What made you want to lose weight?
For me it was a lot of things, get healthy, getting my sexy back, feeling confident, feeling pretty again, feeling like I could kick anyone's *kitten* again. The list could go on but, at the end of the day I want to improve myself to be the best what ever that is. So what's your story? Why or what made you want to lose weight?
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I suddenly realised i am going to be 40 next year and it was high time to start thinking about my health. Also i stopped smoking 6 months ago and was very concerned that the weight would creep up.5
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Good for you, that couldn't have been easy. I've had a baby two years ago and after, I had gained a lot of weight like I was at my heaviest that I had ever been, and now I've lost 25 lbs last year and felt great and then fell off the wight loss wagon and now I'm back trying to be healthy again. It's no joke it's hard and it's not easy.3
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-To be healthier
-To feel better
-To make my ex regret leaving (it worked)4 -
Stepped on the scale one day.. It broke.
In all seriousness, I just got tired of being the "big friend". So I took charge of it and knocked the weight on its' *kitten*.6 -
So many different, little things. But being the "big friend" was emotionally taxing. I could never fully enjoy myself around my friends, because it was always in the back of my mind. And all the "rules"...always eat less than them, eat slower than them, keep hugs to a minimum or they'll realise, no tight clothes they'll see I'm fat, never say you're hungry....so many.3
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So many different, little things. But being the "big friend" was emotionally taxing. I could never fully enjoy myself around my friends, because it was always in the back of my mind. And all the "rules"...always eat less than them, eat slower than them, keep hugs to a minimum or they'll realise, no tight clothes they'll see I'm fat, never say you're hungry....so many.
You seriously know my struggle, @jmidd973 -
So many different, little things. But being the "big friend" was emotionally taxing. I could never fully enjoy myself around my friends, because it was always in the back of my mind. And all the "rules"...always eat less than them, eat slower than them, keep hugs to a minimum or they'll realise, no tight clothes they'll see I'm fat, never say you're hungry....so many.
You seriously know my struggle, @jmidd97
Its rough, isn't it? Being bigger just factored into everything, and coloured everything with the tinge of self-hate.
Here's to us never being the big friend again!
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So many different, little things. But being the "big friend" was emotionally taxing. I could never fully enjoy myself around my friends, because it was always in the back of my mind. And all the "rules"...always eat less than them, eat slower than them, keep hugs to a minimum or they'll realise, no tight clothes they'll see I'm fat, never say you're hungry....so many.
You seriously know my struggle, @jmidd97
Its rough, isn't it? Being bigger just factored into everything, and coloured everything with the tinge of self-hate.
Here's to us never being the big friend again!
-Lifts glass- 4 -
Weight loss just comes with the territory of what my goals are. I'd like to reach a certain body fat % while lifting as much as possible.
It's nice to get second looks at the beach, cut my grass without a shirt on, and have 22 year old Hooter's waitresses asking for my business card and getting WYD texts at midnight when I'm sleeping.9 -
_incogNEATo_ wrote: »Weight loss just comes with the territory of what my goals are. I'd like to reach a certain body fat % while lifting as much as possible.
It's nice to get second looks at the beach, cut my grass without a shirt on, and have 22 year old Hooter's waitresses asking for my business card and getting WYD texts at midnight when I'm sleeping.
Legendary.0 -
Got an Abercrombie catalog in the mail and got jelly AF3
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Every single aspect of our culture. I mean, even the fast food ads have skinny people in them.0
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_incogNEATo_ wrote: »Weight loss just comes with the territory of what my goals are. I'd like to reach a certain body fat % while lifting as much as possible.
It's nice to get second looks at the beach, cut my grass without a shirt on, and have 22 year old Hooter's waitresses asking for my business card and getting WYD texts at midnight when I'm sleeping.
Legendary.
I ain't gonna lie, it felt good to wake up to. I thought she was tryna get that extra tip but I wasn't even paying. Luckily my wife didn't see it either.3 -
How my brother and sister-in-law slowed down their pace when we were on a hike because they thought I wouldn't be able to keep up. Like I'm disabled or something. I'm only 27 damnit. I don't want anyone to think I can't do anything just because of my size.2
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I bought a bike and it wasn't pretty the first time I tried to ride off into the sunset. It's still not pretty, but I can go a lot further than I could 40 pounds ago.4
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Before I got married I had multiple boy friends tell me oh if only you had abs, or didn't get tired going on 5 mile hike, or if you were a body builder or my favorite after going to the gym while in high school he was all up set and I had asked him what his deal was and it was that he didn't want a fat wife one day. You know dang trying to get my sexy mamma back isn't easy and ya I've got some stretch marks but hey screw you guys cuz I'm going to look good! Hahah is what I think of when people look at me. It's all how you feel about your self, it's time I focus on how I'm trying and everyone starts some where. So good job for everyone here killin it and working your *kitten* off.2
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I want to lose weight because I'm a dancer and extra weight his holding me back2
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I didn't really care about losing weight initially...I made a lot of dietary changes due to some health issues and really bad blood work..."cleaning" up my diet and becoming more active had the nice added benefit of causing me to drop some weight. I never really saw myself as fat until I actually leaned out.2
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Kinda same here . I didn't think about it until I noticed how it was holding me back and how in order to be successful in this dance world I would need to.2
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Everything in my life seemed to be spiraling out of control a couple years ago. My health and fitness were pretty much the only things I was able to control. It then became a sort of therapy throughout my divorce.
