What is your "Petty" Reason to Lose Weight?

Current bf cheated on me while I was pregnant. I plan to lose the weight and get a degree while we work on us. If he can't fix himself, I'm gonna bounce with a good paying job and rockin bod!

I want to fit my old clothes that no longer fit.

So I can hit a formal-not-formal dress code just where I want to. I'm starting a PhD this year, presenting research, teaching sections, etc. There's suddenly a bunch of stuff in my life that requires being just a bit dressier and standing up in front of people and needing to make an impression, but I HATE business-casual. I think I look appalling in it and just can't stand wearing a suit or even most proper pants that aren't cut like jeans. I want to be able to stick to a somewhat more casual/younger look that still passes professional muster - jeans with a blazer, short(er) skirt with a button-up shirt, etc. Its very hard to pull that off significantly overweight without looking sloppy, at least for me. I do not want to find myself having to wear (not to mention buy) suits and dresses and all that in my early 30's, ffs!

Even pettier reason: if I get a ratemyprofessor review eventually (dunno if I'll go all-out on the academic route at this point, but its a possibility), god help me, I will be so upset if I don't have a chilli pepper. Even worse - research shows there's a clear correlation between 'hotness' rankings and and overall teaching reviews, and teaching reviews matter objectively for academic career progress. Students are the worst.

My petty reason is years of high school nonsense. I was a little overweight, a shy introvert prone to panic attacks when asked to do things publicly or in front of the class, and generally quiet. I mastered my resting b!tch face during those years to ward off jerks.

But even adults were an issue: I remember back when I joined the track team and I always thought trying the pole vault would be fun. The girls track coach straight up told me I was too heavy. I wish I would have stood up for myself back then because most of the boys were heavier than me and somehow their poles worked just fine! That comment stuck with me for years and did not help my already flailing self esteem.

So anyways, I just want those old high school as$holes to see how badass I am (was, even if I didn't realize it at the time). I've lost weight, I'm strong, I rock climb and do Tough Mudders for fun, and while still introverted I have improved my confidence. My first 10 year reunion is in a couple months and most everyone posting in the event group have let themselves go. This is sooo insanely petty, but I'm looking forward to showing up and being fit and confident and watching the old hecklers squirm.

I have many petty reasons to lose weight. The main one is just plain and simple: ATTENTION.
I want to walk around in high heels and not look like I will fall or even break them any minute.
I want to be able to fit in cute, sexy clothes.
I want to be able to wear lingerie for my boyfriend, and not feel like a sausage that was literally squeezed into the piece of cloth (silk, or lace).

My petty reason is to show all my exes. I'm professionally successful and now I want the body to match that and floor them all.

Also, I want people to say, "No way you've got kids!" Instead of saying, "You look good, for having kids." Huuuge difference in those two phrases.

Another petty reason for me is fashion. I have always liked clothes and shopping and putting together outfits (didn't really have problems with plus selection either) but it's way more fun in regular sizes, and being able to wear actual vintage pieces sometimes.

I wan to fit into my dress blues again.

RegenbogenPapagei wrote: »

My petty reason is years of high school nonsense. I was a little overweight, a shy introvert prone to panic attacks when asked to do things publicly or in front of the class, and generally quiet. I mastered my resting b!tch face during those years to ward off jerks.

But even adults were an issue: I remember back when I joined the track team and I always thought trying the pole vault would be fun. The girls track coach straight up told me I was too heavy. I wish I would have stood up for myself back then because most of the boys were heavier than me and somehow their poles worked just fine! That comment stuck with me for years and did not help my already flailing self esteem.

So anyways, I just want those old high school as$holes to see how badass I am (was, even if I didn't realize it at the time). I've lost weight, I'm strong, I rock climb and do Tough Mudders for fun, and while still introverted I have improved my confidence. My first 10 year reunion is in a couple months and most everyone posting in the event group have let themselves go. This is sooo insanely petty, but I'm looking forward to showing up and being fit and confident and watching the old hecklers squirm.

Actually you probably won't get much satisfaction. People tend not to be jerks anymore 10 years later, and most of them probably won't even remember being sh#tty to you.
I actually ended up friends with some jerky high school people years down the road.

I'm still sure as h3ll losing weight for my next one, lol.. but the satisfaction of going to my 10 year as a size 5 and rubbing their faces in it....they were different people by then.

My Grandma. She talked about my weight my whole life. She didn't tell me about my weight issues to my face but, to my Mom. However, when I turned 15 years old. (I visit her every Summer for Six Weeks.) One Summer, she signed me up for the gym because, I was finally old enough. She made me weigh myself in front of her, everyday. The first weigh in, I was 170 pounds. She said, "Jesus, Kristi, you are two granddaughters in one!" However, the worst part was she blamed my Mom for my weight. (When, my Mom left my Dad when I was three years old, my Grandma sent her a How to Lose Weight book. Now, she sends me clips from newspapers on how to lose weight.) From either unhealthy pregnancy, to my Mom is fat too, so thats why I'm fat. (Yet, my Step Dad is fit and my biological Dad is healthy but, has a beer gut.) BEST BELIEVE, when I lose weight, I will be giving all the credit for my Mom and of course Boyfriend, for supporting me. (I think part of me stopped my workout when I visited her, so I wouldn't lose weight around her.)

Second, the kids who teased me in school. Most have gained weight or just have terrible haircuts, my makeup skills have gotten killer, now I just need a killer body. lol

Serious note, I'm 99% for healthier me, just 1% is super petty.

I don't want to be the "fat friend in the group and at the moment I wear the same size pants as my grandma... embarrassing. Also I'm the only one overweight in the family so that's also a bummer....

I look huge when i take my shirt off

tk2222 wrote: »

Even pettier reason: if I get a ratemyprofessor review eventually (dunno if I'll go all-out on the academic route at this point, but its a possibility), god help me, I will be so upset if I don't have a chilli pepper. Even worse - research shows there's a clear correlation between 'hotness' rankings and and overall teaching reviews, and teaching reviews matter objectively for academic career progress. Students are the worst.

Oh, welcome to the club! I have a remarkable collection of clothes to teach in -- at all sizes, sadly -- and it really does make a difference to the class dynamic. But I think it's best to pretend that rate my professor doesn't exist: there's nothing more frustrating than realizing that they don't remember a damn thing you lectured on but that they all have an opinion on your haircut.

Summer. Beaches. Shorts. Rompers.

Looking fit or ok or great is unacceptable. No wiggle room for mediocrity in the looks department. Hot and ageless are the end goals. An ageless physique to be exact.

My petty reason is that there were a certain few in high school that were so horrible to me about my weight and other things that it still bothers me to this day sometimes. Like they would go out of their way to make my day miserable by coming to the complete opposite end of the school they needed to be on just to poke fun at me on a daily basis. I have seen pictures of them in recent years and they have all gained a significant amount of weight. My 20-year high school reunion is coming up next year and I want to look better than they do.