Weird things after losing weight
ColeSlaw1234
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For one. No one told me I would have this extreme habit to look in the mirror every time I see one. Like...borderline weird about it. Not because I like to check myself out (mirrors were made by satan lol) but because I would always have to check and make sure I still had lost weight. I keep having to double check to make sure every time I pass a mirror. Hopefully the general public doesn't take notice 🤔 (also chairs...I question if I can sit in one comfortably a lot without realizing it)
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Yeah, I walk in the mall a lot and compulsively check my reflection in the windows. I don't think it's all healthy for me, it depends, it's not negative self-talk but it's a lot of hyper focusing.3
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Not so much anymore, but I first lost a significant amount of weight I was shocked when I felt something hard on my body and realized it was a bone. For instance, I can feel my collar bone, my ribs, and my hip bone now where I could not before. It used to really amuse me to be able to feel those parts of my body that were always there but were not accessible to me.
Another weird thing is that I do not really realize how much I have weight until I see myself in pictures. When I look at my body it looks the same as before I lost weight, but in the pics i can see it. Same with clothes I can look at clothes and tell they are too big for me but I do not see the size on my body. Weird.9 -
Cold. I get cold all the time. Missing that fat layer that used to keep me warm.8
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Im still a little shocked when I catch my reflection.3
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My hands are cold a lot now. My butt bones get sore if I sit on a hard chair for long. I have gone down a shoe size. And like another poster I can feel bones that I never knew I had.5
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Definitely the temperature change as some have mentioned. It's almost intolerable to me sometimes. I never realized what a difference there was until I lost all the weight.
And same with my tail bone as @manderson27 just said. It's uncomfortable to say the least and I didn't have a lot of padding back there to begin with!
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I found out on Friday after work that I can get drunk now...
I rarely if ever drink and one of the main reasons is that I would have to spend a kings ransom on drinks to even get a buzz let alone actually get drunk. I'd be knocking back drinks at twice the speed of everyone else and usually it was me that had to take responsibility for the group because I'd be relatively sober.
Well for the first time since I started to manage my weight I went out after work for a few drinks with my team and lo and behold I've turned into a bit of a lightweight
. 4 or 5 drinks in and I was three sheets to the wind LOL! 8 -
The sensitivity to cold diminishes after about 2 years in my experience, though hands still get cold easily.3
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Don't get me started. Cold extremities to the point my hands traumatize people , loose skin, and the looking in the mirror a lot others have mentioned. I used to have a lot of pain in my coccygeal area when sitting for long periods, but as I built more muscle in my glutes, this seems to happen much less.
I have filled in loose areas on my arms and chest with muscle to the point that you can't tell I used to be obese unless you see me completely shirtless. I'm very sensitive to meds now, as has also been mentioned. Honestly though, I sometimes still feel like a fat person even though I am not.
I was obese all of my life, so I still get the thought of "everyone is going to stare at me because I'm fat/ugly" when in reality I am perceived as normal or moderately attractive now. It throws me through a loop. But I genuinely am very happy with my body for the most part. I have come to terms with the fact that it isn't going to be bodybuilder-tier without surgery, and I'm not sure I ever want an operation solely for aesthetics.7 -
Not so much anymore, but I first lost a significant amount of weight I was shocked when I felt something hard on my body and realized it was a bone. For instance, I can feel my collar bone, my ribs, and my hip bone now where I could not before. It used to really amuse me to be able to feel those parts of my body that were always there but were not accessible to me.
Another weird thing is that I do not really realize how much I have weight until I see myself in pictures. When I look at my body it looks the same as before I lost weight, but in the pics i can see it. Same with clothes I can look at clothes and tell they are too big for me but I do not see the size on my body. Weird.
I relate! I asked my mom what was sticking out so much and she told me to calm down and that it was just my collar bone3 -
anniigetshealthy wrote: »Don't get me started. Cold extremities to the point my hands traumatize people , loose skin, and the looking in the mirror a lot others have mentioned. I used to have a lot of pain in my coccygeal area when sitting for long periods, but as I built more muscle in my glutes, this seems to happen much less.
I have filled in loose areas on my arms and chest with muscle to the point that you can't tell I used to be obese unless you see me completely shirtless. I'm very sensitive to meds now, as has also been mentioned. Honestly though, I sometimes still feel like a fat person even though I am not.
I was obese all of my life, so I still get the thought of "everyone is going to stare at me because I'm fat/ugly" when in reality I am perceived as normal or moderately attractive now. It throws me through a loop. But I genuinely am very happy with my body for the most part. I have come to terms with the fact that it isn't going to be bodybuilder-tier without surgery, and I'm not sure I ever want an operation solely for aesthetics.
I understand. Sometimes it's like my mind hasn't adjusted to my new appearance. I've debated in operation in order to help with things like loose skin, but it's a very tough decision to make0 -
Not so much anymore, but I first lost a significant amount of weight I was shocked when I felt something hard on my body and realized it was a bone. For instance, I can feel my collar bone, my ribs, and my hip bone now where I could not before. It used to really amuse me to be able to feel those parts of my body that were always there but were not accessible to me.
I had a similar experience.
