What nobody tells you about losing weight
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Your face might not be naturally round even if you think it is! Finding out that I have a heart shaped face, not a round one as I lost more weight was quite the discovery.15
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The more focused I've gotten, the less self conscious I am. I've lost about 35 pounds and still have about 50 to go. Before, I'd really cover up and was embarrassed to wear a swimsuit in public. Now, I have four swimsuits and could care less what anyone else thinks when I'm at the pool. I'm proud of myself for being committed to swim laps twice a week between my other workouts. It's not about them or what they think, it's about me and making myself the best I can be.26
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The thinner/shapelier you get...the more oppressive attention from Men. Le sigh.19
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DezYaoified wrote: »No one said family/friends would try to sabotage me.
A family member will bring lunch to my job.
1:knowing I plan my day in the morning and bring my lunch with me.
2:only brings lunch the day after my weigh in, and only if I lost.
Best friend makes me feel guilty about my progress by pointing out why she isn’t losing.
I vaguely knew family/friends aren’t always supportive, I’ve experienced that but I guess I thought it would be more dismissive than sabotage.
YIKES!!! Maybe ask your best friend what her new goals would be and tell family not much. Tell them you are changing things up and please don't bring lunch to work cuz it will be a waste and they will have to bring it back home because it will go bad?? How annoying!!4 -
Sand_TIger wrote: »WifeDeputy wrote: »ne of my biggest things was learning how to nest my knees for sleeping at night. What does this mean?
It means that some of us learn we now have super bony knees and we can't comfortably stack one on top of the other while sleeping on our sides. I had something like that happen for a bit as my thighs lost padding and for a while my spine was out of alignment when I slept.
A couple of chiropractors have told me to put the pillow between my knees to keep the spine aligned. I need to be more consistent.5 -
wunderkindking wrote: »I am cold.
I am so so cold.
It's 52. we're barely into fall. I usually like this time of year. I used to be fine in these temps. I AM SO COLD.
Be sure you are well hydrated, too, to help the body regulate the temp, but I am sure you have dropped the insulation like I am still working on doing!5 -
springlering62 wrote: »justanotherloser007 wrote: »MargaretYakoda wrote: »I know exactly where those ‘ol hip bones are all day, every day.
In yoga I constantly hear,”you carry your emotions and stress in your hips”.
Maybe that’s why mine were so big. I had to have big ole saddlebags to carry all that.
It is usually the cortisol from stress that increases the stomach.2 -
@mjglantz That is exactly why I absolutely despise when people ask for "tips or tricks" to lose weight. What they really want is a quick fix. The "diet" mentality has ruined lives, made people sick both physically and mentally, and the answer is still the same as it always has been. Eat less and choose mostly healthy foods, do more physically every day, develop good habits that will last a lifetime, and be patient. Done. No magic bullet to make you lose 20 pounds over night, nothing will make you a buff body without work and time.
You stick to your guns and NO FREE RIDES!
There is always people looking for a quick fix, a fad diet or a reason they are heavy that needs to be fixed. When the conversation turns to just tracking calories and eating less than you burn... they seem to just shut that idea down and move on to something else. I have friends who are cutting out sugar but pay no attention to the amount of calories ingested or do any exercise to boost the calories burned. It has to be much hard when you dont know the numbers and are just winging it. I am an Engineer and I like the numbers. Tracking calories in and out (while greatly simplified for what really happens) is a nice, simple little system to watch and manage. Try to make it efficient and optimize the key components. If you are a numbers person, its actually kind of fun.
I always start by telling people it took me 12 years to lose the weight (228 pounds so far), which it technically did. I spent 2 years losing weight and 8 years changing my attitude towards food in ways that didn’t cause me to lose weight, but were permanent, and then 2 more years losing weight. And I only gained back 30 of 150 pounds in the middle, so I think I did pretty well. And I am an accountant by nature and avocation, if not by trade, so tracking my calories in, calories out and nutrition is something my husband would be grateful to stop hearing me prattle on about at any time!😂
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penguinmama87 wrote: »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.
So much this. 120 pounds down. I’m 31 and this is probably the most attractive I have felt since I was 17. Some days I’ll catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror and think I look pretty darn good. Other days, the same will happen and I’ll think I’m Still so fat and have barely made any progress. It’s super weird.15 -
wunderkindking wrote: »I am cold.
I am so so cold.
It's 52. we're barely into fall. I usually like this time of year. I used to be fine in these temps. I AM SO COLD.
I used to think that being cold whilst skinny was purely due to the insulation from subcutaneous fat. Whilst that plays a role, I believe that there are other factors at play. For example, being overweight causes more uncoupling proteins. These decrease the efficiency of conversion of food into energy (through increasing hydrogen ion leakage in ATP processes.) So being overweight makes the metabolism less efficient, and more calories need to be burned to produce the same energy. The excess calories with the inefficient process go as heat.
