Things they never tell you about weight loss

- If you eat a lot less fat, or a lot less frequently, you can develop gallstones (happened after the first time I lost weight) as less eating fatty foods means less emptying of your gallbladder and it all sits there and has time to crystallize.

- You will almost for certain have some saggy skin if you had a lot to lose. Less so if you lose slowly. Along with this, if you are one that loses breast fat easily, you may end up with saggier breasts.

- It will not solve your problems!

- You will get far more attention from all people, and get treated very differently. I noticed a very huge difference between how often people held the door for me, how nice both men and women were to me.

- I agree with being cold much of the time!

- Your feet will shrink, even if they didn't seem to have much fat. I used to have a wide foot, size 9, and by the time I was done losing weight I was a 8- 8 1/2 in a normal width. If the shoe is wide I often have to go down to a 7 1/2 now.

- Fingers shrink a lot! I went from 260 to 148 and my ring size on my right ring finger went from 10 to 7.

- You will start to get a sore butt if you sit too long. I found out I had broken my tailbone without knowing it and it had grown back wrong when I could finally feel it without all the fat.

- Weight loss rarely changes your general shape, unless it is extreme (as in you were very very heavy, or you become very very lean). If you were an apple before, you will be a much smaller apple-like shape after. My boobs were smallish for a fat woman, and became smallish for a medium sized woman, my stomach stayed slightly bigger in proportion to the rest of me. My calves stayed large in proportion to the rest of me!

- Your face will change shape. If you are older, it may end up looking older as you will notice more wrinkles, but usually you look younger, and your eyes will look bigger.

- You often will still feel bigger than what you really are. I felt at 148lbs I was still a "heavy" woman and refused to sit on people's laps or be lifted up or do anything I saw many normal women my age doing. I still thought I was the biggest woman in my program, when I definitely was not.

- You won't be as hot in the summer. Volume to surface area ratio means if you are smaller, you have more skin to sweat for the volume of your body and you overheat less.

- You will start noticing bones that you never saw or touched before and it might be weird. My collarbones popped out even before I was out of the overweight category and my hip bones were starting to show when I laid down at 148.

- If you lose weight too quickly, you might lose hair, even if you are getting all your vitamins and eating "enough".

I used to be ill all the time – now in the unlikely event that I do catch a cold, I’m over it in a day or two.

I hope I'm not the only one who hasn't gained this benefit. In fact, I'm more prone to catching a cold (or the flu and frickin' MONO, like I had last month) than when I was overweight. :<

- You will start noticing bones that you never saw or touched before and it might be weird. My collarbones popped out even before I was out of the overweight category and my hip bones were starting to show when I laid down at 148.

YES... oh holy schlamola... the first time I brushed over my collar bone I literally freaked out. "What the.. is this... did I break something?"

About the shoe size thing. Some people do have fat feet. But for most people the bigger size while fat is that your weight is compressing the foot. There are lots of little bones and ligaments and tendons in your foot. Being overweight pushes down on all of them, flattening and widening the foot, but when you lose weight they bounce back. ALSO women who have given birth have looser joints (to make the birth easier) but it also affects foot size. That is why women often have to wear a larger shoe after having a baby.

My boobies are gone :sad:

:-( THAT is the one thing I'm not looking forward to with my weight loss

reported increase in size just below the waistline :blushing:

Definitely notice being colder ... but then again, I'm usually drinking a glass of ice water, so I'm sure that contributes. :happy:

My hubby has lost 45 pounds and he's stopped snoring!

Compliments aren't always welcome.
It's made me highly judgemental of overweight people (not pretty but true).
I am still hungry often.
I miss not knowing what calories were in things.
I still don't want to be naked in front of menfolk.

Negative: I've starting showing my age more now that the wrinkles are showing up. When I was heavier (60lbs) I had a fuller face and the wrinkles were not noticable at all!

Negative: I have to wear a sweater YEAR ROUND inside the buildings!? And I live in South Texas where outside its over 100 in the summer, but the AC in the buildings makes me cold constantly.

Positive: No back fat

wrinkles...definately wrinkles. My face looked younger when the fat layer held the crows feet, neck lines and frown lines at bay. I am spending the money I used to buy junk food with on creams, lotions, serums and elixers now.

You can eat 2000 calories a day and still lose weight; starving yourself isn't necessary.

My wife says I don't snore anymore, and I definitely sleep better at night.

The weirdest size that changed is my hat size. I went from a size 7 7/8 fitted baseball cap to a 7 1/2. Never thought my hat size would change, had to get all new baseball hats.

The best change is that I have so much more energy now than before. I get up in the morning, and I feel great!