What is the biggest unexpected surprise after losing weight?

Sadly to guys. . unless they like chubbier girls. . they wont notice you until you become a 2" x 4". . . New York is the land of superficial guys who will only notice your face one theres no fat around it.

Believe me. . i know.

Love this thread, great motiation

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i am no longer boiling hot all summer long, just hated summer during my heavier days, the heat would actually make me feel sick and i would hide in the house in the air conditioning, now i am fine..love not feeling sick all summer..on the sad side i lost a couple friends. one was always smaller than me but gained weight while i lost, and the other was always heavier than me, both were continually saying rude comments, but still i miss them

COLD! I'm so cold. All the time. Before I lost the first 30lbs (not reflected in my ticker) I was HOT all the time. Now I can't warm up. >.< I hate it.

I've always loved fashion, mixing and matching sweaters and would always wear dresses on those days where putting on pants and a blouse was too much effort. At a size 22 not many would notice, but now I get the reaction "wow, now you dress up", I'm like??? My style hasn't change.

Guys actually notice me.

I feel like I get away without wearing make up, t-shirt and jeans.

I have always ordered the SAME THING when I go to restaurants... now people are like "why do you order that, that's not enough food" or "you're not eating enough"... hmm. I feel like I'm under a microscope sometimes. Or... "I'm going to order what she orders because it's healthy." Don't assume, I'm only human, sometimes I want to "splurge" or I make sure to workout a little more.

This morning doing an exercise CD with the children at nursery, the guy on the disc said touch your toes and I just did without difficulty. I haven't been able to do that for ages and I hadn't tried since beginning to lose weight. I was quite surprised.

The amount of saggy skin (though it shouldn't had been much of a surprise after loosing 170lbs), finding large (as in S/M/L/XL) clothes on clearance racks is more difficult than the 3XL I use to wear, I'm colder all the time, I have carry to-go boxes out of restaurants now, my wedding ring keeps sliding off my finger even with two of those plastic thingies on it and probably some other things I can't think of right now.

And I don't mind any of it.

I hate my bingo wings but I have come to the conclusion that the skin was all there before just full of vile fat.... so which is better?and like you, I don't mind any of it... inconsequential price to pay for all the good things.

Just want to add that your effort and achievement is really worth flagging up... 170lbs down and 1lb left to go to target deserves a frickin medal MANY MANY CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!

I was 30 and just had a baby. I was married to a jealous ahole who belittled me for years. I lost the baby weight and for the first time in years, I went out with a girlfirend to a bar. Guys checked me out like I was a teenager. I had felt so old, fat and ugly for so long thanks to my husband and to having a baby and stopping the care of me to care for him. I felt just flat out OLD and unsexy. But back to the "girl's night out at the bar". So many young guys checked me out, I about fell on the floor. I thought, "what? I am hot?" I couldn't believe it. Fast forward years. My son is five. I had gained weight back (35 lbs) and again felt old and fat). I was a school teacher and I remember eating cheetos one day and I looked down at my body in jeans and saw a "mom pooch". I was like, "when did THAT happen? So I started walking daily. I did the 5:2 diet but a variated version. The fasting days were only green veggies and two eggs and two oranges. I lost all that weight and then started lifting. I went to a size 0 - 2. I had the attention of ANY guy in any room that I wanted. I couldn't believe it. I was 36 yrs old and "owned a room". Women even stared at me in stores. I am back up in weight again. What it would feel like to "own it again". Currently I look like Stiffler's mom. From American Pie (infamous MILF). I thought that when I saw American Reunion. And then a few weeks later a guy said I look like a "younger version of Stiffler's mom. This is NOT a good thing. I don't want to llook like that. I just want one more chance to "own it" again.