What nobody tells you about losing weight
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I now NEED my workouts n if I don't get it in I feel off balance and CRANKY! never thought that could happen17
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How self-righteous you get about your new healthy habits. "I can't believe they are eating that considering the size they are..."30
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that your below the knee socks become over tje knee socks and you need them to keep warm.14
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How cold you feel when it's winter brrrhhhhhhh1
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I'm not at my goal but I am down to a 12/14 from a 24/26. Here's what I think no one tells you...
- People really do treat you differently...both men and women. Smiling, opening doors, rushing over to pick up something you dropped.
- Write your boobs off (especially if they were always mamma jammas). Mine deflated like the end of a Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. Sad but so true.
- You have to adjust how close you are to the car steering wheel. I realized I was really reaching one day. I guess there was more there before pushing me up and forward.
- Your mind really holds onto what you looked like before. I can't tell you how many times I've been surprised by the person looking back in the mirror at me. Or thinking that shirt is going to show my rolls only to have it be perfectly fine when I put it on. I don't know when the mental catches up but I bet you it's a big part of the reason people put pounds back on. You still feel like the fat girl.
- You can physically do more. This seems kind of obvious but I have to work harder to get my heart rate up in gym and more importantly I CAN work harder. I can walk at 4mi/hr at a 15% incline or even crank out a sprint run.
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Seriously. My car said -12 by the time I got to Mpls this morning. Had to leave the kitchen sink dripping all night so the pipes through the crawl space don't freeze and burst.I'm cold constantly. I'm pretty sure it is due to being January in Minnesota, though.
I've only lost 30 of the 80 I need to lose, but I'm already colder this year.
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I wish I would have taken measurements on my wrist. and I know that seems weird. but especially lately I stare at my hands and wrists a lot because I feel like they look so small. I also think my fingers somehow look longer but I think it's just because they are so pudgy. But I never would have really thought that would happen...21
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I'm always behind my kids to put on socks or slippers or something warmer. They are always telling me back that they aren't cold. And I'm like, how can you be cold, it's freezing. And DH is like, how can you be cold? It's warm in here. What?!
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During :
- You become regular and pee a lot
- once you see results it becomes addictive
- counting macros works wonders
- Try different workouts or activities other than the gym. Do WHAT WORKS FOR YOU. Make it fun and it will easily become a lifestyle change.
- The scale is your best friend and worst enemy
- You will get use your body feeling sore each day
After:
- Everyone wants workout advice
- People will say you look good while others will say you look too skinny
- You will go crazy shopping for new clothes and try and buy the items your were never able to wear. ( I did and I felt uncomfortable and shy still)
- You will get use to the attention and cat calls that will come your way.22 -
As a footnote to this thread (kinesiologist here). I don't know if this has been said yet, but people often feel cold during and after weight loss mostly due to metabolic changes and adaptations. Your body doesn't like the idea of being on a long term calorie deficit, or a deficit that's too extreme, so it compensates by reducing energy expenditure through reducing BMR (which makes you cold because it costs valuable energy to keep you warm) and sometimes even shutting down the sex organs since they aren't vital to your immediate survival. Typically that's how you know you've gone too extreme or need a break, if youve lost your sex drive and/or period.
Just know that after being at maintenance for a while you will often become a little less cold as your body adjusts again!51 -
Ditto on the cold thing. Nobody ever told me that losing weight meant that I'd be so freaking COLD all the time! I had to buy several sweaters for the winter, when I've never had to wear them before.5
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I wish I would have taken measurements on my wrist. and I know that seems weird. but especially lately I stare at my hands and wrists a lot because I feel like they look so small. I also think my fingers somehow look longer but I think it's just because they are so pudgy. But I never would have really thought that would happen...
Snap - I was looking at my hands today, wondering how my fingers got so long! And my wrists are so small and BONEY. I can circle one wrist with the other hand now - and slide my hand further down my arm. Weird, especially as I couldn't do this a few months ago. Oh, and the veins that are running all over my hands, wrists and arms . . . they're HUGE. And pretty yuck to see. I have one vein that gets bigger or smaller depending on whether or not I'm a bit dehydrated. And I can see my pulse on the insides of my wrists. Bleugh. And very creepy.6 -
How the Avatar pictures will change so much. 7
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youdoyou2016 wrote: »Will I ever experience warmth again ... ?
EVER?!
(Are people who never had to lose weight perpetually freezing as well? How would they know as they'd have nothing to compare it to?)
You could always move to Texas. We're warm most of the time.
