We are pleased to announce that on March 4, 2025, an updated Rich Text Editor will be introduced in the MyFitnessPal Community. To learn more about the upcoming changes, please click here. We look forward to sharing this new feature with you!
What is your "Petty" Reason to Lose Weight?
Replies
-
resale3108 wrote: »My partner wants us to be able to appreciate womens bodies together (a k.a checking other girls out and i dont. I wanna get sexy so he will notice all the other guys checking me out and not want to look at other girls. So petty but i feel like he's not attracted to my body since having a baby.
Frankly, your partner needs to grow up, man up or get the f@$k up and move his ar5e out the door.
You look gorgeous as it is. Simply beautiful.
Do this whole MFP thing for yourself, nobody else.
You're absolutely right. Thank you so much! I need to get my confidence back!!
It is him wrecking your self-confidence, trust me I know this.20 -
I have plenty of serious reasons but the petty one is that a gentleman I have a crush on, but who rejected my advances (but we are friends), is coming to visit my area in a couple months and I want to knock his socks off.34
-
I’ve always kept a pretty fit body, and was able to get most of it back after having a baby. Cue getting pregnant with twins.... I’m sure everyone thought I’d never come back from that (especially me!) But I’m stubborn, and had something to prove. Still working on toning up my belly, but I’m back to pre-pregnancy weight and then some! I love the looks on people’s faces when they see me with 10 month old twins and a 4 year old. Petty, but so satisfying:)33
-
Debgreasby2018 wrote: »I’ve always been the fat sister, the fat friend. I want to be the slim healthy one for a change!
Preach sister I feel you! We can do this!!9 -
1. To have the “superhot beach body” when I go on holiday
2. Because I’ve seen photos of myself lately and thought “hell no”
3. My ripped skinny jeans no longer look good
4. To make the guy I was seeing (older than me) think twice before he decides to cold shoulder me!!6 -
Honestly, I was tired of hearing how my thinner coworker is "Soooo hot." And how, I "can't possibly understand." Really? I can't? I wanted so badly to reply, "Dude, I'm fat. I'm not Quasi--freaking--moto!"
Retail, man. Killer of self-esteem everywhere.17 -
My weight has always been so up and down. I went through a pretty good period high school-college where I was fit. I'd get compliments and hit on...I know this is super petty but I want to get those compliments and get some head turns again
7 -
To not feel like a failure. I have been at goal weight 5 times. The last time I lost 28 kg over 3 years. I want to stay at goal weight 'forever', it's one of my dreams (another of my dreams is to get married, imagine getting married at goal weight!).
To go to the Philippines and be referred to as the "sexy Kano". There sexy means slim and Kano means white person.6 -
To stay strong so I can look hot lifting heavy things!! Lol I still lift heavy things but not looking hot!9
-
My partner wants us to be able to appreciate womens bodies together (a k.a checking other girls out and i dont. I wanna get sexy so he will notice all the other guys checking me out and not want to look at other girls. So petty but i feel like he's not attracted to my body since having a baby.
My ex did this - commented about how men (and women) were attractive. I asked her to stop and explained why (I have always felt insecure about how I looked) and she did actually make an effort to stop saying things.12 -
So I look good in my teams speedos at competitions and don't feel like I have to wear jammers all the time!4
-
My petty reason is that my family is all very overweight and have been a bit mixed in reactions since I’ve stopped eating meat and dairy (they give me wicked, curl-in-a-ball stomach aches and leave me bloated and fatigued). I’m at the high end of a normal weight, have a fairly active job (I’m a Sous Chef) and know that I can be fitter than what I am. Every time my parents see me they’re always “You’re so skinny” when the only difference is that I’m 150ish (5”6) and they’re all between 220-270. I was a fat, anxious kid and my parents drove my self consciousness (I had some depression issues for awhile and lost 10 pounds and as I was coming out of it, I started eating more again, and my mom asked me if I was concerned about gaining all the weight back and I’ve watched her and my dad struggle with their weight all my life)
Mostly, it just feels good to know that I’m the one taking care of myself. My parents are beginning to have a lot of health issues, and the doctor is concerned about my brother, I worry for them, I want them to be healthy, and I want them to see that I can do it, food can still taste good, and they can take control of their health too.13 -
My boyfriend and I work out together on the weekends, and we joke about wanting to be that obnoxiously fit couple at the gym, lol.
16 -
This is a bit morbid but a big reason why I did it is to get doctors and friends/family to take my health problems seriously and not just attribute it to weight. But joke's on me, I'm not overweight anymore, none of my health problems got better, and they still don't take me seriously. No, I'm not bitter, why do you ask? /s
The upbeat reason is that I make a point of always doing what I say I will. I said I'd lose it so I did.19 -
I have a crush on one guy, whos not available, but I really want him to at least find me attractive. Maybe it sounds ridiculous to you all, but at least it keeps me going. Ill see him in September again and i would like to lose 13 more kilograms till then, or 10 at least.
17 -
My petty reason:
My husband and I separated a few months ago. I don't really care what he thinks (or at least I'm trying not to), but I would LOVE to be able to call him up to ask him if I can pick up the box of too-small clothes I left behind. At the time, I just didn't want another box to move. Now it would be fantastic to go pick it up and just walk away. Plus, yay new/old clothes!23 -
@jenf330 so many good vibes to you! I went through a divorce about ten years ago and lost about 30lbs in 3months. Some of that was stress induced, but the rest was from eating healthy and exercising. It's like sweet revenge when they see how much better we do when they are gone.6
-
My wife and I had our first child recently, and we are in our upper 30's, which means by the time he's graduating high school I'll be 55...so even if I'm one of the older dads, I want to be one of the sexier dads 19
-
This year is our 10th wedding anniversary. We are off to sunny California in September, and will spend a couple of days in Vegas. I want to look hot and make him proud.
