Weird things nobody tells you about losing weight

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  • trishtrish84
    trishtrish84 Posts: 237 Member
    I had to start playing soccer so chicks would stop hitting on me.

    How does playing soccer make chicks not hit on you? If anything, I would think they would hit on you more because now you are an athlete/jock...
  • Jamie_Lauren
    Jamie_Lauren Posts: 211 Member
    One thing people never tell you is how annoying it is to have to keep buying clothes and bras while you are still losing weight!

    I need to buy new gym clothes constantly, because every pair of leggings I own falls down now when I run. I also bought a couple of really beautiful dresses when I was overseas recently that no longer fit me and I have a whole section in my wardrobe of clothes I love but can't wear anymore. Grr! :explode:

    It's also really hard to adjust mentally to your new body, I still feel like my old fat self! I had a friend's 21st birthday last week and went into a store to find a dress. Immediately, I grabbed a size 14 and it FELL off me. I ended up having to buy the size 10 and was so confused (in a good way). :laugh:

    The other thing I've noticed is definitely the extra bones. I was at work the other night and was working on the back counter in front of some drawers when I suddenly felt this pain in my hip and realised that I had bumped my hip bone on one of the drawer handles. My co-worker was pretty amused by my reaction.
  • NewAngel35
    NewAngel35 Posts: 182 Member
    I lost one of my rings.Previously it had been stuck .then one day it was gone:),also when working out all of a sudden my watch started to bash my wrist bone...I where a Braclett type metal thing it didnt half hurt. Who knew you could get links REMOVED hahahah
  • trishtrish84
    trishtrish84 Posts: 237 Member
    The thing that gets me is that no one tells you how expensive it is to have to keep buying new pants every month, and what the heck they do with all the old big pants. I mean, I'll keep one pair of starting fat pants, for comparison, but I'm not keeping any of these other pants around. I have NO intention of ever needing them again.

    What do you do with them? How many pairs of pants do you buy every time you drop a size?

    You should keep all of your denim fat pants, cut them up into squares, sew them together and make a quilt out of it. You will need the warmth for when you get cold. Its also a great way to recycle your pants and you get to keep them as a reminder of your journey. I actually have done this with old pairs of jeans and its super cute. Also, take a back pocket and put on the quilt to hold things like your cell phone and remote controls. <3
  • benhacks
    benhacks Posts: 3
    Sitting on my wallet in my back pocket now hurts my *kitten*. Thought I'd chime in with my weird thing :)
  • Caseyann2501
    Caseyann2501 Posts: 43 Member
    BUMP!

    this will be my motivation for when it gets tough. I am starting to lose the weight now and cannot wait to experience some of these (especially to be able to see my collar bones again! :happy: )
  • sparklelioness
    sparklelioness Posts: 600 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?

    ^ this. I def. feel like I'm not used to my body-I'm 41 lbs lighter but i still move sometimes for the old me-like use too much force to get up or move, and so go further than i want and bump into the wall, ect.

    I was feeling my hipbones today too. Honestly, it feels so damn good tolose weight. Way better than that extra dessert tastes.
  • kimmarie63
    kimmarie63 Posts: 12
    bump
  • VanillaBeanSeed
    VanillaBeanSeed Posts: 562 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.

    But I agree, I also noticed parts of my body more. I still get confused/shocked when i touch my rib area and it is not the same cushioned area as before or my hip bones being more pronounced/ visible. It's definitely interesting haha

    My ring has gotten SO LOOSE im going to have to take it off soon!! :{
  • VanillaBeanSeed
    VanillaBeanSeed Posts: 562 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:

