoshimoto’s and Celiac. I became very symptomatic at probably 8 or so. It was the summer after first grade. It was like someone flipped a switch and I just didn’t feel like myself any more. Was very tired all the time, body aching, lethargic, constant weight gain. Believe me my parents didn’t let me just sit on the couch, and always cooked balanced meals. At first I was told growing pains, then was treated for depression, then anxiety, the fibromyalgia, then at 15 I was diagnosed with some very serious female problems and had to have the gist of my female surgeries which lead to a partial hysterectomy, but that’s a story for another day. They said that was the problem and I should feel better. Didn’t work. Then my gallbladder went to hell, and that had to come out. That didn’t help either. I had my first child and another surgery. Then a serious leg injury which left me bed ridden for 8 months. All while nothing was working on these other issues. And at that point I had just assumed that that is who I am as a person and would fave to live with it. Fast forward until about 5 years ago. I got a new doctor. He was looking through every thing and started asking questions. Then ran some tests and bam I have Hoshimoto’s that went undiagnosed for over 20 years, to which he was just appalled. At that point my thyroid was severely enlarged. My levels were off the charts. And it was mentioned that I may need to have my thyroid taken out. We’re struggling to get it under control still. The meds seems to work for a while, and then just stop. I often wonder has this been caught early on would I have all these problems that I have now? Would I be one of those lucky people that just gets to take a pill and have no symptoms, and seems to think that people like me are making these issues up because our struggle is different. But I guess all we can do is move forward.

marcvb35

simply to spend a day at the beach again.

Mandylou19912014

My petty reason is to look good naked haha

andy_dad

sex

macbaydn

I wanted to race a car at Brands Hatch but I exceeded the weight limit by just over a stone. I lost the stone and felt that by using My Fitness Pal it was easier than I expected. So here I am 5-1/2 stone (35kg) lighter, fitter, happier and a nicer wardrobe. No gyms, personal trainers, fad diets or expensive weight loss programs - just MFP, a sensible diet and lots of walking.
I am still using MFP to watch what I eat - sensible now without being too stringent.

SummerTwentyOne

AmberGlitterSparkles wrote: »

My son is starting 8th grade after the summer. I have planned to take the whole family to Epcot center to celebrate his graduation next summer. I want to be sure that I’ll fit on the rides. Everyone’s telling me I won’t have a problem because of how I carry my weight. I don’t want to chance it though. I would just be destroyed if I couldn’t get on the the two Harry Potter rides because I’m too fat. I have just started this journey. It’s not been easy either because my other half is not supportive. He doesn’t want me to lose weight. He likes my body how it is. But it’s so easy for someone whose 6 ft 7 and weighs 180 pounds to say there’s nothing wrong with you, when they aren’t the one who will have to wait while the whole family gets to ride the rides. In addition, the double edged sword is that I cook all the meals. The good news is, if he were cooking I promise it wouldn’t come close to sticking to my diet in any sort of way. But I’m challenged to come up with meals that I can eat, with everyone’s allergy restrictions, that doesn’t seem like “diet” food to them. So I have just been trying to eat much smaller portions. Which honestly, mine were always much smaller than his, but MUCH smaller now.

I started at 280 pounds (5ft9) and I didn’t get rejected from any rides but I was VERY VERY close, the minimum bar clicked but it required me to hold my stomach in so much I was going to explode. The team members used to giggle at me in the operating booth. Not fun times...

GloriaE2016

A year and half ago my husband's brother started dating a cute hot blonde. He showed her picture to my husband and kids and said "Yea, your daddy's gonna be jealous now".....ugh those words have stuck with me! They are now married and she gained quite a bit of weight but she's still pretty and cute so my petty reason is to be hotter than her.

quiksylver296

GloriaE2016 wrote: »

A year and half ago my husband's brother started dating a cute hot blonde. He showed her picture to my husband and kids and said "Yea, your daddy's gonna be jealous now".....ugh those words have stuck with me! They are now married and she gained quite a bit of weight but she's still pretty and cute so my petty reason is to be hotter than her.

Wow. Your BIL is a *kitten*.

workinonit1956

quiksylver296 wrote: »

GloriaE2016 wrote: »

A year and half ago my husband's brother started dating a cute hot blonde. He showed her picture to my husband and kids and said "Yea, your daddy's gonna be jealous now".....ugh those words have stuck with me! They are now married and she gained quite a bit of weight but she's still pretty and cute so my petty reason is to be hotter than her.

Wow. Your BIL is a *kitten*.

Yeah, really

walking2running

not extremely petty but there’s a stack of clothes in my closet that i would love to be able to wear again, plus i am too cheap to buy new clothes

Themajez

I haven't worn jeans in 4 years. I want to wear jeans again. I refuse to buy larger size jeans.

TheMotherAwesome

I don't want to be the fat friend anymore - I want to be the little one!

cathynicolette

I want a two syllable damn... day-um