Not today though. Lol
No lie. LOL... the joke's on us today. 1 -
nbradford75 wrote: »I'm not at my goal but I am down to a 12/14 from a 24/26. Here's what I think no one tells you...
[*] Your mind really holds onto what you looked like before. I can't tell you how many times I've been surprised by the person looking back in the mirror at me. Or thinking that shirt is going to show my rolls only to have it be perfectly fine when I put it on. I don't know when the mental catches up but I bet you it's a big part of the reason people put pounds back on. You still feel like the fat girl.
I think this is a big one.
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That increased running (specifically for me) may drastically increase your appetite... I took up running recently and I've been consistently HUNGRY.. and that's after eating back my exercise calories!! The intensity is not unlike me taking an additional class so I'm not sure why I'm so hungry now with this specific activity...(food choices have not changed)... I find myself sometimes just having to go SLEEP to stop munching!! I work out every day oftentimes twice a day (pretty intensely) but it wasn't until I incorporated the running that I haven't been feeling really satiated in the evenings... going to start juggling the bulk of my intake to the evenings.... any comments on this??6
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That increased running (specifically for me) may drastically increase your appetite... I took up running recently and I've been consistently HUNGRY.. and that's after eating back my exercise calories!! The intensity is not unlike me taking an additional class so I'm not sure why I'm so hungry now with this specific activity...(food choices have not changed)... I find myself sometimes just having to go SLEEP to stop munching!! I work out every day oftentimes twice a day (pretty intensely) but it wasn't until I incorporated the running that I haven't been feeling really satiated in the evenings... going to start juggling the bulk of my intake to the evenings.... any comments on this??
My comment? Runners call it "runger."
My advice, though: you really only know how many calories you're burning if you're using a GPS watch and a chest strap heart monitor. A rule of thumb is that you burn 100 calories for every mile, but that is not the case for me. I'm 5'1", and my calories come out to 75 per mile -- even when I was much heavier I wasn't burning the 100. Luckily, running kills my appetite. But if it makes you really hungry, you have to be certain about the # you're really burning because it's probably pretty easy to eat too many back.9 -
Something else I've found is having to replace my computer chair. Being a sedentary obese nerd for so long meant that after I lost 60kg, I realised how uncomfortable my computer chair actually was. Needed more cushion to make up for the cushion that I'd lost!youdoyou2016 wrote: »That increased running (specifically for me) may drastically increase your appetite... I took up running recently and I've been consistently HUNGRY.. and that's after eating back my exercise calories!! The intensity is not unlike me taking an additional class so I'm not sure why I'm so hungry now with this specific activity...(food choices have not changed)... I find myself sometimes just having to go SLEEP to stop munching!! I work out every day oftentimes twice a day (pretty intensely) but it wasn't until I incorporated the running that I haven't been feeling really satiated in the evenings... going to start juggling the bulk of my intake to the evenings.... any comments on this??
My comment? Runners call it "runger."
My advice, though: you really only know how many calories you're burning if you're using a GPS watch and a chest strap heart monitor. A rule of thumb is that you burn 100 calories for every mile, but that is not the case for me. I'm 5'1", and my calories come out to 75 per mile -- even when I was much heavier I wasn't burning the 100. Luckily, running kills my appetite. But if it makes you really hungry, you have to be certain about the # you're really burning because it's probably pretty easy to eat too many back.
haha, I call it getting rungry XD
I find that there's a sweet spot for my hunger with running. There'll be a run distance (it varies depending on what type of training I'm doing) that actually suppresses my hunger levels, and anything above that makes me want to fall mouth first into the fridge.
@Syneea I suggest experimenting a little with your post-run snack to see what helps balance your hunger for the rest of the day. I run first thing in the morning on an almost empty stomach (I only have liquids beforehand), and just have a brekkie with a full mix of macros (carbs for instant energy recoup, proteins and fats for the satiety). You'll find something that helps with the hunger through trial and error eventually.
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How you become obsessed with buying workout clothes, cant stop looking at them now that they fit so much better.18
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Thanks @youdoyou2016 and @mangrothian!
Yes the hunger is REAL! lol I'm 5'8", 140lbs. I gave myself a bit of wiggle room weight wise just for situations like this. lol
I have a Fitbit Challenger 2 that has been seemingly pretty accurate with gauging my heart rate.. the readings are comparable to what you mentioned.. maybe I will check out a chest HRM as well.. are they generally more accurate than wrist?
