What nobody tells you about losing weight
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Angelfire365 wrote: »aliciasilfies wrote: »That even when you let yourself get the unhealthy side of potato chips over fruit, you realize 3 chips in that you just don't want anymore.
Not for me; potato chips are my kryptonite. Lol!
Amen. I often say, only half jokingly, that if potato chips and Doritos had never been invented I'd have never got fat. Something about that salty crunchy stuff drives me absolutely mad.4 -
That you would take more time to get ready because you actually care about what you looked like. I was so unhappy with myself that I didn't mind if I looked like crap because I didn't care. Now I am down 50lbs and 8 inches and I care a lot more!!
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With every pound lost my motivation to lose another pound increases tenfold.
You can keep your hobbies from when you weighed more, but beware: they may become a hundred times more fun!
You become more assertive with family, especially if family is a big reason why you were fat.
How gross and nasty it is to eat junk food if you dare try eating it again.
Love the OP's example that people start treating you like royalty because, well, duh! So true.4 -
prettyleelee wrote: »That you would take more time to get ready because you actually care about what you looked like. I was so unhappy with myself that I didn't mind if I looked like crap because I didn't care. Now I am down 50lbs and 8 inches and I care a lot more!!
Exactly this! It takes WAY more effort now to get ready in the morning because I have a lot more clothing options and if my clothes look so good I want my hair and makeup to look good as well
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jessiruthica wrote: »prettyleelee wrote: »That you would take more time to get ready because you actually care about what you looked like. I was so unhappy with myself that I didn't mind if I looked like crap because I didn't care. Now I am down 50lbs and 8 inches and I care a lot more!!
Exactly this! It takes WAY more effort now to get ready in the morning because I have a lot more clothing options and if my clothes look so good I want my hair and makeup to look good as well
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It has also started feeling like I have Tardis clothing. It looks too small to fit, but it always does so it has to be bigger on the inside, right?
YES!! I ordered a fleece hoodie from Old Navy that showed up in yesterday's mail - a small (used to be a 2-3X) - I've just started buying their clothes and they tend to run a little big. I held it up and dang, it was tiny. I figured I'd save it for spring, but tried it on and zipped it up. And smiled.
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It has also started feeling like I have Tardis clothing. It looks too small to fit, but it always does so it has to be bigger on the inside, right?
YES!! I ordered a fleece hoodie from Old Navy that showed up in yesterday's mail - a small (used to be a 2-3X) - I've just started buying their clothes and they tend to run a little big. I held it up and dang, it was tiny. I figured I'd save it for spring, but tried it on and zipped it up. And smiled.
Aparently they are everywhere because I just bought a size medium coat and I have never worn a medium anything - definitely bigger on the inside.
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It has also started feeling like I have Tardis clothing. It looks too small to fit, but it always does so it has to be bigger on the inside, right?
YES!! I ordered a fleece hoodie from Old Navy that showed up in yesterday's mail - a small (used to be a 2-3X) - I've just started buying their clothes and they tend to run a little big. I held it up and dang, it was tiny. I figured I'd save it for spring, but tried it on and zipped it up. And smiled.
Aparently they are everywhere because I just bought a size medium coat and I have never worn a medium anything - definitely bigger on the inside.
My winter coat was a bit too small. I couldn't get the belt around me. Looking forward to cold day now to know if it fits better!
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Wait a minute! Hold the phone! So......i can travel through space and time when I put on the coat I bought at Goodwill last night???????!!!!!!!!!!!!
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debrakgoogins wrote: »
...How silently frustrated I will get with others who claim to be trying to lose weight but are doing it in a completely unhealthy way.
Oh my gosh. Yes. So much.3 -
This thread is great!
For me, it's that grocery shopping takes so long, because I'm reading every ingredient list. Also, there are some things in the store I just don't know where they are, because I mainly shop the perimeter. Someone asked me if I knew where X was, and I had no idea. They thought I was weird!0 -
JanolaBarbara wrote: »
. . . . there are some things in the store I just don't know where they are, because I mainly shop the perimeter. Someone asked me if I knew where X was, and I had no idea. They thought I was weird!
