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What nobody tells you about loosing weight
Bonny132
Posts: 3,617 Member
Your body suddenly goes all wobbly
Your skinny clothes you saved is now 10 years out of date
What you thought you would look good in, does no longer apply, your curves has all changed
Your taste buds changes
You have discovered what hunger really feels like
Your complexion changes
Your skinny clothes you saved is now 10 years out of date
What you thought you would look good in, does no longer apply, your curves has all changed
Your taste buds changes
You have discovered what hunger really feels like
Your complexion changes
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The "wrong" things in your life don't suddenly become "right".
Kinda like that saying, "geographical cures don't work" because no matter where you go, you take yourself with you.
On a somewhat lighter note: look forward and have a solid weight maintenance plan. Returning to your old eating habits doesn't work.
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Those who lose a LOT of weight may well find out that the people you considered lifelong friends suddenly are not. (*) Big changes can trigger serious anxiety and even hostility. My personal response to this is "Good riddance" but your mileage may differ. Either way, be aware it can happen.
(*) For various reasons, this applies mainly to women. Guys who slim down are heroes. Gals are a threat.8 -
@mandycat223 - Very true!0
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mandycat223 wrote: »Those who lose a LOT of weight may well find out that the people you considered lifelong friends suddenly are not. (*) Big changes can trigger serious anxiety and even hostility. My personal response to this is "Good riddance" but your mileage may differ. Either way, be aware it can happen.
(*) For various reasons, this applies mainly to women. Guys who slim down are heroes. Gals are a threat.
That's just dammed sad, and yeah, good riddance!!1 -
You lose your boobs --7
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Boob loss "sigh". Hard for those of us smallish to begin with.5
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Your bed becomes less comfortable. Darn it.
I still want to eat more than I should. My appetite really dropped off for a while, but it came back. I still need to decide to stop eating before I would rather.
Speaking of old clothes, I had a an old polyester track jacket from the early 80s that I kept and fits. It's cool for it's "retro"ness now. The kids were blown away by the texture of true, don't bring it near a flame, polyester. LOL
Socks fit better. Never expected that one.11 -
Your bed becomes less comfortable. Darn it.
I still want to eat more than I should. My appetite really dropped off for a while, but it came back. I still need to decide to stop eating before I would rather.
Speaking of old clothes, I had a an old polyester track jacket from the early 80s that I kept and fits. It's cool for it's "retro"ness now. The kids were blown away by the texture of true, don't bring it near a flame, polyester. LOL
Socks fit better. Never expected that one.
Omg I'm going through this right now, took me a but to figure out why I was waking up in pain when nothing had changed, except the amount of extra fat on my body. I ordered a new bed one I realized what was going on.7 -
auntstephie321 wrote: »
Omg I'm going through this right now, took me a but to figure out why I was waking up in pain when nothing had changed, except the amount of extra fat on my body. I ordered a new bed one I realized what was going on.
That happened to the couch we have by our tv too. I can't sit in it for more than an hour or I hurt. If I want to watch a movie I put it on my laptop and watch it in another chair.3 -
Those beautiful linen ankle pants that are so fashionable, suddenly are too long, and the crotch is far too low now!
You look more like bag lady than full figured fashionplate!
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Those beautiful linen ankle pants that are so fashionable, suddenly are too long, and the crotch is far too low now!
You look more like bag lady than full figured fashionplate!
One of the first things that got too big was a pair of shorts that I could barely button before I started losing weight. My husband (lovingly and with humor) told me to throw them out because I looked like an old bag lady. I'm keeping them as my only "before" piece of clothing.2 -
My *kitten* hurts no matter where I sit if I sit more than 30 minutes these days4
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You always bang your hip into things
and your far to old to ware the old mini dresses you've saved to grow back into.. 4 -
Things are harder to carry, you no longer have big hips to rest them on!2
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we are LIGHTER and that is a huge "win".
we are contributing less to over-consumption of the world's resourcses.
we probably (if we could meaure it) have to buy gas for our vehicles less often.
according to some sources, the brain prefers to burn ketones rather than glucose.
Oh Yea!
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Your rings will fall off your fingers.6
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MyriiStorm wrote: »Your rings will fall off your fingers.
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Speaking of old clothes, I had a an old polyester track jacket from the early 80s that I kept and fits. It's cool for it's "retro"ness now. The kids were blown away by the texture of true, don't bring it near a flame, polyester. LOL.
Ha! You can buy a hideous leisure (aka "loser") suit at Salvation Army, and the folks at your HS reunion will actually believe your ridiculous yarn that your aunt gave it to you for Easter when you were a junior.
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Though you'll use less body lotion because your body is smaller, you'll use more dishwashing liquid to cut the grease on pots and pans (if cooking/eating high fat).8
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Your bloomer budget goes up and your soap budget goes down.
My jeans budget went way down, cause I can finally fit into Bob's bad *kitten* beat up 34/34 Levis. I've been waiting for this day.....7 -
You didn't realize that you can now squeeze in that tiny hole.1
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You'll get stretch marks everywhere, including arms and legs. Or I did, I hope some of you are lucky and do not.
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KetoGirl_ZC wrote: »You'll get stretch marks everywhere, including arms and legs. Or I did, I hope some of you are lucky and do not.
::flowerforyou::
I prefer to call them my tiger stripes...2 -
Shadowmf023 wrote: »
I prefer to call them my tiger stripes...
LOL, good call. Do you have any tricks to camouflage them?
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KetoGirl_ZC wrote: »
No I don't really try to. I've kind of learned to live with them. Just changed my mindset about them. I do apply tissue oil daily.1 -
The weirdness of buying clothes when you have no idea what size you are. It's such a nice surprise when you take in two sizes and end up needing to go back for one even smaller though!
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People treat you differently
It causes a good and negative feeling all at the same time. It is nice to feel body confident and like yourself. It also brings out a resentment on being treated as though you were somehow less than, when over socially acceptable weight6 -
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