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When have you lied about your weight?

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  • kittyd7015
    kittyd7015 Posts: 4,546 Member
    Delilahhhhhh wrote: »
    No never needed to, it's never come up.
    your making me feel bad now lmao xxx
  • LovingLifeInCalifornia
    LovingLifeInCalifornia Posts: 9,362 Member
    edited January 2015
    no. I don't think so. Well, unless you include my Driver's License...but the coolest thing happened a couple years ago when I renewed. My "lie" weight was actually correct by then. HA!
  • kittyd7015
    kittyd7015 Posts: 4,546 Member
    LovingLifeInCalifornia wrote: »
    no. I don't think so. Well, unless you include my Driver's License...but the coolest thing happened a couple years ago when I renewed. My "lie" weight was actually correct by then. HA!

    I dont tink Ill eva get dat lol xxx
  • cklbrown
    cklbrown Posts: 4,696 Member
    I have a tendency to lie whenever someone asks me my weight or even comments on it. I don't like to discuss it. I usually add 10-15 pounds to my actual weight.
  • JeriAnne84
    JeriAnne84 Posts: 543 Member
    In my last job, I had to look up a lot of driver license's photos and it had their height, weight, date of birth and all that on there. Trust me, 98% of people lie about their weight on their driver's licenses and most of them are super obvious that its a lie. I actually had a report where the lady died from her medication and her driver's license was over 100 lbs off from when the coroner weighed her body. She lied about a person basically. Which is pretty obvious to a cop when you are looking at their info and then looking at them. At least keep it realistic!

    But yeah my driver's license weight is a lie, but not crazy bad. lol I can't wait till I have to change it because I'm way under that weight!
  • redhead_che
    redhead_che Posts: 292 Member
    I "lied" about it when renewing my DL as well...honestly when they ask "has anything changed" it's just easy to say nope gimme my new license and get out of there. I hate the DMV *shudder*
  • ilfaith
    ilfaith Posts: 16,769 Member
    I've never lived in a state that lists weight on a drivers license.

    I suppose for years I rounded down when asked my weight on various forms, but I never shaved more than a few pounds off my actual weight.

    Last summer, when I was about five pounds less than I am now, I lied in the other direction, knowing my actual weight sounded very low (double digits).

  • Aviva92
    Aviva92 Posts: 2,333 Member
    never have. i think that i always look like i weigh more than i do, so no point in lying. when i say my weight, people will think i'm anorexic or something, but if they look at me, probably not.
  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    I used to lie about how much weight I gained during pregnancy. People assumed it was 20-25lbs when in reality it was more like 45. Not sure why people would ask how much I've gained in the first place, but I was getting tired of the shock on people's faces when I told the truth, lying was easier.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I always lied about my weight on my driver's license until recently...even when I was 16 years old and first got my license, I think I said 170 lb and I was over 200.

    I never minded "admitting" to weighing 200+ but I would always downplay it like 210, 220, 230. I never told anyone I was actually much heavier. Even my ex husband thought I weighed 230 and we were married for nearly a decade!!

    It wasn't until I joined MFP at 272 lb that I told my husband and 2 close friends my real weight. By then I was down 45 lb from my heaviest and felt a lot better with 272 than 307. That marked the end of an era for me psychologically somehow...sounds overly dramatic I know, but I was fine telling people my weight since that day!

    I remember back in the olden days of internet dating (1999-2000) my friend and I were meeting guys that way and people would often share height/weight and I always said "5'8" 220 lb" because I wanted the guys to know I was big (I was actually 270). My friend worried that no guy would want to meet me unless I said at least 170 or lower. It worked out fine for me though. I think that especially over a certain point, most people don't have a good idea of what a certain weight really even looks like anyway.
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    Not on MFP but have in the past on my Driver's license!
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    i really cant think of a time when i lied about it
  • AllOutof_Bubblegum
    AllOutof_Bubblegum Posts: 3,646 Member
    Only when I wanted to donate plasma for food money, and I was about 5 lbs too light to be eligible. o:)
  • Revonue
    Revonue Posts: 135 Member
    Hmm, I usually round up or down depending on what mood I'm in. As someone already said, most people don't really have a good idea of what different weights can look like on people, so I feel like it may as well be any random number for most people. However, I am usually no more than a few pounds away from my actual weight. I agree there's no point in lying significantly as anyone can see what you look like.
  • llUndecidedll
    llUndecidedll Posts: 724 Member
    I've actually never ever lied about my weight. I've just never been ashamed of it. When I weighed myself at work at my heaviest and my co-worker asked me, I told her what it was.

