What nobody tells you about losing weight
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Nobody told me I'd get sore shoulders from wearing my camera backpack while hiking. Seriously, it's day two of my holiday and I don't know how my shoulders will get through the next 5 days
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Downside to losing weight, the crumbs fall on the floor instead of my belly so then I have to get the vacuum cleaner out.26
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Nobody told me I'd get sore shoulders from wearing my camera backpack while hiking. Seriously, it's day two of my holiday and I don't know how my shoulders will get through the next 5 days
I know that feeling, if I take my backpack when I go hiking with my camera I end up taking too much gear. Camera and battery pack plus 100mm-400mm lens and a 150mm-600mm lens and extra batteries and filters oh and a 90mm macro lens and tripod.
Then my camel-bag with 2 liters of water.
I need to buy a donkey.2 -
Clive_1963 wrote: »Nobody told me I'd get sore shoulders from wearing my camera backpack while hiking. Seriously, it's day two of my holiday and I don't know how my shoulders will get through the next 5 days
I know that feeling, if I take my backpack when I go hiking with my camera I end up taking too much gear. Camera and battery pack plus 100mm-400mm lens and a 150mm-600mm lens and extra batteries and filters oh and a 90mm macro lens and tripod.
Then my camel-bag with 2 liters of water.
I need to buy a donkey.
I don't have enough willpower to lug all my equipment around, lol, and my BF doesn't like me to spend too much time taking pictures anyway. My pack yesterday was only 4kg! Stupid 'bony' shoulders!2 -
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If I just take the camera and lens attached I hook it to a belt I got from Aliexpress. I grabbed a small belt clip to hold it which allows me to grab it when needed otherwise it hangs from my waste. Having a lot of problems with a 30 year old whiplash anything straining my neck hurts.
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Clive_1963 wrote: »Nobody told me I'd get sore shoulders from wearing my camera backpack while hiking. Seriously, it's day two of my holiday and I don't know how my shoulders will get through the next 5 days
I know that feeling, if I take my backpack when I go hiking with my camera I end up taking too much gear. Camera and battery pack plus 100mm-400mm lens and a 150mm-600mm lens and extra batteries and filters oh and a 90mm macro lens and tripod.
Then my camel-bag with 2 liters of water.
I need to buy a donkey.
I don't have enough willpower to lug all my equipment around, lol, and my BF doesn't like me to spend too much time taking pictures anyway. My pack yesterday was only 4kg! Stupid 'bony' shoulders!
Time to trade your BF in then. My wife does not object when I go walk abouts for 3-4 hours with my camera. She's probably happy for the peace and quiet lol.6 -
Clive_1963 wrote: »Clive_1963 wrote: »Nobody told me I'd get sore shoulders from wearing my camera backpack while hiking. Seriously, it's day two of my holiday and I don't know how my shoulders will get through the next 5 days
I know that feeling, if I take my backpack when I go hiking with my camera I end up taking too much gear. Camera and battery pack plus 100mm-400mm lens and a 150mm-600mm lens and extra batteries and filters oh and a 90mm macro lens and tripod.
Then my camel-bag with 2 liters of water.
I need to buy a donkey.
I don't have enough willpower to lug all my equipment around, lol, and my BF doesn't like me to spend too much time taking pictures anyway. My pack yesterday was only 4kg! Stupid 'bony' shoulders!
Time to trade your BF in then. My wife does not object when I go walk abouts for 3-4 hours with my camera. She's probably happy for the peace and quiet lol.
We're hiking together
He doesn't like it when we stop too often, breaks the rhythm. Especially if I want to do macro photography, 20 or 30 shots of the same butterfly to make sure I have a decent picture 
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That sounds like something I would doClive_1963 wrote: »Clive_1963 wrote: »Nobody told me I'd get sore shoulders from wearing my camera backpack while hiking. Seriously, it's day two of my holiday and I don't know how my shoulders will get through the next 5 days
I know that feeling, if I take my backpack when I go hiking with my camera I end up taking too much gear. Camera and battery pack plus 100mm-400mm lens and a 150mm-600mm lens and extra batteries and filters oh and a 90mm macro lens and tripod.
