Unexpected results of weight loss
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My big surprise is that I actually enjoy running now. I was always a fan of lifting but running was something "thinner people do", you know because "I didnt have a runners body". Well, turns out I was just lying to myself because it was easier than trying. I now run because I want to and I feel completely free and detached from the noise of the world for a bit and the sound of my feet hitting the ground is so cathartic.
One last thing - Try this if you can, it'll shock you. I put my weight vest on and added additional weight packets in so I was back up to where I was when I started (I'm down a little over 30 lbs at this point) and I tried to go for one of my normal runs. Holy Crap! The feeling of running at my prior weight compared to now was absolutely mind blowing.21 -
VeganChristy wrote: »This one made me cry. When my husband of 18 years picked me up for the first time. I'll never forget it. : )
This one is my favorite!! This is my personal goal along with fitting back into my wedding dress for our 20th anniversary this August. This thread has inspired me and I can't wait to read more!4 -
One last thing - Try this if you can, it'll shock you. I put my weight vest on and added additional weight packets in so I was back up to where I was when I started (I'm down a little over 30 lbs at this point) and I tried to go for one of my normal runs. Holy Crap! The feeling of running at my prior weight compared to now was absolutely mind blowing.
I can't even begin to imagine trying to run carrying over 100 extra pounds on me. I consider myself pretty fit and healthy now but it would kill me to try to run carrying that weight. No wonder it was so hard to even jog when I first started losing weight.
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CObluegrass wrote: »love this thread and I can identify with so many of these. My two biggest surprises:
1) I work at a university and attend graduation every semester in my cap and gown. Well my head shrunk 1/2 an inch and I had to buy a new cap. 1/2 an inch of fat around my forehead!!
2) no more cracked heels! here I thought my horribly cracked heels were the result of dry skin and living in an arid climate. Nope, turns out it was just the pressure of all of my weight.
Oh my god is this actually a thing?! There is hope yet! My boyfriend keeps calling me my little pony names because my feet are like hooves -_-
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TheLadyBane wrote: »One last thing - Try this if you can, it'll shock you. I put my weight vest on and added additional weight packets in so I was back up to where I was when I started (I'm down a little over 30 lbs at this point) and I tried to go for one of my normal runs. Holy Crap! The feeling of running at my prior weight compared to now was absolutely mind blowing.
I can't even begin to imagine trying to run carrying over 100 extra pounds on me. I consider myself pretty fit and healthy now but it would kill me to try to run carrying that weight. No wonder it was so hard to even jog when I first started losing weight.
I have lost over 100#s and did farmer's carries in the gym the other day with 110#s, how the heck did I walk around like that all the time? It is crazy when you think of it that way.8 -
I discovered that I really like clothes. I mean.... REALLY like clothes... My wife gave me the stink eye the other day when yet another box showed up from the UPS truck. There were no words to describe the loathing I had for clothes and shopping at 318lbs. It's a really interesting change.
This and mentioning the "fitting in a booth", no longer having to worry about that.
Flying and not needing a seat extender or fitting comfortably into airplane seats.
Seeing myself in a reflection surrounded by people and thinking "my goodness, I really am a small person" (I am 5'9) and loving that feeling.
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ibamosaserreinas wrote: »
- My hips don't crack when I stand up anymore.
- My lower back pain is gone.
- Looking at parts of my body and being shocked - they don't seem like mine.
- That when you get smaller losing sizes happens faster. (Going from a size 20 to a size 18 was like 25 pounds. Going from a 18 to a 16 was only like 15 pounds. I would imagine that the lower you get a single size could be just 5 pounds.)
Isn't that the truth! I just noticed today that I dropped from a 6 to a 4, and I am only about 7ish pounds (maybe as many as 9?) down from my weight when I bought the size 6's!!
Being all, yeah, I just noticed I had dropped a size... that is AWESOME.1 -
Lalalindaloo wrote: »ibamosaserreinas wrote: »
- My hips don't crack when I stand up anymore.
- My lower back pain is gone.
- Looking at parts of my body and being shocked - they don't seem like mine.
- That when you get smaller losing sizes happens faster. (Going from a size 20 to a size 18 was like 25 pounds. Going from a 18 to a 16 was only like 15 pounds. I would imagine that the lower you get a single size could be just 5 pounds.)
