What is your "Petty" Reason to Lose Weight?

I always thought it would be cool to wash my clothes on my stomach

saskifish wrote: »

To spite the heck out of my ex boyfriend. Who never wanted to get married unless I was a size 6. I am now married to the right guy and I'm loosing weight so he can have the woman the ex wanted. (He cares nothing about size but I want the right guy to be proud).

I had a boyfriend like that too.

I'm going bathing suit shopping in 3 weeks. I haven't bought a bathing suit since before I had kids (so 5 years ago). And the last time I tried them on in the store before trying to lose weight I ended up leaving the store in tears because I felt so fat and ugly. This time I am 35 lbs down and I'm determined to feel confident in a 2 piece.

It's only PART of the reason, but I want to catch the eye of my daughter's Orthodontist. I have a massive crush on him but have been a bit shy about pulling the trigger and I started thinking that my body image could be the largest reason why!

I want it all. Husband check, beautiful baby check, Money/assets check banging body ... in progress Lol

Because a coworker told me if you lost weight you'd be pretty. I'm not bad looking and although she's slender, she can't change her face......just saying.

Not sure if I’ve answered this before or even with the same answer but my petty reason is so that I’m not fatter than my little sister she’s always been smaller than me now we are 28 and 31 and I don’t want it to be that way anymore

Looking good in pics when I go to Florida and Maui this summer!

This is super-petty. My SIL has a sister (Linda) that she treats like a goddess, like she's the smartest lady in the land. It hurts my feelings that my SIL treats me like a second-class citizen. Linda is obese b*tchy, judgemental, lazy and all-round not a nice person. So we (Linda & I) coincidentally started a "counting calories" (MFP for me) at the same time -- FIVE YEARS AGO. She lives 2 states away but we still see each other at family events like 4-5 times a year, usually at MY house! I always welcome her with open arms. My hurt feelings are PRIVATE.

In 5 years, she not only failed at losing weight in a healthy way she then decided to have WLS. She lost *most* of her weight after surgery but has now put it ALL BACK ON. In the same 5 years, I have maintained my 50 lbs weight loss. She will NEVER win the healthy-weight game with me. never. It keeps me highly motivated. HAHAHA Call me petty but I win. I also stay very active. I'm 3 years older than Linda.

So I can stop being compared to my sister and just tell my mom and grandma to shove it. They've always told me that I need to lose weight. Now I'm not terribly out of shape, I can hold my own, but I'm compared to my sister constantly. I also want to just weigh less than my husband. I'm currently about 20lbs heavier.

I would like to lose weight for my self esteem , although I know I will never be as skinny as I once desired to be when I once struggled with bulimia , my goal is to be a energetic healthy skinny and prove everyone wrong whom assumes because I once struggled with an unhealthy perspective on weight that I can never be thin and happy ( in a healthy way)

jesspen91 wrote: »

Crop tops, all the crop tops!

It only took 2 months, 5lbs and 1.5 inches to gain that crop top confidence.

I wanna get some tattoos, and I feel like they would look stupid unless I'm in good shape. Also, I want to be able to dress is cool costumes on Halloween. I'm tired of googling chubby characters to dress up as.

<--- Petty Betty.
My mom buys her, me and my sister shirts we all 3 like every few months. Usually an XL for me and medium for the 2 of them. At Christmas (much to her shock) it was medium for all 3 of us. Can't wait until it's 2 mediums for them and a small for meeeeeeeeeee

Petty reason = a in- law. But when it come down to it , better health, flexibility and a desire to dress, look and feel younger.