What nobody tells you about losing weight
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Wise words. I have been reading labels since I was able to read, often to the ridicule of those around me, but I didn't care about that. My reasoning has always been, or at least for as long as I remember, that if someone made the effort of writing something on or enclosed with a product that I spend money on, it is worth my time to read it. After all, part of my payment went to pay for this (dis)information. That includes nutrition facts labels and manuals and any other stuff. It is also why I have always rejected the claim of "hidden sugars" and the like. How is something hidden if it is mentioned right there for all to read? To read or not to read is a personal freedom and choice, but when one chooses not to read something, it is –in my opinion– dishonest to talk about "hidden whatevers" when those whatevers are staring us in the face.Fit2btied2016 wrote: »It's absolutely time-consuming to read each and every label, and yet there is no other option.
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Wise words. I have never found any so-called fast food that I was able to miss.Fit2btied2016 wrote: »[It's expensive, full of salt and sugar, and really not that great on the whole, but everyone will have their favourites, and that's fine. Do I miss it? Not really.
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One thing nobody ever told me about weight loss is that you feel really springy. Going about life feels lighter.
It’s hard to explain, but I’m down on here 112 pounds, but 124 pounds from my highest recorded weight, and after carrying around excess weight, it’s like your body remembers that weight and you still have the same muscles just moving less mass so it’s like being an astronaut in the moon and you are bouncy. 😂24 -
Almost daily walking and drinking more water. Using a kitchen scale for serving control will help slowly shed those pounds and have more energy to boot!6
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Almost daily walking and drinking more water. Using a kitchen scale for serving control will help slowly shed those pounds and have more energy to boot!3
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It seems we are essentially doing the same thing. I walk daily, I drink a lot and I use a kitchen scale. And I am just a few hundred grams removed from having lost 60 kg. If I use a popular German standard for ideal weight (which is somewhat lower than North American standards) I still have between 7 and 6 kg to lose.Almost daily walking and drinking more water. Using a kitchen scale for serving control will help slowly shed those pounds and have more energy to boot!
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Nobody tells you that your wrinkles will show 🤣7
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That if you've got a lot of weight to lose, that as you get closer to goal the numbers on the scale will start to seem surreal, especially if you haven't seen them in a long time.
Mentally I'm still trying to break 200, the scale says that I'm 35 lbs below that. It's a real mind f some days.15 -
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I literally just changed my profile pic the other day after I realized I was about 40 pounds heavier in the one I had been using!7 -
My butt cheeks are sagging cause I've lost so much weight
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Something I was not prepared for and am currently struggling with is people who I love, and care for greatly being aloof or distant from me which seems dumb as hell to me. It literally seems to be related to my change in appearance or size? I don’t understand why everyone can’t be rooting for you. It seems like when you physically change, that some people just don’t like it. 🤷🏻♀️
I’m literally the same person. 😟12 -
That you'll need one of these!
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That cushion has been my best friend for almost two years. Finally feel like I can sit for a while comfortably. I guess it’s related to the major loss of butt padding!4
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Well all your comments have helped. Its day one for me and I am nervous and overwhelmed by the seemingly expectation to imput each time I go gym or exercise, wach time I eat and I have never known calories !! I have never been on a diet b4 and i feel unsure I can do this ...9
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annieleonie wrote: »Well all your comments have helped. Its day one for me and I am nervous and overwhelmed by the seemingly expectation to imput each time I go gym or exercise, wach time I eat and I have never known calories !! I have never been on a diet b4 and i feel unsure I can do this ...
You can absolutely do this. Any deficit will do, so don’t push yourself too hard, just keep going.6 -
Many of us are older, when for the first time in your life you need to loose weight for your health. Get off the bloop pressure meds and other medicine you now take because of your weight. Staying healthy makes you feel better gives you eagerly. A new look on life in your golden years.7
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I definitely don't handle cold temps like I used to. I've lost all my insulation.8
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I’m really struggling right now with not being able to see any changes. I’ve lost close to 20lbs so I should be seeing some, and my clothes fit differently, but I can’t actually see anywhere different 😞😔
Which then makes me wonder if I have shrunk did I just not notice how big I was before?!?5 -
JessiBelleW wrote: »I’m really struggling right now with not being able to see any changes. I’ve lost close to 20lbs so I should be seeing some, and my clothes fit differently, but I can’t actually see anywhere different 😞😔
Which then makes me wonder if I have shrunk did I just not notice how big I was before?!?
Unfortunately we can't decide where fat opts to depart from first. You might be losing weight all over and therefore it's not as noticeable looking in the mirror. The fact that your clothes are fitting differently proves that you are absolutely getting smaller. I know it's cliche, and I didn't do it in any of my previous attempts at losing weight, but I did this time and it's definitely helped. Take pictures. You don't have to show them to anyone. But once a month, take a set of pictures. Day to day, looking in the mirror it's very difficult to perceive a difference because you're too close to your own progress. I'm not sure how long it took you to lose 20 lbs but if you had taken a picture at the beginning and compared it to one you took today, you would definitely see a difference.
I'm also not sure how much you have left to lose but my recommendation is to take a picture of yourself today from the front and from the side and if you can figure out how to do it (I can't) from the back. Take another set a month from today. And another one a month from that day. And keep going until you hit your goal weight. Look at your first and most recent ones side by side. I cut and paste them and put them in Paint so I can see them together without going back and forth. You will absolutely see a difference.
