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What is your "Petty" Reason to Lose Weight?
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So many petty reasons. I wanna stick it to my mother, who's always been on my case about my weight (even before I got chubby >:[ ). And also, I want to flaunt myself in front of my ex. And be the hot gay cousin. Someone's gotta do it.34
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Agathokakological wrote: »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.
I didn't really get bullied, but I was one of the heaviest girls in my high school by quite a lot, enough that I'm sure my name would come up if discussing "hey who was the fattest chick in our graduating class of 800 kids?" I do think it's kind of fun to see people who thought they were the hottest thing going back then but are now way heavier than I am. To be totally honest it doesn't even matter that much to me but I know that it DOES matter to them. I've run into women I barely knew in high school 20 years ago in work-related events and they'll say "you look great, I didn't even recognize you" followed by an explanation of how/why/when they gained so much weight themselves. I'm like what the heck!? They don't need to explain that to me. But yeah it feels kind of great to know that I've changed my appearance that much.
ETA: In your situation, I'd DEFINITELY hit up that reunion. I only went to my 10 year reunion (2005) and at that time I was the exact same weight I'd been in high school, but had better hair/clothes/makeup and I got a lot of positive feedback. This may sound nuts but I actually did not go to my 20th reunion just because I was afraid that people would think I was there to showcase my weight loss and I didn't want the attention (I'd lost over 100 between the 10 and 20 year reunions).
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definitely not my driving motivators, but there are a couple of petty reasons that come to mind. First, I don’t want to be the biggest, or even on the bigger side, of any group of people I’m with. I want to be in the smaller half, if not the smaller 25%. Second, I don’t want my kids growing up with overweight parents. I did, and my parents never exercised, especially my mother. She’s very lazy and while I love my mom and admire her for other reasons, I never want my kids to see me like I do her in that regard.18
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I just don't want to be the one who gained a lot of weight after highschool/college like everyone else. I was never the skinny one, but now I have the chance to be smaller than a lot of my peers because they've gained and I've stayed the same or lost.13
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My ex cheated on me with a girl smaller than me. She's gained weight and I'm down almost 50 lbs.
Sucks to be him! Hope he learned his lesson.
My ex constantly bantered me about my weight. I ended up leaving him in part because of that. He also ended up with a lady much bigger than me. I can only hope he learned to look past someone’s body and that he really loves her for who she is.
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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.
I want a chilli pepper on my reviews too, but I don't think I'll ever go on ratemyprofessor to look. I hate evals with a passion! (Even though mine were excellent this past semester)8 -
I have a few petty reasons:
I want to 'prove' something to a few of my coworkers. There are a handful that are younger, skinnier, blonder (no offense to blondes, it just seems to be part of the thing) and one, in particular, is extremely shallow. She's always making comments about people's appearances and judging them on what they wear and how they look. I know she's probably judged me plenty of times. I'm taller and have a curvier figure, and I know I'll look great once I lose about 30 lbs., and that's about the time she'll start wanting to be my friend again and telling me how great I look. Hopefully its about the same time I'll tell them all to p*ss off
I want to look and feel sexy, and I want my husband to think so too. My DH is amazing and he tells me all the time I look good, and he is very supportive of my efforts. But I still think in the back of his mind he found me more attractive when I weighed less; I have put on about 35 lbs. since we met. I love him for never letting this matter, though.
I don't want to cross the line into plus-size; I've been wearing size 14 for a while now, and I know I am only 1-2 sizes away from shopping on the other side of the store.
I've never failed at anything. I've been an overachiever my whole life. I put my mind to something and usually knock it out of the park. Not bragging, it's just how I am. So, I get so frustrated with myself that I have not had the same motivation and commitment to this goal as I have to everything else. I don't want to feel like I'm failing at being healthy when I am perfectly capable of it.
