"not so enlightened" motivation

gnat45
gnat45 Posts: 833 Member
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We all want to feel good, get healthy blah blah, but sometimes we have less enlightened motivation

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- being the skinniest bridesmaid


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  • bulbadoof
    bulbadoof Posts: 1,058 Member
    My sister is verbally abusive of everyone in her life, and she spent the better part of my teenage years telling me I was always going to be fat and worthless and nobody is ever going to love me.

    In about 20 pounds, I'm going to be fit and healthy, enjoying the world with my amazing husband-to-be, and she's going to be sitting on a couch covered in empty pizza boxes, in a cloud of smoke, alone, wondering why she feels sick and miserable all the time.
  • RyleeNoelle
    RyleeNoelle Posts: 361
    Being able to share clothes with my skinny friends!
  • gnat45
    gnat45 Posts: 833 Member
    Being able to share clothes with my skinny friends!

    :)
  • jbloomfj
    jbloomfj Posts: 122 Member
    Not looking like I am 8 months pregant, especially when wearing my wet suit
  • gnat45
    gnat45 Posts: 833 Member
    Come on, no one eating to show up snarky co-workers or others?
  • SherryTeach
    SherryTeach Posts: 2,836 Member
    Having a better body than my 14-year-old students? And being quadruple their age.
  • UncleMac
    UncleMac Posts: 13,765 Member
    Come on, no one eating to show up snarky co-workers or others?
    Yeah, I'm there... There's a guy at the office who outweighs me and he made a snide remark, offering to loan me some of his clothing. I said "No thanks... Too loose at the waist; too tight in the shoulders." and his gaggle of friends all laughed at him as I walked away. I thought to myself... "Damn it! I'm going to lose this gut!!" and so I have!!
  • AlexandraLynch
    AlexandraLynch Posts: 161
    Yeah, there's the need to drop weight before ankle surgery puts me on one foot and crutches. Yeah, there's the desire to become stronger and more flexible and move further into becoming a true yogini.

    But I want to show up at the next con I go to with a hundred plus pounds off, a twenty inch corset laced shut, and hair down to my knees, and watch people who didn't even see me fat desperately try to get me in bed.
  • lookingforsomething
    lookingforsomething Posts: 86
    So that if I ever see my sister again she can just stare in wonder and awe!
    And not use my weight to try and make herself feel better!
  • Louisianababy93
    Louisianababy93 Posts: 1,709 Member
    besides making myself feel better.

    i wanna rub it in my mother-in-law & Sister-in-laws face that im skinnier and prettier than them!

    well,even at a bigger size im prettier than them! but,still there fat & rude and mean to me! might as well give them an actual reason to hate me.. cause ill be skinnier and prettier than them at the same time!
  • shellebelle87
    shellebelle87 Posts: 291 Member
    I dont want to be the fat sister. My elder sister is skinny as a rake and my other older sister is about to pop with a kid so she doesnt count, but I want to be the skinny one!! I want to be the one everyone ooohs and aaahhhs over!!!

    And I want to be the skinny friend. My friends weights havnt changed since high school whereas I ended up putting on 25kg - fml. So I want to get back to where I was and be pretty again!!!
  • Arexxx
    Arexxx Posts: 486 Member
    I want to lose the weight and rub it in the faces of the people I went to high school with. They were *kitten* about my weight
  • 126siany
    126siany Posts: 1,386 Member
    When I was younger I had some "not so enlightened motivation" in the form of a terrible boyfriend who always harped on my weight. I wasn't even overweight! But I lost weight to please him. Then I was too thin (I really was) even for him. He was just one long disaster, that one. He's someone else's headache these days. :bigsmile:
  • addaline22
    addaline22 Posts: 114
    to piss my mom off, who at about 400lbs tells me how fat i am and how to eat healthy.
  • sunnyside1213
    sunnyside1213 Posts: 1,205 Member
    My sister is verbally abusive of everyone in her life, and she spent the better part of my teenage years telling me I was always going to be fat and worthless and nobody is ever going to love me.

    In about 20 pounds, I'm going to be fit and healthy, enjoying the world with my amazing husband-to-be, and she's going to be sitting on a couch covered in empty pizza boxes, in a cloud of smoke, alone, wondering why she feels sick and miserable all the time.

