What is your "Petty" Reason to Lose Weight?

AmberGlitterSparkles wrote: »

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.

GloriaE2016 wrote: »

A year and half ago my husband's brother started dating a cute hot blonde. He showed her picture to my husband and kids and said "Yea, your daddy's gonna be jealous now".....ugh those words have stuck with me! They are now married and she gained quite a bit of weight but she's still pretty and cute so my petty reason is to be hotter than her.

SummerTwentyOne wrote: »

AmberGlitterSparkles wrote: »

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.

I started at 280 pounds (5ft9) and I didn’t get rejected from any rides but I was VERY VERY close, the minimum bar clicked but it required me to hold my stomach in so much I was going to explode. The team members used to giggle at me in the operating booth. Not fun times...

AmberGlitterSparkles wrote: »

TheMrWobbly wrote: »

Couldn't get in the rides at a theme park, couldn't take the helicopter ride, used to fly frequently and hated the sweat marks from the seat belt that was too short - take your pick

When I was about 18 mind you only about 200lbs at the time. I couldn’t get the seat belt to work and the ignorant lady next to me was like “next time you should probably buy two seats, because it’s not fair to the person who has to sit next to you.”

nickssweetheart wrote: »

My petty reason is that a doctor said I couldn't.

Seriously, I was referred to an orthopedist of all people, and he said "Let's be real, you're never going to lose the weight" and offered me a card for his friend that does WLS.

From my primary care doctor who knows me and has charted my progress and knows that although I'm heavy I have no blood pressures/diabetes/pre-diabetes issues, and that I gained the last bit of weight during an extremely difficult period while I was on medication and had untreated hypothyroidism, I WANT to be able to have a discussion about my weight. With the guy who is supposed to tell me if I need ankle surgery who also has a physique like Santa Claus himself?

Not so much.

io8785a wrote: »

I know that many of us choose to lose weight because we want to have a healthy lifestyle and feel better about ourselves, but c'mon, we also have "I'm going to stick it to X" reasons.

For me, it's because I don't want to be the fat gay cousin. I want to be the hot gay cousin. I also want people's minds to be blown when I can lift heavy boxes by myself.

What's yours?