Not so petty, but a reason just the same:
I want to be a good example for my niece. She is 9 right now and skinny, but starting to gain weight as she gets older. I was always pretty skinny until I got to college, but it had nothing to do with diet and exercise--just youthful metabolism and playing. My whole family is overweight and has terrible eating habits, and nobody (myself included) ever participated in physical activities growing up; most of them don't as adults, either. There's nobody else in my niece's life that is going to demonstrate that behavior for her, so I feel like I need to do it.
My most important reason:
I love myself. I think I'm a pretty awesome person (haha, and humble too); I'm good at my job, I love my friends and family and try to show them that love, I volunteer, and I try to live a great life. I want to feel as good about my physical health and appearance as I do about the rest of my life!33 -
Haha, yes! I’m not usually a petty person, but... I can’t weigh more than my boyfriend! And eek, I do!25
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I don't know if this counts as petty, but after seeing my mom break her hip and the rehab that followed, I decided I never wanted to go through that. I started exercising and weight lifting to help increase bone density and secondly to ward off osteoporosis. As it turns out, I really enjoy it, so, win-win?35
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I have a combination of reasons I've heard already. The first is my ex. I recently left a rather emotionally abusive marriage and one of the comments my ex made was regarding my need to 'look better' so I could go back on the market. It was a snide comment, suggesting I wouldn't find anyone. He said it thinking I would break down, but I'd already lost 30 lbs, and have lost another 20 since then - he won't bring me down.
The other is wanting to be smaller than my mother. She's been very critical of me and my weight issues, despite being large herself. Often times she'd make snide comments and give me a 'roll of the eyes' if I ate too much, now she looks at me with envy.45 -
My husband is in wonderful shape, makes me feel insecure in the bedroom. Although he never makes me feel that way, just in my own mind. I weigh quite a bit more than him, he doesn't seem to care.
My family is the active type, biking, hiking, etc. I want to be able to keep up. Things they all think is fun..I think of as torture.41 -
I swear I am losing for all the right reasons, my pettiness reason is like on the bottom of my list of reasons to lose 60lbs. However naturally I wont deny I do have some petty motivation. I work in an inner city ER as a RN, pool now rather than full time, the women my age down there are naturally gorgeous/thin/fit. Call me petty, but I would rather have a killer bod than dough for days next to these ladies
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I want my husband to be able to brag about his "hot teacher" wife. I also want to be able to wear sexy clothes without "bubbles." Haha 20
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My pettiest reason is to look the best I ever have. I've always looked pretty good I think, but I have things I've always been insecure about. I want go into the rest of my 30's smokin' hot! The rest of it is I want to have a good foundation of health going into my 40's and beyond. If I start now, it'll be so much easier to maintain good condition instead of waiting til I hit 40 to do something about it.15
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To date...... I'm ugly, fat/overweight. Come two years from now, I'll be ugly, skinny and now longer have to pay over $2K/Month in CS and Alimony. Money can compensate for ugliness but not fat....33
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Before I understood CICO, before MFP, losing weight was a complete mystery to me. It was that magical thing I hoped would happen (even prayed would happen) but never did. Instead my weight kept climbing.
Now I'm super close to goal and have been maintaining for almost 1.5 years the lowest weight of my life since my teens.
My reasons to lose weight have turned into "reasons why I will never let myself gain all the weight back again":
- I love how I look in photos.
- I love buying new clothes.
- When I meet a new person I'm no longer scared that their first thought about me is "Wow, she's fat"
- When my hubby tells me I look good naked, I let myself believe him.
- I enjoy exercise.
