What nobody tells you about losing weight
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That sometimes when you push yourself hard on a workout, you can have "bladder issues" until your core gets stronger...8
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Nobody tells you about all the loose skin.10
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Sometimes the constipation is so bad you get cramps, the next day it is the opposite so you get cramps.11
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- You don't always gain confidence unless you had a significant amount of fat to lose.
- You might "love" how your bones feel, but you will soon learn how distorted that is.
- You may someday realize that no one notices/cares about your weight loss.16 -
- You don't always gain confidence unless you had a significant amount of fat to lose.
- You might "love" how your bones feel, but you will soon learn how distorted that is.
- You may someday realize that no one notices/cares about your weight loss.
This post is slightly disturbing in a sad way. Perhaps I am reading it wrong, but if you really have confidence issues that losing weight can't resolve, the word "bones" triggers something distorted beyon a healthy human body ( people at the top of healthy BMI also have ankles and wristbones showing) and want to make people care through weight loss... Then my heart goes out to you
but you should definitely seek help. Most people do not have all those experiences together, particularly #2. 30 -
-I hate how some people just assume that being healthy and going through a lifestyle change is easy. "Ya babe whatever, just go on a diet and you'll be fine later.."
-They don't understand the concept of meal prep saturdays
-My mattress is still comfortable, thankfully
-I buy way too many gym clothes
-I especially hate it when I'm out clubbing on my off day having a drink and someone says: aren't you on a diet? No, I'm eating better AND it's my off day. "I didn't know diets had days off" Grrrrr
-All the good food I eat makes my stomach make funny noises
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The taste of junk food tastes like pure garbage... I always wonder nowadays why I thought it was the most delicious thing in the world?
Guilty confession: I will NEVER give up pizza but I will for sure not eat it on a weekly basis.
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The bad: that the boobs do not necessarily go down. I have lost 3 band sizes in my bras, but gone UP 2 cup sizes. It is getting really hard to find bras in my size any more.
The good: just now much mental health is tied into physical health. I have suffered from depression all of my adult life (some at a "normal" weight and some at my obese weight). This last year, as my physical self has made huge strides, my mental health has improved tremendously to where I cannot even pinpoint a bout with depression in the last 14 months.43 -
AshleyClark122 wrote: »wateryphoenix wrote: »-You will discover bones you forgot (or never knew) you had.
I just love the first sentence !! "You will discover bones you forgot (or never knew) you had." Awesome !! The same can be said for muscles also. You sure can discover ones you never knew you had, like "Why does it ache there? Is there a muscle there? I never knew that." Way to go wateryphoenix!!
So true... I was rubbing my arms the other day and touched something that ached when I put pressure on it. Turns out it's muscle I didn't even know I had!!3 -
I'm down a little over a fifth of the total I plan to lose.
I already find I get cold often. (Though, since I knit as a way to keep my hands busy, I don't mind: Just think of all the cute sweaters I'll get to make and wear...!)
The unexpected one is that my daughter commented on my fidgeting. I used to fidget all the time when I was in high school and college - I had totally forgotten about that!8 -
No no, that's not an effect of losing weight; that's an effect of being a female who lost weightlemonsurprise wrote: »especially when strangers start treating you like royalty all of a sudden!
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My skin looks amazing. I didn't think that I'd be able to actually have clear skin! ^_^ (That's more of an effect of eating healthier things and drinking water, though...)22
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That I can eat a lot more than I ever thought I could and still lose weight. I love the Eat More 2 Weigh Less group!6
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Wiseandcurious wrote: »easiest is if you have a partner going in it together with you, without support its really hard to start and keeping it.
Perhaps that's true for some, but for me personally, that's not true. I have always been self-motivated so if I didn't get myself to do it, you can bet nobody else could. A partner can't keep you in it if you can't yourself - just look at all those couples of girls starting running together each spring for motivation and much more often than not, when one's gone, soon the other's gone too.
The only moral support you really need comes from loving and accepting yourself. (I know it's cheesy but that unforgettable scene in "Penelope" comes to mind )
well for me, the biggest motivation at a start was my co-worker who was in a simillar shape but me and also people around started noticing her change without even telling us and it went quite fast , if you bite hard and hold, weight goes down, she was my 1st big motivation, i asked her how what she did , well its just a died no any magic thing ofc.. i started too she gave me a plan (this one http://bit.ly/1vn9rHm ) and after few months she wasnt my number one motivation but me, i was motivating myself with my progress and response from others... and i keep going, im almost there6 -
* I've noticed how wonderful the human body is! Different shapes, structures, sizes, builds, etc. Sometimes your desired scale weight is not always ur best weight (the weight in which u look ur best).
*increased sex drive...I like watching them..watching me
these hips don't lie 17 -
kazaargrandcru wrote: »For some reason now whenever I see a very overweight young woman I just want to burst into tears. Because I know how she feels inside. I want to help her but I can't. The truth is its a cruel world and for some reason it's still fair game to abuse fat people. It hurts like hell.
Me too, it's that feeling of helplessness that gets me. I try so hard not to pity them and look for their strengths instead because I just can't help but think that at one time people saw me like that and probably felt the same way. Even though I was overweight & out of shape, there was so much more to me than just that.
I have the same feelings when I see someone (especially someone I know) struggling. I've been overweight my whole life and I really hate it when people are judged for their size. Since my husband joined the military, I see the judgement every time we get together with his coworkers and it makes me so mad. I try to stand up for people when I get the chance.4 -
So there was a big pile of jeans in the laundry this morning and I couldn't pick out mine right away because a) they're new and b) they're a lot closer in size to the other adult/young adult jeans in the house. How inconvenient!
(Nice problem)17 -
cakegoddess1 wrote: »Being ACTUALLY handicapped, I get really annoyed when large girls take the handicapped stall. It's NOY for you...it's for us who really need it. Please...a little respect.
Seriously? This is a thread about their celebrations, not your pet peeves. Please... a little respect.
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I think we are talking about the same thing after all... Having someone to inspire and help you definitely helps, but in the long run it was your internal motivation that counted. Well done for your journey!...and after few months she wasnt my number one motivation but me, i was motivating myself with my progress and response from others... and i keep going, im almost there
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