What nobody tells you about losing weight
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The pic that shows the muscles on my legs...that NO ONE mentions. This is the pic that shows me RUNNING...both feet off the ground running...that's one of my granddaughters, we are racing!
Dang, you do have some muscles. And it looks like your granddaughter is having to run to keep up. My daughter can WALK to keep up with me when I run. It's pathetic.4 -
How falling off the wagon even a bit can scare you into getting back on track. I gained back 3lbs but when I looked in the mirror it looks like 10. It's enough to get me back to the get to, lol.7
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Getting used to compliments on appearance or new clothes. It feels good & different.1
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I went from 214 lbs to 180 lbs and just am stuck for about a month now. It's almost like I hit a wall.. so re thinking everything, I started over on here. I am starting at 183 lbs and not 214 lbs anymore. My goal is 165 lbs. So I think my what no one tells you about weight loss is the bumps in the road you will face! It's not just reaching your goal...it's the long journey it's going to take! It may be easy, it may not be. I am on the it's not easy journey!
I did the same thing and still the same now for 2 months I started at 157 now 138 hit my platue so I'm regrouping started a whole new workout and hoping to shock my body into loosing again cause that's what you have to do. I was on a routine and I'm changing food as well good luck0 -
The pic that shows the muscles on my legs...that NO ONE mentions. This is the pic that shows me RUNNING...both feet off the ground running...that's one of my granddaughters, we are racing!
!!! I can see your muscles !!! People are so mean (and jealous) sometimes.
You look great :-)))1 -
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I read all the new posts every day and they are so encouraging, keep up the hard work 2
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The going down in shoe size is what's surprised me.
I don't know why I believed this person, but back before Google was particularly good at finding quick answers, I asked her if you could lose enough weight to drop shoe sizes and she acted like I was a moron and said no. At the time it rather crushed my dreams because I really wanted Japanese-made shoes and the company didn't make Western sizes.
I am back to being an 8-8.5 depending on style/brand now. Hadn't bought an 8.5 in years until today!4 -
S_Evanson613 wrote: »I ran a race the other day. My daughter took a picture. Nobody told me that I was going to be able to see muscles. They STILL haven't mentioned the 40 pounds OR the muscles the picture shows. It's like if they don't say it, then it ain't true. But it is. I'm losing weight, defining muscle, becoming the me that I was always meant to be. And while everyone is staying silent on the outside, on the inside I'm screaming how proud of myself I am, and LOOK AT MY MUSCLES!!
No one really mentions anything like that to me either, but thats what we have MFP for! To celebrate all of those things with each other Hope your race went awesome!
Someone I have known for years came up to me at the gym today and said "I wasnt sure if I should say anything,but you look great-how much weight have you lost?". I happily told them,but it made me wonder..are some people just afraid to say anything for fear of being offensive?
I talked to one of the guys I work with about this. He said something to me after about 45 pounds. He is someone I felt OK asking, so I said "Did you just notice?" He said "NO, but talking about a woman's weight is hard for a man to approach, I don't want you to think I am saying you were fat before, but there is no way not to notice that you have lost weight now" He didn't want to offend me.
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I went from 214 lbs to 180 lbs and just am stuck for about a month now. It's almost like I hit a wall.. so re thinking everything, I started over on here. I am starting at 183 lbs and not 214 lbs anymore. My goal is 165 lbs. So I think my what no one tells you about weight loss is the bumps in the road you will face! It's not just reaching your goal...it's the long journey it's going to take! It may be easy, it may not be. I am on the it's not easy journey!
I recently had to reevaluate my goals too after hitting my half-way point. It was liberating and gave me a big boost of motivation to keep going. No one told me that weightloss would require some strategic skills in order to succeed. When I view it as a "game", it doesn't seem so overwhelming. It's also pretty great because my prize is a healthy body and mind.7 -
How bloating and disgusting it feels to have a day where you eat the way the old you did. After Valentine's Day I couldn't wait to go back to not eating much!
I'm struggling with that now! But I it was a good reminder to get back on track and eat healthier! I began eating more carby and fatty foods on my "weekend days" (I have 3/4 days off work rotating weeks because I work 12 hour shifts), even when I didn't go running. This started giving me bloating and gas...something I'm not comfortable doing around my boyfriend. I think that's a healthy response, so I'm trying to get back on the bandwagon!4 -
If I get asked "How did you lose so much weight?" I am just going to reply "The Mafia was involved."20
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Have reached and surpassed my goal of 199lbs. down to 197.2lbs. I realize now the real work starts maintaining.
Wish me luck.10 -
Oh...and after losing weight...like some of you said, I've gotten hit on a lot more, people (guys and girls) want to talk to me more, the emotional part..omg! I don't like drama, but I've been more dramatic the past year than I have when I gained all the weight! I've watched The Biggest Loser though, and those contestants go through a ton of drama, and the takeaway I got was that we were eating out emotions. Now, I'm learning to deal with the bad and the good emotions that comes up. It's definitely more than just the physical aspect. I want to have a healthier mind and body, and that comes with hard work!8
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lost 50lbs.
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I ran a 5k with my 10 year old grandson. He took off like the flash and when I finally stumbled across the finish line 50 minutes later, he said, "Grandma, I didn't know it was going to take you sooooooooooo long!" (He came in 4th place out of about 200 people and did about 25 minutes.) At least you're giving your grand daughter a run for her money!
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Nausicca55 wrote: »If I get asked "How did you lose so much weight?" I am just going to reply "The Mafia was involved."
LOL I love this.1 -
I ran a 5k with my 10 year old grandson. He took off like the flash and when I finally stumbled across the finish line 50 minutes later, he said, "Grandma, I didn't know it was going to take you sooooooooooo long!" (He came in 4th place out of about 200 people and did about 25 minutes.) At least you're giving your grand daughter a run for her money!
Seriously, though, your legs look amazaing!0 -
Just lost 40 lbs (196 to 156) in a few months grocery shopping 3 times a week at 3 different stores, in the kitchen for 2 hours a day (cooking, meal prepping, dishes, etc.), and going to the gym 5 days a week, and all the ladies be like "it's so easy for men to lose weight."
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- I can't see that I've lost weight and often times forget that I have. Ill walk past a mirror or go to put something on and I'm like "oh yeah..forgot about that.."
- I still feel big. I don't have confidence. I've lost almost 70 pounds and my mind is still in the same place it was 70 pounds ago.
- I hurt. My body physically aches from losing weight. It hurts to sit. At times it hurts to lay.
- I'm cold all the time.
- People can be quite rude about you losing weight. I live in one of the most obese states in the US. Fat is normal. The second someone's weight loss starts showing cruelty begins.
- I've went down 3 shoe sizes.
- The size and shape of my nose has changed, so much so that I heard a rumor that I had a nose job.
- Saggy skin and stretch marks. I already had both, but now my stomach looks like if you took a beach ball with a road map pattern on it and stabbed it. A deflated roadmap printed beach ball!
- Your periods could get wonky. Mine used to be like clockwork. Now; not so much.
- Sleep patterns can be disrupted. What are sleep?9
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