What is your "Petty" Reason to Lose Weight?

tararogan2444 wrote: »

At 54, I'm not the head turner I was at 18. But...I soooooo want to be. TBH, I tell people I want to be healthier, but really I want to feel the command of attention I did in my youth.
Too real???

No... not at all. We would all like to be head turners!

This happened earlier this summer, but I think it's pretty petty.

I was on a hike with some friends, all were guys except one other girl who is much thinner than me. She is easily a size 0 or 2, looks great physically in anything she wears. However, this was a particularly hot, sunny day. We hit a steep incline on the trail that was pretty tough for everyone. We were all drinking enough water, but this girl had to stop our group midway through because she couldn't keep going. Normally, this would have been me, and it would have been blamed on me being fat. Now that I'm less fat and more in shape, I easily continued while this much thinner, but clearly out of shape girl could not.

Not being limited felt so liberating for me, and being able to keep up with the guys and not be the girl dragging us down, felt triumphant.

ellie117 wrote: »

This happened earlier this summer, but I think it's pretty petty.

I was on a hike with some friends, all were guys except one other girl who is much thinner than me. She is easily a size 0 or 2, looks great physically in anything she wears. However, this was a particularly hot, sunny day. We hit a steep incline on the trail that was pretty tough for everyone. We were all drinking enough water, but this girl had to stop our group midway through because she couldn't keep going. Normally, this would have been me, and it would have been blamed on me being fat. Now that I'm less fat and more in shape, I easily continued while this much thinner, but clearly out of shape girl could not.

Not being limited felt so liberating for me, and being able to keep up with the guys and not be the girl dragging us down, felt triumphant.

Years ago I was a lifeguard for a part time job whilst at University. You had to attend training every month and complete the swim tests before they would give you shifts.

I was considerably larger and older than many of them, and it always felt good when I was quicker than these slender 17 year olds. I was also strong enough to tow/ lift the big lads when they struggled.
It started some interesting conversations about fitness/ strength/ weight.

To stop looking like a “reasons not to have kids” advert

Ps I adore my kids but I am currently a wreck

There will always be women that are skinnier and prettier than me. I just want to have the (sexy) confidence to know that men do see me. I don't need to be the skinniest girl at the party but I want to be the girl that is in shape and hasn't "let herself go"

My grandpa was a wrestler and maintained a sub 10% bf level in his youth. And my dad always talked about how his huge quads left a groove above his knees. I'd like to look as fit as my grandpa one day.

Today my wife's ex came to pick up my stepson. He hasn't seen me since August. The look on his face when he realized that I am now skinnier than he is on top of taller, better looking, not bald, and with much more full manly facial hair than he has was priceless.

I just found all new petty determination.

I already work regularly with a personal trainer who I really like, he does good workouts and plans for me and he’s also a physical therapist so he knows how to work around my various injuries, how to train different support muscles etc. He works in a gym that’s in an inconvenient location for me, so I do my other workouts elsewhere. I switched to a new gym that just opened in my area, and they are offering everyone an introductory trainer session, which is of course to push their trainer packages. I just had my intro session today, and the trainer was an idiot. She said she respects my current trainer relationship and won’t try to sell me anything, and then proceeded to spend the next 10 minutes throwing shade at my trainer and how she would do everything differently, she’s great at nutrition and weight loss guidance etc., and completely ignored the fact that my current trainer is a physical therapist and there are specific reasons for how we plan things, and that I’m seeing a registered dietitian later this week to help with my actual medical issues re: eating and nutrition. On top of this, she set me up right in front of a squat rack and we did floorwork, kettlebells etc but not the squats, even after she said we’ll ”reserve” the squat rack so we could. Also, she kept using a language form that pretty much equals calling me ”Ma’am” the whole time, even though I told her to address me by my name or simply ”you”.

I was so confused and upset after the session, but now my petty side is taking over and I want to get amazing weight loss results with my current trainer just to show it off and shove her advice up to where the sun does not shine. She works at the gym I regularly go to, so she’ll see me there.

Tl;dr: a trainer at my gym is an idiot and I want great results to show off and show her that my trainer is better than she is

I guess my petty reason would be to shove it in my now ex-wife's face.
Trust me she deserves it. 🤣

So people wont say Im big.