Then my camel-bag with 2 liters of water.
I need to buy a donkey.
I don't have enough willpower to lug all my equipment around, lol, and my BF doesn't like me to spend too much time taking pictures anyway. My pack yesterday was only 4kg! Stupid 'bony' shoulders!
Time to trade your BF in then. My wife does not object when I go walk abouts for 3-4 hours with my camera. She's probably happy for the peace and quiet lol.
We're hiking together He doesn't like it when we stop too often, breaks the rhythm. Especially if I want to do macro photography, 20 or 30 shots of the same butterfly to make sure I have a decent picture
After all these years my husband better understands my love of sky pictures and will actually pull over if possible so I can get a decent shot without windows or windshields in the way. The other day there was a wall of rainbow, something I had never seen before, nor did I know such a phenomenon could happen and he sighed, then kept driving past our destination so I could get a better shot
. For many years he would tell me to just put the camera down and look, make a memory of it instead (not in a rude way, he just didn’t understand why I would take so many pictures of the same clouds/sunset/etc. trying to get the right shot),
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Clive_1963 wrote: »Clive_1963 wrote: »Nobody told me I'd get sore shoulders from wearing my camera backpack while hiking. Seriously, it's day two of my holiday and I don't know how my shoulders will get through the next 5 days
I know that feeling, if I take my backpack when I go hiking with my camera I end up taking too much gear. Camera and battery pack plus 100mm-400mm lens and a 150mm-600mm lens and extra batteries and filters oh and a 90mm macro lens and tripod.
Then my camel-bag with 2 liters of water.
I need to buy a donkey.
I don't have enough willpower to lug all my equipment around, lol, and my BF doesn't like me to spend too much time taking pictures anyway. My pack yesterday was only 4kg! Stupid 'bony' shoulders!
Time to trade your BF in then. My wife does not object when I go walk abouts for 3-4 hours with my camera. She's probably happy for the peace and quiet lol.
We're hiking together He doesn't like it when we stop too often, breaks the rhythm. Especially if I want to do macro photography, 20 or 30 shots of the same butterfly to make sure I have a decent picture
This is so me. XD My husband has gotten used to me stopping to take a million pictures. On the bright side, I have some amazing pictures that I will someday get printed on metal to hang.2 -
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There will ALWAYS be someone telling you, "You don't need to lose any more", even if you're firmly in the overweight or even obese BMI range. Whatever. . . I'm using the mirror to decide when I've lost enough. Believe me I have no signs of body dismorphia, so when my muffin top is gone and I don't have to over from the "King Size" catalog anymore, I'll know I don't need to lose any more!17
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This. ^
@tuckerrj You always speak straight to the heart of the matter.
@springlering62 Your 'redecorating plan' is one my favorite descriptions. One day, I was walking around the high school track and I felt my skin begin to crawl around my waist. It was the weirdest sensation I've ever felt. It's only happened to me one time.
I didn't have that particular roll when I started but another roll made its way there as I was walking laps. A fruit roll-up from nowhere. I walked home with a new inflatable innertube around my waist. To this day I don't know how that happened.
Back then, it always felt like my body was betraying me, taunting me and messing with my head. You know what they say about a reformed smoker, drinker, gambler or anything else. You develop a real 'tude.
I've learned that not everyone has our best interests at heart. Some mean well and some don't. I know the difference. I no longer feel the need to explain, justify or edit myself. I usually give them the 'look' and they'll let it go.7 -
Yeah, I'll start thinking about "enough" when my waist is smaller than my hips and my bust.10
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I've noticed that my cats don't have nearly as easy a time sleeping on me now that I'm sixty pounds lighter - and also my car is a lot larger.21
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Nobody told me I'd get sore shoulders from wearing my camera backpack while hiking. Seriously, it's day two of my holiday and I don't know how my shoulders will get through the next 5 days
Does your backpack have a chest strap? If it doesn't, take a rope and tie it around the shoulder straps across your chest and cinch it tight. That should take some of the stress off your shoulders.6 -
Right back at you, @TheLastMrBig. 4
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Sand_TIger wrote: »I've noticed that my cats don't have nearly as easy a time sleeping on me now that I'm sixty pounds lighter - and also my car is a lot larger.
