What nobody tells you about losing weight

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  • JessiBelleW
    JessiBelleW Posts: 836 Member
    The biggest thing no one told me about weight loss, well actually calorie counting I suppose, is that it would hugely improve my money management. It took me a couple months in to realize that if I was tracking every calorie, then I should be tracking every penny just as closely. I got a tracking app for that and all the same principles that made my weight loss successful helped turn my finances around too.

    I find this rather ironic. I was looking at my goals for this year, and my financial ones are the only ones I am on track to achieve by the end of the year. I obviously need to spend more time at the gym, and less time on my excel spreadsheet!
  • ridiculous59
    ridiculous59 Posts: 2,910 Member
    EmPersson wrote: »
    Last night I was doing some house chores. We have a Dyson upright vacuum, and I'd just emptied the canister and left it in the kitchen while I went downstairs to switch out laundry. When I came back up, I had a bundle of sheets in one hand and rather than trying to bend over the bundle in my arms to pick up the canister, I basically did a walking lunge to pick it up and carry everything upstairs. No one told me I'd be integrating basic workout moves into my basic housework! :D

    My employer's health and wellness program is called "Fit for Life". This is wbat they're talking about :)
  • bpetersen1234
    bpetersen1234 Posts: 16 Member
    edited September 2017
    jesslla wrote: »
    That when your morbidly obese you won't see changes for a very very long time and then all of a sudden BAM you start looking subtly different.

    I wear a medical alert bracelet, when I got it I could put one finger under it, now I can fit two.
    My legs have shapes that make shaving more challenging.
    My wrists look smaller.

    Not enough to see in the mirror yet, but enough to notice when I look carefully. And it snuck up on me.

    I under the mirror part completely. I have lost 45lbs and 3 inches in my stomach. Even though I'm told by people they can tell, the mirror to me says a different story. Keep up the hard work!
  • bpetersen1234
    bpetersen1234 Posts: 16 Member
    I understand the mirror part completely. I have lost 45lbs and 3 inches in my stomach. Even though I'm told by people they can tell, the mirror to me says a different story. Keep up the hard work!
  • WJS_jeepster
    WJS_jeepster Posts: 224 Member
    tomteboda wrote: »
    No one tells you that if you're tall and more slender it's REALLY REALLY REALLLY REALLY hard to find clothes that fit. Like, insanely hard. My local stores have stopped carrying tall pants in any regular sizes (4-16) whatsoever. There's a petites section for short women. There's a juniors section for short women. While the womens' section is also for short women, you can make up for some of the lack of length by going up in size. But not so much in the regular department.

    I wear a size 6 L now, and I really need that extra length.. but criminy heck is it hard to find.

    I didn't look - are you from MN? I've lived around the country but only in MN have I heard "criminy heck". :)
  • SapphireMoon23
    SapphireMoon23 Posts: 139 Member
    timtam163 wrote: »
    skymningen wrote: »
    Nobody told me that it can be harder to find fitting dresses which flatter your waist if you are a short and skinny but relatively blessed in the bust area. It worked better when I was not annoyed that the dresses matching my bust don't flatter my waist.

    Nobody told me I'd no longer be blessed in the bust area... :(

    Yep i went down a cup. Boohoo
  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    edited October 2017
    jesslla wrote: »
    timtam163 wrote: »
    skymningen wrote: »
    Nobody told me that it can be harder to find fitting dresses which flatter your waist if you are a short and skinny but relatively blessed in the bust area. It worked better when I was not annoyed that the dresses matching my bust don't flatter my waist.

    Nobody told me I'd no longer be blessed in the bust area... :(

    I'm really hoping for that to happen to me! I'm a 46HH UK sizing, because US sizing just didn't go up that big really. It's very hard to find bras that fit right. I'm usually wearing bras that are technically too small in the cups because I break the underwire ones too quickly. :'(

    I'd love to have small breasts when I'm done, I could actually buy cute bras.

    You might size into a size that has cute styles. I still wear UK bras because I came to prefer them, and even in FF cups, I can find some pretty bras. I wear either a 30 FF or a 32 F. I started out in a in a 38K.
  • EatingAndKnitting
    EatingAndKnitting Posts: 531 Member
    jesslla wrote: »
    timtam163 wrote: »
    skymningen wrote: »
    Nobody told me that it can be harder to find fitting dresses which flatter your waist if you are a short and skinny but relatively blessed in the bust area. It worked better when I was not annoyed that the dresses matching my bust don't flatter my waist.

    Nobody told me I'd no longer be blessed in the bust area... :(

    I'm really hoping for that to happen to me! I'm a 46HH UK sizing, because US sizing just didn't go up that big really. It's very hard to find bras that fit right. I'm usually wearing bras that are technically too small in the cups because I break the underwire ones too quickly. :'(

    I'd love to have small breasts when I'm done, I could actually buy cute bras.

    You might size into a size that has cute styles. I still wear UK bras because I came to prefer them, and even in FF cups, I can find some pretty bras. I wear either a 30 FF or a 32 F. I started out in a in a 38K.

    That's fine too. I know as my band size goes down I'll be more likely to find cute bras. There aren't as many women with my size breasts and ribs as there are smaller sizes, so I get why styles are limited. Still sucks. As does paying $60 for a bra only to have the wire pop out two months later.

    I'll also be happy to size down into a point where I can get sports bras. Even if the cups are too small, right now I haven't found *any* sports bras in a 46 band, even online in the plus size sections. I think the highest one seen is a 42 or 44.

    I don't need one for support, the most I do is walk right now when my knee lets me, but underwires are just not comfortable all the time and the sweat means I have to wash them more often.

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