What is your "Petty" Reason to Lose Weight?

aerochic42

Hawaii for 20yr anniversary in March. I would love to not look like an overstuffed sausage in the photos. I'm not going as far a s like a photo of myself, just look at them with less disgust. Plus smaller me is easier to have physical fun.

extra bonus reason, to weigh less then when I got married

Overheadfan

I'll be attending a family wedding in December and I'd like to have lost 15 kgs by then. Apart from wanting to look and feel better, ..and I know this is really petty... I'd like to wipe the mean sneer off my cousin's face. She always refers to me as Fatty. So yep..I REALLY want to do that!

lclark04957

So when I wear summer clothes my muffins don’t spill out of my shorts. Idk, I’m 61 so no one cares, but I do. I know it’s petty, but still, I want to feel better about myself.

Farnorthfarmer

Started a new line of work as an ag mechanic, last year. I don't want to get stuck anymore in the combine engine bays. Been a few close calls, I worry one day I will get stuck and they will have to use a crane to get me out and that would be embarrassing as all hell. Down 50lbs so far, 70 more to go. Not as tight as it used to be so making progress.

cory17

Even though I can feel the muscles in my arms, when looking in the mirror they look like flabby granny arms.

Tired of hearing my h say "just get rid of those old clothes, you're never gonna fit in them again".

AnnPT77

cory17 wrote: »

Even though I can feel the muscles in my arms, when looking in the mirror they look like flabby granny arms.

Tired of hearing my h say "just get rid of those old clothes, you're never gonna fit in them again".

Relaxed muscles plus gravity can make muscles look like flab or loose skin. That's most common with arms or thighs, because there are long muscles there, and they're more easily influenced by gravity. IMO, we ought to appreciate the muscles, even though we may want to lose the fat/excess skin.

More about this in the spoiler (for length, since I'm sure not all are interested):

Please don't hold out your relaxed arm out straight, and assume that anything hang-y is fat or loose skin. It's not. I guarantee, *some* of the hang-y bit is muscle. How much of muscle, fat, skin - that varies individually. Try this: Hold the arm out straight, then use the opposite hand to grab onto the "flap" of "fat and loose skin" right up to near the upper arm bone. Then flex good and hard, elbow above shoulder, wrist curled over, etc., still holding on. Any part that firms up in your opposite grip is MUSCLE. Please don't hate it when it's relaxed: It's supposed to be more slack then!

Here's my own "granny arm" (I'm 68 ) as an example, first relaxed (yikes, right?):



. . . then same arm, mere moments later, flexed pretty hard:



I don't think all of my "flap" was fat or loose skin. Some, sure, since I lost from obese to this weight a while back. But much of it was relaxed triceps muscle. Individuals will differ, have different amounts of fat/skin/muscle . . . but in any case where I've ever had a woman do this in real life, some - usually lots - of that hang-y stuff was muscle that got firm when she flexed.

Apologies for the rant: This is one of my pet peeves, that we so often misidentify our useful muscles and dislike how they look when relaxed. If they can't relax, they can't tighten to do useful stuff. Even some slim, always-fit men have some upper arm wobble when relaxed.