I know he is anyway, but would be great if I could get back to where I was when we met 😉8 -
Wanna have abs once just to take the picture lol12
-
I don't want to be the fat trans chick. Hot trans girls get all the attention.21
-
To get hot and wear cute clothes.8
-
It is our 25th anniversary next year and want to go somewhere nice where I can wear swim gear and not want a full length coat to cover me up4
-
To no longer be the DUFF. My friends are super super hot and attractive and they constantly complain about all the attractive guys and the attention. I just sit there and listen whilst shoving Doritos down my throat like a chunky lemon.
15 -
My son is starting 8th grade after the summer. I have planned to take the whole family to Epcot center to celebrate his graduation next summer. I want to be sure that I’ll fit on the rides. Everyone’s telling me I won’t have a problem because of how I carry my weight. I don’t want to chance it though. I would just be destroyed if I couldn’t get on the the two Harry Potter rides because I’m too fat. I have just started this journey. It’s not been easy either because my other half is not supportive. He doesn’t want me to lose weight. He likes my body how it is. But it’s so easy for someone whose 6 ft 7 and weighs 180 pounds to say there’s nothing wrong with you, when they aren’t the one who will have to wait while the whole family gets to ride the rides. In addition, the double edged sword is that I cook all the meals. The good news is, if he were cooking I promise it wouldn’t come close to sticking to my diet in any sort of way. But I’m challenged to come up with meals that I can eat, with everyone’s allergy restrictions, that doesn’t seem like “diet” food to them. So I have just been trying to eat much smaller portions. Which honestly, mine were always much smaller than his, but MUCH smaller now.13
-
dhiammarath wrote: »@io8785a Oh, you better believe I found a better doctor immediately! I do not suffer fools for long, but I still want to not get the nurses eyeing me. It's lessened, but in my head, it's going to go away completely when I hit a healthy BMI! To be fair, when I encountered health issues that caused me to gain back some of what I'd lost, my new doctor was awesome. My allergist even awesomer and my Gastroenterologist never batted an eye about my weight. There are bad seeds everywhere, which is why you gotta tune out the negative and focus on the AWESOME! But still, there's a part of me that totally wants to go in at what they want (healthy rando BMI though everyone knows it's imperfect) and be like... YEAH. I'M AWESOME. I DON'T NEED TO GO TO FAT SCHOOL (the first doctor tried to send me to a group for obese people to lose weight -- now it wasn't a support group to learn about diet and exercise. It was definitely the, "you're too overweight and you can't do it yourself so here, take yourself off to a group of people to be shamed" kind of delivery. The look I gave him had him completely backtracking).
I actually think if someone had tried to educate me on weight loss and what it entails and had given me a true support system, it would have been different. I would have lost the weight a lot earlier. But no one did. They shamed me, instead. And that is the problem with the health system today.
(edited because typos and clarifications)
I often feel the same way. I have Hoshimoto’s and Celiac. I became very symptomatic at probably 8 or so. It was the summer after first grade. It was like someone flipped a switch and I just didn’t feel like myself any more. Was very tired all the time, body aching, lethargic, constant weight gain. Believe me my parents didn’t let me just sit on the couch, and always cooked balanced meals. At first I was told growing pains, then was treated for depression, then anxiety, the fibromyalgia, then at 15 I was diagnosed with some very serious female problems and had to have the gist of my female surgeries which lead to a partial hysterectomy, but that’s a story for another day. They said that was the problem and I should feel better. Didn’t work. Then my gallbladder went to hell, and that had to come out. That didn’t help either. I had my first child and another surgery. Then a serious leg injury which left me bed ridden for 8 months. All while nothing was working on these other issues. And at that point I had just assumed that that is who I am as a person and would fave to live with it. Fast forward until about 5 years ago. I got a new doctor. He was looking through every thing and started asking questions. Then ran some tests and bam I have Hoshimoto’s that went undiagnosed for over 20 years, to which he was just appalled. At that point my thyroid was severely enlarged. My levels were off the charts. And it was mentioned that I may need to have my thyroid taken out. We’re struggling to get it under control still. The meds seems to work for a while, and then just stop. I often wonder has this been caught early on would I have all these problems that I have now? Would I be one of those lucky people that just gets to take a pill and have no symptoms, and seems to think that people like me are making these issues up because our struggle is different. But I guess all we can do is move forward.
17 -
simply to spend a day at the beach again.
5 -
My petty reason is to look good naked haha9
im so glad there are people out there who understand i thought i was going crazy.
Categories
- All Categories
- 1.4M Health, Wellness and Goals
- 394.3K Introduce Yourself
- 44K Getting Started
- 260.4K Health and Weight Loss
- 176.1K Food and Nutrition
- 47.5K Recipes
- 232.7K Fitness and Exercise
- 440 Sleep, Mindfulness and Overall Wellness
- 6.5K Goal: Maintaining Weight
- 8.6K Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
- 153.1K Motivation and Support
- 8.1K Challenges
- 1.3K Debate Club
- 96.4K Chit-Chat
- 2.5K Fun and Games
- 4K MyFitnessPal Information
- 16 News and Announcements
- 1.2K Feature Suggestions and Ideas
- 2.7K MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions