How has the weight loss help you in your day to day life

AnnPT77

* Less joint pain.
* Increased general sense of well being (due to lower systemic inflammation, maybe?).
* Good cholesterol/triglycerides (formerly very bad).
* Normal blood pressure (formerly high).
* Easier to do daily life activities while carrying around 50+ fewer pounds.
* Reduced sleep apnea.
* Probably other stuff I'm forgetting, because it's been a couple of years since I hit maintenance.

elisa123gal

of course i am loving looking better and like my young self. But that's not changing my day to day life. it is the twinges, aches, and pains that go AWAY with healthy eating and weight loss that is amazing. That motivated me to stay on course more than looking better.

kaydeedoubleu1

Being able to walk into any shop and know things will fit.
Not worrying about being judged for what i eat when i am out.
Sitting in those crappy aluminium butt enclosing chairs and not feel squished.
Not being insecure on planes.
Not having thigh rash when i wear dresses in summer.
Many more but these will do.

dutchandkiwi

It gave the confidence to start a new post grad course and change my career get a new job
I have more energy and instead of wanting to do stuff I actually do them
Significant reduction of asthma medication (and still dropping there)
Better outlook on life in general
Less computer and TV time (busy with stuff)
I like what I see in the mirror

Just a few

estherdragonbat

I haven't had a lymphedema flare-up since a year ago January.

I had surgery to remove some malignant lesions in my bladder last November. After the fact, I Googled 'surgery complications obesity' and realized that had I been at my starting weight (BMI 45, Obesity level 3) instead of 'overweight', I could have been facing anything from longer recovery time to it not being safe to use general anesthetic, to possibly having the surgery pushed off until I lost some weight. (Note: It was non-invasive bladder cancer, which could turn invasive 7-8% of the time. So the surgery was done to avoid my being part of that 7-8%. But because that means 92-93% of the time, this sort of cancer doesn't spread, I could see the doctors saying that the surgery risks might outweigh the cancer risks at my previous weight. This is just me speculating, though.) Instead, they didn't even keep me overnight like they'd been planning and I felt mostly okay that same evening.

More energy.

Better clothes.

CaliMomTeach

I can bend down much more easily (help my young daughter wash her hair in the bath without feeling super uncomfortable). I went on an easy walk up to Yosemite Falls both before and after losing the weight, and I remembered how tough the walk felt before. I laughed after, thinking that it was nothing. Before I blamed how I felt on getting older. Now I know it was because I was getting fatter. I feel younger now. I've also started exercising regularly. After losing more weight, I felt more confident doing that. Most importantly, I went from being prediabetic to having normal blood sugar and from a doctor saying I needed cholesterol medicine to saying it was now fine.

ConnieT1030

I started losing just to look more pleasing to myself and to buy clothes I liked better than fat girl clothes. I am smaller now but having a hard time finding clothes since sizes are more complicated and falsely marked than the "plus" sizes were! But I did find more stamina (helped I use an elliptical now, not as regular as I should though) and can walk without being out of breath, but also I have a chronic lung condition and I found quite unexpectedly that my pulmonary function test was significantly improved by my last 40 pounds of weight loss (60 total), something I didnt realize would happen! Bonus! Still working on about 20 more for vanity's sake

Fitnessmom82

My blood pressure is normal! I have more energy. I no longer have anxiety about clothes shopping (the thought of buying a dress for a wedding would make me upset months ahead of time. I've got a wedding to go to in October and I'm actually excited to dress shop!). I feel like I know so much more about food, and how this all works. I'm happier with myself and more confident. I learned that I love working out. My back pain that has plagued me since my many back surgeries is much more manageable. I could go on and on!!