What is your "Petty" Reason to Lose Weight?

My petty reason is I want to rock a body at 46 (47 by the time I reach my goal) and make all the younger people’s jaw drop when they see a grandma in a bikini. 😊

Huge family falling out start of this year, I’m now determined to be healthier, fitter, thinner, and hustvall round better than the family member who caused the rift. Also, a lass at work who always commented on my weightvis due back off hater it’s in a couple of weeks and I NEED to look better than her!!
I really don’t think I’m doing this for me at all, it’s all spite lol

My boyfriend is slim and fit, I look so fat next to him. I'll make us the fit couple.

Because I am fed up looking for motivational threads on MFP. I want to be the motivation.

I was thin once, and I got treated infinitely better by almost everyone. I miss that!

I want to make heads turn when I walk into a room.

My petty reason: I want to be thin to feel more accepted by my boyfriend's family. They haven't done anything overt, just little things that I probably overanalyze. Like, his grandfather calls my boyfriend's sister-in-law "Beautiful" (like a playful nickname, as in, "How are you, Beautiful?"). He has never called me that, or anything close. She is thin and beautiful, I'm not thin nor particularly good looking. His whole family loves her! And so do I, but it's tough having her there as a comparison.

My boyfriend's mom doesn't like me. And I just have a feeling it's because of my appearance. She recently fat-shamed an acquaintance of hers to me. She has mentioned being too fat to find a dress for her other son's upcoming wedding (she's not fat). And she recently said to me "I love [daughter-in-law, a.k.a Beautiful]." And didn't follow it up with "and you, too" or anything. Even if all this didn't happen, I'm still pretty sure she doesn't like me. It's just the vibe I get. Anyway, I think if I lost the weight and wore smaller, more fashionable clothes, she would be more accepting, and that the whole family would be more comfortable having me around.

My boyfriend and I might be getting a domestic partnership this year. If we decide to and he tells his mom, I'm afraid that his mom will disapprove, with the underlyinv reason being my appearance.

Sorry for the rant! Basically, my current petty reason to lose weight is so my appearance can't be a factor in the family's opinion of me.

Posting an after pic on my 55th birthday (in late September) after being off social media for over a year. I've lost about 35 lbs so far, hoping to get to 55 lbs by then (55 by 55!). It's going to be tough, but fingers crossed.

Petty reason... because I want to be thinner than the other gals in my graduating class of '69.

jjironaddict wrote: »

Being brutally honest I found being fat repulsive

For me it was shame. I was around young, slim people at university and I was ashamed of the way I looked. Probably the first time in my life I felt that way.

I don't want to die and am very ill and obese. That's my "petty" reason. What a ridiculous thread.

Yeah you're right, I do want to lose weight to be more healthy. But in all honestly I'm turning 30 within the next six months and I want to be viewed as the hot mom of two, I love when people look at me and be amazed that I'm 29, because they always think I'm younger so yeah being hot now and even hotter when I get older is my why.