What nobody tells you about losing weight
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NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »
How much fun/delightful it is to no longer be/feel compelled to hold onto "stuff" around the house and closets and as you're permanently ridding your body of fat, your desire to rid your home of the old "nice" clutter/junk that was once considered invaluable to you and impossible to throw (or give away), now becomes a joy to be free from/unattached to feels and looks.
That cleaning and decluttering is not only a super good way to see "results" quickly in and around your home, but it's burning calories too. That cleaning and cooking is no longer a druggery or chore, but a joy and delight!
Yes Yes Yes!!!!
I second that! Literally have become so OCD and minimalistic it's unbelievable.7 -
No one told me how much tracking calories would become such a big part of my life. Before I never bothered to check how many calories/what nutrients were in my food, now its something i do regularly. I do it so much that when I see a tag on a pair of socks and I have an instinct to check the back to see how many calories the socks are
This - My Hubby used to give me a raft of "stuff" every time I mentioned calories or fat or anything diet related - because I had been on thousands during the first 18 years of our marriage and never had any success - so he just didn't want to hear it, again.... but now, after finally getting the whole CICO thing down, not only is he keeping wrappers and labels for me when he cooks - but he is with me at the gym every day.30 -
bellaesprita000 wrote: »It's great in the beginning when you are losing most weight in your midsection. It sucks however when your breasts deflate and they're more skin than fat.
Sorry Girls, but, unless you have been wearing a bra 24/7 since puberty, this is going to happen, anyway. You are just getting a bit earlier than most. Roll them up, or get them lifted and move on.
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bellaesprita000 wrote: »It's great in the beginning when you are losing most weight in your midsection. It sucks however when your breasts deflate and they're more skin than fat.
Sorry Girls, but, unless you have been wearing a bra 24/7 since puberty, this is going to happen, anyway. You are just getting a bit earlier than most. Roll them up, or get them lifted and move on.
Actually studies show that wearing a bra doesn't prevent sagging. Use oils, moisturize, take care of your skin.8 -
Don't know if this will in any way help but I used to have a yoga teacher who would have us shift right and left until we got onto our 'sit bones' every time we began a seated series of moves. The idea was to actually separate the left from right butt cheek, so she'd also tell us (though I realise this was yoga class not the middle of a busy restaurant or something) that if we couldn't get our cheeks in the right position with this shifting around then to literally reach under and manually move our cheeks apart a bit. I have to admit I did find it more comfortable ...pennoxford wrote: »I never knew how hard chairs are—my butt hurts all the time, and I keep somehow sitting on my own buttcheeks wrong? I keep having to stand up and sit down again to keep it from hurting. Gross!!!
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gymprincess1234 wrote: »bellaesprita000 wrote: »It's great in the beginning when you are losing most weight in your midsection. It sucks however when your breasts deflate and they're more skin than fat.
Sorry Girls, but, unless you have been wearing a bra 24/7 since puberty, this is going to happen, anyway. You are just getting a bit earlier than most. Roll them up, or get them lifted and move on.
Actually studies show that wearing a bra doesn't prevent sagging. Use oils, moisturize, take care of your skin.
I think maybe bras wouldn't help in the sense of strengthening the gravity-defying muscles but they would still mitigate sagging in the sense of not putting the girls in a position to try to hold themselves up in the first place. End result would still be less sagging over the years, or so the logic goes among those for whom it's the convention, like among French women.
ETA: I wish I'd had any kind of strategy starting from adolescence, or at least my early twenties. I saw a picture of myself on uni grad day recently (which was about 20 years ago) and I swear mine are like a foot lower now.2 -
@HDBKLM I live in France and disagree, but each to their own, hope our boobs stay as high as possible whatever the strategy we use
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No one told me how much more aware of the negative impact of excess weight on daily life I'd be. In my own life, and in other's lives. Not in a judgey-better-than-you way, but in kind of a sad, "I wish you would have this revelation too" sort of way; the way you see someone doing something self-destructive and know you can't say anything and know there's avoidable tragedy going on. It's actually heart-breaking.
So much this with my husband, who is T2D and more than 100 pounds overweight. Every time I watch him overeat, I feel this way. And scared, because with his Type A personality, family history, T2D, and high stress career, he is a waliking heartattack waiting to happen. I'm scared to lose him, but he is not ready to do anything about his weight.
You know I told my wife that I was going on a weight loss journey and I needed a buddy and would she go along with me and we'd keep each other motivated until we reached our goals together. She went along and lost 35 lbs and I lost 37. Talk to him. Tell him your concerns and ask if he would journey with you. The first day is the hardest and it gets easier each day after.
I have asked him, have begged him, but he is not ready. I am more than willing to work out with him, but he just isn't there.5 -
I think maybe bras wouldn't help in the sense of strengthening the gravity-defying muscles but they would still mitigate sagging in the sense of not putting the girls in a position to try to hold themselves up in the first place. End result would still be less sagging over the years, or so the logic goes among those for whom it's the convention, like among French women.
Bras do not mitigate anything.
Breast ptosis (aka, sagging) is going to happen no matter how large or small ones breasts are. Even A cups will sag with age, barring the occurrence/presence of other causes like nursing/weight loss/etc./etc./etc. before then.
There are no muscles that keep ones breasts "in place"/defy gravity; it is all ligaments (Cooper's Suspensory Ligament). But just like muscles, if you do not weight-load ligaments as intended, they can and will atrophy. So by wearing a bra and taking the normal loading off those ligaments, you can cause them to atrophy over time more than they would have otherwise, making the sag worse. "Can" ≠ every woman, every breast size and shape, every time. There will always be exceptions to the rule.
What bras are good at doing is putting sagging breasts back on thoracic cavity wall where they were when you were sixteen.
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How annoying you might become - I putter around ALL THE TIME now. I can't sit still for nearly as long as I used to.14
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- That needing smaller "clothes" isn't just about shirts and pants. You need an entirely new wardrobe... underwear, bras, shoes, and jewelry don't fit like they used to.
- How much fun it is finding new muscles you never knew you had.
- How shocking it can be to see those muscles for the first time.
- That some days you don't feel any smaller, but people around you who you never expected to say anything will compliment your weight loss!
- That people will always have an excuse as to why they can't do what you're doing and you'll realize that it's just an excuse because you know it can be done.31 -
Dammit I'm cold!
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Seriously, the being cold is so frustrating, kenyonhaff! I had my thyroid checked because of it.... and I’m normal. I wear a jacket in my 70 degree F house. So crazy8
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kenyonhaff wrote: »Dammit I'm cold!
I work outdoors with soaked muddy wet snowy furniture in all weather conditions, And cant wear big comfy coats because 1. its dangerous to wear anything not skin tight and 2. anything nice and properly worn is likely expensive and will be destroyed in 1 day at work lol
No one told me i was likely going to need to get a new job because this winter this job might literally no exageration give me hypothermia i dont have the body fat necessary >.<7 -
kdtesoriero wrote: »I have a hard time with readjusting my car driver seats, mirrors and seatbelts in my SUV. I used to sit further away and now I had to move the seat forward, which makes me have to move the mirrors and then my seatbelt has to be adjusted.
I just realized this! It is so much easier to get out of my car!
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looking awesome in snug clothes now... but not so much when clothes come off due to skin sagging... I know, I'm being rough on myself...
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JaydedMiss wrote: »
Every time I sit down my skin splays out like a half filled water balloon. I'd still rather than then that skin being filled with excess fat. The loose skin on my arms are my victory flags.40 -
"Victory Flags"!!! I love it and am adopting it immediately. "Bingo wings" is negative and ageist. Out it goes.19
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