What nobody tells you about losing weight

c_leeee wrote: »

How much it would help to ease my anxiety. I had no idea it was going to make me feel so much better emotionally. My breakdowns are fewer and less severe than they were a year and a half ago when I first began.

This is awesome!!

These posts are awesome! Thank you all sharing! I would really love to be able to use again clothes I have been saving because every time I get them out I say to myself, this is sooo cute, I just need to lose a few pounds and I can fit it again!

I am hoping I can do that this time around and feel like a confident hottie!

dramaqueen45 wrote: »

Thrift store 10 is going to be department store 6 or thereabouts- vanity sizing!

Ayup. When I was in high school, at enforced-on-pain-of-maternal-hissy-fits 125 pounds, I wore size 12 pants. Now, at 145, I'm wearing 10s and even 8s. <eyeroll>

How much easier a towel stays wrapped around your waist when you get out of the shower!

That I'd be so tickled at touching my toes in the shower that I'd come out and show The Man In My Life.

samgamgee wrote: »

Hehe, for science! Tesco Finest Triple Chocolate 310 calories each, my word.

Might have to go to tescos tonight...

HappyCampr1 wrote: »

That discovering you have Raynaud's Phenomenon (Syndrome) is not uncommon in people who've lost a lot of weight. Everybody mentions being cold, but apparently being obese (and warmer) just masks the Raynaud's for many people. Once you lose the weight and Raynaud's becomes apparent (it's really hard to miss when your fingers turn deadly white due to lack of blood flow), it's very disconcerting. It also warrants a trip to the doctor to make sure it's not just a symptom of other issues.

I guess the fact that I never felt overly warm even being second category obese should have given me a clue.

Same here! I have had Raynaud's ever since I lost big. Thought it was just me!

Also, I walked into a store once after losing 80 pounds, and the girl there said "Oh! Our spring collection is really made for people like you." It made me never want to go back to the way I was.

joinn68 wrote: »

pandyg180 wrote: »

lemonsurprise wrote: »

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!

- How much day in and day out you constantly think about the whole process...food and the decisions you have to make, how much of that I can eat so that I reserve calories to have when meeting friends for dinner, how much you hope to lose in the next week, what time you will go workout, not feeling like working out and forcing yourself to go so you don't feel guilty, what size you hope you will be on your next clothes shopping trip, ...the list goes on lol!

Yes yes and yes. And if you cook your own food to be more accurate, I summed it up once as: planning, shopping, chopping, slicing, dicing, cutting, peeling, weighing, cooking

I so agree with how much of the mind cycles and time are consumed in the process and making sure that it continues to work!

trailgirl777 wrote: »

Hello, I don't quite have the success story yet but I read this post and love the comments. I wish to congradulate all that have found the right path for them. MFP works and I know it, however, I don't stick to it for the time the process needs. Many of you post about it being easier finally and you found determination or similar statements. My question is how/what clicked to change for you guys because that is what I am trying to find at the moment.

I think you have to hit your "bottom." Ten years ago it was standing on the scale and being 140 pounds. (I'm 5'1" and I was 110 naturally without effort while in living in the Czech Republic.) I set my goal to lose 30 and did. But that was a constant diet in Missouri. So after 10 years, I had gained it back, and more. So that was my next wake-up call this last April. I'm 43 and I weight 147.4. Yikes. Way too close to 150. So this time I set a goal that was more doable: 125. I logged here almost every day. I gave myself 1 day off a month (no worries on going over on that day) and kept my calorie budget as tightly as I could. I got a Fitbit and started really walking. I want to reach my 10K goal on that every day, which is a challenge on a winter weekend in my little house.

So, what is your wake-up call? What it is that says, enough! I didn't like buying size 10 clothes when I knew I was really a size 6. So it was great getting down to where I could wear most of my closet again! Is it the number on the scale, like it was for me? Is it seeing yourself in pictures and thinking "I look wide." I didn't like that.

Or maybe set some sub-goals and stick with it long enough to reach the first. Like one dress-size lost. Then put on those one-size down clothes! When I finally put on my new new formal, I was so happy! I got lots of comments on it at the opera, too. At 126, I couldn't wear it. At 123, I could! I like the way I look now, mostly. I don't look wide in photos. People comment on my skinniness (and I'm not even 110, but more like 118.). Let those feelings help you stay motivated to keep it up! (Wait, didn't I say my goal was 125? It was. To maintain, I kept my 1500 calories per day budget. I can live on it without feeling deprived. This is where it has taken me. Still losing but way, way slower. And I'm good with where I am if I stopped losing altogether at that point. 118-119 is a nice spot!)

Make friends here who can cheer you on and encourage you.

palwithme wrote: »

kgb6days wrote: »

How cold you get without a thick pad of insulation

You too? I thought I was the only one. I am freezing all. the. time. I just hope my body gets used to it.

That's funny. I live in AZ and I work inside so I rarely ever wore a jacket. Now I wear one every morning.

Dave_GettingFit wrote: »

I never imagined that at 47 I would feel better and fitter than when I was 17. Although I was skinny then I wasn't anywhere near as fit as I am now. I couldn't have run 6 miles then but I can now and have done so several times.
It's funny that when I was skinny I never noticed I had a collar bone or hip bones. I never paid attention to them. Now I can't leave them alone.

This! I was just telling my husband that I think I'm fitter now than I was when I was 20. I was always thin, but didn't exercise, didn't like sports, never stepped foot in a gym until this year. Now I love exercising, and get very grouchy when I miss a day. I can't imagine ever going back to what I was before!