- Doctors don't automatically assume that what's wrong with me is weight-related.43 -
So I need to tell a story in order to get to my petty reason. I used to work on this unit at the hospital, worked there for a solid 7 years or so. I distinctively remember this one time a there was free lunch for the holidays down in the conference room. I told the charge nurse I was going to run down while it was slow and get some food. Her answer was, "Honey, I think you can afford to skip a meal. Go find something else to work on." A few months later all the nurses got on a weight loss kick and around 10 of them (including that nurse) had weight loss surgery. Whether it was the sleeve or band, over the course of 6 months they went one by one. A few even suggested to me that I should go myself. I left that job a few years ago, but I can't wait to be at my goal weight so I can walk back on to that unit to visit and watch their mouths drop open and be able to say, "I did it the healthy way, eating right and exercising. I didn't need any surgery to stop me from eating."54
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I've always been chubby and I want, for once, to know what it feels like to be thin and fit. Plus, I'm getting married in 2019 and those better be the best photos of my entire life! haha26
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Pettiest/most insecure reason I work out is that I don't like hitting my sister's size (she's taller, so her body shape typically makes her one size bigger). Another is that I like to eat dessert.7
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Re: doctors ignoring you because you are fat. Wait until you have the opposite problem - I had to switch doctors because my old one moved, and my new doctor wouldn't take anything I said seriously! She said, "Oh, you don't need testing for x, I can tell you are healthy and lead a healthy lifestyle." Uh, I have diabetes, lupus, off and on cardiovascular inflammation, am hypothyroid, have only one ovary due to a tumor, have pernicious anemia, have fibroids in my uterus, and a ruptured Baker's cyst in my knee. Just for starters! I may be thinner and more active, but healthy? Not so much. Healthier than before, yes.
I have many good reasons to lose weight but my petty one is that a bunch of my high school friends get together every year, and I didn't want to be the fattest person there, especially since I was slim in high school. This year, an old boyfriend who has not been in previous years because he has moved to another country was present, and I was thrilled at looking good enough to show off in front of him. And turns out - he's fat!23 -
This is probably so stupid but my "petty" reason is a couple...
1. my bf is super skinny and I wanna feel skinnier compared to him
2. my ex doesn't like skinny girls and I wanna kind of "shove it" to him because he always discouraged me when I tried to lose weight when we were dating
3. I just want to be "the skinny" friend.13 -
When I was young and before I started putting on weight, I was fairly confident in my body shape and really enjoyed that I was fancied so much. I'm enjoying earning back the ability to feel a bit vain/hot.
I also love it every time I see someone I don't particularly like, and I don't have to think about what they must think about my weight gain anymore.16 -
I thought of a couple more:
I lost about 20 lbs. when I had braces five years ago, and I loved how I looked in our anniversary photos from Hawaii. I'm jealous of the woman in those pictures!
I was really nerdy and shy in high school--and skinny. I never had the confidence to wear things that I felt awesome in because I just wanted to hide. Now I have the self-confidence, but I don't like how I look in a lot of form-fitting styles. I want a skinny redo! 14 -
Yeah doctors treated me like garbage too. Rash? Headache? Cold? Stomach virus? All cuz I was obese. I had fibromyalgia go undiagnosed because a doctor refused to look past my weight and another doctor tell me to glue my lips shut. Seriously.
I had numerous people ask me repeatedly if I was pregnant. My dad was deployed to the Middle East 3 times. The first 2 times he came home I actually was pregnant. The last time I was just fat. It broke his heart.
I was tired of being the fat frumpy wife punchline. Now I dress better, look better, do my hair, wear makeup, and hubby's friends asked him what I'm doing and why. I seriously lost myself within the weight. All I did was start giving myself the love and care I deserve.58 -
Just graduated and seen my grad pics and realize how overweight I had gotten. I also struggled finding a dress for my graduation that fit me and looked good and I never want to feel that way again.15
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Im getting divorced and wanna be hot when i remarry. Lol40
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My "petty" reason is so i can feel good about myself
But what kicked my butt into action was because i had pregnancy diabetes and it scared me so i had to get healthy and stay healthy or i may get type 2 diabetes.13 -
Mine is so I am not afraid to take pictures. Seriously, all vacations, reunions, etc I spend hiding from cameras. I want to take a picture and know I won’t hate myself when I see it later.37
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My mother in law lost a ton of weight, then my sister in law started losing and gave me her fat clothes, on her way down. Sure, theyvare both very sweet people, and SIL has great taste in clothes, (and absolutely was not trying to be backhanded or anything) but still. No WAY are they going to accomplish it and I can't!!!34
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