    I'm starting to shrink in the boob department too!! But like you.. I think Im going to grow to like them better... :D
  • ktbrett22
    ktbrett22 Posts: 17 Member
    The other day I was about to order a burger (cheat meal!) and said 'I probably shouldn't' and went to shake my blubber on my stomach to emphasize my point. But it wasn't there! I definitely still think of myself as way bigger and flabbier than I am!
  • VanillaBeanSeed
    VanillaBeanSeed Posts: 562 Member
    Something Im SCARED of after I lose more weight is sagging. Ive seen some crazy pictures of people after significant weight loss that have all kinds of extra skin and flat, deflated breasts. Thats my one big worry about all this :[
  • missmacsays
    missmacsays Posts: 681 Member
    Did someone say gas? Never realized eating veggies over heavy starchy foods and sugar would change my bowels so ridiculously. Besides that, I haven't lost enough to notice all the awesome things you people listed, but I'm kinda pumped to find my ribs one day :tongue:
  • dansls1
    dansls1 Posts: 309 Member
    My wedding band is titanium so it can't be resized. Once I maintain my loss for a bit I will have to replace it.
  • Wonderob
    Wonderob Posts: 1,372 Member
    Weirdest thing I ever heard obout losing weight: guys gain a half inch of "useable length" for every 20 pounds they lose.

    So now I just need to figure out how to lose 300lbs
  • oohmercyme
    oohmercyme Posts: 279 Member
    What I didn't anticpate...it's a total mindf*uck and people are just plain nicer to you when you aren't fat.
  • apocalypsepwnie
    apocalypsepwnie Posts: 373
    That fat doesn't go away nice and evenly all over. Sometimes it goes away in pockets and makes you look like a garbage can that's had a ball thrown at it.
    Mostly you can't see it in clothes but the inside of my thighs atm are screwed! And when I lie down you can feel the pockets in my tummy. It's weird.
  • cmacphee3
    cmacphee3 Posts: 278 Member
    When I lost weight the first time, I lost shoe sizes and ring sizes like others mentioned. I also found out I had a tail. Ok, I didn't really have a real tail, but my fat had been covering up the fact that I had lump on my tailbone, turns out I had broken it at some point (I am pretty sure it was from falling down 5 ice covered concrete stairs on my *kitten*!) and because I didn't know, it grew back wrong. I had no idea it happened until I had too little butt left to sit comfortably on the lump!
  • cmacphee3
    cmacphee3 Posts: 278 Member
    What I didn't anticpate...it's a total mindf*uck and people are just plain nicer to you when you aren't fat.

    YES! I tried to explain this to people when I lost weight the first time, and people said it was in my head, but it is NOT. People started being nicer to me, talking to me more, holding doors for me, etc.
  • squirmmonster
    squirmmonster Posts: 98 Member
    I had lost weight last year and I lost one of my rings in the mud at church when i was putting my youngest into his car seat. I didn't notice at that time until we started driving and I touched my hand. It was such a rainy messy day w/ so many cars going through the parking lot, that we never did find my ring. I added 20 lbs over this year, that I am trying to get back off(and then some).

    It looks like I am on a ring losing streak. On our way back from a beach trip w/ my inlaws, I shockingly found out that the diamond in my engagement ring was gone. No tines were broken or bent. I have no clue how it happened. When I told my parents about it, my dad said that he still had my mom's engagement & wedding rings(she died when i was 8). He said that he had been waiting to give them to me for quite some time now. She was a petite woman, so her rings are a bit too small for my fingers right now. This is another motivation to lose the weight, so that I can wear her rings. ::trying not to cry!!!:: It gets me every time I think about her.

    This often happens when there are too few tines around a stone. Advise your husband that every stone should have at LEAST six things to enclose it. Not the four you sometimes see. While that is aesthetically pleasing, a diamond is the last thing you want to lose. Six is best.
  • VarnerChic
    VarnerChic Posts: 35 Member
    Wasn't prepared to be noticed all the time... Sounds weird but it's hard to get used to when you are used to being a wallflower.

    Was feeling my rib cage (yes, it actually exists...who knew???) a couple of months ago. Couldn't figure out what that hard knot was until I realized it was my oblique muscles!!!! Never had those before...EVER..