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Before I got married I had multiple boy friends tell me oh if only you had abs, or didn't get tired going on 5 mile hike, or if you were a body builder or my favorite after going to the gym while in high school he was all up set and I had asked him what his deal was and it was that he didn't want a fat wife one day. You know dang trying to get my sexy mamma back isn't easy and ya I've got some stretch marks but hey screw you guys cuz I'm going to look good! Hahah is what I think of when people look at me. It's all how you feel about your self, it's time I focus on how I'm trying and everyone starts some where. So good job for everyone here killin it and working your *kitten* off.
Your ex boyfriends sound like completedicks.4 -
Before I got married I had multiple boy friends tell me oh if only you had abs, or didn't get tired going on 5 mile hike, or if you were a body builder or my favorite after going to the gym while in high school he was all up set and I had asked him what his deal was and it was that he didn't want a fat wife one day. You know dang trying to get my sexy mamma back isn't easy and ya I've got some stretch marks but hey screw you guys cuz I'm going to look good! Hahah is what I think of when people look at me. It's all how you feel about your self, it's time I focus on how I'm trying and everyone starts some where. So good job for everyone here killin it and working your *kitten* off.
Your ex boyfriends sound like completedicks.
These are the stories I have trouble believing....
Stories don't start with "oh if only" anymore.1 -
Turning 51. Noticing all the chubby middle-aged bodies around me, and not wanting one.3
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Honestly I grew up very fit. I cycled a lot, Water Skied a lot, played Baseball, Played Football, went to the HS Gym. But i let myself go.
My wake up call was when I couldn't fit on a Roller Coaster at a local amusement park. So I started lifting, running and cycling.
I did it for myself, my wife and my daughter. From 326-217 in less than one calendar year. I've been going back up slightly but my clothing is still fitting, in fact some of it is too big. So I've been looking at my diet and re aligning things to get back down a little.2 -
I've never really had a moment of realization that I needed to lose weight but I have been through some cringe worthy moments that I'll share with y'all.
Last year I had a problem strapping up on flights. After 22hrs, three connections, and neighbour CONSTANTLY needing to get up I finally gave up and said, "Screw this I'll just die if anything happens." I no longer have this problem. Yay!
Again, last year I was out with some friends and some loser I'd been seeing for two weeks. A friend of mine was admiring photos of me from my slimmer days with no ill will intended. Guy I was seeing asks who that is and my friend said that was me, he proceeds to saying "Stop joking that chick is way too hot to be her". All of my friends are dumbfounded and say no dude that's her, chill. Guy goes "What happened to you? You mean to tell me I could've been dating THAT CHICK?!!!!" The only thing that annoyed me about that night was the look of horror and pity I could see on my friends faces. They tried to comfort me but there was nothing to comfort.
There are loads more but luckily I've got thick skin and probably way more confidence than I should have.1 -
That's ok you don't have to believe me, it's my past everyone has one. Who cares what all my ex boy friends would say, I've moved on and see I'm not all of those things I had a child and I was happy and ate like a pregnant woman who didn't care. Now I care about my self because heart attacks and cancer and diabetes are things I don't want.0
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Cutaway_Collar wrote: »
That sense of superiority with respect to your surrounding is a sign of sub-conscious insecurity related to self-worth.ItsyBitsy246 wrote: »Turning 51. Noticing all the chubby middle-aged bodies around me, and not wanting one.
I like turtles.
Edit- p.s. I'm pretty sure, since I have an overweight middle-aged body myself, a sense of superiority was not figured into that moment of epiphany. I will cop to some insecurity when it comes to body image.3 -
Cutaway_Collar wrote: »
You cheeky fcuker. Lol._incogNEATo_ wrote: »Weight loss just comes with the territory of what my goals are. I'd like to reach a certain body fat % while lifting as much as possible.
It's nice to get second looks at the beach, cut my grass without a shirt on, and have 22 year old Hooter's waitresses asking for my business card and getting WYD texts at midnight when I'm sleeping.
How about them 30/40 year olds. They are the ones out to devour the men.
This one was just 22. I'm not against 30/40 year olds either. Don't see many of them at Hooter's though.1 -
I got sick of looking at a "fat-boy, wide-body" in the mirror2
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