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What nobody tells you about losing weight

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  • AllAboutThatPace
    AllAboutThatPace Posts: 151 Member
    kgb6days wrote: »
    How cold you get without a thick pad of insulation

    This. I am normally so hot, but lately, I am walking around the house is a sweater or my robe. Haha.
  • Eri0515
    Eri0515 Posts: 85 Member
    Luvzy wrote: »
    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." :|
    Men have different metabolism rates than most women, but no, I would never say it's easy for them. It's not easy for *any* of us.
  • veggieerp
    veggieerp Posts: 8 Member
    Layers are your friend! I heard that once you lose weight you are cold all the time but I also heard that you re-acclimate. Two years and 100+ pounds down, I am still cold all the time!
    Also, buying clothes size small clothes NEVER gets old.
  • BruceHedtke
    BruceHedtke Posts: 358 Member
    tincanonastring wrote: »
    juleelee wrote: »
    Yes to collar bones!!!! After a 70+ loss mine are just beginning to show. Still have 25 lbs to go... I never knew how excited I could get about a bone in my body! :)

    So...many...jokes...

    That's what she said?
  • BrandNewMan1970
    BrandNewMan1970 Posts: 373 Member
    Small things like having a tailbone that makes sitting in a car or Ina plane for long periods of time quite painful.

    I know it's been said but my knobby knees knocking together when I lay down.

    Being very comfortable with no shirt on (my wife laughs about that one)

    I have ribs for gods sake

    One major one is patients and friends asking behind my back if I have cancer or something. And yes people don't always believe it's as easy as counting calories and exercise.

  • kar328
    kar328 Posts: 4,159 Member
    veggieerp wrote: »
    Also, buying clothes size small clothes NEVER gets old.

    This is new for me but picking up a small sized piece of clothing makes me giggle every time. I was a 3X when I started this weight loss journey and it never occurred to me that "small" was possible. I was aiming for medium and didn't think that was going to happen until I hit my goal (still not there yet). I work in scrubs and recently was able to fit into extra smalls (they aren't made well, putting on the same size two days in a row will fit so differently like you gained ten pounds that day). They're color coded with the drawstrings and I make sure an inch or two is visible under the shirt :smiley:

  • bri170lb
    bri170lb Posts: 1,375 Member
    kar328 wrote: »
    They're color coded with the drawstrings and I make sure an inch or two is visible under the shirt :smiley:

    Heck, yeah! If you've got it (or don't got it in this case) flaunt it!

    I started at a 3x also. I just bought medium leggings. They are so cute and tiny, they make me giggle also!



  • skirtonbear
    skirtonbear Posts: 1 Member
    edited November 2015
    That after losing 5-7 lbs. each time your hormones and hormone meds will react: my OBGYN said, '...less mass, but same amount of chemicals in your dosage.'

    I need pain medication less often for hormonal or tension headaches.

    I found FiberOne bars supply my dessert desires.

    My kids are a great help: serving me proper portions, complimenting me and getting me to exercise when I'm tired, & inventing snacks my restricted diet can accept!

    Restaurants are getting better about offering healthy and great tasting alternatives, though dairy plagues me everywhere. ;)

    Exercise is not as easy in your 40s, and it is a necessity, but it doesn't have to be a long or heavy workout either.

    YouTube has fun, Christian music Zumba videos!
  • treehopper1987
    treehopper1987 Posts: 505 Member
    After becoming very fit and then gaining it back, losing muscle, I never realized how easily things came to me, I could do hikes and walk for miles, I could try those new workout classes without feeling like the elephant in the room... I had a lot more confidence. I want that confidence which I have lost in the last couple of years. Also, smaller clothes don't cost as much.
  • kar328
    kar328 Posts: 4,159 Member
    skirtonbear wrote: »
    My kids are a great help: serving me proper portions, complimenting me and getting me to exercise when I'm tired, & inventing snacks my restricted diet can accept!
    /quote]

    Can I borrow them? :smiley:

    I hope you realize what a great role model you are for them, and how this is instilling good habits in them that will last a lifetime.


    Lord007 wrote: »

    - That every day I feel like a superhero and NOTHING is impossible. B)

    Love this.
  • joinn68
    joinn68 Posts: 480 Member
    edited November 2015
    bri170lb wrote: »
    skirtonbear wrote: »

    YouTube has fun, Christian music Zumba videos!


    I will have to look that up.

    I love to jog to Zumba on Pandora but so much of the the lyrics ...make me... blush :blush: ....and it seems so wrong to alternate between Zumba and Gospel! I really would love to have PEPPY Christain!


    I think BodyPump has some great music. Last edition they used "Brother" by Needtobreathe as one of the tracks. How cool is that!

    Nobody tells you how much time you'll spend building playlists or how many podcasts you'll listen to during your workouts.
  • holla18
    holla18 Posts: 60 Member
    - lost weight in my butt and just sitting and lying on a bed is no longer confortable for long hours.

    - sometimes I just dont recognize myself in the mirror and I have to asked myself: who is this person?

    - people point out just how big I used to be all the time :(
  • ween2414
    ween2414 Posts: 17 Member
    I am tired of people telling me I don't have that much more to lose.Or suddenly everyone is worried that I will "over do it" I'm not even in my healthy BMI yet. Yes I have lost 74 pounds but the top of my healthy BMI is still 20 pounds away. People seem to think they are funny with comments like "20 more pounds you will blow away in the wind" but I still have body image issues making comments that could push me off track doesn't help. I also have friends that are suddenly trying to convince me to buy the larger pair of jeans or loose fitting top.
  • dee_thurman
    dee_thurman Posts: 240 Member
    I am by no means skinny but this happened today. When your son says "i want to grow up and be skinny like you."
  • Hybrice
    Hybrice Posts: 117 Member
    That I can now walk into a fashion-based clothing store and not think or say "Oh, they'll have nothing to fit me in here..." Because they do! I used to be a big guy and had to shop online or at general supermarkets, it feels good to walk into a fashion shop and actually fit into their merchandise!
  • squeeeyk
    squeeeyk Posts: 165 Member
    Lord007 wrote: »
    - On the few days when I give in and get fast food, the taste wasn't as good as my brain thought it was and it totally wasn't worth it.

    This! I have had cravings, on occasion, for fast food and my brain constantly reminds me of how delicious it is or how delicious it's going to be...then I get it and it's mediocre. It's like my brain remembers how it used to be and hasn't been able to catch up to how it is now. It's the weirdest thing.

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