Weird things nobody tells you about losing weight

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  • ahviendha
    ahviendha Posts: 1,291 Member
    More regular poops!! I never used to go #2 once a day but now I'm regular like clockwork.

    Also learning how to deal with compliments gracefully, they started rolling in about the 20lb loss mark and at 50lbs lost now I'm a lot better at accepting compliments.
  • fishgutzy
    fishgutzy Posts: 2,807 Member
    Weirdest thing I ever heard obout losing weight: guys gain a half inch of "useable length" for every 20 pounds they lose. Of course I know this is total BS. Still funny that someone actually thought that up. :bigsmile:
  • SMiller074
    SMiller074 Posts: 51 Member
    It definately hurts to sit too long. Also, sometimes I feel like I'm not used to my body. I feel like I trip and run into things alot more..wondering if maybe it's because I'm still moving to accomodate the larger person I was?
  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    I have the tailbone pain too! It's not bad at work as long as I sit in the right position and get up every couple hours but if I have to sit in my car longer than an hour I have a hard time standing back up and my tailbone throbs for a few hours after. Trying to make sure I work my glutes to see if that helps keep me more elevated and thinking about investing in some sort of cushion...

    I've still got a ways to go but I'm noticing more and more bones all the time - that knobby part on my inner elbow is more pronounced, my hip bones feel weird when I lay on my side, my knees have hardly any fat on them now and the other day I noticed the ends of my shoulders (right above delt) were quite bony. LOL!
  • humidex8
    humidex8 Posts: 24 Member
    Me too on the rings! My wedding ring is now perilously loose, and I've only lost 20 lbs since my wedding two years ago. Money is tight so I haven't been able to resize it and I already lost it once in the snow this past winter and (miraculously) found it a week later when things thawed out. I'm thinking of wraping it in string or something so I can at least keep it on my finger!

    Wear it on a chain around your neck? My parents are divorced but I wear my mum's wedding ring like that lol.
  • Poorgirls_Diet
    Poorgirls_Diet Posts: 528 Member
    Some of these are quite funny, can't wait to feel some of them in a weird way when I lose all the weight
  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    Weirdest thing I ever heard obout losing weight: guys gain a half inch of "useable length" for every 20 pounds they lose. Of course I know this is total BS. Still funny that someone actually thought that up. :bigsmile:

    LOL!! My Hubs was joking about this with a buddy last week. This guy has lost over 100 pounds so Hubs said he should be careful or he might hurt someone. Obviously that's not true...I'm sure there's some difference but maybe more like a half inch per 50-75 pounds.
  • scrappy25
    scrappy25 Posts: 77 Member
    My local jewelrey store put a gold colored spacer on the inside part of my ring, no charge. It's probably not more than $10 even if they charged for it. Before the spacer, it was constantly slipping off.
  • pawoodhull
    pawoodhull Posts: 1,759 Member
    Me too on the rings! My wedding ring is now perilously loose, and I've only lost 20 lbs since my wedding two years ago. Money is tight so I haven't been able to resize it and I already lost it once in the snow this past winter and (miraculously) found it a week later when things thawed out. I'm thinking of wraping it in string or something so I can at least keep it on my finger!

    I've noticed my collar bones most. Forgot I had them they were so buried! My feet have gone down not in length but width. I wear Birkenstocks because of bone spurs in both heals, and most of what I have are adjustable so it's not too bad yet. I still have 104 to lose, so I may need a whole new shoe wardrobe when I'm done!!

    I knew my wedding rings were going to get too big so in preparation I had my anniversary band resized. One day while washing my face I heard metal hit porcelin and realized my rings had fallen off. I have a very wide band and engagement ring attached to each other, so they were too big to go down the drain. Instead they now live in the jewelry box until it's all said and done and then I will resize.

    The grossest thing though is that as I lose the belly fat, the belly hangs much lower (that's not the gross part) and my herinas, upper and lower abdomin, show more and more (yes that's the gross part). Although I love buying the smaller clothes, I still have to wear things that don't cling so I can hide them. :laugh:
  • Chipmaniac
    Chipmaniac Posts: 642 Member
    Losing weight can expose flaws. For some people, and I include myself, losing weight makes you look older. Fat fills in wrinkles. I've had to come to accept that I look older but am in much better shape. Personally, I'm going for the old tough-as-nails wiry guy look because my baby face went with the fat I lost.
  • CarmenLynn75
    CarmenLynn75 Posts: 118 Member
    ..for me it's sitting. Instead of feeling like a balloon that holds my boobs up, :laugh: I can feel rolls. Not so great a feeling.. but I can feel my body again, so in time I know it will be good :bigsmile:
  • themommie
    themommie Posts: 5,033 Member
    Me too on the rings! My wedding ring is now perilously loose, and I've only lost 20 lbs since my wedding two years ago. Money is tight so I haven't been able to resize it and I already lost it once in the snow this past winter and (miraculously) found it a week later when things thawed out. I'm thinking of wraping it in string or something so I can at least keep it on my finger!

    you can get ring resizers at claires I think they are $5 for a package of 6 they are little plastic pieces that fit over your rings so that they fit better . I bought some because I dont want to keep resizing my rings i want to wait until i am done losing
  • BeSophisticate
    BeSophisticate Posts: 132
    I don't have any alarming tales, myself, but I really enjoyed yours. Thank you for sharing.
  • DonniesGirl69
    DonniesGirl69 Posts: 644 Member
    Boob shrinkage....and I mean *extreme* boob shrinkage.