I pre plan my weekly meals and shop with a list, which I stick to AND I walk every aisle. How else would I get my steps in on a grimy day. Fitbit assures me that my local Tesco has 1.25 miles of aisles!!!
My NSV is a little scale related: I've been reverse dieting to find my maintenance calories level and dropped another pound - and this week I've stayed at the bottom end of my target range!
I also went to a theatre production last night, staged in a 1000 year old castle. The old seats were so uncomfortable - it seems I don't have enough padding on my rear end.
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The lighter you are, it seems the heavier alcohol is!!!
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Now that you mention it, I realize that I rarely go up the middle of the store as well.JanolaBarbara wrote: »This thread is great!
For me, it's that grocery shopping takes so long, because I'm reading every ingredient list. Also, there are some things in the store I just don't know where they are, because I mainly shop the perimeter. Someone asked me if I knew where X was, and I had no idea. They thought I was weird!
Grocery stores seem to suspend the laws of time when I go in them. I have no friggin clue what happens but I usually end up shopping for a couple of hours.
Actually, that's not true. Since I am trying to remain on my low sodium diet, I have a very selective list of things that I will buy. Take jello, for instance. I get sugar free jello cups that come in a package of 12. However, the one brand I used to buy all the time has 50mg of sodium per cup and I found another brand that has 15mg per cup. So, since the store where I do most of my shopping doesn't carry the lower sodium variety, I have to make another stop just to get jello.
I usually have four or five "specialty" items like that and have not found a store that has all of it under one roof, so I have to hop from store to store just to get the items I know I'm going to buy. It seems to eat up an entire Saturday afternoon.2 -
kuwick1230 wrote: »That moment when you pull out your drivers license and realize that for the first time in years you actually weigh less than what's printed on the card!!
They put your weight on your licence really that bloody invasive2 -
debrakgoogins wrote: »
...How silently frustrated I will get with others who claim to be trying to lose weight but are doing it in a completely unhealthy way.
Oh my gosh. Yes. So much.
Yes! I'm like that too! It makes me feel like they're undermining my efforts when they tell me how they're doing it, with a smug tone. But they don't see results.
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malcolmjcooper wrote: »kuwick1230 wrote: »That moment when you pull out your drivers license and realize that for the first time in years you actually weigh less than what's printed on the card!!
They put your weight on your licence really that bloody invasive
They don't put your weight on your licence? Where are you from? I'm Canadian, and that's standard. No sarcasm intended, just curious?0 -
Angelfire365 wrote: »malcolmjcooper wrote: »kuwick1230 wrote: »That moment when you pull out your drivers license and realize that for the first time in years you actually weigh less than what's printed on the card!!
They put your weight on your licence really that bloody invasive
They don't put your weight on your licence? Where are you from? I'm Canadian, and that's standard. No sarcasm intended, just curious?
Im from Pennsylvania and we don't have our weight on ours. My pic is bad enough to show I'm still fat , but so much worse 6 years ago. I wasnt in the sun a lot (bday is in July ) and I wasn't eating well so I looked like a snowman lol1 -
Angelfire365 wrote: »malcolmjcooper wrote: »kuwick1230 wrote: »That moment when you pull out your drivers license and realize that for the first time in years you actually weigh less than what's printed on the card!!
They put your weight on your licence really that bloody invasive
Im from Pennsylvania and we don't have our weight on ours. My pic is bad enough to show I'm still fat , but so much worse 6 years ago. I wasnt in the sun a lot (bday is in July ) and I wasn't eating well so I looked like a snowman lol
When I moved to California, they wanted the weight. I think I put down 50 less pounds than I actually was. When I was buying a home here in NC, I had to fax some documents, including my drivers license. I called and asked if I could black out the weight since it was nowhere near the right number anyway. They laughed and said fine. No weights on licenses here in NC And happily, I passed that fake number last year, I remember thinking about it when I hit it.
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danipatt1216 wrote: »Angelfire365 wrote: »malcolmjcooper wrote: »kuwick1230 wrote: »That moment when you pull out your drivers license and realize that for the first time in years you actually weigh less than what's printed on the card!!
