What nobody tells you about losing weight

ghudson92 wrote: »

Just here to complain about the cold again. Need to move somewhere sunny for the winter months now I'm in maintenance.

I'm with you in the UK @ghudson92 so I keep looking for this little pockets of reasonable weather to get out and exercise. I am seriously considering a gym membership for a few months if I have to resort to the car for commuting.

TheMrWobbly wrote: »

ghudson92 wrote: »

Just here to complain about the cold again. Need to move somewhere sunny for the winter months now I'm in maintenance.

I'm with you in the UK @ghudson92 so I keep looking for this little pockets of reasonable weather to get out and exercise. I am seriously considering a gym membership for a few months if I have to resort to the car for commuting.

I tried to run on Sunday and the cold air hit my poor asthmatic lungs like an ice dagger. Definitely retreating to the gym.

That deli meat would be such a staple to my over 200 pounds of weight loss. I didn't eat it that often before starting but it is such a low calorie and convenient source of protein that I go through at least a pound a week.

NovusDies wrote: »

That deli meat would be such a staple to my over 200 pounds of weight loss. I didn't eat it that often before starting but it is such a low calorie and convenient source of protein that I go through at least a pound a week.

Same. This and Greek yogurt and my two most consistent sources of protein now.

Also, that I can eat just one mini Halloween candy bar and be satisfied.

That despite being smaller/lighter than before, that I may be growing out of my fav brands’ tops in the shoulders. The waist/bust is plenty loose, but in anything but the stretchiest long sleeved top, the shoulders are starting to strain. Can’t size up for shoulders without this season’s looser tops looking like a circus tent, can’t size down for a more fitted look through the torso without arms being too tight/short. Bah. But still, yay for muscles.

This may have been mentioned before but it kills me when big people ask how you did it and I then proceed you tell yourself that doesn't work.

Or the fact that they are will jeer at your progress as a way to justify them not getting off their *kitten*.

That I would spend 90% (definitely exaggerating) of my time preparing meals.

Dirty hair. Always.

Also, that I would look real bad before I looked real good. I didnt lose a single pound for so long and would wake up bloated everyday for WEEKS at a time, only cause my body was not used to so much vegetables and fiber. Then suddenly sometihng clicked and one day I woke up looking leaner. Wouldve been nice to know!

sweetbe44 wrote: »

RelCanonical wrote: »

I'm a 25 bmi and I still can't zip up tall boots in a regular calf width. It's not even close. I just got dem big calves.

I can relate to this so much. I lose inches everywhere pretty consistently, but pretty near zilch on the calves.

On the plus side, all this weight I'm carrying in my calves is not being carried on my stomach. I've never carried a ton of weight in my stomach, it's just all kind of spread out evenly.

I did not truly realize the power other people's words will have on my weight-loss mindset. A little bit of background, I was always the chubby child and the fat adult. Everybody knew me that way. Fast-forward to 2016 and I weighed in at around 95kg's (I was deathly afraid of the scale and only weighed in 3 weeks into weight-loss so no idea of exact weight at start). Through calorie counting and exercise I managed to lose more than 35Kg's that year and weighed in at 59kgs at my lowest. This was great I thought! Now the easy part of maintenance is here, and there would be no way I would regain... Haha!

Now please realize, I am not blaming other people's words for regaining weight, I am blaming myself for letting their words affect me so much. What happened was that many many many people started commenting that I looked too thin, I should eat a bit more, I was wasteing away... Logically I knew I was within a healthy BMI and that it only looked that way to others because I had lost so much weight, but illogically I started to wonder if they could be right. So... I started eating a bit more. Exercising a bit less, and what do you know, August 2019 I weighed in at 75Kgs again.

Realizing that I was on my way back to that unhealthy lifestyle of old, I started working hard on losing the weight yet again. I am very happy with the 7.5 I've lost thus far and will work to get back to that healthy and fit weight yet again, however the comments has already started again (You are losing too much weight, you look great don't lose any more, etc...)


So what did I not know that I do know now - others may always comment on the weight-loss, but what you do about their words may have massive effects on your life

That within four hours of your uncontrolled, weak *kitten* binge on Halloween candy, you would wake up with the first bout of acid reflux in a year, that it would be horrible, and that you wouldn’t have any Tums or anything else on hand because you had blithely thrown everything out because you were “cured”.

No, you weren’t. Apparently you were in GERD remission.

I’ll tell ya one thing, though. The last eight hours has completely and utterly put the cure on me for chocolate.

stonesg wrote: »

This may have been mentioned before but it kills me when big people ask how you did it and I then proceed you tell yourself that doesn't work.

Or the fact that they are will jeer at your progress as a way to justify them not getting off their *kitten*.

I don't like when they ask how you did it, then proceed to say "No I do that, what else?"

I told a woman I cut back on drinking - she said she doesn't drink. So I told her I also cut back on portion sizes - she said she does too. I told her I never drink soda - she says she doesn't either. I told her I go to the gym 5 days a week - she says she can't due to age/limitations. It's like she wanted me to magic-wand her weight away with some magic weight loss secret when clearly what worked for me might not work for her.

That you'll poop less and that your habits will change. This is totally TMI but whatever, no one knows me here! LOL But yeah i used to poop a lot and have "stomach aches" a lot and really it was just that my diet was so terrible and i was eating so much that i needed to get it out of me so much more! Also I didn't realize just how bad i used to feel all the time. I had a day recently where i felt really bloated and uncomfortable and I realized that i thought that i never used to get bloated but in reality i was just ALWAYS bloated. Like i lived my everyday life bloated. Such a weird thing