Isn't that the truth! I just noticed today that I dropped from a 6 to a 4, and I am only about 7ish pounds (maybe as many as 9?) down from my weight when I bought the size 6's!!
Being all, yeah, I just noticed I had dropped a size... that is AWESOME.
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Good thread. The only new one I could add was I noticed all the sleeves on my shirts got longer. 379 - 296 lbs made the sleeves on my coat almost 2 inches longer (back fat mostly).4
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I am down over 40 pounds and I have seen a lot of changes, but the one I"m currently enjoying is being able to do moves in Pilates that I was never able to before. The less weight there is to lift, the easier bits become.
On the negative side, I have developed bursitis in my knee, probably from too much road cycling, which just shows that fitness has nothing to do with injury levels...0 -
Good thread. The only new one I could add was I noticed all the sleeves on my shirts got longer. 379 - 296 lbs made the sleeves on my coat almost 2 inches longer (back fat mostly).
Lol I love this. I lost like 8 inches off my chest measurement, but my cup size stayed the same - it was all back fat!!!4 -
Here's a strange one from this morning's training session. When I lay face down on the floor for supermans or stretches, it now hurts a little because my ribs and pubic bone are touching the floor rather than my belly!3
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Good thread. The only new one I could add was I noticed all the sleeves on my shirts got longer. 379 - 296 lbs made the sleeves on my coat almost 2 inches longer (back fat mostly).
With a similar issue my trousers now seem an extra inch or two longer because my stomach isn't forcing me to drag them up higher on my waist! I unfortunately discovered this when the hems were dragging in the snow yesterday!1 -
silverarcheress wrote: »With a similar issue my trousers now seem an extra inch or two longer because my stomach isn't forcing me to drag them up higher on my waist! I unfortunately discovered this when the hems were dragging in the snow yesterday!
I've only lost 10 lbs so far, but I noticed this already with my karate gi pants.
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My girlfriend says my boobs look bigger cause I'm getting smaller and have more muscle under the tatas. I don't love my boobs but I'm glad she's liking them
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TheLadyBane wrote: »One last thing - Try this if you can, it'll shock you. I put my weight vest on and added additional weight packets in so I was back up to where I was when I started (I'm down a little over 30 lbs at this point) and I tried to go for one of my normal runs. Holy Crap! The feeling of running at my prior weight compared to now was absolutely mind blowing.
I can't even begin to imagine trying to run carrying over 100 extra pounds on me. I consider myself pretty fit and healthy now but it would kill me to try to run carrying that weight. No wonder it was so hard to even jog when I first started losing weight.
I have lost over 100#s and did farmer's carries in the gym the other day with 110#s, how the heck did I walk around like that all the time? It is crazy when you think of it that way.
You also had more muscle (theoretically- if you have only cut weight without doing a bulk cycle) when you were 100 lbs heavier.
Still, I feel ya. I have lost 62 lbs and my big dog weighs 65 lbs. I cannot walk around carrying her, dear lord.Good thread. The only new one I could add was I noticed all the sleeves on my shirts got longer. 379 - 296 lbs made the sleeves on my coat almost 2 inches longer (back fat mostly).
Lol I love this. I lost like 8 inches off my chest measurement, but my cup size stayed the same - it was all back fat!!!
Psst your cup volume has changed. It was not JUST back fat. A 40D has much more cup volume than a 32D. Here's the best explanation I've read on the subject which could help you (or others) find a good fit after weight loss: http://blog.butterflycollection.ca/2012/05/bra-school-not-all-d-cups-are-same-size.html
Good picture:
From Left to Right 30D, 32D, 34D, 36D, 38D. Five different band lengths, five different cup volumes. All D Cups. You can see how bras on the right have much larger cups, despite the fact that they are all D cups.16 -
The two biggest things that happened after I'd lost about 50 pounds were real surprises.
(1) My constantly dribbly bladder stopped dribbling.
(2) I started having gall bladder trouble again that made me go to the doctor to be checked.
The first one, clearly, is a delight. The second one is not actually as much of a negative as I thought. Here's why.
I've had gall bladder discomfort for decades, fat or no. After about the fourth normal gall bladder ultrasound, I started refusing to go have one done when what the docs always said was probably my gall bladder was bothering me. But when I went to see my new PCP, she said that people often develop gallstones when they lose weight very quickly. (I don't consider 1 to 1.5 lbs. a week "very quickly," but I guess maybe it is.) Did you know this?