    I went from almost a very full D to a B cup. Although, now that they're smaller.....I've grown to like them much better this way. :happy:
  • Gurlyknockout
    Gurlyknockout Posts: 115 Member
    Me too on the rings! My wedding ring is now perilously loose, and I've only lost 20 lbs since my wedding two years ago. Money is tight so I haven't been able to resize it and I already lost it once in the snow this past winter and (miraculously) found it a week later when things thawed out. I'm thinking of wraping it in string or something so I can at least keep it on my finger!

    Go to where ever you got your ring from or Kay's, ect and they will usually give you a ring guard for free. :happy:
  • filming_ghosts
    filming_ghosts Posts: 81
    For me it's mostly the bones...my collarbones and hip bones stick out a lot now, so it freaks me out whenever I touch my hip bone or I hit my collarbone on anything.
  • MissNations
    MissNations Posts: 513 Member
    Lost enough padding from my butt that I had to adjust the rearview mirror down. NEVER would've thought of that...

    :laugh: :laugh:
  • allifantastical
    allifantastical Posts: 946 Member
    I can't wait for all this stuff to happen to me...lol
  • needamulligan
    needamulligan Posts: 558 Member
    I thought I had an abdominal mass. I felt it on one side of my lower abdomen, but not the other. Uh-oh. Just happened to have an appointment with my GYN. I told her my concern. She examined me, told me to try and sit up from a lying position on the exam table. She finally completed her exam and said, "Susan, you have abdominal muscles!" Me? At 50 years old. Abdominal muscles for the first time in my life could be felt!

    Love it! My new aspiration is to have abdominal muscles after 50! I really NEVER had them before but a girl can dream, right! :wink:
  • tripn404
    tripn404 Posts: 109 Member
    Sitting in the bath tub is not as comfortable as before. My tail bone and hips do not have the cushion they use to have...oh well, I will take that side effect...I sit on a folded towel if I plan on soaking for a while.....

    Agreed ... bubble baths aren't the same ::sigh:: and showers are more comfortable :/
  • Jalare
    Jalare Posts: 103
    I was sitting at a table leaning forward talking to a friend. My right hand went to touch my left shoulder and I felt this big bone. I was like, what is that? It was my clavicle (collar) bone. Funny thing is, my friend got a kick out of my reaction to noticing it.
  • BAMFMeredith
    BAMFMeredith Posts: 2,810 Member
    That I should really be working on a thigh gap now.
  • Brunner26_2
    Brunner26_2 Posts: 1,152
    You won't be "instantly happy" when you lose weight. Depending on the person, you may not feel much better about yourself, and your eating may be more disordered than when you were heavy!
  • amybrauch
    amybrauch Posts: 250 Member
    I am cold all the time now & I just discovered my collar bone the other day.
  • Brunner26_2
    Brunner26_2 Posts: 1,152
    That I should really be working on a thigh gap now.

    This I'll never understand. I had never even heard of a thigh gap until I joined MFP.
  • MrsWilsoncroft
    MrsWilsoncroft Posts: 968 Member
    I discovered I have hip bones and collar bones and boy it hurts your hip if you accidentally walk into a table lol
  • AXAGEM
    AXAGEM Posts: 56 Member
    I am the only person that drives my car, but one day I noticed that the rear view mirror in my car was in the wrong position. After readjusting the mirror, it dawned on me that my derriere had reduced in size, thus my eye level had dropped.

    Also like others have said my shoe size has changed and many of my shoes are now like flip flops, and my rings are too big for me.
  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    Wait until you are doing side crunches one day and your bottom rib hangs up on your hip bone. You don't have to be skeleton thin for that either, I've still got a pretty substantial body fat % but that has happened to me.
  • BSchoberg
    BSchoberg Posts: 712 Member
    Nobody ever told me how much time I'd waste just looking at myself in the mirror... flexing! LMAO - it's kinda sad how fascinated I am by my own muscles!
  • legnarevocrednu
    legnarevocrednu Posts: 467 Member
    One thing I figured out losing weight is that it is not just your clothes sizes that go down. My shoes went down an entire size and my ring size went from a 4.5 to a 3 -i know, weirdly small to begin with.

    Me too! I started out with a size 10 shoe, and am now a size 9. Also, I had a size 10 ring that I had to keep moving in. I finally had it on my pointer finger and it fell off while I was dancing.

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