What nobody tells you about losing weight

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  • earthstream57
    earthstream57 Posts: 3 Member
    Just an update Male 64years old ..Mod-Keto
    8/27 229
    9/7 215
    Roughly 1500cals....Protein 75g Fat 115 Carb 20-40g These are rough numbers off the top of my head... Walk 2mi briskly 40 min...Mon-Fri
  • debjrwillis
    debjrwillis Posts: 1 Member
    Lietchi wrote: »
    Nobody told me I wouldn't be able to fit my smartphone in my jeans front pockets anymore :angry:
    I've been frustrated at smartphones getting bigger and bigger for a while now (I have small hands) but my jeans pockets have gotten smaller along with my jeans size and now I am super frustrated!
    (and annoyed at the sexism, smartphones not being designed with smaller female hands in mind and women's clothing having smaller pockets than men's!)

    /rant over

    @Lietchi - sorry for the delayed response to this. Radian jeans are a good choice here. My teenage daughter has wanted jeans with deep pockets for years, and I found these for her. She loves them! You can find them online.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,481 Member
    I've now lost about forty pounds and am dealing with very weird self-perception issues. Half the time I feel really skinny, the other half I feel impossibly fat and like I've made no progress at all. Photos and the raw data of measurements help, and I know cognitively that it isn't *real* when I feel like I'm still just as heavy as I was when I started. But I was not expecting this weird mind stuff.

    It's a pain.

    I now wear a size 6 jeans, small or medium tops and dresses. My SHOE size and ring size have both dropped. My bra size is 4" shorter and down 2 cup sizes.

    That's 60lbs on me.

    I. Still. Flip. Between 'too skinny' and 'have lost no weight at all, really fat'.

    So true. After 4 years in maintenance you'd think I'd be used to the new me. Nope I too still flip as @wunderkindking calls it. Last week while on a holiday I felt really really fat. I came home looked in the mirror and noted Nah you are still the same, then tried on my skinny skirt - it still fits

    Oh yeah. This is SO true.
  • solieco1
    solieco1 Posts: 1,559 Member
    charmmeth wrote: »
    aerochic42 wrote: »
    less butt= longer pants

    I had no idea this was a thing, until I kept having to take my skirt hems in! I wear maxi's all the time. Then I kept walking on the skirt hems, after I would maybe fix a waist. At first, I didn't understand why my skirts kept getting longer... I was like "Why is this happening??!" But when you said that, that is sooo a thing. My hubby said my skirts no longer need to cover my butt, of course it is happening in the front - the sides. The incredible elongating skirts!!

    I realise that this is happening with my trouser legs too!

    And blouse sleeves! As the cooler nights start, I put on a long sleeved pretty blouse last night to go out to dinner. I found myself pulling on it to keep it out of my plate - didn't occur to me this is the reason until now!
  • nexangelus
    nexangelus Posts: 2,080 Member
    Probably been said a thousand times previously....happiness and feeling content is not a number on the scale...and body image, mental health and other factors are extremely important, not just fat loss...if you don't change your attitude (mindset) to food, exercise/fitness, life in general and health (sometimes that means being less strict and more flexible, especially those who have had full blown eating disorders, which also need therapy and help aside from less food or more food, etc) you will always be yo-yo ing....
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