  • mamameaof2kiddos
    mamameaof2kiddos Posts: 6,611 Member
    Never... But I prefer not to answer if anybody ask how much my weight is huhuhu!!
  • SwashBlogger
    SwashBlogger Posts: 395 Member
    Outside a medical situation, I don't think I've ever been asked. It's a rude question, isn't it?
  • ForecasterJason
    ForecasterJason Posts: 2,577 Member
    edited February 2015
    I've never lied about my weight (not more than give or take 5 pounds).
    SwashBlogger wrote: »
    Outside a medical situation, I don't think I've ever been asked. It's a rude question, isn't it?
    I think it depends on the situation. I've been asked a couple times. In one instance the other person was also skinny like me and putting on weight. In another instance I was in a conversation in which the discussion centered around someone (who wasn't present there) who had lost a lot of weight due to medical reasons, and the person who asked me was wondering how I stacked up in comparison.


  • ItsMeGee3
    ItsMeGee3 Posts: 13,254 Member
    Driver's license.
  • wilkimania
    wilkimania Posts: 42 Member
    Maybe in my early teen years when I wasn't comfortable with myself (Who is at that age?). But in recent years I've been accused of lying about my weight, but never actually have.
  • SilverRose89
    SilverRose89 Posts: 447 Member
    edited February 2015
    My class at uni did a research project a couple of months back and we needed to give our BMIs for it. I gave mine as if I weighed a stone less than I actually did. It was actually then that I realised I need to sort this out...
  • luv_lea
    luv_lea Posts: 1,094 Member
    Today at the chiropractor's office. And at the DMV when I got my license renewed. F* it. Depresses me enough without having it published on my driver's license.
  • SoulOfRusalka
    SoulOfRusalka Posts: 1,201 Member
    "I weigh, like, 110" --95 lbs and not fooling anyone
  • Tisiwa
    Tisiwa Posts: 46 Member
    MY license has the incorrect weight.. They never requested I change it. It started out right.. and increased over the years.. it's WAY OFF..
  • Khukhullatus
    Khukhullatus Posts: 361 Member
    I've never understood this behavior. It's not as though I look at a girl and think "wow, she looks great," then hear her weight and reassess. Same goes for the other direction, it's never "hmm, that guy could stand to drop a pound or two. Oh wait, really? he's only 170? In that case, mea culpa ."
  • Khukhullatus
    Khukhullatus Posts: 361 Member
    For what it's worth, I've done a TON of guessing over the years. I don't know if that counts as lying, but a lot of times, it would have been months since I'd been on a scale, and I was probably kind with my estimates.
  • yelliezx
    yelliezx Posts: 633 Member
    I think I probably lied to my boyfriend about my weight when I first met him but it soon fell off anyway. You guys just made me look at my license though out of curiosity and I weigh 15lbs less than that! YAY! :) Thanks for making my day better! Haha
  • jrline
    jrline Posts: 2,353 Member
    last time I got my driver's license I am now much lower than that lied about weight
  • yusaku02
    yusaku02 Posts: 3,472 Member
    Never. Even was I was fat I was honest about my weight.
  • undergloom
    undergloom Posts: 531 Member
    My mom once remarked that I looked like I wasn't eating enough and asked how much I weigh. She sort of freaked out when I answered and started sending me grocery coupons in the mail every week. After that, I started adding 10 lbs to my answer whenever she asked.
    And now I have to bump it up to +15.
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