When have you lied about your weight?

seltzermint555 wrote: »

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.

This right here! I so resonated with everything you said. Even though my high weight was around 250 (I weighed in at 247 one day, but I know that I was heavier than that around that time).

Yes, my driver's license, I have lied on. I think when I got it first, I lied about like 5 pounds. Then when I renewed it a few years later, I added on like 10 pounds (even though I had gained more than that). The last time I renewed (2011) - I put down 200 pounds (it's obvious that I'm at least that much), but I'm sure I weighed at least 220 at that time... I've also lied to people on internet dating sites... I didn't want guys to run away from me if I said I was 230 pounds, even though I was okay with admitting I was overweight.

My mom has the tendency to say (when she knows I've been dieting) how much thinner I look. I hate it. I always tell her that I haven't lost anything because if I can't tell, no one else should be able to tell...even if the scale is telling me otherwise. When I drop my next 15 pounds, I want people to notice and say something, but not because they know I've been working at it!

Edit: I made a ticker on here that actually reflects my weight. That was the first time that I made it known to strangers and it was empowering to own the number.

Only at the DMV.

Never! I can't hide this! Hahaha