What nobody tells you about losing weight
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how alert and vital I am, mainly just awake and I smile more18
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I saw an aunt yesterday that I had not seen since before I had lost 80 pounds. She said, "Oh my, your beautiful blue eyes are back, you can see them again"25
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That as I lose another dress size to make use of clothes I buy for that size quickly or I will find that I had wasted money. I had bought some new bras when I went from size 20 to 18. I put them on one morning to find that they were again too big, darn it!
A friend highly recommended this:
Rene ROFE extreme push up bra.4 -
catherinefjord wrote: »REGRETTING DELETING ALL THOSE OLD FAT PICS FOR COMPARISON!!!
This!!!! Not that there were many to begin with since I avoided the business end of the camera!18 -
mellyrunsfar wrote: »sunflowerhippi wrote: »that people will straight up ask if you are starving yourself.... wtf (my dad, and I am 30 haha)
Yes! I had someone ask me if I was sick because of the weight loss....when I said "excuse me?", she said "well some people drop a lot of weight when they're sick."
Same here. Someone asked if I had cancer :-(
I had are you losing weight on purpose.....6 -
Sorry. Edited because I posted in the wrong thread!
Carry on...
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the_great_unknown wrote: »I'm down 110 pounds from my heaviest and I was really not mentally prepared. I still have a lot left to lose, about 30 pounds. I grew up being mocked a lot for being fat, so now, in general, I avoid making contact with strangers when I am walking around and if someone whistles, my first thought is that they are making fun of me. That's the bad part.
The good things - I enjoy life more. I try new things that I never would have before. The best thing though, is that I have inspired both of my parents to eat better and both have lost weight.
Yep. 91 pounds down and the first man that whistles at me is getting punched.11 -
I don't know whether I'm getting more confident about what I wear out in public or if i just don't give a *kitten* anymore19
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Family members now feel as though they can pat your stomach whilst making a weight related comment
I get my butt patted and hands put on my waist. I dont mind when it is family, but when a co-worker does it I feel like she is trying to see if I am wearing something to make my waist look smaller. She does it quite often. And who touches someone without asking. Just weird to me.14 -
What nobody told me is that there comes a point that everything just comes together and it’s *almost* easy to continue to lose weight.
For instance, this weekend, I was out of town visiting family. I passed up some treats without too much trouble while still having a few of my favourites. The scale says I’m up a pound for the weekend, but that’s totally okay. Today, I’m back to my new normal way of eating and exercising and that pound will be gone in no time.
Six months in and 45 lbs down and I have no desire to go back to my old normal…
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Family members now feel as though they can pat your stomach whilst making a weight related comment
I get my butt patted and hands put on my waist. I dont mind when it is family, but when a co-worker does it I feel like she is trying to see if I am wearing something to make my waist look smaller. She does it quite often. And who touches someone without asking. Just weird to me.
What the... the things I read in these forums about people who seem challenged in the personal boundaries department amaze me. I can guarantee that the first time someone patted me *kitten*, or any other part of me, would be their last. This doesn't apply to the boyfriend, in that case this behavior is generally encouraged.
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Family members now feel as though they can pat your stomach whilst making a weight related comment
I get my butt patted and hands put on my waist. I dont mind when it is family, but when a co-worker does it I feel like she is trying to see if I am wearing something to make my waist look smaller. She does it quite often. And who touches someone without asking. Just weird to me.
I would push her hands away from me and say quite loudly: 'exCUSE ME?' I would not tolerate anyone patting my *kitten*, especially at work. The waist patting I would still push her hands away and ask her not to do that again. Rude people are rude.
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Angelfire365 wrote: »Family members now feel as though they can pat your stomach whilst making a weight related comment
I get my butt patted and hands put on my waist. I dont mind when it is family, but when a co-worker does it I feel like she is trying to see if I am wearing something to make my waist look smaller. She does it quite often. And who touches someone without asking. Just weird to me.
I would push her hands away from me and say quite loudly: 'exCUSE ME?' I would not tolerate anyone patting my *kitten*, especially at work. The waist patting I would still push her hands away and ask her not to do that again. Rude people are rude.
That's a "touch me again and I'll see you in HR" scenario.....22 -
Some people won't be supportive.
They'll see you actually making a positive change and not making excuses, and realise they don't have much excuse to complain about their weight anymore so they try to bring you down with them.
Unfortunate fact, but thankfully they're not the majority.19 -
wateryphoenix wrote: »-You will discover bones you forgot (or never knew) you had
I thought I found a lump under my arm then realised it was my rib :-)
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billglitch wrote: »I saw an aunt yesterday that I had not seen since before I had lost 80 pounds. She said, "Oh my, your beautiful blue eyes are back, you can see them again"
This! My eyes look much bigger!12 -
I don't know if anyone else has felt this, but I felt pretty silently judgmental today toward a couple of girls talking about their (unhealthy) weight loss plans. One was super proud of herself for only eating a sandwich and nothing else the day before, and the other was talking about how she starts gaining weight if she eats more than 600 calories in a day. I don't know either of them well enough to say anything, but it just amazed me how willing they were to encourage each other's desire to starve themselves, especially since neither of them is all that overweight. I've always been more of a "live and let live" kind of person, so it surprised me how much it bothered me.
Back in Highschool my best female friend had SUGAR Packet lunches. Yes, ONE packet. And she was slim! If I only I was the person then that I am now, I could have done some good. But what the *kitten* did I know about life back then. My "no lunch" lunch wasnt better (no money).7
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