Wanted to make this thread for motivationial purposes more than anything but they don't all have to be super positive! More of what came as a surprise. I'll start..
- how much confidence it will actually bring, especially when strangers start treating you like royalty all of a sudden!
- Sitting (particularly in baths) and laying (particularly in beds) will become ever increasingly uncomfortable.
- how vain you will become! I can't walk past a mirror without checking how I look nowadays!
Your turn!
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How awesome it is to look at the promotional pictures at the gym and think "in a few months I could look like that".
How runny your poo gets if you eat loads of veggies
hahaha this... My back is bruised from doing workouts on the floor because my shoulder blades stick out so much now.
No one told me how annoying buying clothes could be. It's great when they fit, but I keep going down sizes and needing to buy more and then not having a purpose for the larger sizes.
On a more positive note, I get hit on a lot more. Three different guys asked me out for Valentine's Day this year
Don't be too quick to resize your wedding bands, most jewelers won't do it more than twice.
Find and make friends with your local consignment shop, don't splurge too much on clothes until you reach (and have stayed for a while at) goal.
Some of your friends and family members will not be supportive.
It's not a linear process (especially for us girls)! Some days/weeks you will not lose anything and that's okay. Stick to your plan.
+ That it won't magically fix all your problems. In fact, some of my "problems" have come more in focus because of the time and energy I have spent on myself and not "others."
-Support from friends/family can be pretty hit or miss.
-Not everyone will notice or comment on your loss. Most of my closest friends haven't said a word about me losing weight, but their families have, and my family has.
-Just because you lost weight doesn't mean you can go back to how you were before you were trying to lose weight. I know a few people who let themselves revert back to the old 'them', and they gained a lot of their weight back. This is a lifestyle change. A lifelong journey.
I was laying on my back in bed one night and went to scratch my stomach/chest and felt something poking out on the side. I thought maybe I had popped a rib or something and started feeling around and realized that for the first time that I could remember, I could actually feel my rib cage.
Not only that, but I could feel my xiphoid process too.
So true!!
This is so true, I used to go out in the middle of winter in a t-shirt and hoody, now I have a strappy top, a thermal top, a jumper, a coat, a scarf, a hat and gloves that come up to my elbows.
Also people who don't comment about your weightloss as it's happening feel they have the right to tell you " it's time to stop now" or "your looking skinny".
You actually start enjoying buying clothes and changing rooms feel bigger.
If there's somewhere that has a reflection your going to check yourself out in it.
Your suddenly at the front of every picture and no longer hiding at the back.
- Those who have seen me go up and down over the years are not saying anything about my weight loss (and they never say anything about the gains either)
- Working out makes you smaller even when the weight loss is not so great.
- Sometimes your friends need to change to enable your goals (aka no more drinking night out with the girls.)
Something else that I struggle with is using up the excess energy without irritating others.
Bonus to my friends, since I'm a lightweight I offer to be DD.
So glad you said this! I kind of thought it was just me! But yeah...it is horrible!
You too? I thought I was the only one. I am freezing all. the. time. I just hope my body gets used to it.
-How much more fun it is to focus on fitness (which you can control) versus the scale (which you truly cannot control)
-Some "friends" get weirdly competitive or passive aggressive
-How you can look in the mirror and not see that you're not obese anymore
-I really packed on weight after hurting my sciatic nerve at work. Taking off the weight has been a miracle cure. That physical therapist wasn't kidding when she told me losing weight would make it better.
-Lying in bed and running your hands over your hipbones and ribs is really great