My Turn to Overshare My Adventure
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I've read your post before and now am reading your update. Thank you so much for sharing. I love your story and your words. Really appreciate you as I can't express how motivating your story is. I love hearing where you came from and where you are. You look amazing, BTW!
I've struggled over the years, I mean who hasn't, but really enjoy MFP and people like you who share their success. It really helps motivate me and feel like I can do it too. Congrats and thank you!
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BRAVO!!2
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mom23mangos wrote: »Those sequins are amazing and so are you. Thank you for sharing!
I can’t tell you what a thrill it is to be wearing hand-me-ups from my fit daughter!
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Wow! What an amazing transformation! I love the training outfit, too!
Fair play to you! You're an inspiration!2 -
Pretty sure I've said this of you before, but: You rock. And then you rock on. Excellent! :flowerforyou: :drinker:8
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Amazing ! You are an inspiration.
If you don't mind, may I ask you - How long did it take you to loose last 20 pounds. During that time, how much was you net calorie intake (total calories-calories from workout) .3 -
Thank you so much for sharing. I am starting over again for the 100th time. This time around i think I will definitely invest in a PT.2
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Also, way to go!!!! You look amazing!!!!!1
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WOW!1
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Well....
Just wow!
lovely leggings, by the way1 -
You are an inspiration!2
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Amazing story and huge congratulations! Xxx3
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You look fantastic2
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Amazing ! You are an inspiration.
If you don't mind, may I ask you - How long did it take you to loose last 20 pounds. During that time, how much was you net calorie intake (total calories-calories from workout) .
It took me eight months to lose the first 68 pounds.
But I gained about ten pounds back on each of two extended trips. The next 20 (well, I guess you could say “40”?!) have taken nearly a year. The first time, the vacation weight easily came off within weeks. The second time, it did not, so I’m determined not to do that again.
I’ve spent most the past eight months at 2070 per day. This appears to be close to maintenance for me.
I’ve never eaten back exercise calories because I find a fixed number easier to keep up with.
I did increase to 2300 in February for recomp purposes, but cut back to 1900 when shelter at home started, to avoid gaining again. I’ve dropped slightly below my weight goal during shelter and am experimenting with raising it again. It’s a constant process of tweaking.
YMMV, depending on your own activity level. My aim during lockdown is to close my Apple “Move” circle (set at 300) at least three times.
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Your story is so inspiring! Thank you for sharing it with us!2
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That you would wake up in the middle of the night, and realize that when you placed the order for exercise tanks, you had automatically ordered your “old” size.
WTF, brain?5 -
Hello! This is my two year anniversary check in.
When Covid started, I vowed to myself I would not regain the weight. I cut calories from 2300 to 1900 per day, and formed a plan to close my Move circle three times a day, which I’ve done every day except one.
I dropped into the 120’s briefly, but was overwhelmed (scared) of that number, so am currently hovering around 131.
I did a Dexa scan last October, and was honestly crushed to find I was at 29% body fat. I just did a new one Tuesday, and it has dropped to 22.1%.
In honor of the lovely, helpful, informative and forthright @annptt77, and her fabulously honest post at https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10809632/loose-skin-50lbs-loss-at-60-4-years-maintenance, I am truly going to overshare this time. (I didnt' want to butt in on her terrific thread.)
Weight loss has done some strange things to my now 58 year old body. Sometimes my stomach is flat and my butt has the droops. Sometimes, my butt is lookin’ good but my arms are creased in a network of fine lines. Then there’s the days my funbags look like sad zip-lock bags full of water. I have no idea what triggers all the constant rearranging of body parts. Maybe it’s that “flow of energy” we talk about in yoga all the time. Maybe it’s too much salt or potassium or sugar the day before, and it just parks in different places. Maybe its the Gods of Weight guffawing at my expense.
But overall, slowly, everything is diminishing. My droopy thighs and knees are no longer “balloon curtains”, but simply “swags”. The uncooperative midsection still spills out when released from its legging constraints, but now pulls out like a baby flying squirrel instead of Grandaddy Squirrel.
Planks in Tanks ? Let’s just say, one day I shall cover my belly in finger paint, do a slow lower, and create art. Or at least Rorschachs. (Please don’t try to “friend” me thinking I roll like that.)