YES!! I need more experimentation with post run snacks... some type of appetite "suppressor"!! Lol I've started saving more calories for the evening when I've been my hungriest as well and will see if this levels out.
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Getting my mind to match my new body size. It took several weeks before I walked in to my closet and would not have that miserable "I can't fit in or feel comfortable in anything" feeling.11
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Thanks @youdoyou2016 and @mangrothian!
Yes the hunger is REAL! lol I'm 5'8", 140lbs. I gave myself a bit of wiggle room weight wise just for situations like this. lol
I have a Fitbit Challenger 2 that has been seemingly pretty accurate with gauging my heart rate.. the readings are comparable to what you mentioned.. maybe I will check out a chest HRM as well.. are they generally more accurate than wrist?
YES!! I need more experimentation with post run snacks... some type of appetite "suppressor"!! Lol I've started saving more calories for the evening when I've been my hungriest as well and will see if this levels out.
About chest vs wrist HRM: I think it depends on how snug the wrist strap is. They tend to be too big for me, so I use the chest strap. Reddit has a pretty good running sub where folks discuss these types of things all the time. Some people are pretty amazing -- running is really their thing, or they are top university track coaches, so they experiment and do reviews and then share them on the sub. I'd check them out.5 -
nbradford75 wrote: »I'm not at my goal but I am down to a 12/14 from a 24/26. Here's what I think no one tells you...
[*] Your mind really holds onto what you looked like before. I can't tell you how many times I've been surprised by the person looking back in the mirror at me. Or thinking that shirt is going to show my rolls only to have it be perfectly fine when I put it on. I don't know when the mental catches up but I bet you it's a big part of the reason people put pounds back on. You still feel like the fat girl.
I think this is a big one.
little back story:
3 years ago I was about 125lbs and in great shape. I'm currently in the 160s and in not that great of shape and trying very hard to get back to my 125 wt/frame
Even at 125...I still though I was Fat. as sad as it is, I feel like the feeling of being the "fat girl" never really goes away
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@HappyCampr1 you're so right about that ! I'm also careful now not knowing whose on the journey to better health and transformation in not to judge them as I previously would do because of of what I would see just in front of me. Humbling lesson for me but true.
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- Some ex bf talk you again "just to catch up".
- Suddenly you stop being "the funny friend". Now, attention you just weren't used to have can be overwhelming, or at least it was for me. Guys hugging me made me uncomfortable and I had a bad experience with a friend that tried to take advantage at me while sleeping.
- Sex is better because you have more energy and you can do stuff you couldn't before.
- I didn't have my period for about two years, it appeared again and became regular as I started losing weight.
- Sometimes you feel like you still being fat, it's a mental process too, I recommend getting psychological therapy, it helps a lot.21 -
I don't have much to contribute right now but before I joined MFP I had just gotten to the point of being able to feel and see my abdominal pulse regularly again (especially while lying down) and it really freaked me out before I looked it up! My grandfather narrowly avoided a hemorrhage in the area (detected in time) so I thought I was about to die for a little there. Don't be like me it's completely normal.12
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positives
-Being able to buy clothes in a normal shop. The feeling I had when I had to go into a tall & fat shop was mortifying.
-better sex
-buying smaller sized jeans
-peoples comments on how well you are looking
-feeling fitter and motivated to continue the push to lose weight.
- Not as many unknown aches and pains
- not feeling as if everyone is watching my flabby bits wobble around when trying to work out. (still have sme flabby bits but now I just don't care)
- Having a bad day at work is usually forgotten once I have hit 5K at the gym and I feel much more relaxed for the rest of the day
Negatives
-Buying smaller sized jeans then realisisng that they now fall of you and you have to buy some more new ones. (matalan and primark are now my shop of choice)
- seeing your loved ones getting aches and pains that you used to get and them not knowing why. You try and tell them that the gym will help get rid of those but you end up being told that you are obsessed with the gym and you don't want to nag as that sometimes puts people off.
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columbus2015 wrote: »No one tells you that there will be times when you wake up terrified that you've gained all the weight back....
I've had dreams that I binged on food -- I have to make sure my pillow didn't go missing when I wake up...21 -
I've felt more confident and outgoing lately. Also not feeling so lethargic -- more apt to respond positively to requests to help with physical work.16
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How the mind can play tricks on you ...
I'll get on the scale and see 162 and feel so sad, disappointed, defeated ... And then after a second or two kind of "snap out of it" and look again to see 126. I haven't been in the 160's for over a year. This happens to me often. It certainly does take a while for the brain to catch up ...26
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