Anyone have strange reason for losing weight?

Cdaleerdman
Cdaleerdman Posts: 20 Member
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One of my secret reasons for losing weight is this: if there is ever a flash flood and I am stranded in a tree or on top of my car, I don't want to be the person shown on CNN that is too big to be picked up by the helicopter. (Not to even mention not being strong/fit enough to climb out of my car window. Sounds silly, but one of my fears.
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  • MaraDiaz
    MaraDiaz Posts: 4,604 Member
    One of my secret reasons for losing weight is this: if there is ever a flash flood and I am stranded in a tree or on top of my car, I don't want to be the person shown on CNN that is to big to be picked up by the helicopter. (Not to even mention not being strong/fit enough to climb out of my car window. Sounds silly, but one of my fears.

    :laugh:

    Mine is: When attempting to take over the world it probably helps to be photogenic, and we all know the camera adds 10 pounds!
  • Cdaleerdman
    Cdaleerdman Posts: 20 Member
    Love it!
  • bokodasu
    bokodasu Posts: 629 Member
    When the zombie apocalypse comes, I don't want to be the first one eaten.
  • Cdaleerdman
    Cdaleerdman Posts: 20 Member
    Ha ha ha.....that' another one I've thought of too!
  • ottermotorcycle
    ottermotorcycle Posts: 654 Member
    Not losing weight, but getting fit:
    Because when the revolution happens, I want to beat up some secret police or whoever (: Or run if I have to aha.
  • SeahorseDolphin
    SeahorseDolphin Posts: 131
    I'm kinda scared of being chased and not being able to run away!
  • dizzimamma
    dizzimamma Posts: 81
    What's rule number 1 in Zombieland? Cardio cardio cardio. You can't run away from zombies if you can't run
  • JanaCanada
    JanaCanada Posts: 917 Member
    I want to be able to fit into a wetsuit and go snorkelling or diving some day. :)

    Hubs and I went whitewater rafting for our anniversary a few years back, and I had to cover my skin with Dawn dishwashing liquid just to get the wetsuit to zip up. I felt like Shamu. :laugh:
  • sparkle814
    sparkle814 Posts: 78 Member
    Aside from all the usual health and vanity reasons...I hate being significantly wider than the seats on the subway and "spilling" out of the sides of office chairs, etc. And not fitting comfortably into airplane seats and amusement park rides!
  • dakotababy
    dakotababy Posts: 2,407 Member
    It was not my initial thought to lose weight/get fit...but I have considered the benefits of my survival time when the zombie apocalypse begins.
  • Catwoman1037
    Catwoman1037 Posts: 102 Member
    I'm kinda scared of being chased and not being able to run away!

    When I was younger it was to look good, now it leans more on being able to run away from a crazy person. Kinda silly, but I have really thought about this too. :laugh:
  • bluskies01
    bluskies01 Posts: 72 Member
    It did make me really sad to know I weighed too much to go indoor skydiving on our vacation last summer.


    My big one though is at least half of the time on "Hoarders" the people are obese. My mom is a hoarder and I find myself developing attachments to material things. So I just have this nightmare of being one of those fat hoarder women, that my son will never come visit me, that I'll never have a relationship, I'll just be a lonely hoarder lady with only my feral cats to love. :/
  • tsikkz
    tsikkz Posts: 404 Member
    I'm not saying I want to be one of the girls in rap videos.. but just having the option to do that if I wanted..

    Im super shy and I don't listen to rap music.. what the hell, brain?!
  • nataliefamily3
    nataliefamily3 Posts: 189 Member
    I want to know I could defend myself and or my son in an emergency. (run away from danger, stop an attacker, whatever)
  • butterfly173173173
    butterfly173173173 Posts: 30 Member
    You've all forgotten the most important reason...so that you can win the Hunger Games!
  • Dicecatt
    Dicecatt Posts: 8
    I want to be able to go scuba diving and know that I won't be pointed at by other divers because they think they've spotted a whale
  • nosillanosilla
    nosillanosilla Posts: 42
    When the zombie apocalypse comes, I don't want to be the first one eaten.

