What nobody tells you about losing weight

sikorski wrote: »

Probably people do talk about this, but I need to say it anyway:
Your rings will fall off if you aren't very careful. I almost lost my wedding ring the other day, and now I won't wear my rings until after I get a chance to get them resized, when the stores finally reopen here.
Be careful with your rings, people!

I lost my wedding band at work 3 years ago.

The distance between a size 18 and a size 16 is seemingly massive! The distance between 14 and 12 is really short!

How many wrinkles appear on your face. This is quite frustrating as otherwise I am looking and feeling great.
How much energy you have when eating healthy.

sikorski wrote: »

Probably people do talk about this, but I need to say it anyway:
Your rings will fall off if you aren't very careful. I almost lost my wedding ring the other day, and now I won't wear my rings until after I get a chance to get them resized, when the stores finally reopen here.
Be careful with your rings, people!

JRugg1946 wrote: »

I lost my wedding band at work 3 years ago.

I had to buy a smaller ring to keep my wedding ring on my finger. (Our wedding rings are engraved so I don't want to have it made smaller.)

no one told me it will be so hard, it's a struggle!

How much you might need to re-evaluate why you are trying to lose (what is the motivation) or at least the mini goals might change.

springlering62 wrote: »

shylil04 wrote: »

When you are grieving and logging calories to make sure you are eating enough. They dismiss what you say only to accuse you of doing it on purpose.

I’m so sorry. I went through this, too. I wasn’t grieving “enough” fir the same reason.

People grieve how they grieve, and everyone is grieving "right" and "enough", however they are doing it.
I'm autistic; I've never grieved "right" to allistic standards. To heck with standards, who needs them at a time like this?

after losing more than half of my belly, I find coughing very uncomfortable. Feels like my insides are gonna burst out from the back.

For us women who are losing a significant amount of weight, going from “invisible” in public settings to “visible” can be uncomfortable and might need some serious introspection to work out why.

charmmeth wrote: »

sikorski wrote: »

Probably people do talk about this, but I need to say it anyway:
Your rings will fall off if you aren't very careful. I almost lost my wedding ring the other day, and now I won't wear my rings until after I get a chance to get them resized, when the stores finally reopen here.
Be careful with your rings, people!

JRugg1946 wrote: »

I lost my wedding band at work 3 years ago.

I had to buy a smaller ring to keep my wedding ring on my finger. (Our wedding rings are engraved so I don't want to have it made smaller.)

I have had this for a long time too - Then I got arthritis (not bad) and my knuckle in my finger is big enough to keep it there

MargaretYakoda wrote: »

For us women who are losing a significant amount of weight, going from “invisible” in public settings to “visible” can be uncomfortable and might need some serious introspection to work out why.

So totally true! With downsizing me, the sexual innuendo at work has been upsizing and with it being uncomfortable. Thankfully these days I am working for a company where that type of behaviour is not tolerated (not just in some goody two shoes proclamation, but seriously lived)

Bones....bones everywhere. Some are cool and some will freak you out during weight loss LOL.

Beware of night time hunger. I never had temptations to overeat during the day - but at night ... all the time. I ended up eating less earlier in the day so I could fill myself up more in the evening to better avoid night time temptation.

I knew this, but I think it's important for others to hear. You won't see results overnight. And I mean visually. Pictures help. But honestly, I lost 100 pounds and without comparing pictures, I could see loss in my face but almost nowhere else. I was down various sizes, but just looking in the mirror I couldn't see it. Then in the last 20 pounds I've seen a massive change. And it's not just me. Family have noted this as well.

You will get tired. Everyone says you have more energy. That's 100% true (when I was morbidly obese I had no energy. Now I do, but fatigue is still a thing). But you'll still have times where you are just wiped out. Particularly after a lengthy time of staying in a caloric deficit and working out. I probably didn't experience fatigue thr first 6 or so months. But the last 4 months I get tired for about a week a month. I still diet and exercise thru it, but definitely limit my work to compensate.

Your body can't make up its mind on temperature. When you lose alot of weight your cold all the time. But even before then, my body couldn't make up its mind. I'd sweat like crazy one day. Then not at all the next day. I'd be roasting. Then freezing. My body had no idea what it wanted lol.

How you have to repeatedly convince others (especially those you didn't know at your heaviest) just because you're "small-ish" now doesn't mean you don't understand the struggles of losing weight.

This bothers me so much. I've lost 65 lbs and kept it off but some roll their eyes or say "oh you're so lucky to be that small!"

No, I have no luck except for maybe in my big toe! I'm deligent, dedicated, and work my butt off

I have lost 65 lbs, and have 70 to go, and this is a long time just getting here. But lately I finally have made some changes that stalled me for about a year. Here it is: cheese. I know for everyone else, I guess it is chips, cake, etc. But I just was unwilling. Now that I am literally zooming, lost a lot of weight for me in the past couple of months since I made this change I now have looser skin. I also just found out I have melanoma, and had a large back piece of skin and fat taken out on my back next to my spine. Now, I don't mind the loose skin (actually a little more comfortable). Evidently pulling out stitches is a common thing. And I have stitches in the under pieces. Hard part, I just don't seem to understand no bike riding right now. What? Is that a thing? But what about just a few minutes? Also no hugs, but that didn't seem as odd. Just for two weeks girl. Just two weeks. I can do this!

Body dysmorphia is a thing. The scale tells me I have lost weight and if I take side-by-side pics it is so obvious, as well as my clothing size being much smaller. But yet I still feel like I am as big as ever and I am in mortal fear of gaining the weight back.

AlexandraFindsHerself1971 wrote: »

That you'll get picky about your food.

There was a call for money for a pizza run, and when I heard where, I thought, "I'm not going to. That's junk pizza. If I eat pizza, I want it to be GOOD pizza, and worth the calories."

There was a time when I would have eaten it because it was pizza, and it was there.

So agree with this. If I'm going to have a calorie rich food, it's going to my most favorite. Otherwise I just feel cheated. Lol