Uncommon Reasons to Lose Weight

I was sitting here (bored at work, hehe) and something sparked my mind. Everyone has their own reasons for losing weight. It ranges from happiness/self-confidence to wanting to be able to wear a size 2 or a bikini with pride. However, everyone has random and uncommon reasons they want to lose to. Maybe they are not part of common knowledge people people are too embarrassed/shy to discuss them openly. What are you uncommon reasons you want to lose weight? Mine are:

1. I want to go to the store and not feel embarrassed when buying a chocolate bar. At the moment, I don't buy them because I feel like people are staring at the "fat girl buying the candy".

2. I don't want to be that girl who walks up three flights of stares and is completely out of breath and having a heart attack.

3. I think it would be funny to see my clothes that I wear now be baggy and barely fit me. I would still wear them sometimes to, as weird as it sounds!

Maybe these are really uncommon reasons, but they are different than the whole common "I want to be pretty" or "I want to be healthy" reasons!

Original Post by whodoithinkiam:

All right, I can understand that. Heck my hip bones start showing at a BMI of 22. But my problem here is that she started at a healthy weight, she's now underweight, and her goal weight is dangerously underweight. She should be either gaining or at the very least maintaining rather than trying to lose even more, and maintaining if she had started fairly thin. Can you honestly say this isn't a problem?

Uh. I surely do now, sorry... I didn't get to look at her profile before. It seems that some people forget that this in not a pro-ana forum. 

I don't want to feel embarrassed about my thighs when my friends have pants parties.

How's that for an unusual incentive? :D

Okay, I realise what I might've said before would make the majority of people wary. But I assure you that I am eating right and getting the right amount of nutrients. I am genetically quite skinny to begin with and I DON'T endorse any ED.

i want to be the girl in the picture who fits in with her friends, and not be mistaken for a photobomber or something x)

i want to be the girl the guys look at, so when i ask why they were staring they won't be like,'um.. i was looking at your friend..' coz that's embarrassing...

I would like people to stop asking me "when is it due?" :-(

I want to discover my own potential, mentally and physically. Also (and please don't take offense to this if you have children), I want to know that I had my best version of a pre-baby body before I have the best version of a post-baby body. I don't plan on having children anytime soon, but I'd like to make sure that when I do, I am the healiest, best version of me possible.

I want to actually enjoy riding my bike, I love riding it but when you're straining the entire time it makes it hard to enjoy it too much.  And I want to be able to go boating with my friends and not want to wear a shirt under my life-jacket because I'm embarrassed about how fat I am.  And I want to be able to actually wakeboard/ski/kneeboard. 

I can't wait to kiss this weight goodbye so I can:

1. See my collarbones! (Not in an anorexic, way, it's just that I see them as a very feminine bodypart, and my weight has always made me "one of the boys".

2. Take a pole dancing/burlesque dancing class. As I mentioned above I have no idea how to be feminine or sexy, I'm a bit of a klutz at the best of times, so to be able to at least move like a lady, would give me a huge confidence boost.

3. To be in EVERY photo in at least one event, and be smoken in ALL of them.

4. Have small boobs! Mine are a 40DD and sagging, (AND I'M ONLY 21), I can't wait to lose them.. Measurements indicate a loss of size, which is the first place I seem to be losing from.. *luckily* but I will be very sagged, and once I reach my goal weight (depending on how they are) I'm getting a boob job to reduce, lift and firm. I'd love a B or C cup.

Simple:  to piss off my ex-wife who use to nag me about getting back into the gym.

Well besides wanting to look good which is a common reason...

I don't want to find out I have diabetes in 5 years. My mom found out she had diabetes when she was about 30. I don't want to ever have that. I'm beating genetics.

I want my ex boyfriend to be kicking himself the next time he sees me! (Actually, just after we broke up, his sister came to visit and she was like "Wow, you've gotten so skinny! What were you thinking, Jake? You really f*ed that one up, huh?" Hahahaha). 

To get a bellybutton ring, I've always secretly wanted one because I think they're cute- but my stomach was always too fat. I always carry all my weight there and I'd just like to feel confident enough to wear a bikini as well without covering up my bellybutton. :P

To not have to wear a girdle everytime I leave the house.

Because I want my husband to compliment me again.

So that I can actually go clothes shopping and have a CHOICE rather than settling for the first thing I come across that isn't hideous just because it's my size.

haha this thread is so freakin amazing i love it

1. I want to be able to wear white skinny jeans and look good in them!!!

2. TO NOT WEAR SPANX

3. (a little vain) for my ex's to see how i've changed and wish they had never let go of me

4. for girls who thought they were better than me and looked down on me when i had gained weight to look at me now and wish they were me

5. be offered to be in the fashion shows at my college

6. (not to boast) people tell me i'm pretty, and i love fashion so love wearing nice clothes, and get good grades, so losing another 8 pounds on top of it all would complete the package!! 

To be able to wear my wedding ring.  Not to have muffin top.

To not be self-conscious when I take my shirt off in public.

Original Post by graciesmother:

To be able to wear my wedding ring.  Not to have muffin top.

 Likewise...I can shove it on my fat finger, but it drives me crazy a lot of the time because my fingers will swell and I can't stand the tight feeling. 

To stop feeling like I'm wearing a fat suit. 

To be able to take a shower again with my husband...the mb shower is on the small side...so we both don't fit comfortably.  :( 

To feel comfortable in a coach airplane seat! Took a recent trip to Italy and the overseas flight almost killed me.  :( 

The rest of my reasons are just normal everyday reasons.  :)

I love this thread -- it's so motivating!

So along with a lot everyone's reasons, my most unusual reason is so when people look at me, I can be the impossible -- the nerdy AND hot girl on campus.  A bit selfish, but.. ehhh *sheepish*

Oh, and so I can go to the mall and just pick something off of the rack instead of searching for hours for maybe 1 or 2 tops.

1. I scuba dive, and I want to buy a wetsuit, and I've wanted to buy one for 13 years.  But I'm short, and I have short arms, and the only wetsuits that have short arms and legs are the size smalls.  Otherwise, you have to get them custom made, and that's a lot more expensive.   And they're not cheap to begin with.  So, I've been putting off buying one for 13 years until I got smaller.
2. I want to not feel self conscious when I'm wearing a wet suit (and generally somewhat ill-fitting rented ones so far) because I can't hide my tummy while I'm wearing one.
3. I want to be able to do pull-ups.  I remember in junior high in gym we had to be able to do the flexed arm hang, and I couldn't even do that for more than 2 seconds.
4. I want to know what it's like to be thin.  I've been overweight for as long as I can remember, so I just don't know what it's like.  I don't even know what I'd look like.  Will people treat me differently?