    Yeah this
  • Cdaleerdman
    Cdaleerdman Posts: 20 Member
    Wow. I identify with hoarders too. My mom tries to be one but she lives with me so it doesn't go far. I think there is a connection. I have a fear of being hungry or not being as to have access to food. I think that's why I used to eat so much. Kind of like hoarding food internally.
  • FoldsFive
    FoldsFive Posts: 18
    Yeah, I work with an organisation where we dress up as various sci-fi characters for charity. I have a Judge Outfit (as in Judge Dredd from the recent film) and the leather undersuit is not flattering to a beer belly. Hence, me losing weight to look good in that - five weeks in and 12 lb down, so it's working well so far :)
  • Cdaleerdman
    Cdaleerdman Posts: 20 Member
    Hee he's. I went snorkeling once with the family and purchased the video.of our adventure. The moronic music editor of the video chose to play the music from 'Jaws' whenever I was in the video. Imagine my horror while watching with family after getting home. I still don't watch the video.
  • funkydora
    funkydora Posts: 5
    One of my fears is having a car crash and being too fat to be pulled out or carried to the ambulance! That and the final indignity of having to have an extra large coffin with no one wanting to carry me!
  • Cdaleerdman
    Cdaleerdman Posts: 20 Member
    OMG! I never thought about the coffin! Add another fear to my list!
  • Subowski
    Subowski Posts: 71
    I've never even though about the zombie apocalypse, but the coffin thing worries me!

    Due to lifelong and severe emetophobia, I didn't fly in an aeroplane until I was 30...and I didn't go on a hot sunny Mediterranean holiday until I was 39 (I live in the UK, where its a reportable event if the temp gets above 24 C).

    Now I am better able to face some of my fears, one of the things on my bucket list is to go to the Maldives and go snorkelling off the reef. I don't want to be the only big fat middle aged woman there now do I??
  • AwesomeSquirrel
    AwesomeSquirrel Posts: 644 Member
    I secretly want to be a ninja =)

    It's probably kind of hard to be a ninja if you can't even do a pull-up. Just sayin'.
  • titianwasp
    titianwasp Posts: 139 Member
    They say that thin women earn about 15% more than their average weighted colleagues, and "very thin" women earn approx 22% more. I am "normal" weighted currently, but dammit, I want to be rich! Bring on the skinny!
  • SquidVonBob
    SquidVonBob Posts: 290 Member
    It did make me really sad to know I weighed too much to go indoor skydiving on our vacation last summer.


    My big one though is at least half of the time on "Hoarders" the people are obese. My mom is a hoarder and I find myself developing attachments to material things. So I just have this nightmare of being one of those fat hoarder women, that my son will never come visit me, that I'll never have a relationship, I'll just be a lonely hoarder lady with only my feral cats to love. :/

    Science time kids!

    There is a reason that many hoarders are overweight. Hoarding is actually a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and people suffering from OCD are more likely to have disordered eating habits.

    The more you know!
  • karensinn
    karensinn Posts: 8 Member
    I am in 2 weddings this year and looking back on pictures of myself I was surprised to see the weight I had gained, especially in my face. I realized I didn't want the "big girl" in all the bridesmaid pictures, so I started running. I've run a couple 5ks since and I've started to enjoy it! I feel so much better living a healthier life style and I'm hoping to keep the momentum up and make this a permanent fixture in my life.
  • fatjavotte
    fatjavotte Posts: 96 Member
    I have thought about the running away from a crazy person thing.
    I'd need to be able to do it with a child on my back and one under each arm.
  • RoseMay1122
    RoseMay1122 Posts: 65
    I'm scared my friend is going to make us dress up as slutty nurses for her hen do (she is a nurse - there is a logic to it!) and that I'll look like the fat one the others keep around to make them look better/be the one the wingman chats up while his friend hits on the one he actually likes.

    Thing is, I don't want to be chatted up by guys on those sorts of nights, and I know logically that there are girls who will be there who are significantly bigger than me. It's just a mental thing, having been 'the big one' while we grew up together.
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    They say that thin women earn about 15% more than their average weighted colleagues, and "very thin" women earn approx 22% more. I am "normal" weighted currently, but dammit, I want to be rich! Bring on the skinny!

    This, I sincerely believe that if I am back to skinny before I hit the job market again I will start out at a higher salary and go up from there. I previously temped my way around OC and increased my asking price by double and I was thin. So if I'm gonna do it in LA I better be slamming because double of rich is DOUBLE RICH! Ka-ching!

    (also and shshssssssssshhhhhh this is a real secret so don't tell anyone but I want to bend over front facing or rear facing in front of all the husband's of all the women who ever did it in front of mine while I was fat, and unbeknownst to them I've got more to show when I'm thin, and I can bend really low, and stoop even lower!)

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