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

Well my motives were truly for health and to be able to do more things. But I do have this little fantasy of someday meeting up with some of the people who years ago were unkind to me or discriminated against me because of weight, and prancing about in my slimness, especially since some of them may be heavier now. But this will likely never happen as I live 2000 miles away and long ago put those jerks out of my life. Still, it would be sweet.

And I still love it when i see someone who hasn't seen me in a year or two and the big fuss they make about my weight loss. Never get tired of it. And truthfully, when I hear someone is coming to visit that I havn't seen in some time, my first thought is how fun it will be to show off my thinness (and not what it should be which is looking forward to seeing the person) so this is kind of naughty.

Diane

100% of the reason i wanted wls was because my health was bad and getting badder fast.  I was in terrible shape and got to where i could hardly walk,  Thankfully all of my health issues have been resolved and i couldn't be happier, even tho i still have 16 lbs that don't seem to want to leave me :o(  but i have to say i love being smaller and cuter than i have been in years and i love it now at work that all the gals are so jealous of me,   its too funny really  lol,  i'm bad i know  but i love my new life and the new me  :o)  Jeani

Other than health....I was so tired of being the fat one in the office.  Everyone wanted to sit by me at a company function so it would look like they were smaller, prettier, ate less, etc.  When I sat in a straight chair by someone, I always stuck out and had to kinda look back at them.  I wanted to "fit in" and be "in line" with everyone else.  Also I wanted my partner to be proud of me.  He never said anything but I could tell he was not proud of me.  Now I know he is from what others have repeated to me.  Sometimes I just think I did it for vanity reasons and that is okay as long as I am healthy and happy...which I am.

The truth is that the health issues had not kicked in much yet.  Oh I could see them like distant ghosts lurking just down the road.  My knee was hurting and I developed gestational diabetes with my second child and the doctor told me I would almost certainly develop full blown diabetes in under ten years.  So I didn't need a crystal ball to tell me what my future looked like.  However, the driving force behind the weight loss was my lack of joy and the fact that I was sleep walking through my thirties.  I did not want to go out, I did not feel good about myself or want to spend money on myself.  I became the wife and mother and lost me entirely.  This of course made me a worse wife and mother too.  I wanted to rediscover the playful, fun, joyful person I was born to be.  I wanted to play more and feel beautiful in my own skin.  I did a great deal of work on myself before losing the weight, but the weight was like an anchor holding me back from really loving life.  I have now cut the anchor and feel FREE.   I love this new life and it is everything I had hoped it would be.  I read a lot of posts about how this surgery will not fix everything, and I think that is very wise and true, but in my case, this was the very last thing I needed to fix to experience joy on a regular basis. 

I didn't have any health issues either.  But I was getting so sad and just tired of being left out or left behind.  I just couldn't do the things that I used to, and my kids and hubby were so fit and having so much fun, and joining them in what I could do was a chore.  Now, they can't keep up with me. 

It's such an ego boost to see other men appreciate how I look.  Even my hubby's boss told him that I was looking good. Plus, watching my son's friends faces fall when they realize that I'm his mother, just kills me!  I love it! Let me enjoy it before gravity takes it away again!