I drive a Smart Car and yes, yes it is!!!!!!6 -
A: that I now have flat butt syndrome and that I get sore a lot quicker if I'm sat for too long on a hard chair or on my motorbike.
B: The number of injuries and aches and pains because I exercise so much more than I used to!9 -
I've only lost 20 lbs over the last 7 years (just got really serious last month and lost 9 of those 20) and my (female) manager is alwasy saying "look how tiny you are!" and usually mentioning how flat my stomach is (It's not, I just suck in my gut to make myself feel better). My best friend (who is trying to gain weight) always says she would love to have a body like mine.
My knee is starting to feel better though!! Had a knee injury years ago and I'm currently trying to lose weight as well as what I learned at PT at the gym to keep the muscles strengthened up for joint support.8 -
I wish I could get the one cat to just sleep on me. She wants to nurse (drooling copiously) on a fold of my shirt near my armpit, and that's pretty gross-feeling. The other one isn't a lap-cat, but she will get up on the couch cushion or the back of the couch and sleep "near" you. But that's her decision. I can't plop either one down in my lap and have them settle in.7
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What nobody tells you about losing weight.... how to say this tactfully. Hmm, well I am eating so much cleaner and healthier now, which just causes an -- we will call it an extreme regularity -- I was not used to when I ate like poop (pun intended). Multiple instances of "regularity" throughout the day. Probably to much info for some, but...hey you asked
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tonygermano2 wrote: »What nobody tells you about losing weight.... how to say this tactfully. Hmm, well I am eating so much cleaner and healthier now, which just causes an -- we will call it an extreme regularity -- I was not used to when I ate like poop (pun intended). Multiple instances of "regularity" throughout the day. Probably to much info for some, but...hey you asked
It's interesting how bowel habits can change so much. There's a lot of effect to all that healthy fiber, too! Some pretty nasty IBS issues I had have almost entirely gone away and I can't tell you how happy that makes me. Your extreme regularity (love that by the way) might steady down after a while, too, once your gut microbiome becomes better at dealing with your healthier food.3 -
Sand_TIger wrote: »tonygermano2 wrote: »What nobody tells you about losing weight.... how to say this tactfully. Hmm, well I am eating so much cleaner and healthier now, which just causes an -- we will call it an extreme regularity -- I was not used to when I ate like poop (pun intended). Multiple instances of "regularity" throughout the day. Probably to much info for some, but...hey you asked
It's interesting how bowel habits can change so much. There's a lot of effect to all that healthy fiber, too! Some pretty nasty IBS issues I had have almost entirely gone away and I can't tell you how happy that makes me. Your extreme regularity (love that by the way) might steady down after a while, too, once your gut microbiome becomes better at dealing with your healthier food.
On the issue of BMs... It's not really something you think about, but if you start eating the right amount of food for a normal person, of course you're going to go less often, because there's less food to be processed and pass through. Less food... less waste.
It is funny (or plain gross) the things that you find yourself reflecting on as you lose the weight that you wouldn't have even spent a nanosecond thinking about before...8 -
I'm almost tracking my calories for 2 months and it's all going fine, not to fast and not to slow. My dad thinks I became a phone addict (because I need to input new things to keep track) and my mom is worried sometimes I eat to less and she sometimes asks me "what did you eat today?".12
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Something nobody told me about weight loss but I should have guessed, is when I eat at a deficit it not only requires that I plan ahead so I get the right things in my day, but what I do eat becomes REALLY IMPORTANT. Like when the spouse decides to change dinner plans at the last minute, or my food is delayed. Then I have to be prepared with small snacks so I don't chew my arm off. Or hers.14
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I'm sure it's been said on here but I have 2 things:
1) How people may/will treat you differently. It can definitely bring out your support group and get positive attention, but it also will bring out the haters in your life. Those that won't support you because you've had success in.
2) How easy it is to put back on the weight and more if you are not attentive, and eating and maintaining the healthy life style changes/choices that helped lose the weight. Also how easy it can be to fall into old habits as the weight is being put back on.22
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