One night as I was settling into bed I was laying on my back and rested my hand on my lower chest/upper stomach and felt the xiphoid process on the bottom of my sternum sticking out!! I only then realised that I'd lost enough weight that my stomach had started to actually drop below my chest cavity and go concave when I was laying on my back.
I'd by lying if I said I didn't deliberately lay on my back and feel for that ossified cartilage protrusion every night now 3 -
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So one is that my shoes feel like they're getting too big. Kinda annoying actually.
The other thing is that my legs feel so odd when I cross them now.1 -
Not so much anymore, but I first lost a significant amount of weight I was shocked when I felt something hard on my body and realized it was a bone. For instance, I can feel my collar bone, my ribs, and my hip bone now where I could not before. It used to really amuse me to be able to feel those parts of my body that were always there but were not accessible to me.
Another weird thing is that I do not really realize how much I have weight until I see myself in pictures. When I look at my body it looks the same as before I lost weight, but in the pics i can see it. Same with clothes I can look at clothes and tell they are too big for me but I do not see the size on my body. Weird.
Pretty much all of this applies for me too. Once I had an itch, and when I went to scratch the center of my back, I felt bone there (spine) and totally thought I had some foreign object stuck to my back for a few seconds and then I thought I had some kind of problem with my back. It legitimately freaked me out.
I'm about five years into maintenance and still have some of these. ESPECIALLY the photo thing. Photos still freak me out and I don't imagine myself as looking that different. I am now used to my body to the point that I don't really look in mirrors as much as I did a few years ago. I have a better idea of how big I am in relation to others. That was a "thing" for me when I was 100+ lb heavier, that I felt pretty average/normal honestly but then I would see photos or a reflection of me with friends and I was just soooo much larger and wider. I am finally used to feeling like I am standard sized and maybe a little taller/shorter or curvier, whatever. But it's nice not really calculating any of that in my head like I used to.
I was a chubby/tall kid and then obese since age 16. So for twenty years I was used to always worrying that people would focus on my weight. Now at 42, and having lost the weight in my mid thirties, I find that instead I've traded the weight concern for wondering if people will think I'm "old" or trying to act/dress too young. It's really always something I guess!
I feel like strangers give me way less personal space. I never realized in the past that I was given a wider berth due to my size, but apparently I was. People just stand SO close now. I feel like random ladies touch me a lot now and I am NOT really accustomed to it. For example, if I'm shopping in a store the clerk will touch me for emphasis or some lady I've just met will put her arm around me. I never experienced that before and was used to only being touched by my husband, family, and closest friends. It is an adjustment.4 -
lalalacroix wrote: »So one is that my shoes feel like they're getting too big. Kinda annoying actually.
Mine too, so annoying!1 -
Cold. So cold. So c-c-cold. My regular barista is genuinely worried by my cold hands when she gives me my change!
I also really wasn't expecting my feet to change size. Get a bit narrower, yes; but they're suddenly shorter too!
The big thing is confidence, though. Having been fat since early childhood I grew up with all the fatphobia baggage, and used to vaguely feel like I was doing something wrong just by existing. It turns out that that bled into whole unrelated avenues of life. I was timid (yeah, I know, I'm a different person on the internet!), unadventurous, wouldn't dream of holidaying alone in another country in case I Did Something Wrong and then Crippling Embarrassment and People Looking At Me...
Now, if people look at me, so what? They'll see a perfectly ordinary person making a mistake, not a shameful blob who shouldn't even exist. So I've started planning and saving for some kind of Exciting Foreign Holiday, On My Own, once I no longer have any pets to tie me to my house. (My remaining cat is almost 20 years old with some chronic health issues, so I imagine I have until next year or the year after to figure out what I'm doing)5 -
I don't really drink anymore but after losing 6 stone I have a low threshold for booze as I found out a couple weeks ago. I get cold but I think that's my low thyroid, I do check in the mirror to reaffirm that I have lost weight but this has tailed off after 8 months of maintainance. Also when I had to get new cloths in a UK size 12 I felt like an imposter picking them up as I still had in my head that I was a size 24! Thankfully that has gone now3
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Oh yes, and I agree with all the people who mention the lowered booze threshold. I don't drink often (I would rather spend my calories on chocolate) but I'm a cheap date these days!
Even better, the same goes for painkillers. On the rare occasions it's necessary, I now get the same effect from one tablet of OTC paracetomol-with-codeine that I used to get from two tablets of prescription-strength codeine.1 -
Actually that brings up an interesting point. I think it might be a good idea to speak to my doctor about medication dosage.
I know one is OK since there is a one size fits all dosage but my Ritalin dosage might need to be adjusted.3 -
Oh yes, and I agree with all the people who mention the lowered booze threshold. I don't drink often (I would rather spend my calories on chocolate) but I'm a cheap date these days!
Even better, the same goes for painkillers. On the rare occasions it's necessary, I now get the same effect from one tablet of OTC paracetomol-with-codeine that I used to get from two tablets of prescription-strength codeine.
Yes I noticed the painkiller thing to. I took my paracetamol and codiene which my doc gave me and it blew my mind as i wasn't expecting it to have such an effect ha1
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