India, Oct. 7 -- For many, the motivation for losing weight comes from various places: it may be because they want to be fit, stay in the best shape, or reduce their risk of developing chronic diseases. For a Malaysian man, the reason was that he wanted his wife to sleep next to him.

Timothy Tiah, a married man from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, revealed how his wife became the motivation for him to lose weight as she stopped sleeping next to him in an Instagram post shared on September 20. "I didn't lose weight for abs. I lost it because my wife couldn't sleep next to me anymore," he shared in the post.

Sharing his story, the Malaysian man, who went from 78 kg to 65 kg, revealed that at the peak of his weight, although he was still exercisin...