    Karma.
  • iluvprettyshoes
    iluvprettyshoes Posts: 605 Member
    The satisfaction of knowing that "he" didn't break my spirit
  • jamielovesjbs
    jamielovesjbs Posts: 154 Member
    to win $100 in a friendly weight loss competition. also, to look awesome naked! :)
  • JenniBaby85
    JenniBaby85 Posts: 855 Member
    It's terrible, but I can't wait for an old "friend" to see me in my new body. She was so rude, and needy, and childish, and always tried to make me feel inferior to her. She is not skinny, or thin, or anywhere near healthy, and I really want her to see me now.

    On another note, I would gladly help her lose weight and get healthy if she asked. So I guess there is some good in that less enlightened motivation :heart:
  • FloridasFinest
    FloridasFinest Posts: 263
    Other than feeling awesome and building my confidence...

    To show my ex-husband what he's missing! Isn't the best revenge to look great? Show him those tramps he cheated on me with can't hold a candle to what he gave up!
  • _sillystring
    _sillystring Posts: 5
    To be able to do any sex position. LOL
  • silver_arrow3
    silver_arrow3 Posts: 1,373 Member
    When I go out with friends to a bar or club (or any social gathering, really), I'm the invisible one. They all have wedding rings on their fingers and I'm the one that gets ignored. I'm tired of being invisible.
  • THEErikaR
    THEErikaR Posts: 160 Member
    My birthday that's around the corner is my present motivation, I want to be my husband's pretty wife instead of just his funny wife and I really really don't want to be the fat sister anymore!! I would be ok with just being the older sister :)
  • cominupmilhouse
    cominupmilhouse Posts: 257 Member
    wow some people have a lot of resentment built up...

    I don't have any malice toward anyone that may have helped me realize I need to get in shape... regardless of their impolite technique. Then again no one has ever teased me incessantly so I don't know what that feels like.

    To be honest I guess my superficial motivation would be to gain the confidence to go after a stupid boy. I just don't know what else to do...
  • MommaKit79
    MommaKit79 Posts: 852
    Come on, no one eating to show up snarky co-workers or others?

    Well, this is little motivation in the whole scheme of things but...

    My husband's Ex and her BF are motivation for me!! :) Lets just say she is very HIPPY and goes to the gym and doesnt lose the weight (because she STILL doesnt eat well)...while my husband says I look better then her any day of the week, still, she is blonde hair, blue eyes, and pretty good skin...and I just have personal ISSUES with that Stereotype. :-)

    OH, and my Mother-in-Law who, everytime I dont go get a 2nd plate at dinner, looks at me funny. Also, I would like my husband to REALLY lose the weight becuase she keeps saying he is pre-dispositioned be be heavy and he is SOOOO capable of losing his belly, ESPECIALLY with all that muscle underneath!!!!
  • bikermike5094
    bikermike5094 Posts: 1,752 Member
    2 years ago sitting in TGI Fridays at supper with my wife and kids, i made her an offer that If I lost 80 lbs, I could trade in my Heritage Softail and get a brand new Harley Ultra Classic. She agreed, we wrote the agreement down on a napkin as we were sitting there waiting for supper to come and the kids both witnessed and signed the napkin. Two years later, I'm finally serious enough to do it. When I make my goal, I'll post pics of me on my Ultra... and a picture of that napkin I still have in my dresser.
  • UncleMac
    UncleMac Posts: 13,765 Member
    2 years ago sitting in TGI Fridays at supper with my wife and kids, i made her an offer that If I lost 80 lbs, I could trade in my Heritage Softail and get a brand new Harley Ultra Classic. She agreed, we wrote the agreement down on a napkin as we were sitting there waiting for supper to come and the kids both witnessed and signed the napkin. Two years later, I'm finally serious enough to do it. When I make my goal, I'll post pics of me on my Ultra... and a picture of that napkin I still have in my dresser.
    That seems like damn fine motivation to me... although I'm in no rush to trade my FLHP...
  • Bmontgomery613
    Bmontgomery613 Posts: 200 Member
    I want to shop, for once in my adult life, in the Misses section of the store! I no longer want to be 'plus' sized.
  • vanna824
    vanna824 Posts: 5
    My dad and I have signed up to ride mules down the Grand Canyon next may and we have to be below 200lb fully dressed. Oh yea, and I want to look good on that mule! =)
  • katcunock
    katcunock Posts: 664 Member
    last year at BF's christmas part i had a fuscha size 22 dress that felt like a tent. Add insult to injury, it was everyone's first time meeting me, and i fell over. This year I want to be in the size `16 Little black dress looking damn fine.

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