Anyway, what I’ve found is that *my* body seems to have thresholds. At certain weights, problem areas seem to disappear or at least visually improve and mitigate. There’s no rhyme or reason to it. Sometimes it seems like it’s overnight, sometimes it’s a slow process.
My skin is surprisingly elastic, even though I’m terrible about hydrating, and have a complete phobia about lotions and creams. I’ve been amazed at the resiliency of my skin. The network of fine lines, reminiscent of gift wrap tissue fiercely wadded into a ball and then flattened out, is slowly diminishing.
However, weight loss has accentuated my neck, my wattle, the angles of my face. I think it’s softening with time, but I’m so invested in it, it’s hard to judge rationally.
The really strange thing that I’m waiting to see if will change is my rib cage. I guess years of obesity and adipose (?) fat blew it out. I’m hoping that it will hug back in and not be so obvious.
So that’s the thing with weight loss. No matter how well we do, we find something to critique ourselves about, to pick apart. Although the body dysmorphia is pretty much gone (THANK GOD!!!!), I am still learning to recognize the thinner person in the mirror; to acknowledge that weight loss does not automatically equate to Cover Girl looks or sudden popularity and scintillating repartee; and to give myself some grace to still fail once in a while; and to grant myself self love to pick myself back up when I do.
OK, so here's photos. I know that when I look at other's photos, I sound creeperish, but I study them carefully to see how I compare and to judge where I've come from and what I can expect to get to. So lots of pics.....
My kids shared this with me the other day. Lovingly, of course.
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Flexed. At @AnnPT77 so wisely pointed out, don't stress over the extra flesh. Many times it's muscle and not fat. If you pinch it and it's firm, it's part of the muscle.
Networks of fine weight loss lines appear, mostly on my arms, some on my thighs. These have diminished a lot in the past six months.
Standing straight up but not engaged
Engaged ( aka Sucked in, lol)
Relaxed
Engaged. Pet peeve rib cage is voluminous, probably bulged out because of obesity. It looks weird. I hope it retracts, but life isn't over if it doesn't.
Baby flying squirrel mode. It has gone down in the past few months. According to Dexa scan, there is .43 lbs adipose weight, and I carry most my extra fat in hips and butt, so I think this is extra skin versus fat. I'm hoping this will continue to go down.
You can knead this gut like play-dough. Endless hours of fun.
Odd bits of extra skin pop out in unexpected places. (I did have a reduction, so YMMV. )
Leggings doing what they are supposed to do. You'd never suspect the Doughboy hiding underneath. For this reason, I figure dressing is better than surgery to remove extra skin. And again, time is reducing the extra skin.
Wattle is another problem spot. It is what it is.
Anniversary photo
I celebrated my two year anniversary with a PR benchpress of 140. I lifted more than my weight!!!!! Props to Quicksylver and the other Ladies Who Lift. I have mucho mucho respect for y'all.
With my much loved trainer. OMG. Everyone should have a Jean in their life. Except that she's one of a kind and I'm not sharing.
Thanks for making it this far, if you did!
Love your body, and love yourself!
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You are amazing - and I love seeing how happy you are. What a journey!2
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Thank you for (not-over) sharing! You've lost a good lot of weight - more than I - and I think you look wonderful. I can think of few 58 year old women in my life whose bodies look that good. And those arms, woman - especially in your bonzer-good bench press PR photo, and hugging your trainer . . . you look so strong, just excellent!
I think that's so useful, that you're willing to be real. I still - as I said on the other thread - think that "the real", even the less perfect parts, are not as extreme as what many women are expecting, at the start or part way through weight loss, even at the beginning of maintenance.
I'd bet you're finding - or will find, if it hasn't come up yet - that people who meet you for the first time now will have difficulty believing - will show visible surprise if/as they learn - that you were materially overweight for years, and have so recently lost weight, and have so recently pursued enhanced fitness. So many forces, cultural and personal, try to set low expectations for us, as women (people) of a certain age. We don't need to live down to those expectations, and you haven't. Good show!
P.S. The ribcage thing: Me, too. I don't know whether it's weight related, or just a strange self-image thing since I'm used to the stuff below the ribcage being so much bigger than the ribcage.. It's not like I can study other never-fat women's ribcages as they relax/slump, suck-in, etc. 😆🤷♀️
ETA: BTW, congrats on the great anniversary!9 -
Thanks for sharing and way to go!1
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