What nobody tells you about losing weight

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  • birgitkwood
    birgitkwood Posts: 486 Member
    Reading all the bra stuff a few pages back reminds me. I work near the local Brooks Brothers store. I already intended to go after work to check and see if it was time to move down into the Milano fit, but now I must add to this trip the purchase of some Regular sized neckties. The XL size of tie looks like a clown getup on me now.

    I never thought about ties being bigger. Interesting.

    I remember going to Torrid with my step-daughter and learning that there were special earrings with longer posts. Regular posts wouldn't be long enough to fit through thicker ears.

    I've never been able to wear post earrings because my lobes are too fleshy. Wouldn't matter how much weight I lose, my earlobe are what they are. I wear hoops. Never knew about longer posts being an option though. Might be worth looking into - thanks!
  • Jezreel12
    Jezreel12 Posts: 246 Member
    amyteacake wrote: »
    How isolating this journey can be at times. It's probably been said before but I realized it today. My friends and I used to go out a lot and eat and catch up. Huge meals, appetizers, drinks, main course and dessert with a lot of laughter and chatting and fun.

    The last few times we've gone, however, I seem to be the damper in the fun with my fish and veggies or my salad with dressing on the side.

    Yes I know I can have a cheat meal and eat to maintenance or a bit over, but really, the frequency of these get togethers in the past would've overwhelmed any deficit I managed to scrape together. I can't have three cheat meals in one week after all, at least not easily.

    So now, I'm invited less. I found out today that the group plans to go out tonight to a new restaurant that just opened. I'm free tonight but they didn't ask. I found out third hand from one of the spouses.

    So yeah, it's tough. Might be time for me to find friends willing to go on a walk or something.

    It wasn't until I read this comment that I realised how isolated my journey has started to become over time. I barely talk to my friends anymore. We used to hangout all the time, used to talk all the time, now we don't. I don't see them and they don't see me. At all. I lost weight and changed my lifestyle and we grew apart because I no longer mimicked their eating habits - which was basically McDonald's every time we went out or takeaways. I still eat McDonald's, but it's once a week instead of 4-5 times a week.

    But I've realised that I don't need people like that in my life. You don't deserve to have people that exclude you purely because you've changed your eating habits. You're doing this for you, you're doing this to better yourself and they need to understand that.

    That's right !!
  • texmexmfp
    texmexmfp Posts: 4 Member
    Any dudes on here got any experience between strength training and weightloss. Like does one effect the other?
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