What is your "Petty" Reason to Lose Weight?
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I ended up living with a new best friend (I have been dating her uncle for a while). Well, it turns out she basically used me and would always get mad when something good happened for me. I honestly thought she was a sweet, kind hearted person. Everyone always says that about her. Living with her brought out the true person she really is. The complete opposite. My boyfriend (her uncle) tried warning me.
She's the type that will flat out say that a girl should not being wearing something because they are too fat for it.... She goes about losing weight all wrong. She pretty much starves herself, doesn't work out and takes laxatives.
It really struck me that I was not a friend to her was when she went to her bedroom and sobbed because I finally managed to get a new job. She had been trying to find a job as well at the same time.
Since then, she wanted to raise rent on me so she could get a new car, and then also wanted me to start paying for electric and internet. Then all of the sudden the house was being sold in a month so she could live with her boyfriend....
She became pregnant and ballooned right up! Karma! She was somewhat getting a little thicker before the pregnancy, but all the way at 9 months, you wouldn't have known she was pregnant. She just looked fat. (I'm awful for saying that as I never judge anyone by the weight.)
Anyways, because I have so much resentment towards her, I want to look better than her. That's my petty reason.23 -
nishbaybe92 wrote: »My petty reason is to be smaller than my mother. She's been a huge naysayer on my weight my whole life. She was constantly bashing my weight my whole life and always making comments on how much I eat, or what I'm eating, or how much I'm exercising. It took a major toll. At one point she was 3 sizes smaller than me and she rubbed it in my face constantly. She would frequently point out that I was still gaining weight while she was losing weight. So finally, I had enough and decided to take control.
I don't understand mother's like that at all.14 -
I hated the way my middle jiggled, and I kinda wanted abs. Well, 35 lbs down and with hydrostatic weighing telling me I'm <11% body fat, my middle still jiggles, so abs are probably not forthcoming ever. Consequence of waiting until I was 50+, I suppose.10
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rhondamacleod1958 wrote: »I was told that after 50, women cant lose weight. WTF? I will be 60 next week, and I fully plan on losing another 20 lbs over the next year. I want to look good in retirement
, not old and chubby
Yeah I had a friend tell me after menopause you get grandma body and there's nothing you can do about it. BS. I've seen more than one lady on here older than 60 who's rocking a sculpted body from lifting. Anything else is just excuses.21 -
First, I’m a swim coach, so I don’t want to be that typical “those who can’t do, coach” fat coach.
But mostly because in seventh grade I spent a summer with my grandparents. My grandma made me do weight watchers. At first, I thought it was because she wanted to lose weight and wanted the support (she’s not a skinny woman). But then, one Sunday she took me to church and I will never forget this. She looked around at the people sitting next to us and then put her hand on my knee. She leaned in close to me and said, “you would be so pretty if you just lost weight.” That comment has haunted me for the past 15 years. I wasn’t even a fat kid. I was a competitive swimmer. I was thicker due to muscle (and as we all know, muscle weighs more than fat). But I was healthy. I had 6-pack abs. As a 12 year old! But I figured she was right and if I wasn’t skinny while exercising hard-core and eating right then I never would be. So I stopped trying. To this day, my grandma makes comments about how she prays that I will lose weight and she comments on my appearance all the time. I want to get my muscles back. Just to spite her and prove that muscles do not equal fat and that regardless of whether she thinks women should have muscles or not (all my female cousins are very dainty looking women), that I love my body and she doesn’t have that power over me anymore.58 -
1) My mother is twice the size of me, and is always giving me a hard time about my weight.
2) I have two graduations to go to in a few months, and I'd like to look polished and put together, rather than the frumpy mum.
3) I want my 'Mii' on the wii fit to shrink from overweight back to normal weight, as it used to be!22 -
For the damn she got hot !14
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Someone I hate is losing weight and is almost thinner than me.29
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Oh, there's many a petty reason why I'd like to become thin and lean.
One is both petty and practical - I've so many nice pieces of clothing I do not fit into. I think it would be extremely fiscally irresponsible to just buy more and more. I've done this in the past and now I'm stuck with four different sizes of every damn item imaginable. Some I sold, some I gave away, some I kept because it's really pretty and I hope it'll fit me soon. Even if I bought the exact same thing in a larger size it just doesn't look the same on a fit me and on a chubby me.
The second reason is - my breasts. They're big. They're in the way. I can't button the shirts normally, I can't find a bra easily. 99% of my female friends are small-breasted and they envy me yet they find a bra with no complications or they just don't wear it. The only time my breasts are a size B is when I'm around 50 kg. It's just a fact of life that I have to deal with.
The third reason is, I guess, what everyone has in mind here as well. I don't want to be 'the fat friend'. I want to look good and be hot. I don't think it's shallow. I don't want to have to constantly think about my fat protruding somewhere over my trousers or under my bra straps. I want to be able to wear whatever I want and feel comfortable in it (some items just squeeze and push and it literally leaves marks on my body). I want to have the option to wear a slightly (or not so slightly) see-through blouse or a shirt and feel confident in it, while I still can. I want to look really good in a bikini. Or without it.