My doc insisted I have the gall bladder ultrasound (NORMAL!) but then she sent me for a HIDA scan, which showed my gall bladder is barely functioning. It's storing up bile and not releasing it properly, which has made my digestion be pretty messed up and me feel pretty awful and toxic. Everything else looked great, so I'm scheduled to have my gall bladder out, and I'm actually looking forward to it. My doc said I ought to feel a whole lot better when it's not impeding bile flow and also that my coloring should improve. (My skin looks terrible.)
(3) The other real surprise has been the way I've lost weight. I rock...down/up/down, back up/down, down, back up/down but always in a downward trend. But even when I was closer to ideal weight, I had a rounded/bulbous butt and huge thighs. Now my butt is shrinking in a way where it looks like I think a butt should look, and my thighs are, too. I'm shrinking all over, in other words, not just losing from my upper body. I think this is probably the difference between extreme diets that take it off fast and what I'm doing, which is gradually going down. My skin is tighter overall than I expected it to be, too, except for my neck.
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britishbroccoli wrote: »TheLadyBane wrote: »One last thing - Try this if you can, it'll shock you. I put my weight vest on and added additional weight packets in so I was back up to where I was when I started (I'm down a little over 30 lbs at this point) and I tried to go for one of my normal runs. Holy Crap! The feeling of running at my prior weight compared to now was absolutely mind blowing.
I can't even begin to imagine trying to run carrying over 100 extra pounds on me. I consider myself pretty fit and healthy now but it would kill me to try to run carrying that weight. No wonder it was so hard to even jog when I first started losing weight.
I have lost over 100#s and did farmer's carries in the gym the other day with 110#s, how the heck did I walk around like that all the time? It is crazy when you think of it that way.
You also had more muscle (theoretically- if you have only cut weight without doing a bulk cycle) when you were 100 lbs heavier.
Still, I feel ya. I have lost 62 lbs and my big dog weighs 65 lbs. I cannot walk around carrying her, dear lord.Good thread. The only new one I could add was I noticed all the sleeves on my shirts got longer. 379 - 296 lbs made the sleeves on my coat almost 2 inches longer (back fat mostly).
Lol I love this. I lost like 8 inches off my chest measurement, but my cup size stayed the same - it was all back fat!!!
Psst your cup volume has changed. It was not JUST back fat. A 40D has much more cup volume than a 32D. Here's the best explanation I've read on the subject which could help you (or others) find a good fit after weight loss: http://blog.butterflycollection.ca/2012/05/bra-school-not-all-d-cups-are-same-size.html
Good picture:
From Left to Right 30D, 32D, 34D, 36D, 38D. Five different band lengths, five different cup volumes. All D Cups. You can see how bras on the right have much larger cups, despite the fact that they are all D cups.
Lol - I actually understand that, and since I was responding to a man didnt bother too much with using correct or technical explanation. What I mean is the volume did NOT change. Basically, I have nothing (not even really A cup) and still have nothing
The cups on old bras fit just fine still (since they were basically tshirt material anyway, but the bands are way too big.
Either way, I definitely have less back fat! Maybe not the full 8 inches, but pretty darn close!1 -
I don't know if this has been posted yet or not, but I've noticed within the past month that I'm not able to eat the same amount of volume that I could at my highest weight. Granted, I have learned to eat high quantity/low cal items more (veggies, especially), but I find myself struggling to finish a small filet of fish, rice and veggies when before I could have easily eaten a whole pizza
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sweating_for_wedding wrote: »I don't know if this has been posted yet or not, but I've noticed within the past month that I'm not able to eat the same amount of volume that I could at my highest weight. Granted, I have learned to eat high quantity/low cal items more (veggies, especially), but I find myself struggling to finish a small filet of fish, rice and veggies when before I could have easily eaten a whole pizza
Me too!! And it is amazing how quickly that transformation happens. Before, I would not feel satisfied unless I was very full, close to stuffed. I would sometimes order two meals for takeout because I would be afraid one was not enough. Grosses me out to think about that now. These days, I feel my best when I'm just barely full. Anything more than that feels too heavy.8
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