Weird things nobody tells you about losing weight

LOL! While shaving I noticed how difficult it has become to shave around my ankle area without cutting myself all to pieces! Same with the knees! GEEZ! haha

Oh gosh yes! One of the first places I lost weight was my ankles (they're really boney while the rest of my is still chubby). When I shave, I look like I got into a fight with my weed eater!

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I'm freezing....ALL the time.

And if I sit too long, my *kitten* starts to hurt. (less cushioning)

exactly this and the surprise hipbones and the wrinkles. I'll take it all

I was a little sore in my hip area after a long walk a few weeks ago, and I was trying to massage it myself, and I came across a lump. I was utterly convinced it was a huge knot, since I was feeling sore anyhow -- Nope! That wasn't the knot, that was my hip bone!

My whole body feels weird to me. I spend a lot of time just sort of poking at bones, feeling strange about them. This probably makes me look like a weirdo always feeling up my own hips and ribs.

Also, staying afloat in water is much more of a challenge.

I really shouldn't mention this, but I noticed recently that I have had a loss in my "region" (ladies, if you know what I mean)... I don't know if it is changes from having my baby and gaining weight there while I was preggo, to now losing weight after him or what, but it was extremely strange to me that you can lose fat in areas of the such. Sorry if TMI... :S Just weird to me.

I have no idea if this is something I've always had and never noticed or a just result of losing some weight.

I noticed last night while doing the leg press at the gym (really the only time my legs are straight out in front of me since I am no longer 6 years old and sit on the floor straight-legged) that my right knee looked bigger then the other. Thought I was imagining it but it kept bugging me--so when I got home I took a measuring tape to both knees (feeling completely foolish) and found that I was indeed right--it's half an inch bigger in circumference than the other!

Weird. If it has been that way my whole life, it's a little late to be just noticing it now since I'm 42. If it's from the weight loss, I hope they even out at some point.

1. Being cold all the time
2. Pants try to fall down so much more, I have no butt!!
3. Sitting at booths in restaurants. I used to not be able to fit in a booth and now there's so much of a gap between me and the table that I have to kind of sit at the edge of the booth or risk food droppage...eek!
4. Watches don't fit and have to get links taken out of them
5. Having a bony butt and getting sore if I sit too long on a hard floor
6. That the last 40 pounds is the HARDEST thing I have EVER attempted to lose in my life. and I've lost a lot of things. 220 pounds, car keys, wallets, cats, men, hair.....

225! AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE looking at my hands. I love seeing the bones in them. I admire my hands at least a half hour a day, whenever my mind starts wandering. My feet are neat looking as well, I just realized I can see my bones all along the top of them. My toes look a lot longer now as well.

And my calves are so smooth and nice looking... if only my thighs weren't so large and lumpy above them! I've become a narcissist, I take time every day just to feel myself up!

Waking up in the morning is NOT any easier though, no matter what I've heard from people.

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!

I was just experiencing the same thing this week! I started working out again after about a 3 week break and I was cramping up during my warm up (sad, I know) and I went to grab my stomach where it was cramping and I felt this weird thing! It was the side of my stomach not covered in fat! I'm so excited and that just motivated me even more! I actually can feel my stomach muscles now!

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!

Hello, They have these things called ring sizers or something like that that you can get from walmart or a jewlery store maybe. Its like a plastic fitter that wraps around the band to make it tighter. Maybe called a ring guard. Im not sure.