Whether it's fair or not, some guys I go after are not into me because there's someone who's not as XYZ as I am (their words) but they're just more attracted to them, physically because they're thin and fit. I'm not angry about it because I am a rational person who knows that looking good and healthy is more attractive and being attracted to someone is not a conscious choice. So I'd like to have an even playing field i.e. more choices in the dating pool.
I guess the only really 'petty' reason is to prove people wrong. I'd like to become really fit, really hot, and stay that way. I've been up and down with my weight my whole life and this is the not the first time I've lost some weight and looked better but this time it feels different. I'm more determined, I'm more knowledgeable, and I'm adamant about reaching my goal, even when it literally hurts.
I want to look hot and feel great even if wearing a garbage bag. Does that make me petty? 14 -
My petty reasons? I have plenty of good reasons (health etc) but I do have a few petty ones;
- To be the healthy sister for once. All my siblings are in shape, I've always been the biggest.
- I used to be much skinnier and felt I was the hot young wife (my hubby is older), so I want that back.
- I miss buying clothes I like, right now I just buy clothes I can get into.
- I want to lose the weight so doctors won't give me a disapproving stare ever again
My healthy reasons?
- To breathe easier
- No knee pain ( I accomplished this one!)
- Have my body be lighter so if I am ever in an accident EMT's can lift me easily
- I want to go back to hiking eventually
- To show people anyone can do this! I use a wheelchair part time ( I have Cerebral Palsy) and if I lose the weight I'd like to motivate others. Just because you can't do everything the same way as an able bodied person doesn't mean goals aren't achievable
61 pounds gone so far, 50-60 more to go..................31 -
A petty reason? A guy I was interested in rejected me because of how I looked. But now, I'm doing it so I can love myself even more.32
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I'm 55 and have worked in a male dominate job for the past 28 years and I am very tired of the boys talking about my size behind my back. One of the well intentioned ones always tells me what they say. So my petty reason is that I want to out fitness the guys. The second petty reason is I really want to shop at Victoria's Secret again and look amazing in lingerie. I may be old but I'm not dead yet!22
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My boyfriend broke up with me last week out of nowhere, because of reasons no one understands. So revenge body, easier time when I decide to date again. I live in Korea and above a size 6-8 it is not that fun. I want to have fun with fashion and not spend a ton of money. Plus I am going to the Philippines for Christmas.15
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To prove I can. To look like I used to look do people don’t only know me as the fat person.7
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To prove to everyone that said I'm a "fat *kitten* loser, and that I'll always be a fata$$ loser" that I'm not.... Particular one person.20
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petty reason...to cheap to buy new clothes
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So I don’t cringe in front of a full length mirror...
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Debgreasby2018 wrote: »I’ve always been the fat sister, the fat friend. I want to be the slim healthy one for a change!
My reasoning verbatim!5 -
I want to not hate pictures of myself. And I hate back fat.15
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I want to be the weight my driver's license says I am. It's...sliiiiightly off. (I haven't updated the weight since I was 15. It's been 20 years.)19
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To piss everyone who doesn't know what I'm capable of looking like off. I recently moved back to my small hometown in MS after living in the DFW metroplex for 17 years... due to a separation. I was horribly depressed. I drank too much, ate too much, slept to much, cried to much, complained too much, made excuses too much... well you get the picture. Suddenly 3 years and 80 lbs later...I have begin to bounce back, but noone believes it's possible. I want to wear my size 8 clothes again, have more energy, and flaunt it at the naysayers.
This isn't my first rodeo of depression weight gain, but it's my last. Down 18 lbs in 3 weeks45 -
My petty reason is to make sure my girlfriend halfway across the world feels satisfied enough with me when I first meet her22
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I don't want to be the 'fat' bridesmaid at my sister's wedding.17
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I am done having people think I am pregnant.27
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Mine is to feel hotter than all my boyfriends female friends - lol!!! I’ll never admit that out loud though!20
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I just don’t like being the fat one ever.9
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Too cheap to buy new fat clothes.11
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I had no petty reasons for starting my lifestyle change. I legit felt sick af, that decision was for me alone. But I developed petty reasons to keep going. Mostly surrounding my MIL and SIL who would make snide comments on my progress.
MIL: "Don't get to happy with yourself, you'll just lose motivation like I did"
SIL: "a few more pounds and you won't be ugly anymore"
Etc, and so on. I take sooo much joy in the fact that SIL (who was really thin at the time) found all the weight I lost and just traded me her smaller clothes for all my plus size ones lol.
How rude! I will never understand how people can be so cruel to each other, especially family members. I hope you show them both and look absolutely stunning in the family pics. With their ugly attitudes they will never reach stunning.7 -
I have several healthy reasons to lose weight, fear of health issues and wanting to be around for my family.
My petty reasons are:
for my husband of 31 years not to be able to keep his hands to himself
My youngest daughter is getting married next summer and I am wearing a formal gown for the first time of my choice. I want to rock it!8 -
I want to tease self-entitled men that would have otherwise never glanced my way, drive them crazy and then bail.24
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