I've got over the issue by wearing warmer clothes. I got a Quark Navy as my drysuit undersuit for scuba diving, and it is brilliant - dives would be really cold in the old undersuit. I may dive above the Artic Circle in Norway next year, and if I do I'll get a heated undersuit.10 -
I’m back already. It finally happened. I had a friend ask me what my “secret” was, and then discuss nutrition with me and shoot down Every Single Thing I told her to do. I was not in a social circumstance where I felt comfortable saying something along the lines if “Are you seriously trying to tell your friend who has lost 228 pounds that she doesn’t know what she is talking about?”. So I just said, “I’m sorry, but I don’t have a magical answer for you.” And left it at that. And, for some reason both completely predictable and completely unfathomable, she totally accepted that answer. I guess I need to get used to having to say that.33
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I got "what's your secret". Four times at an event friday. My answers were : myfitnesspal, blood magic, alien abduction, and running from bears. I elaborated on none of them. Those questions aren't asked for a desire to really know, ime, ever.34
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wunderkindking wrote: »I got "what's your secret". Four times at an event friday. My answers were : myfitnesspal, blood magic, alien abduction, and running from bears. I elaborated on none of them. Those questions aren't asked for a desire to really know, ime, ever.
ROTFLMAO!!!!7 -
buddharivet wrote: »wunderkindking wrote: »I got "what's your secret". Four times at an event friday. My answers were : myfitnesspal, blood magic, alien abduction, and running from bears. I elaborated on none of them. Those questions aren't asked for a desire to really know, ime, ever.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
It's really probably for the best that I am a known smart-*kitten*. It just really is, but honestly? Everyone accepted those answers without delving deeper or doing more than making polite noises. So, really, they clearly and truthfully did not actually want to know - just wanted to engage with me about it.5 -
I have lost 30 pounds in one year. I am almost 64 and 51 inches (short). I was thrilled to see my waist get smaller.
However, when I push a grocery cart outside I look at my thighs, and I can see the loose skin jiggle on my thighs. I never thought about that happening. What a reminder about all that weight I was carrying.14 -
wunderkindking wrote: »buddharivet wrote: »wunderkindking wrote: »I got "what's your secret". Four times at an event friday. My answers were : myfitnesspal, blood magic, alien abduction, and running from bears. I elaborated on none of them. Those questions aren't asked for a desire to really know, ime, ever.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
It's really probably for the best that I am a known smart-*kitten*. It just really is, but honestly? Everyone accepted those answers without delving deeper or doing more than making polite noises. So, really, they clearly and truthfully did not actually want to know - just wanted to engage with me about it.
Not too long before I started losing the weight fast I chose to give myself a punk rock buzz cut hairstyle. AND decided to purchase a standing walker, which I now use more often than my two canes.
Now lots of people assume I’m doing chemo.
I get why…. But it feels weird.10 -
I've gotten told I was "lucky" for losing 55 lbs.
No, it wasn't luck. It was a decision not to put so much food down my throat and then sticking to the plan.
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AlexandraFindsHerself1971 wrote: »I've gotten told I was "lucky" for losing 55 lbs.
No, it wasn't luck. It was a decision not to put so much food down my throat and then sticking to the plan.
You could always quote good ole Thomas Jefferson at them. "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."29 -
kenziestabes wrote: »AlexandraFindsHerself1971 wrote: »I've gotten told I was "lucky" for losing 55 lbs.
No, it wasn't luck. It was a decision not to put so much food down my throat and then sticking to the plan.
You could always quote good ole Thomas Jefferson at them. "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
To be fair, he was also carried everywhere on a velvet pillow until he was three.
But I get what you’re saying.7 -
wunderkindking wrote: »buddharivet wrote: »wunderkindking wrote: »I got "what's your secret". Four times at an event friday. My answers were : myfitnesspal, blood magic, alien abduction, and running from bears. I elaborated on none of them. Those questions aren't asked for a desire to really know, ime, ever.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
It's really probably for the best that I am a known smart-*kitten*. It just really is, but honestly? Everyone accepted those answers without delving deeper or doing more than making polite noises. So, really, they clearly and truthfully did not actually want to know - just wanted to engage with me about it.
Yup, in my experience most people are asking either to simply converse or just in case you do have a super magic solution like "oh, what did I do? I lit incense throughout my house every night and took 2 magic pills every morning and lost 100 pounds." So yea, they don't want a real answer. Which is why I'll generally just respond "Short version: diet and exercise." It's not a helpful response on my end, but I've learned that if they actually care they will ask "what's the long version?" Or for specifics on what I did. But most just move on.
Oh and if we do get into specifics and they shoot me down, I'll just shrug and end the conversation. I've busted my @$$, I'm happy to talk to anyone about it, but its not my job to convince them. If they don't want to do the work, that's on them.22
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