Weird things nobody tells you about losing weight
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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.0 -
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:0
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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?0
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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!0 -
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.0 -
Some of these are quite funny, can't wait to feel some of them in a weird way when I lose all the weight0
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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.0 -
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.0
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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:0 -
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.0
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..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:0
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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 losing0 -
I don't have any alarming tales, myself, but I really enjoyed yours. Thank you for sharing.0
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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:0 -
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:0 -
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.0
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Lost enough padding from my butt that I had to adjust the rearview mirror down. NEVER would've thought of that...
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I can't wait for all this stuff to happen to me...lol0
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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!
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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
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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.0
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That I should really be working on a thigh gap now.0
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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!0
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I am cold all the time now & I just discovered my collar bone the other day.0
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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.0 -
I discovered I have hip bones and collar bones and boy it hurts your hip if you accidentally walk into a table lol0
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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.0 -
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.0
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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!0
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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.0
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