Keep up the great work. 20 lbs is a solid chunk of weight. You can do this.9 -
When you are at a community lunch and asked if you'd prefer chocolate or strawberry cream cake for dessert, and you say 'I like chocolate' .. no one looks 'knowingly' at you and remarks 'of course you do.'9
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You bring up good and valid points, but I would point out the one thing that is important for weight loss: the calorie count. It does not matter where they come from. The only thing that matters is that they are there. Once people get that point, they can learn to be more refined but they should never lose sight of the fact that calories are the only thing that really matters where it comes to weight loss, as studies have shown over and over.Fit2btied2016 wrote: »BartBVanBockstaele wrote: »
Wise words. I have been reading labels since I was able to read, often to the ridicule of those around me, but I didn't care about that. My reasoning has always been, or at least for as long as I remember, that if someone made the effort of writing something on or enclosed with a product that I spend money on, it is worth my time to read it. After all, part of my payment went to pay for this (dis)information. That includes nutrition facts labels and manuals and any other stuff. It is also why I have always rejected the claim of "hidden sugars" and the like. How is something hidden if it is mentioned right there for all to read? To read or not to read is a personal freedom and choice, but when one chooses not to read something, it is –in my opinion– dishonest to talk about "hidden whatevers" when those whatevers are staring us in the face.Fit2btied2016 wrote: »It's absolutely time-consuming to read each and every label, and yet there is no other option.
Your post brought up an interesting point about reading food labels and such. "Hidden sugars" are a bit tricky though, because even I had to research all the different names that sugar goes by! There are at least 22 different names for sugars that I have come across. The average person will not know that, and probably also will not know how to read a food label.
Unless a person has some sort of research to help them, or actually takes the time to dissect each and every ingredient, they may not be aware that barley malt syrup is a type of sweetener, as one example.
Agave syrup is very sweet, and it is used in making Tequila, but it's touted as a natural sweetener that can be just as bad as using ordinary table sugar.
Some people can be fooled by the "organic" label-Organic cane sugar. LOL. No such thing, really. ALL sugar has to be processed (ie. refined) in order to be put into a crystallized product.
I could go on. Nutrition labels are deceptive, and marketing companies are very good at making that sugary granola cereal sell ;-) The very first ingredient on a label is the most plentiful. They go down in descending order.
Food labels MUST by law be listed that way in many countries. "Low fat" is a key marketing blip for "high sugar" in many cases, or "high sodium," or both. If you take fat out (which is naturally flavourful), you have to replace it with something for taste-enter sugar and salt.
People buying "low-fat" items are probably better off just eating the fat on a nice steak rather than the marketing-hyped item.
Packaging has to sell the item along with marketing. There is the perception that a shiny car will look better, run better and be better cared-for than the same one, but dirty. Same with labels--which is more attractive--the brown paper bag, or the shiny box with pictures?
Most people buy on some sort of emotional appeal, or they go shopping when hungry and buy what appeals to their current sense of hunger/taste/smell. It takes work to "go beyond" the instant-gratification of the outer label to really figure out what is inside that package...
Of course, when talking about certain health aspects, other parts of the label are important as well, even extremely important, but people should never lose sight of the fact that while health and weight *are* closely related, they are also distinct.
As for sugar: it is unimportant, the label does not distinguish between them. It just says "carbohydrates". There is nothing hidden about that. Sure, it is -chemically speaking- a gross simplification, but it is one that is only important when one is in a situation where it is important and those situations are health situations, not weight situations.
The one exception to that rule *might* be fibre, but even that is somewhat controversial where weight loss is concerned because fibre is too diverse, and we don't really know all that much about how much is directly or indirectly digested and ultimately converted into energy. That is why I look at fibre to get to targets, but I include all its calories into my calorie count. After all, calorie-wise, fibre has relatively little impact because the quantities we *can* eat without discomfort are quite low, so there is no need to take them account for weight loss.
For example, at my age, 30 g of fibre is recommended. That is approximately 120 kcal. Assuming that only half of those calories are ultimately absorbed, that means a difference of 60 kcal. No weight management programme will be that precise anyway, our measurements are too imprecise. There is no compelling reason to subtract those from the total (and no one I know has ever done that anyway ^_^).
I compare it to television: whether a programme is good or bad does not matter at all for power consumption: Good Programmes consume just as much electricity as Bad Programmes.
The one piece of information that might confuse people is that Kcal and Cal are just different symbols for the same quantities.
I should add that your points are well taken. People should learn this stuff at school. It is important. Maybe they should learn a tiny little bit less about which "sports hero" won what "cup" and a tiny little bit more about stuff that is actually important for their health and will impact their lives until they snuff it.
As for "organic", sure, there is a reason why many of call the "organic" stuff just a tax on the gullible and the worried well. Agave syrup is an interesting one: people are fulminating against high-fructose corn syrup, but are simultaneously paying extra for agave syrup that contains vastly more fructose. It is ridiculous and deeply sad.4 -
Indeed. I never took pictures and I sort-of regret that now, even if only for "historical" purposes. I was finally able to find a picture taken of me in 2012, and then put it together with a webcam picture I took a week or two ago, and I was a bit shocked. I had no idea of how far I had come, except for the number on my trusty scale and the fact I have had to buy new clothes every now and then, because I could no longer hold up my pants without suspenders.Day to day, looking in the mirror it's very difficult to perceive a difference because you're too close to your own progress.
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