What nobody tells you about losing weight
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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 asked8
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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 -
That you'll have to buy new underwear and bras that are the next size smaller becethe current ones are now baggy and saggy13
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AlexandraFindsHerself1971 wrote: »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.
I have a drooly cat too. I keep a little hand towel handy☺
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How hard it is to lose weight or feel motivated when you are older. It takes forever. And you have to work around chronic injuries.13
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ixchelkeshet wrote: »How hard it is to lose weight or feel motivated when you are older. It takes forever. And you have to work around chronic injuries.
Very respectfully disagree. When I had kids and a full time job, that was the time I was unmotivated. In retrospect, I wish it hadn’t been, but that’s the sad truth.
With kids grown and gone and (involuntary) retirement came the freedom and motivation to do things for me.
Because I was motivated, and invested in and enjoying the process of “me” as my latest project, the time seemed to go by really fast. (Or maybe that was age, lol!)
It was chronic pain that actually made me shake my butt in gear. I had the choice of taking arthritis meds now, and worrying that they would be less effective later, when I might need them more, and thyroid meds for chronic tiredness that made my re-evaluate.
I had dabbled in yoga for years and knew it helped with joint pain. So I Extended my slow morning stretch to thirty minutes a day, and stepped up the yoga, eventually working my way to a moderately advanced practice.
The joint pain isn’t gone, however, it is much more manageable. The GERD (acid reflux) From Hell vanished with the first ten pounds lost.
I would challenge you to think what making even small changes can do for you versus finding reasons to do nothing at all.
Said with much love from a former Master of Finding Reasons to Remain on My *kitten*.
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ixchelkeshet wrote: »How hard it is to lose weight or feel motivated when you are older. It takes forever. And you have to work around chronic injuries.
Also, I USED to injure myself periodically trying to exercise. Now, I'm kind to myself and don't try to push to do exactly what the class is doing. Slow and steady, good form. I'm doing less, but getting better results because I don't have to take an injury break. Yoga was the key for me, because I built the strength to move from walking to running and then to circuit training. My chronic back and knee injuries have been quiet. I haven't injured myself or exacerbated my old injuries in years and I'm in the best shape of my life at 67, soon to be 68. Totally worth it!!
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ixchelkeshet wrote: »How hard it is to lose weight or feel motivated when you are older. It takes forever. And you have to work around chronic injuries.
It does take forever. And here's why: If you don't manage your weight forever, you gain in back. This isn't a short term thing. It's a forever thing. And that need not be discouraging but it may make you change your mind about how you approach weight loss.
If you have a target date in mind, you might work your hardest to get to your target goal as fast as possible. But ultimately you will have more success in the long term and be happier right now if try to make weight loss easier, not harder.
Motivation is fleeting and so is willpower. Rely on habits, routine and develop strategies for when your routine gets disrupted. And know that it's perfectly okay to eat at maintenance from time to time - especially during vacations or special times with family and friends. You aren't derailing your progress, just postponing it for a day or two. But that's okay, because you are in this forever.25 -
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Mithridites wrote: »
Speaking for myself: if I unexpectedly need to work late or something else happens that makes a home-cooked dinner impossible, I have some fairly low calorie frozen meals in my freezer, so I'm not tempted to order takeaway from a restaurant.15 -
@Lietchi Thank you! This could be a whole new thread...2
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