    Also, couldn't figure out what that huge lump was between my ribs in the front until my RN sister told me it was probably my sternum.... =)

    Sometimes it kind of annoys me that people treat me better now that I'm smaller. It shouldn't be that way but it is...
  • Melisamab
    Melisamab Posts: 16 Member
    bought a belt before I started loosing, it was on 3rd from last notch. now (and i'm not even half way to my goal), its on the last notch! woo hoo! guess its (almost) time to buy a new belt. i'll wait with replacing the pants until I'm where I want to be :-)

    also very much enjoyed discovering I had a collar bone ;-)
  • pkw58
    pkw58 Posts: 2,038 Member
    What I didn't anticpate...it's a total mindf*uck and people are just plain nicer to you when you aren't fat.

    YES! I tried to explain this to people when I lost weight the first time, and people said it was in my head, but it is NOT. People started being nicer to me, talking to me more, holding doors for me, etc.


    It is not in your head. I make it a point to greet people of all sizes now.. Whether it is a skinny teenager running a cash register at the grocery or the overweight wattress at a rural breakfast place when traveling. The best thing about receiving kindness is passing it along to others.
  • ClairBears84
    ClairBears84 Posts: 531 Member
    bought a belt before I started loosing, it was on 3rd from last notch. now (and i'm not even half way to my goal), its on the last notch! woo hoo! guess its (almost) time to buy a new belt. i'll wait with replacing the pants until I'm where I want to be :-)

    also very much enjoyed discovering I had a collar bone ;-)

    I keep making new holes in my belt! haha!
  • knighthood77
    knighthood77 Posts: 47
    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:

    Whoohoo! I'm looking forward to two extra inches. ;)

    In all seriousness though after reading everyone complain about bathtubs being uncomfortable now, I'm wondering if loosing too much pelvic cushioning could be a bad thing.
  • ClairBears84
    ClairBears84 Posts: 531 Member
    I bumped my ribs on a high counter the other day , oh wait I am sorry did I just say ribs!? YES there is way less fat over them, my hip bones are closer to the surface, My boobs are getting smaller and sadly slighty saggy!

    The mental part for me is amazing! I am dressing better, I feel better, I am a freaking large, no longer and XXL or XL unless I shop at the skinny stores hahahahaha!

    I dont have to shop in the plus section anymore

    and the last but def not the least it feels better when my boyfriend touches me, hugs me, there is less to wrap around etc almost like my skin is more alive
  • jamers3111
    jamers3111 Posts: 495 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!

    If you go back to where your fiance bought it, they should do free sizings for life... at least that what most of the places around here do. Congrats on your amazing progress!!
  • Aello11
    Aello11 Posts: 312 Member
    COLD!! (all the dang time)
    walked out of my "new" jeans (thankfully no one was around)
    the girls stopped filling my bras and yeah like others here went to sports bras (but damn it I bought every bright color sports bra I could find - lol )
    oh and seeing gray pubic hair --- that just ain't right (fixed that rofl - sorry for TMI)

    DId I say COLD --- 70s outside and I am in a thermal shirt or sweatshirt
  • jnchorn
    jnchorn Posts: 250 Member
    My word there are so many. I have lost close to 250 lbs since my highest weight. My extra skin is a huge problem that will have to repaired mecially. Here are a few of my new discoveries...

    Smaller fingers - I have lost 4 ring sizes
    it is sometime painful to lean against the back of a chair due to my shoulder blades (I nicknamed them wings)
    my eyes actually seem larger
    people tell me I look taller
    I have a dimple in my smile that I really hadnt noticed more before
    my knee bones sometimes touch and it can be painful
    tailbone is a HUGE issue I have to sit on a special cushion and it still hurts almost all the time
    my belly button got smaller who knew! lol
    totally freezing as many have said, there is a blanket near me at all times and I use an electric blanket for sleep
    I find new bones all the time I have never seen or felt before
    I went to a wedding last week and someone I have known for 20 years almost didnt recognize me, she did a double take
    I have a longer neck then I realized
    but it is all worth it. I am much different much happier person then I ever imagined. :)

    :flowerforyou:
  • groomchick
    groomchick Posts: 610 Member
    Funny how you don't notice things.... we are so used to NOT looking in the mirror! Was blow drying my hair last week and suddenly thought I saw some strange lump. On closer inspection discovered it wasn't fat or some growth ... it's muscle! Thought I was imagining it so took some pics for conformation.... and YES....I'm not crazy!!

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