X-Post - What are some of the less than noble reasons you want/wanted to lose weight?

I read a post on the main board, that I rather enjoyed!  It was something along the lines of being glad to show off her slim body to her SIL who is mean to her and her children and it made me think. 

First of I and probably most all of us, wanted to lose weight for my health and that alone was enough of a reason to do it.  That being said.....

I love being smaller than some of those women who thought they could flirt with my husband right in front of me because I was so overweight!  I can still hear, ya know?

What are some less than noble reasons that you want to lose weight?

No Martyrs - only the wrong reasons are acceptable, lol!

I already posted on the thread you mentioned.. but I will do so here too, lol..

I live in a military community. It is very enclosed, and VERY catty. For a number of reasons, I have never fit in, and the women have snickered behind my back, made rude comments to my face, left my kids out- and a few have flirted with my hubby as well. I LOVE that now when we enter into an event there are eyes on me, and that they HATE that their hubby's look at me.

My hubby has my pin up shoot pics on his desk and other Marines have blatantly come in just to look at them/ show them to others. A few of these men have commented "nice pics" and similar things to me at functions and you can see the steam in their wives eyes. Normally, I would feel bad for them, but these *****es never felt bad for how much they hurt my feelings.. so screw em!

I can lie and say I wanted to lose the weight so I would be healthy, but the main reason I wanted to lose weight was so I could date.  I was tired of being alone and sick of everyone telling me if the right man came along,  it would not matter if I was overweight.

Buying cute clothes and being able to see how much better I look in the mirror has been an enormous boost to my self esteem.

My brother and I have always been overweight, and have gone up and down the scale a few times too. 1.5 years ago I had regained all of the weight I had lost (150 pounds) and was at a real low point in my life. The death of my mother hit me hard and I found comfort in food, while it motivated my brother to lose weight.

I also went through a lot of personal problems that put me in a deep depression. I've never been close to my brother and the few times I see him (maybe once or twice a year) he invariably ends up hurting my feelings and making me cry.. he sure does know how to press my buttons.

Any way I was visiting with my brother and my father, and while I had regained all of my weight, my brother had lost like 80 pounds at that point and had become a very self righteous vegetarian. He actually started giving me a lecture about my weight and when I told him I was dealing with some personal problems that made it hard for me to lose weight, he told me to get over it and I just had to "try".

I was so hurt and humiliated I literally went and hid in my closet and bawled my eyes out. The last time I saw my brother was in October when I had just started losing. He had lost 115 at this point, and I have now surpassed him if he hasn't lost anything or has started regaining again, as most dieters eventually do.

So I hope the next time I see him I will be thinner and have lost more weight then him, and he will have regained weight. I would never tell him I had the VSG.. he would totally make fun of me for it, and I don't even want him to know about this great surgery.

If it weren't for wanting to visit with my nephew on occasion, I'd never see my brother.. can't stand the guy and look forward to the day I can rub it in. I'm also going to my high school reunion this summer, and want to look as good as I can when I go.

Gosh Sublimate, what an awful experience with your brother. must have been terrible. No one can torture you like a sibling.

I have a brother who made things pretty rough for me as a child. Eating stuff is related to it. But am pleased that we moved beyond all that. And he has been overweight all his life and as an adult even more obese than me. And at my encouragement he is getting sleeved in May. I hope it goes as well for him as it has for me.

You will rock that reunion!     Diane

I want to be a MILF.  LOL  - There are lost of activities that I can do now that had weight restrictions like zip lining.  Looking forward to trying new things.

I don't think I had this surgery primarily to be "healthy" the way some people think of it. I wanted quality of life. Sure I wanted to be off my blood pressure meds (and I am) and have less aches and pains (and I do) but I wasn't diabetic or had sleep apnea or any of those things. But I was getting less and less active and my world was getting smaller and I wanted that to stop.

It was only after I lost a lot of weight that I started to see other possibilities of the vain kind. LOL Like I have a pretty rockin' bod for a 50-something. I didn't expect that so it wasn't motivation to *get* surgery but it sure is motivation to keep the weight off!

 Primarily, I wanted to be healthier and feel better. I hated being fat, and how I looked and felt.

That said, I always felt that it was a hendrance professionally. People just don't take you as seriously when you are morbidly obese. I was not confident. 

Another biggie- I always felt like a hypocrite telling my patients they needed to lose weight, when I obviously did too. 

Like the Trace Atkins song, I wanted to be "One Hot Moma"!

I was primarily motivated by how small my world was getting - there was so much I could not do or enjoy.

HOWEVER - I LOVE, totally LOVE looking good and rocking a fitted dress and high heel boots when I am teaching my university classes. It is pretty fun to be a semi-hot professor!

I don't feel bitter really about the random attention I get now that I did not used to get - men opening doors, former high school classmates checking out my classmates.com profile etc. I do not and never will tolerate fat jokes or ugly remarks about people's weight - but society being the way it is, it isn't that surprising that I get hit on and flirted with more often at a size 12 than was the case at a size 26.

Also - it is nice to still be the "smart one" in the family but no longer be the "fat one".