They put your weight on your licence really that bloody invasive
They don't put your weight on your licence? Where are you from? I'm Canadian, and that's standard. No sarcasm intended, just curious?
Im from Pennsylvania and we don't have our weight on ours. My pic is bad enough to show I'm still fat , but so much worse 6 years ago. I wasnt in the sun a lot (bday is in July ) and I wasn't eating well so I looked like a snowman lol
Nope, Michigan doesnt put the weight on there either (thank goodness)! They ask for it when renewing or getting it for the first time, but it's not printed on the card!2 -
JanolaBarbara wrote: »This thread is great!
For me, it's that grocery shopping takes so long, because I'm reading every ingredient list. Also, there are some things in the store I just don't know where they are, because I mainly shop the perimeter. Someone asked me if I knew where X was, and I had no idea. They thought I was weird!
Well they didn't know where it was either since they were asking you! :P Who's weird now?? Lol!4 -
S_Evanson613 wrote: »danipatt1216 wrote: »Angelfire365 wrote: »malcolmjcooper wrote: »kuwick1230 wrote: »That moment when you pull out your drivers license and realize that for the first time in years you actually weigh less than what's printed on the card!!
They put your weight on your licence really that bloody invasive
They don't put your weight on your licence? Where are you from? I'm Canadian, and that's standard. No sarcasm intended, just curious?
Im from Pennsylvania and we don't have our weight on ours. My pic is bad enough to show I'm still fat , but so much worse 6 years ago. I wasnt in the sun a lot (bday is in July ) and I wasn't eating well so I looked like a snowman lol
Nope, Michigan doesnt put the weight on there either (thank goodness)! They ask for it when renewing or getting it for the first time, but it's not printed on the card!
Thank heavens they don't I would be screwed lol.0 -
I have a fridge magnet that says "My goal is to weigh what my driver's license says." My license weight was 10 pounds under my real weight for five years, now it's 45 pounds over my real weight. It expires this month. I have another 40 pounds to go - what weight should I say?!? Decisions, decisions (and first-world problems). 1
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Uk.....no weight on either.0
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prettyleelee wrote: »S_Evanson613 wrote: »danipatt1216 wrote: »Angelfire365 wrote: »malcolmjcooper wrote: »kuwick1230 wrote: »That moment when you pull out your drivers license and realize that for the first time in years you actually weigh less than what's printed on the card!!
They put your weight on your licence really that bloody invasive
They don't put your weight on your licence? Where are you from? I'm Canadian, and that's standard. No sarcasm intended, just curious?
Im from Pennsylvania and we don't have our weight on ours. My pic is bad enough to show I'm still fat , but so much worse 6 years ago. I wasnt in the sun a lot (bday is in July ) and I wasn't eating well so I looked like a snowman lol
Nope, Michigan doesnt put the weight on there either (thank goodness)! They ask for it when renewing or getting it for the first time, but it's not printed on the card!
Thank heavens they don't I would be screwed lol.
Missouri does. Last time I had mine renewed, I handed the guy my old one and he just looked back and forth between me and the license and then asked me how much I weighed for the new one. I was way under the old one that had been under what I really weighed. It was a good day I also has Lasik surgery and didn't need glasses anymore, it was like I was a different person. 4 -
Angelfire365 wrote: »malcolmjcooper wrote: »kuwick1230 wrote: »That moment when you pull out your drivers license and realize that for the first time in years you actually weigh less than what's printed on the card!!
They put your weight on your licence really that bloody invasive
They don't put your weight on your licence? Where are you from? I'm Canadian, and that's standard. No sarcasm intended, just curious?
TX here. And no weight listed. But I did live in Louisiana and they put it on there.1 -
They don't do it in Australia either. No height, no weight.
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malcolmjcooper wrote: »kuwick1230 wrote: »That moment when you pull out your drivers license and realize that for the first time in years you actually weigh less than what's printed on the card!!
They put your weight on your licence really that bloody invasive
Yep, crazy isn't it?!1
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